James Newton Howard

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American composer, orchestrator, and music producer James Newton Howard is an eight-time Academy Award nominee.  He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director M. Night Shyamalan. He is well known for his highly emotional and powerfully subtle music, supplying his talent to an array of films such as The Fugitive, The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village, the two Christopher Nolan Batman films; Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with Hans After Howard left the University of Southern California, he toured with Elton John as a keyboardist during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Howard also arranged strings for several of Elton's songs during this period including on the hits "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word", as well as playing additional keyboards and synthesizers on several of Elton's studio albums, including "Rock of The Westies" (1975), "Blue Moves" (1976), "21 At 33" (1980), and "The Fox" (1981). After his tenure with John, Howard toured briefly with Crosby, Stills and Nash before moving into film music in the mid-1980s. Howard scored the blockbuster Pretty Woman (1990). He received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for Barbra Streisand's drama The Prince of Tides (1991). Howard achieved four more best original score Oscar nominations, for the Harrison Ford action feature The Fugitive (1993), the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004) and most recently, Michael Clayton (2007). In addition, Howard received Best Song nods for scoring the Western epic Wyatt Earp (1994), Kevin Costner's Waterworld (1995), and Primal Fear (1996).   Howard scored Space Jam (1996), Dante's Peak (1997) (theme only - score was composed by John Frizzell), and Collateral (2004). Howard has  scored three Disney films which are Dinosaur (2000), Treasure Planet and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Howard also earned an Emmy nomination in 1995 the theme and pilot to the television drama, ER. He also won an Emmy for the them to Gideon's Crossing.  He went on to win a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score for the feature King Kong. He went on to receive Oscar nominations for the features Michael Clayton (2007) and Defiace (2008).

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1951-06-09
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Sound
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  • info Birth Place Los Angeles, California, USA
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Pretty Woman

1990-03-23

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The Dark Knight

2008-07-16

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The Interpreter

2005-04-08

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King Kong

2005-12-12

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Batman Begins

2005-06-10

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French Kiss

1995-05-05

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Blood Diamond

2006-12-08

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Primal Fear

1996-03-06

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Space Jam

1996-11-15

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The Sixth Sense

1999-08-06

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The Prince of Tides

1991-12-25

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Signs

2002-08-02

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My Girl

1991-11-27

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A Perfect Murder

1998-06-05

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Hidalgo

2004-02-04

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King Ralph

1991-02-15

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A Private Matter

1992-06-20

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Marked for Death

1990-10-05

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The Last Airbender

2010-06-30

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Dinosaur

2000-05-19

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Michael Clayton

2007-09-28

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The Fugitive

1993-08-06

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Runaway Bride

1999-07-30

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Tough Guys

1986-10-03

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Junior

1994-11-22

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Charlie Wilson's War

2007-12-19

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America's Sweethearts

2001-07-17

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Stir of Echoes

1999-09-10

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The Village

2004-07-30

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Outbreak

1995-03-10

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3 Men and a Little Lady

1990-11-21

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The Lookout

2007-03-09

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One Fine Day

1996-12-20

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Alive

1993-01-15

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Dying Young

1991-06-20

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Mad Money

2008-01-17

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The Happening

2008-06-11

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Fathers' Day

1997-05-09

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Lady in the Water

2006-07-20

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My Best Friend's Wedding

1997-06-19

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Unbreakable

2000-11-22

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Waterworld

1995-07-28

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Treasure Planet

2002-11-26

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Glengarry Glen Ross

1992-09-15

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The Postman

1997-12-25

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The Juror

1996-02-02

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Freedomland

2006-02-17

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The Green Hornet

2011-01-12

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

2022-04-06

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Love & Other Drugs

2010-11-04

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Green Lantern

2011-06-14

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The Tourist

2010-12-08

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Duplicity

2009-03-18

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The Bourne Legacy

2012-08-08

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After Earth

2013-05-30

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Jungle Cruise

2021-07-28

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Water for Elephants

2011-04-15

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Snow White and the Huntsman

2012-05-30

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Diggstown

1992-08-14

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Parkland

2013-10-02

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Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

2008-09-06

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The Hunger Games

2012-03-12

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Off Limits

1988-03-11

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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012-08-18

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023-11-15

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The Devil's Advocate

1997-10-17

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Maleficent

2014-05-28

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Nightcrawler

2014-10-23

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Five Corners

1987-09-11

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Descending Angel

1990-11-25

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The Water Horse

2007-12-25

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Cut Bank

2014-10-04

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015-11-18

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Some Girls

1988-09-09

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Defiance

2008-12-31

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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

2005-09-23

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Flatliners

1990-08-10

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The Water Horse

2007-12-25

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Concussion

2015-11-12

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Larry Crowne

2011-06-30

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8 Million Ways to Die

1986-04-25

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Snow Falling on Cedars

1999-12-22

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016-11-16

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013-11-15

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014-11-19

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Inhale

2010-08-27

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Salt

2010-07-21

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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

2010-03-26

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Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009-02-05

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The Great Debaters

2007-12-25

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I Am Legend

2007-12-12

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RV

2006-04-28

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Dreamcatcher

2003-03-21

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Peter Pan

2003-12-18

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Unconditional Love

2002-08-23

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire

2001-06-02

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Vertical Limit

2000-12-08

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The Trigger Effect

1996-08-30

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Just Cause

1995-02-17

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Wyatt Earp

1994-06-24

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Intersection

1994-01-21

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Dave

1993-05-07

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American Heart

1992-12-19

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Grand Canyon

1991-12-25

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Major League

1989-02-16

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Wildcats

1986-02-14

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Big Trouble

2002-04-05

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Amongst the Shoes

2002-11-02

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A Hidden Life

2019-08-27

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Alive: 20 Years Later

1993-12-31

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Collateral

2004-08-04

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018-11-14

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Wayward Son

1999-09-20

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Coupe de Ville

1990-03-09

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Night and the City

1992-10-16

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The Huntsman: Winter's War

2016-04-06

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Pain Hustlers

2023-10-20

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018-10-26

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Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017-11-17

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The Emperor's Club

2002-11-22

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Mumford

1999-09-24

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Eye for an Eye

1996-01-12

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The Saint of Fort Washington

1993-11-03

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Falling Down

1993-02-26

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The Package

1989-01-25

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Unbreakable

2000-11-22

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Campus Man

1987-04-10

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Detroit

2017-07-28

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018-11-14

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Nobody's Fool

1986-11-07

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Russkies

1987-11-06

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Day Twelve

2023-01-29

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Red Sparrow

2018-02-28

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The Man in the Moon

1991-09-30

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Stir of Echoes

1999-09-10

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Darling Companion

2012-04-20

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Restoration

1995-12-29

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Tap

1989-02-12

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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

2007-05-19

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Pawn Sacrifice

2015-09-16

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All the Way

2016-05-23

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Guilty by Suspicion

1991-03-15

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Gnomeo & Juliet

2011-01-13

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Everybody's All-American

1988-11-04

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Promised Land

1988-01-22

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Head Office

1985-06-06

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Raya and the Last Dragon

2021-03-03

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News of the World

2020-12-25

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Dante's Peak

1997-02-07

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The Lost Bus

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From the Earth to the Moon

1998-04-05

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Light & Magic

2022-07-27

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Willow

2022-11-30

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All the Light We Cannot See

2023-11-02

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What Lives Inside

2015-03-25