

James Newton Howard
Born: 1951-06-09
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...
Known For


Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
Making 'Signs'

Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
The Eighth Blunder of the World
