
James Newton Howard
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- June 9, 1951
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography

Remain 2027
Original Music Composer, Songs

Behemoth! 2026
Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping 2026
Original Music Composer

Marty, Life Is Short 2026
Original Music Composer

The Lost Bus 2025
Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023
Original Music Composer

Pain Hustlers 2023
Original Music Composer

Day Twelve 2023
Music

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022
Original Music Composer

Jungle Cruise 2021
Original Music Composer

Raya and the Last Dragon 2021
Original Music Composer

News of the World 2020
Original Music Composer

A Hidden Life 2019
Original Music Composer

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 2018
Music Score Producer, Original Music Composer

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 2018
Original Music Composer

Red Sparrow 2018
Original Music Composer

Roman J. Israel, Esq. 2017
Original Music Composer

Detroit 2017
Original Music Composer

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2016
Original Music Composer

All the Way 2016
Original Music Composer

The Huntsman: Winter's War 2016
Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 2015
Original Music Composer

Concussion 2015
Original Music Composer

Pawn Sacrifice 2015
Original Music Composer

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 2015
as Self - Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 2014
Original Music Composer

Nightcrawler 2014
Original Music Composer

Cut Bank 2014
Original Music Composer

Maleficent 2014
Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013
Original Music Composer

Parkland 2013
Original Music Composer

After Earth 2013
Original Music Composer

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games 2012
as Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage), Music

The Bourne Legacy 2012
Original Music Composer

Snow White and the Huntsman 2012
Original Music Composer

Darling Companion 2012
Original Music Composer

The Hunger Games 2012
Original Music Composer

Larry Crowne 2011
Original Music Composer

Green Lantern 2011
Original Music Composer

Water for Elephants 2011
Original Music Composer

Gnomeo & Juliet 2011
Original Music Composer

The Green Hornet 2011
Original Music Composer

The Tourist 2010
Original Music Composer

Love & Other Drugs 2010
Original Music Composer

Inhale 2010
Original Music Composer

Salt 2010
Original Music Composer

The Last Airbender 2010
Original Music Composer

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang 2010
Original Music Composer

The Secret of the Whales 2010
Music

Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil 2009
as Self

Duplicity 2009
Original Music Composer

Confessions of a Shopaholic 2009
Original Music Composer

Defiance 2008
Original Music Composer

Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love 2008
Original Music Composer

The Dark Knight 2008
Original Music Composer

Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight 2008
Original Music Composer

The Happening 2008
Original Music Composer

Mad Money 2008
Original Music Composer

The Great Debaters 2007
Original Music Composer

The Water Horse 2007
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Charlie Wilson's War 2007
Original Music Composer

I Am Legend 2007
Original Music Composer

Michael Clayton 2007
Original Music Composer

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens 2007
Music Producer

The Lookout 2007
Original Music Composer

Blood Diamond 2006
Original Music Composer
- The Eighth Blunder of the World
The Eighth Blunder of the World 2006
as Self

Lady in the Water 2006
Original Music Composer

RV 2006
Original Music Composer

Freedomland 2006
Original Music Composer

King Kong 2005
Original Music Composer

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 2005
Original Music Composer

Batman Begins 2005
Original Music Composer

The Interpreter 2005
Original Music Composer

Deconstructing 'The Village' 2005
as Self

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral' 2004
as Self

Collateral 2004
Original Music Composer

The Village 2004
Original Music Composer

Hidalgo 2004
Original Music Composer

Peter Pan 2003
Original Music Composer

Dreamcatcher 2003
Original Music Composer
- Making 'Signs'
Making 'Signs' 2003
as Self - Composer, Music

Treasure Planet 2002
Original Music Composer

The Emperor's Club 2002
Original Music Composer

Amongst the Shoes 2002
Original Music Composer

Unconditional Love 2002
Original Music Composer

Signs 2002
Original Music Composer

Big Trouble 2002
Original Music Composer

America's Sweethearts 2001
Original Music Composer

Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001
Original Music Composer

Vertical Limit 2000
Original Music Composer

Unbreakable 2000
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

Dinosaur 2000
Original Music Composer

Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense' 2000
as Self

Snow Falling on Cedars 1999
Original Music Composer

Mumford 1999
Original Music Composer

Wayward Son 1999
Original Music Composer

Stir of Echoes 1999
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

The Sixth Sense 1999
Original Music Composer

Runaway Bride 1999
Original Music Composer

Cuentas claras 1999
Original Music Composer

A Perfect Murder 1998
Original Music Composer

The Postman 1997
Original Music Composer

The Devil's Advocate 1997
Original Music Composer

My Best Friend's Wedding 1997
Original Music Composer

Fathers' Day 1997
Original Music Composer

Dante's Peak 1997
Original Music Composer

One Fine Day 1996
Original Music Composer

Space Jam 1996
Original Music Composer

The Trigger Effect 1996
Original Music Composer

Primal Fear 1996
Original Music Composer

The Juror 1996
Original Music Composer

Eye for an Eye 1996
Original Music Composer

Restoration 1995
Original Music Composer

Eye of the Stalker 1995
Original Music Composer

Waterworld 1995
Original Music Composer

French Kiss 1995
Original Music Composer

Outbreak 1995
Original Music Composer

Just Cause 1995
Original Music Composer

Junior 1994
Original Music Composer

Wyatt Earp 1994
Original Music Composer

Intersection 1994
Original Music Composer

Alive: 20 Years Later 1993
Original Music Composer

The Saint of Fort Washington 1993
Original Music Composer

The Fugitive 1993
Original Music Composer

Dave 1993
Original Music Composer

Falling Down 1993
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Music Producer

Alive 1993
Original Music Composer

American Heart 1992
Original Music Composer

Night and the City 1992
Original Music Composer

Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
Original Music Composer

Diggstown 1992
Original Music Composer

A Private Matter 1992
Original Music Composer

La Fichera Más Rápida del Oeste 1992
Original Music Composer

Grand Canyon 1991
Original Music Composer

The Prince of Tides 1991
Original Music Composer

My Girl 1991
Original Music Composer

The Man in the Moon 1991
Original Music Composer

Dying Young 1991
Original Music Composer

Land of Men 1991
Music

Guilty by Suspicion 1991
Original Music Composer

King Ralph 1991
Original Music Composer

Descending Angel 1990
Original Music Composer

3 Men and a Little Lady 1990
Original Music Composer

Marked for Death 1990
Original Music Composer

Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture 1990
Original Music Composer

Flatliners 1990
Original Music Composer

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler 1990
Original Music Composer

Pretty Woman 1990
Original Music Composer

Coupe de Ville 1990
Original Music Composer

The Image 1990
Original Music Composer

The Package 1989
Original Music Composer

Major League 1989
Original Music Composer

Tap 1989
Original Music Composer

Everybody's All-American 1988
Original Music Composer

Go Toward the Light 1988
Original Music Composer

Some Girls 1988
Original Music Composer

Off Limits 1988
Original Music Composer

Promised Land 1988
Original Music Composer

Russkies 1987
Original Music Composer

Five Corners 1987
Original Music Composer

Campus Man 1987
Original Music Composer

Nobody's Fool 1986
Original Music Composer

Tough Guys 1986
Original Music Composer

8 Million Ways to Die 1986
Original Music Composer

Wildcats 1986
Original Music Composer

Head Office 1985
Original Music Composer

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again 1983
as Self - Keyboards
Credits from TMDB.