James Newton Howard

Q: Has James Newton Howard won any awards?

While James Newton Howard has not won an Academy Award, he has received multiple nominations and won Grammy Awards for his outstanding musical contributions.

Q: What was James Newton Howard's first film score?

James Newton Howard's first film score was for the movie 'The Pope of Greenwich Village' in 1984, which marked the beginning of his successful career in film music.

Q: What is James Newton Howard's estimated net worth?

James Newton Howard's estimated net worth is around $80 million, reflecting his successful career as a film composer and music producer.

Q: What kind of music does James Newton Howard typically compose?

James Newton Howard often composes orchestral scores that incorporate electronic elements, creating a unique sound that complements a variety of film genres.

Q: What notable collaborations has James Newton Howard had?

James Newton Howard has collaborated with directors like M. Night Shyamalan on multiple films and Peter Jackson for the 'Fantastic Beasts' series, showcasing his versatility.

Q: What is a defining characteristic of James Newton Howard's music?

A defining characteristic of James Newton Howard's music is his ability to blend emotional melodies with complex harmonies, which resonate strongly with audiences.

Q: What are some of the themes found in James Newton Howard's film scores?

James Newton Howard's film scores often explore themes of suspense, emotion, and adventure, enhancing the storytelling and character development in the films.

Known for

The Dark Knight (2008)

IMDb 9.0 / 10

2008 / Action, Crime / 152 min

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out...

The Hunger Games (2012)

IMDb 7.2 / 10

2012 / Action, Adventure / 142 min

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a...

Batman Begins (2005)

IMDb 8.2 / 10

2005 / Action, Adventure / 140 min

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work...

Name

James Newton Howard

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

9 June 1951, New York City, New York, USA

Spouses

Name (1992–present)

Children

Parents

Name, Name

Estimated Net Worth

$80 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2015	Movie The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes...	Self - Original Music Composer	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2012	Movie The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting...	Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2011	TV Hollywood in Vienna Hollywood in Vienna is an annual film music gala hosted in the Vienna Concert Hall where the Max Steiner Film...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2009	Movie Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil Documentary about evil heroes	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Eighth Blunder of the World Blooper reel for Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005)	Self	Not rated
2005	Movie Deconstructing 'The Village' In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew...	Self	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2004	Movie City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral' This documentary chronicles the making of the film Collateral (2004). We get to see Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx training...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2003	Movie Making 'Signs' Nearly every possible aspect of fimmaking used to produce the motion picture Signs (2002) is closely examined here. This serves...	Self - Composer	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2000	Movie Music and Sound Design of 'The Sixth Sense' This making-of piece features Shaymalan and composer James Newton Howard sharing their insights into the film's powerful score and unique...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1983	Movie Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again This is a 1982 concert by Crosby, Stills and Nash, in support of their "Daylight Again" CD release. Neil Young...	Self - Keyboards	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2027	Movie Remain Architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design a client’s summer home. Struggling with the loss of his family,...	Original Music Composer Sound	Not rated
2026	Movie Behemoth! Gifted cellist Alex Serian returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the...	Original Music Composer Sound	Not rated
2026	Movie The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of...	Original Music Composer Sound	Not rated
2026	Movie Marty, Life Is Short Martin Short looks back on a life fueled by joy in this documentary with classic clips, fresh interviews and star-studded,...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2025	Movie The Lost Bus A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	Movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	TV All the Light We Cannot See A blind French girl and a young German soldier's paths collide during WWII.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2023	Movie Pain Hustlers After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling prescription drugs.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2023	Movie Day Twelve One fateful night, an Uber driver is forced to confront a sinister secret when he picks up a mysterious passenger.	Music Sound	Not rated
2022	TV Willow Many years after the events of the original film, legendary sorcerer Willow leads a group of misfit heroes on a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2022	TV LIGHT & MAGIC When George Lucas set out to make Star Wars, little did he know he would end up revolutionizing an industry....	Music Sound	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2022	TV LIGHT & MAGIC When George Lucas set out to make Star Wars, little did he know he would end up revolutionizing an industry....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2022	Movie Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2021	Movie Jungle Cruise Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2021	Movie Raya and the Last Dragon Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2020	Movie News of the World A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2019	Movie A Hidden Life Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2018	Movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only...	Music Score Producer Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie The Nutcracker and the Four Realms When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2018	Movie Red Sparrow Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	Movie Roman J. Israel, Esq. Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2017	Movie Detroit A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2016	Movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase,...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2016	Movie All the Way Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2016	Movie The Huntsman: Winter's War As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2015	Movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	Movie Concussion A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2015	Movie Pawn Sacrifice During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2015	TV What Lives Inside While mourning the loss of his world-famous puppeteer father, Taylor finds himself mysteriously transported to the magical world of his...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	Movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, where the rebellion against the...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	Movie Nightcrawler When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2014	Movie Cut Bank 25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	Movie Maleficent A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	Movie The Hunger Games: Catching Fire After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2013	Movie Parkland November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2013	Movie After Earth One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2012	Movie The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting...	Music Sound	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2012	Movie The Bourne Legacy New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	Movie Snow White and the Huntsman After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie Darling Companion Beth develops a deep bond with a dog she rescues. But when her self-absorbed husband loses the dog, the search...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	Movie The Hunger Games In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie Larry Crowne When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie Green Lantern For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2011	Movie Water for Elephants In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Gnomeo & Juliet A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2011	Movie The Green Hornet Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2010	Movie The Tourist American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2010	Movie Love & Other Drugs Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	Movie Inhale A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2010	Movie Salt As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. Her loyalty will be tested when...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2010	Movie The Last Airbender A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of air, water, and earth...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2010	Movie Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2010	Movie The Secret of the Whales In New Zealand, a scientist, his family and down-on-his-luck investigator are trying to prove that the beaching of the local...	Music Sound	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2009	Movie Duplicity Two romantically involved government operatives Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval team up to manipulate a race between opposing corporations to...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2009	Movie Confessions of a Shopaholic In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie Defiance Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2008	Movie Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	Movie The Dark Knight Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2008	Movie The Happening When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2008	Movie Mad Money Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie The Water Horse A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.	Orchestrator Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie The Water Horse A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie The Great Debaters The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2007	Movie Charlie Wilson's War A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie I Am Legend Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2007	Movie Michael Clayton A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2007	Movie Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to...	Music Producer Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2007	Movie The Lookout Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2006	Movie Blood Diamond An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2006	Movie Lady in the Water Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2006	Movie RV Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the Munro family – led...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2006	Movie Freedomland A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2005	Movie King Kong In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2005	Movie Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2005	Movie Batman Begins Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2005	Movie The Interpreter After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2004	Movie Collateral Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie The Village When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	Movie Hidalgo Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2003	Movie Peter Pan In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2003	Movie Dreamcatcher Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	Movie Making 'Signs' Nearly every possible aspect of fimmaking used to produce the motion picture Signs (2002) is closely examined here. This serves...	Music Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2002	Movie Treasure Planet When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2002	Movie The Emperor's Club William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2002	Movie Amongst the Shoes A boy suspects that something lives in his closet, the moment for confirming it, has arrived.	Original Music Composer Sound	Not rated
2002	Movie Unconditional Love After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2002	Movie Signs A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2002	Movie Big Trouble The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife,...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie America's Sweethearts In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2001	Movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Vertical Limit Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie Unbreakable An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed....	Orchestrator Sound	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie Unbreakable An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie Dinosaur An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	Movie Snow Falling on Cedars In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1999	Movie Mumford When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Wayward Son Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1999	Movie Stir of Echoes After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins...	Orchestrator Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1999	Movie Stir of Echoes After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1999	Movie The Sixth Sense Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Runaway Bride Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1998	Movie A Perfect Murder Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1998	TV From the Earth to the Moon The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.	Music Sound	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1997	Movie The Postman In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1997	Movie The Devil's Advocate Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1997	Movie My Best Friend's Wedding When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1997	Movie Fathers' Day A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1997	Movie Dante's Peak Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1996	Movie One Fine Day Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1996	Movie Space Jam With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1996	Movie The Trigger Effect A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1996	Movie Primal Fear Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1996	Movie The Juror Struggling single mother Annie Laird impulsively agrees to serve on a jury, hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1996	Movie Eye for an Eye It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1995	Movie Restoration An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1995	Movie Waterworld In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1995	Movie French Kiss After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie Outbreak A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1995	Movie Just Cause A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1994	Movie Junior A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1994	Movie ER: 24 Hours 24 hours in the life of the staff working in the emergency room of a major Chicago hospital. Originally written...	Music Sound	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1994	Movie Wyatt Earp From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	Movie Intersection During a car accident, Vincent Eastman watches his whole life flash before his eyes, and he doesn't like what he...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1993	Movie Alive: 20 Years Later Documentary looking at the making of the 1993 film Alive about the 1972 plane crash in the Andes, and also...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1993	Movie The Saint of Fort Washington Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1993	Movie The Fugitive Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1993	Movie Dave A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1993	Movie Falling Down An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1993	Movie Alive The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1992	Movie American Heart An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1992	Movie Night and the City Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	Movie Glengarry Glen Ross Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1992	Movie Diggstown Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1992	Movie A Private Matter The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1991	Movie The Prince of Tides A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1991	Movie Grand Canyon Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1991	Movie My Girl Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1991	Movie The Man in the Moon Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1991	Movie Dying Young After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1991	Movie Land of Men Denis Villeneuve created this film during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast...	Music Sound	Not rated
1991	Movie Guilty by Suspicion Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1991	Movie King Ralph As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1990	Movie Descending Angel A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1990	Movie 3 Men and a Little Lady Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1990	Movie Marked for Death Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1990	Movie Flatliners Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1990	Movie Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler After months of a search for a serial killer, the police are able to catch the killer of some of...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1990	Movie Pretty Woman Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1990	Movie Coupe de Ville Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle child, is...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1989	Movie The Package Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1989	Movie Major League When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1989	Movie Tap Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1988	Movie Everybody's All-American Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1988	Movie Some Girls While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1988	Movie Off Limits McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1988	Movie Promised Land Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1987	Movie Russkies A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1987	Movie Five Corners A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1987	Movie Campus Man Todd Barret is an aspiring businessman. He's got what it takes, but what he doesn't have is enough money to...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1986	Movie Nobody's Fool Cassie, who seeks love and escape from her mundane ordinary life, meets a traveling Shakespeare troupe offering a community acting...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1986	Movie Tough Guys Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1986	Movie 8 Million Ways to Die Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid....	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1986	Movie Wildcats High school track coach Molly McGrath knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1985	Movie Head Office In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1984	Movie Dune In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The...	Original Music Composer Sound	TMDB 6.2 / 10

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

2015 / TMDB 7.2

Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil

2009 / TMDB 5.5

Deconstructing 'The Village'

2005 / TMDB 4.7

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again

1983 / TMDB 7.7

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James Newton Howard

Known for

The Dark Knight (2008)

The Hunger Games (2012)

Batman Begins (2005)

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