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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.
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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Lady In The Water
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Mulgorea wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5hc80Tm2Cug - New Interview
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TarantulaEyes wrote:
I've come across a huge variety of opinions when it comes to the movie The Village, but I have yet to meet someone with a less than positive opinion of the soundtrack.
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TSupporter wrote:
Village theme is the most popular, even if the movie is not
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Biscuit1978 wrote:
Come along and join the group Orchestral Composer of the Week. Nominate your 5 favourite composers each week and see who gets into the Hall of Fame.
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Mulgorea wrote:
James Newton Howard to score "The Hunger Games" - http://filmmusicreporter.com/2011/12/05/james-newton-howard-to-score-the-hunger-games/
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Clackers wrote:
RE Clemmensen, I have long thought he was a joke! He gave a 'Frisbee' rating for The Social Network, which while not a brilliant STANDALONE score, was still very very effective in complimenting Fincher's film, which is ultimately what scores are SUPPOSED to do. Plus, Clemmensen doesn't even review major scores unless the film studios sends me freebies! If they refuse to send a freebie, he doesn't review it for ages until he saves enough pennies to buy it himself.
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Mulgorea wrote:
James Newton Howard to score The Bourne Legacy! http://filmmusicreporter.com/2011/11/14/james-newton-howard-to-score-the-bourne-legacy/ and Snow White and the Huntsman http://filmmusicreporter.com/2011/11/16/james-newton-howard-to-score-snow-white-and-the-huntsman/
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DanielosVK wrote:
But the reviews by Clemmensen suck and are sometimes really stupid. However, my favourite is filmmusic.pl, but the problem is that it's polish. :)
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Mulgorea wrote:
@ nDraoe - filmtracks.com is probably the most known for score reviews atleast :) But i'm sure that you have been there before.
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Juh_c wrote:
Signs !!! I'm the legend"""!!!
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nDroae wrote:
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/07/m-night-shyamalan-and-career-arc-of.html I now want to chart ratings of JNH's scores against this to see if he really has gotten better reviews while Shyamalan has got worse, but there's no aggregate site for music ratings that I know of ;(
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Konserci wrote:
The Village soundtrack is too good for such a movie.
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AnthonyHadgill wrote:
King Kong, wow.
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spirituoso wrote:
Lady in the Water soundtrack is a masterpiece of world culture!
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Mal0ney wrote:
Just came to conclusion that Lady in the Water pretty much owns any other album I heard so far.. What a huge score. This mighty US-composer has my greatest respect.
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Slayerrrr_88 wrote:
The Village is unforgettable and spine-tingling. [2]
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Anaemi4 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALD3Yh9tb0w&feature=channel_video_title
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TSupporter wrote:
"Graveyard", soon in my library
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Mal0ney wrote:
The charts are so gay. The Great Eatlon & Flow like Water should easily rule them.
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Anaemi4 wrote:
This project is influenced by James Newton Howard Bethlehem Struluckt :)
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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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22 Dec 2005 | from blog.myspace.com/jamesnewtonhoward
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