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James Newton Howard - Topic

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James Newton Howard 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, The Prince of Tides, The Fugitive, Space Jam, Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, The Village, King Kong, Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight, Michael Clayton, the Fantastic Beasts trilogy, and Raya and the Last Dragon. He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films since The Sixth Sense and all of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend. 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.