Throughout his prolific career, composer/musician/songwriter James Newton Howard has scored films of all scales and genres, earning multiple award nominations for his work. Los Angeles-born Howard began studying music as a small child and went on to attend the Santa Barbara Music Academy and then majored in piano performance at the University of Southern California. After Howard left college, he toured with Elton John 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 Oscar nomination 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 the Oscar-nominated actioner The Fugitive (1993), the Western epic Wyatt Earp (1994), the legal drama Primal Fear (1996), the blockbuster suspense thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), and two more Julia Roberts romantic comedy hits, My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and Runaway Bride (1999). My Best Friend's Wedding earned Howard his third Oscar nomination for Best Score (his collaborations on tunes for One Fine Day (1996) and Junior (1994) garnered Best Song nods). Along with scoring such smaller, character-driven films as Five Corners (1988), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and American Heart (1993), Howard proved equally skilled at composing for big-budget Hollywood spectacles, including Space Jam (1996), Dante's Peak (1997), and Dinosaur (2000). Though he concentrated primarily on films, Howard also contributed music for TV shows, earning an Emmy nomination in 1995 for his theme to NBC's ratings smash ER.
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Darling Companion
Composer (Music Score) |
2012 | |||
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The Hunger Games
Composer (Music Score) |
2012 | |||
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Gnomeo & Juliet
Composer (Music Score) |
2011 | |||
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Green Lantern
Composer (Music Score) |
2011 | |||
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Larry Crowne
Composer (Music Score) |
2011 | |||
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The Green Hornet
Composer (Music Score) |
2011 | |||
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Water for Elephants
Composer (Music Score) |
2011 | |||
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Inhale
Composer (Music Score) |
2010 | |||
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Love and Other Drugs
Composer (Music Score) |
2010 | |||
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Nanny McPhee Returns
Composer (Music Score) |
2010 | |||
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Salt
Composer (Music Score) |
2010 | |||
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The Last Airbender
Composer (Music Score) |
2010 | |||
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The Tourist
Composer (Music Score) |
2010 | |||
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Composer (Music Score) |
2009 | |||
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Duplicity
Composer (Music Score) |
2009 | |||
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High Noon
Music Producer |
2009 | |||
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Midnight Bayou
Music Producer |
2009 | |||
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Northern Lights
Music Producer |
2009 | |||
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Tribute
Music Producer |
2009 | |||
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A Road to Mecca: The Journey of Mohammad Asad
Composer (Music Score) |
2008 | |||
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Defiance
Composer (Music Score) |
2008 | |||
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Mad Money
Composer (Music Score) |
2008 | |||
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The Dark Knight
Composer (Music Score) |
2008 | |||
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The Happening
Composer (Music Score) |
2008 | |||
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Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
Composer (Music Score) |
2008 | |||
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Angels Fall
Music Producer |
2007 | |||
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
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Blue Smoke
Music Producer |
2007 | |||
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Carolina Moon
Music Producer |
2007 | |||
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Charlie Wilson's War
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
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I Am Legend
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
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Michael Clayton
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
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The Great Debaters
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
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The Lookout
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
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Blood Diamond
Composer (Music Score) |
2006 | |||
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Freedomland
Composer (Music Score) |
2006 | |||
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Lady in the Water
Composer (Music Score) |
2006 | |||
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RV
Composer (Music Score) |
2006 | |||
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Batman Begins
Composer (Music Score) |
2005 | |||
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King Kong
Composer (Music Score) |
2005 | |||
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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
Composer (Music Score) |
2005 | |||
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The Interpreter
Composer (Music Score) |
2005 | |||
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Calling Hedy Lamarr
Composer (Music Score) |
2004 | |||
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Collateral
Composer (Music Score) |
2004 | |||
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Hidalgo
Composer (Music Score) |
2004 | |||
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The Village
Composer (Music Score) |
2004 | |||
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Dreamcatcher
Composer (Music Score) |
2003 | |||
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Peter Pan
Composer (Music Score) |
2003 | |||
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Big Trouble
Composer (Music Score) |
2002 | |||
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Signs
Composer (Music Score) |
2002 | |||
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The Emperor's Club
Composer (Music Score) |
2002 | |||
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Treasure Planet
Composer (Music Score) |
2002 | |||
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Unconditional Love
Composer (Music Score) |
2002 | |||
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America's Sweethearts
Composer (Music Score) |
2001 | |||
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Composer (Music Score) |
2001 | |||
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Dinosaur
Composer (Music Score) |
2000 | |||
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Unbreakable
Composer (Music Score) |
2000 | |||
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Vertical Limit
Composer (Music Score) |
2000 | |||
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Mumford
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
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Runaway Bride
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
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Stir of Echoes
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
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The Sixth Sense
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
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Wayward Son
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
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A Perfect Murder
Composer (Music Score) |
1998 | |||
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From the Earth to the Moon, Part 6: Mare Tranquilitatis
Composer (Music Score) |
1998 | |||
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Dante's Peak
Composer (Music Score) |
1997 | |||
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Fathers' Day
Composer (Music Score) |
1997 | |||
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My Best Friend's Wedding
Composer (Music Score) |
1997 | |||
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The Devil's Advocate
Composer (Music Score) |
1997 | |||
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The Postman
Composer (Music Score) |
1997 | |||
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One Fine Day
Songwriter |
1996 | |||
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Primal Fear
Composer (Music Score) |
1996 | |||
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Space Jam
Composer (Music Score) |
1996 | |||
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The Juror
Composer (Music Score) |
1996 | |||
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The Rich Man's Wife
Songwriter |
1996 | |||
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The Trigger Effect
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1996 | |||
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Eye for an Eye
Composer (Music Score) |
1995 | |||
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French Kiss
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1995 | |||
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Just Cause
Composer (Music Score) |
1995 | |||
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Outbreak
Composer (Music Score) |
1995 | |||
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Waterworld
Composer (Music Score) |
1995 | |||
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ER [TV Series]
Composer (Music Score) |
1994 | |||
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Intersection
Composer (Music Score) |
1994 | |||
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Junior
Composer (Music Score) |
1994 | |||
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Restoration
Composer (Music Score) |
1994 | |||
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Wyatt Earp
Composer (Music Score) |
1994 | |||
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Alive
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
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American Heart
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
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Dave
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
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Falling Down
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
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The Fugitive
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
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The Saint of Fort Washington
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
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A Private Matter
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
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Diggstown
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
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Glengarry Glen Ross
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
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Night and the City
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
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Dying Young
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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Grand Canyon
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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Guilty by Suspicion
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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King Ralph
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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My Girl
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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The Man in the Moon
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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The Prince of Tides
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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Coupe De Ville
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Descending Angel
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Flatliners
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Marked for Death
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Pretty Woman
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Three Men and a Little Lady
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Major League
Composer (Music Score) |
1989 | |||
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Tap
Composer (Music Score) |
1989 | |||
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The Image
Composer (Music Score) |
1989 | |||
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The Package
Composer (Music Score) |
1989 | |||
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Everybody's All-American
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
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Go Toward the Light
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
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Promised Land
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
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Some Girls
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
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Campus Man
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
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Five Corners
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
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Off Limits
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
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Russkies
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
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Head Office
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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Never Too Young to Die
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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No Mercy
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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Nobody's Fool
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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Tough Guys
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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Wildcats
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1986 | |||
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8 Million Ways to Die
Composer (Music Score) |
1985 |




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