James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard
Howard at the premiere of The Dark Knight, 2008
Background information
Born	(1951-06-09) June 9, 1951 (age 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Film score rock pop
Occupations	Composer music producer arranger
Instrument	Keyboards
Years active	1973–present
Formerly of	Elton John Band Toto Crosby, Stills & Nash
Spouses	Brie Howard ​ ​ (m. 1974; div. 1977)​ Rosanna Arquette ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 1987)​ Sofie Lena Barron ​ (m. 1992)​
Website	jamesnewtonhoward.com

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951)^[1] 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, having scored 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.