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Los Angeles, United States (June 9, 1951 – present)

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles, USA) is an American film composer.

Throughout his prolific career, James Newton Howard has scored films of all scales and genres, earning multiple award nominations for his work. Howard began studying music as a small child and went on to attend the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California and then majored in piano performance at the University of Southern California. After Howard left college, he toured with Elton John and Toto as a keyboardist during the late 1970s and early 1980s before moving into film music in the mid-1980s.

By the 1990s, Howard truly hit his career stride, scoring the surprise blockbuster romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990) and receiving his first Academy Award nomination for his score for Barbra Streisand’s drama The Prince of Tides (1991). Setting the musical mood for numerous films throughout the decade, Howard’s skills encompassed a plethora of genres, including two more best original score Oscar nominations, the Harrison Ford actioner The Fugitive (1993) and the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding. In addition, Howard scored the Western epic Wyatt Earp (1994), the legal drama Primal Fear (1996), and the blockbuster M. Night Shyamalan suspense thrillers The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), and The Village (2004). His collaborations on tunes for One Fine Day (1996) and Junior (1994) garnered Best Song nods.
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  • Greenneedle

    His best score was from Dinosaur. Especially the second track.

    Friday evening

  • Mulgorea

    Snow White and the Huntsman is good score. It has a theme, finally yey! But it's abit too silent imo, but it must be like that I guess to set the thematic mode right in the film.. Much much better than The Hunger Games for me, although he can still do better than this. It's not a huge disappointment like other his recent efforts are. This one I dare to call a good enjoyable score. Some cues like for instance Death Favors No Man and Warriors on the Beach are top class.

    Thursday afternoon

  • silentwinter_

    I wish The Countdown was used, it's so epic [2]

    last week

  • mikhael_91

    the sixth sense soundtrack is awesome, so haunting

    20 days ago

  • Aqua_Tofana

    The Hunger Games score is above average but mediocre by Newton Howard's standards. [4]

    24 days ago

  • aschenglorie

    Can't get enough of THG score. <3

    last month

  • Nellybfreshz

    The Hunger Games score is above average but mediocre by Newton Howard's standards. [3]

    last month

  • eN4ez

    "I Am Legend"

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Review of King Kong

22 Dec 2005 | from blog.myspace.com/jamesnewtonhoward

By Dan Goldwasser of Soundtrack.net:"Peter Jackson's latest epic - a three hour re-telling of King Kong - needed music that would support the story and provide an emotional backbone to the …

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