James Newton Howard
Known for: Sound
Born: June 9, 1951
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Dinosaur (2000), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Michael Clayton(2007) and the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, scoring eight of Shyamalan's films since The Sixth Sense (1999) and all of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P.J. Hogan, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Johnston, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Newton Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
164 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
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Remain
2027
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Behemoth!
2026
NR
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
7.9
Marty, Life Is Short
2026
7.0
The Lost Bus
2025
7.0
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023
7.4
All the Light We Cannot See
2023
6.6
Pain Hustlers
2023
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Day Twelve
2023
6.6
Willow
2022
7.9
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022
6.6
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022
7.3
Jungle Cruise
2021
7.8
Raya and the Last Dragon
2021
6.9
News of the World
2020
7.2
A Hidden Life
2019
6.8
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018
6.1
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
6.5
Red Sparrow
2018
6.3
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017
7.2
Detroit
2017
7.3
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016
6.7
All the Way
2016
6.3
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
6.9
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
7.1
Concussion
2015
6.7
Pawn Sacrifice
2015
7.4
What Lives Inside
2015
7.2
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
6.8
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
7.7
Nightcrawler
2014
5.8
Cut Bank
2014
7.1
Maleficent
2014
7.4
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
6.2
Parkland
2013
5.2
After Earth
2013
8.5
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
6.3
The Bourne Legacy
2012
6.0
Snow White and the Huntsman
2012
5.0
Darling Companion
2012
7.2
The Hunger Games
2012
8.0
Hollywood in Vienna
2011
6.0
Larry Crowne
2011
5.2
Green Lantern
2011
6.9
Water for Elephants
2011
5.9
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011
5.6
The Green Hornet
2011
6.2
The Tourist
2010
7.0
Love & Other Drugs
2010
6.0
Inhale
2010
6.4
Salt
2010
4.6
The Last Airbender
2010
6.3
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
2.5
The Secret of the Whales
2010
6.0
The Big Rescue
2009
4.8
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
2009
5.9
Duplicity
2009
6.5
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
6.8
Defiance
2008
8.0
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
2008
8.5
The Dark Knight
2008
5.4
The Happening
2008
6.5
Mad Money
2008
6.5
The Water Horse
2007
7.3
The Great Debaters
2007
6.5
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
7.2
I Am Legend
2007
6.8
Michael Clayton
2007
7.7
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
6.6
The Lookout
2007
7.6
Blood Diamond
2006NR
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006
5.6
Lady in the Water
2006
5.9
RV
2006
5.2
Freedomland
2006
6.9
King Kong
2005
5.8
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
7.7
Batman Begins
2005
6.3
The Interpreter
2005
4.7
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
6.3
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004
7.2
Collateral
2004
6.5
The Village
2004
6.9
Hidalgo
2004
7.1
Peter Pan
2003
5.7
Dreamcatcher
20036.3
Making 'Signs'
2003
7.6
Treasure Planet
2002
7.1
The Emperor's Club
2002
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Amongst the Shoes
2002
6.0
Unconditional Love
2002
6.7
Signs
2002
6.1
Big Trouble
2002
5.7
America's Sweethearts
2001
7.0
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001
6.0
Vertical Limit
2000
7.1
Unbreakable
2000
6.6
Dinosaur
2000
5.0
Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
2000
6.1
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
6.5
Mumford
1999
4.4
Wayward Son
1999
6.7
Stir of Echoes
1999
8.0
The Sixth Sense
1999
6.1
Runaway Bride
1999
6.6
A Perfect Murder
1998
8.1
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
6.3
The Postman
1997
7.5
The Devil's Advocate
1997
6.6
My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
5.5
Fathers' Day
1997
6.2
Dante's Peak
1997
6.5
One Fine Day
1996
6.8
Space Jam
1996
5.9
The Trigger Effect
1996
7.7
Primal Fear
1996
5.7
The Juror
1996
6.3
Eye for an Eye
1996
6.1
Restoration
1995
6.2
Waterworld
1995
6.5
French Kiss
1995
6.6
Outbreak
1995
6.3
Just Cause
1995
5.2
Junior
1994
10.0
ER: 24 Hours
1994
6.8
Wyatt Earp
1994
5.1
Intersection
1994
7.7
Alive: 20 Years Later
1993
6.6
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
7.5
The Fugitive
1993
6.6
Dave
1993
7.4
Falling Down
1993
6.9
Alive
1993
6.4
American Heart
1992
5.7
Night and the City
1992
7.3
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
6.3
Diggstown
1992
5.5
A Private Matter
1992
6.6
The Prince of Tides
1991
6.4
Grand Canyon
1991
7.4
My Girl
1991
7.4
The Man in the Moon
1991
6.7
Dying Young
1991
5.0
Land of Men
1991
6.5
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
5.4
King Ralph
1991
5.5
Descending Angel
1990
5.8
3 Men and a Little Lady
1990
6.1
Marked for Death
1990
6.5
Flatliners
1990
8.0
Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
1990
7.4
Pretty Woman
1990
6.5
Coupe de Ville
1990
6.1
The Package
1989
6.9
Major League
1989
6.6
Tap
1989
5.4
Everybody's All-American
1988
5.8
Some Girls
1988
5.6
Off Limits
1988
5.0
Promised Land
1988
5.2
Russkies
1987
5.9
Five Corners
1987
4.4
Campus Man
1987
4.4
Nobody's Fool
1986
6.0
Tough Guys
1986
5.5
8 Million Ways to Die
1986
6.3
Wildcats
1986
5.4
Head Office
1985
6.2
Dune
1984
7.7
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again
1983
7.0
The Oscars
1953