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About||the jazz musician|James Newton|other persons with the same name|James Howard (disambiguation)Infobox musical artist| name = James Newton Howard| image = James Newton Howard.jpg| caption = James Newton Howard at premiere of The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight .| image_size =| background = non_performing_personnel| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1951|6|9| birth_place = Los Angeles, California , United States| genre = Film scores | occupation = Composer , musician , songwriter | instrument =| years_active = 1983–present| label =| associated_acts = Hans Zimmer , Elton John James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films. The recipient of eight Academy Award nominations, some of Howard's best known film scores include The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive (1993), Dinosaur (film)|Dinosaur (2000), King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong (2005), I Am Legend (film)|I Am Legend (2007), and, most recently Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern (2011) and The Hunger Games (film)|The Hunger Games (2012). He is also known for his collaboration with director M. Night Shyamalan , having scored all his films since The Sixth Sense (1999).
Early life and career
Howard was born in Los Angeles, California . Twenty-five years after the death of his father, Howard learned that his father's family was Jewish (Howard later became a practicing Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist Jew ).Commentary track of Defiance (2008 film)|Defiance , 42:10 http://www.jewishjournal.com/oscars/article/family_secret_persistent_bias_inspire_soul_of_defiance_score_20090218/
Throughout his career as a composer / musician / songwriter , he has scored films of all scales and genres, earning multiple award nominations for his work. Howard began studying music as a child and went on to attend the Thacher School in Ojai, California , the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California , and then majored in piano performance at the University of Southern California .cite web|url= http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/about/board/newtonhoward.html |title=USC Thornton School of Music : About Us: Board of Advisors: James Newton Howard |publisher=Usc.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-01-02
After Howard left college , he toured with Elton John as a keyboardist during the late 1970s and early 1980s (he was part of the band that played behind John in Central Park, New York, on September 13, 1980). Howard also arranged strings for several of Elton's songs during this period including on the hits " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " and " Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word ", as well as playing additional keyboards and synthesizers on several of Elton's studio albums, including "Rock of the Westies" (1975), "Blue Moves" (1976), "21 at 33" (1980), and "The Fox" (1981).
After his tenure with John, Howard toured briefly with Crosby, Stills and Nash before moving into film score|film music in the mid-1980s. Howard did, however, return for a brief collaboration with Elton John on his Tour De Force of Australia at the fall of 1986. Howard conducted both his own and Paul Buckmaster 's arrangements during the second half of the set, which focused on orchestrated performances of selected songs from John's catalog. (Interestingly, most of Howard's film scores are conducted by others.)
1990s
Howard scored the surprise blockbuster romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990) and received his first Academy Awards|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 four more Academy Award for Original Music Score|best original score Oscar nominations, for the Harrison Ford action feature The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive (1993), the Julia Roberts romantic comedy '' My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)'', M. Night Shyamalan 's The Village (2004 film)|The Village (2004) and most recently, Michael Clayton (film)|Michael Clayton (2007). In addition, Howard scored the Western epic Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp (1994), Kevin Costner 's Waterworld (1995), and Primal Fear (film)|Primal Fear (1996). His collaborations on tunes for One Fine Day (film)|One Fine Day (1996) and Junior (film)|Junior (1994) garnered Academy Award for Best Song|Best Song nods. Along with scoring such smaller, character-driven films as Five Corners (film)|Five Corners (1988), Glengarry Glen Ross (film)|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) (theme only - score was composed by John Frizzell ), and Collateral (film)|Collateral (2004). He has also scored three Disney feature films which are Dinosaur (film)|Dinosaur (2000 ), Treasure Planet and Atlantis: The Lost Empire ''. Though he concentrated primarily on films, Howard has also contributed music for TV series , earning an Emmy nomination in 1995 for his theme to NBC 's ratings smash ER (TV series)|ER (Howard also scored the two-hour pilot); he also provided the themes for The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel and '' Gideon's Crossing , winning an Emmy for the latter.
He has scored all of Shyamalan's suspense thrillers, The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (film)|Unbreakable (2000), Signs (film)|Signs (2002), The Village (2004 film)|The Village (2004), Lady in the Water (2006), and The Happening (2008 film)|The Happening (2008), notably dropping the intense, yet subtle, opening credit music for The Sixth Sense from the corresponding soundtrack album.
2000s
Howard is now one of the most recognized composers for film.cite web|url= http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/James-Newton-Howard.htm |title=James Newton Howard - film composer |publisher=Mfiles.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2011-01-02 On October 14, 2005, it was officially announced that James Newton Howard would replace Howard Shore as composer for King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong , due to "differing creative aspirations for the score" between Shore and director Peter Jackson .cite web|author= |url= http://www.soundtrack.net/news/article/? id=670 |title=SoundtrackNet : News : James Newton Howard replaces Howard Shore on King Kong |publisher=Soundtrack.net |date=2005-10-14 |accessdate=2011-01-02 The resultant score earned Howard his first Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score . His work on Michael Clayton (film)|Michael Clayton earned him an Oscar nomination. He followed in 2008 with his eighth Oscar nomination for Edward Zwick|Edward Zwick's Defiance (2008 film)|Defiance . He also collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the scores for Batman Begins and its record-breaking sequel The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight .
Some of his most recent works are The Happening (2008 film)|The Happening , his sixth film with M. Night Shyamalan , Blood Diamond (film)|Blood Diamond , Michael Clayton (film)|Michael Clayton , The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep| The Water Horse , I Am Legend (film)|I Am Legend , '' Charlie Wilson's War '', and the M. Night Shyamalan film adaptation of the Nickelodeon series " Avatar: the Last Airbender ." Additionally, in a radio interviewcite web|url= http://podcast.com/show/32910/ |title=Bob Edwards Weekend @ |publisher=Podcast.com |date= |accessdate=2011-01-02 from early 2008, Howard revealed that he would collaborate with Terrence Malick "in about a year", a project likely to be the director's upcoming Tree of Life (film)|Tree of Life . However, it was later announced that Alexandre Desplat would provide the score.
Howard debuted his work for symphony orchestra, I Would Plant A Tree, in February 2009 as part of the Pacific Symphony's annual American Composers Festival. The debut took place at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, California, with the Symphony under the direction of Carl St.Clair. http://www.pacificsymphony.org/show_details.php? shid=201 Pacific Symphony - Hollywood's Golden Agedead link|date=January 2011
In 2009, he was awarded a Grammy along with Hans Zimmer for the soundtrack to The Dark Knight .
After being replaced in later seasons, his original theme song for the hit TV show ER returned for the final episode of the series.
In September 2010 he was appointed visiting professor of media composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.cite web | author= | title=New Appointments| url= http://www.ram.ac.uk/whatsnew/Pages/Newappointments.aspx| publisher=Royal Academy of Music | date= | accessdate=2 October 2010
In May 2008 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music .
Wins
2001: Emmy Award - Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, '' Gideon's Crossing
2008: Classical Brit Awards#2008|Classical Brit Awards - Soundtrack of the Year, Blood Diamond Soundtrack|Blood Diamond
2009: Critics Choice Awards - Best Original Score, The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight
2009: 51st Grammy Awards|Grammy Award - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack Album , The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight (shared with Hans Zimmer )
Nominations
1991: Academy Award Nomination - Best Original Score, The prince of tides|The Prince Of Tides
1993: Academy Award Nomination - Best Original Score, The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive
1994: Golden Globe Award Nomination - Best Original Song, "Look What Love Has Done" from Junior (film)|Junior
1994: Academy Award Nomination (1994) Best Original Song, "Look What Love Has Done" from Junior (film)|Junior
1996: Golden Globe Award Nomination - Best Original Song, "For The First Time" from One Fine Day (film)|One Fine Day
1996: Academy Award Nomination - Best Original Song, "For The First Time" from One Fine Day (film)|One Fine Day
1997: Grammy Award Nomination - Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television, "For The First Time" from One Fine Day (film)|One Fine Day
1997: Academy Award Nomination - Best Original Musical or Comedy Score, '' My Best Friend's Wedding
2000: Grammy Award Nomination - Best Instrumental Composition, “The Egg Travels” from Dinosaur (film)|Dinosaur
2002: Grammy Award Nomination - Best Instrumental Composition, “Main Titles” from Signs (film)|Signs
2005: Academy Award Nomination - Best Original Score, The Village (2004 film)|The Village
2005: Golden Globe Award Nomination - Best Original Score, King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong
2007: International Film Music Critics Association Nomination - Film Composer of the Year
2008: 80th Academy Awards|Academy Award Nomination - 80th Academy Awards nominees and winners#Best Original Score|Best Original Score , Michael Clayton (film)|Michael Clayton
50th Grammy Awards|2008 - Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media , Blood Diamond Soundtrack|Blood Diamond
2009: Golden Globe Nomination - Best Original Score, Defiance (2008 film)|Defiance
2009: Academy Award Nomination - Best Original Score, Defiance (2008 film)|Defiance
See also
List of film director and composer collaborations
References
Reflist
External links
commons category
IMDb name|6133
Elton JohnSaturn Award for Best Music 1991–2010
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