• Name: Thomas Newman
• Birthday: 10/20/1955
• Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA
• Country: USA
• Period: Contemporary
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
Scent of a Woman [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] WA	1993
(20) American Beauty, film score
Angels in America, film score
(2) Cinderella Man, film score
Desperately Seeking Susan, film score WA
(5) Finding Nemo, film score WA
(2) In the Bedroom, film score WA
Jarhead, film score WA
(3) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, film score
Little Children, film score WA
(3) Little Women, film score
(2) Meet Joe Black, film score WA
Revolutionary Road, film score WA
(7) Road to Perdition, film score WA
Six Feet Under, television series theme WA
(3) The Good German, film score WA
The Green Mile, film score WA
(2) The Horse Whisperer, film score	2003
The Player, film score WA
(2) The Scent of a Woman, film score
(2) The Shawshank Redemption, film score WA
(3) WALL-E, film score WA
White Oleander, film score WA

A second-generation member of Hollywood's preeminent musical dynasty, composer Thomas Newman carried on his family's legacy through a series of Academy Award-nominated film scores. Born in Los Angeles on October 20, 1955, he was the son of Alfred Newman and the nephew of Lionel and Emil Newman, all three renowned composers and conductors from Hollywood's golden age; Thomas' brother David also followed in the family business, as did their cousin, the sardonic singer/songwriter Randy Newman. Thomas studied piano and violin as a child, following a two-year stay at the University of Southern California by earning a master's degree in music from Yale. Although his early musical theater project Three Mean Fairy Tales was championed by Stephen Sondheim, Newman spent the better part of the part of the late '70s playing keyboards in the rock band the Innocents and the improvisational combo Tokyo 77. In 1983, he broke into the film industry by orchestrating a John Williams cue from Return of the Jedi, composing his first full score, Reckless, the following year. Newman's ethnic-inspired score to the 1985 Madonna vehicle Desperately Seeking Susan proved his breakthrough, and he further honed his distinctive electro-orchestral approach on subsequent projects including 1987's The Lost Boys and Less Than Zero. Films including Fried Green Tomatoes, The Rapture, and Scent of a Woman followed before Newman earned a pair of Oscar nominations in 1994 for his work on The Shawshank Redemption and Little Women; a year later, he received another Academy Award nomination for Unstrung Heroes. 1999's American Beauty was his fourth Oscar bid. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide