Search - Artist/Band: James Newton Howard

• Name: James Newton Howard
• Birthday: 06/09/1951
• Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA
• Decades Active: 1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Soundtrack
• Styles: Film Music, Soundtracks, Original Score, Instrumental Pop
• Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Earthy, Sentimental, Elaborate, Elegant, Theatrical, Ambitious, Gentle, Refined/Mannered, Confident, Literate, Romantic, Sensual, Detached, Passionate, Warm, Dramatic

Title	Release
Duplicity [Score] W	03/17/2009
Defiance WA	12/09/2008
The Happening [Original Score] WA	06/16/2008
I Am Legend [Original Score] WA	01/15/2008
Charlie Wilson's War WA	12/18/2007
The Great Debaters [Original Score] WA	12/18/2007
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep WA	12/04/2007
Michael Clayton [Original Score] WA	09/25/2007
The Lookout WA	03/13/2007
Treasure Planet [Original Score] WA	03/05/2007
Blood Diamond WA	12/19/2006
Lady in the Water WA	07/18/2006
Freedomland WA	02/28/2006
The Interpreter WA	04/19/2005
The Village WA	07/27/2004
Hidalgo WA	03/02/2004
Peter Pan [2003 Original Score] WA	12/16/2003
Dreamcatcher [Original Score] WA	04/01/2003
The Package WA	01/07/2003
The Emperor's Club WA	11/12/2002
Signs WA	07/30/2002
Atlantis: The Lost Empire WA	05/22/2001
Vertical Limit WA	12/12/2000
Snow Falling on Cedars WA	12/07/1999
The Sixth Sense [Original Score] WA	08/24/1999
A Perfect Murder WA	06/16/1998
The Postman [Original Score/Soundtrack] WA	12/23/1997
The Devil's Advocate [Original Score]	10/28/1997
Space Jam [Original Score] WA	01/28/1997
Primal Fear [Original Score]	03/26/1996
Restoration WA	01/16/1996
Waterworld [Original Score] WA	08/01/1995
Just Cause [Original Score] WA	02/14/1995
Outbreak [Original Score]	1995
Junior [Original Score] WA	11/29/1994
Wyatt Earp WA	1994
The Saint of Fort Washington [Original Score]	11/23/1993
Dave [Original Score] WA	03/1993
Alive [1993 Original Score] WA	1993
Intersection [Original Score] WA	1993
The Fugitive WA	1993
Diggstown WA	1992
Grand Canyon [Original Soundtrack]	1992
Prince of Tides WA	11/12/1991
Dying Young WA	1991
Guilty by Suspicion WA	1991
Three Men and a Little Lady WA	12/13/1990
James Newton Howard and Friends WA	1985
Promised Land [Original Score] WA	1985

Pianist, producer, and composer James Newton-Howard scored over 60 films beginning in the mid-'80s, including The Fugitive, Space Jam, The Prince of Tides, Pretty Woman, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Waterworld. Newton-Howard began taking classical piano lessons at the age of four, playing on a piano owned by his grandmother, who was the Pittsburgh Symphony's concertmaster and violinist during the 1930s and '40s. He went on to study at the USC School of Music and at the Music Academy of the West (in Santa Barbara, CA) with Reginald Stewart and Leon Fleischer. He also studied under orchestrator Marty Paich, who would later conduct some of Newton-Howard's scores. After graduating from college, Newton-Howard joined a short-lived rock band, then worked for a couple of years as a session musician with artists including Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, and Harry Nilsson. In 1975, he joined the band of the most popular artist of that time, Elton John, toured with them during the mid-'70s and later re-joined for a tour in 1980 and again in 1986. Over the years, Newton-Howard has worked as a songwriter, producer, or arranger with the such artists as Cher, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rickie Lee Jones, Olivia Newton-John, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Toto, and more. James Newton-Howard has received Oscars for his film scores in Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997); and an Emmy for his theme for the television show E.R. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide