Biography
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.
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Filmography
Cast Credits
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Character: Self - Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2015
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Character: Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2012
Hollywood in Vienna
Character: Self
TV • 2011
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2009
The Eighth Blunder of the World
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2006
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2005
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2004
Making 'Signs'
Character: Self - Composer
MOVIE • 2003
Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense'
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2000
Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again
Character: Self - Keyboards
MOVIE • 1983
The Oscars
Character: Self
TV • 1953
Crew
Crew Credits
The Lost Bus
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2025
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2023
All the Light We Cannot See
Role: Music
TV • 2023
Pain Hustlers
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2023
Day Twelve
Role: Music
MOVIE • 2023
Willow
Role: Original Music Composer
TV • 2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
Role: Original Music Composer
TV • 2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
Role: Music
TV • 2022
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2022
Jungle Cruise
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2021
Raya and the Last Dragon
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2021
News of the World
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2020
A Hidden Life
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2019
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Role: Music Score Producer
MOVIE • 2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2018
Red Sparrow
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2018
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2017
Detroit
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2017
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Role: Original Music Composer
MOVIE • 2016