James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard is an American composer, who is best known for his scores to motion pictures and is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema and has scored over 100 films. He is also known for his collaboration with director M. Night Shyamalan, having scored all his films since The Sixth Sense.
Howard was born in Los Angeles, California. He is from a musical family; his grandmother was the Pittsburgh Symphony's concertmaster and violinist during the 1930s and '40s. He went on to attend the Thacher School in Ojai, California and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California with Reginald Stewart and Leon Fleischer.
After working with various musicians and singers, Howard began scoring music for films, such as Pretty Woman, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .
He also wrote the theme music to , , , and .
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
2000	Dinosaur 	Music 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	Original Score	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2002	Treasure Planet 	Original Score	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011	Gnomeo & Juliet 	Original Score	Touchstone Pictures
2014	Maleficent 	Music 	Walt Disney Pictures
2018	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	Music 	Walt Disney Pictures
2019	A Hidden Life 	Music 	Fox Searchlight Pictures
2021	Raya and the Last Dragon 	Music 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
2021	Jungle Cruise 	Music 	Walt Disney Pictures
==Trivia==
*His instrumental piece "Flying" from the 2003 was used in several Disney World commercials.
==External links==
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