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Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer, conductor and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Film Awards, and 15 nominations for Academy Awards.
In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Meet Joe Black, American Beauty and The Green Mile, Pay It Forward, In the Bedroom, Road to Perdition and White Oleander, Finding Nemo and its sequel Finding Dory, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Cinderella Man, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre, Bridge of Spies, 1917, and Elemental.
In television, Newman has composed music for the HBO drama series Six Feet Under, the 2003 miniseries Angels in America, as well as the Netflix biographical crime drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. In the lattermost, he co-composed with his daughter Julia Newman. He has collaborated with directors such as Robert Altman, Jon Avnet, Martin Brest, Frank Darabont, Todd Field, John Lee Hancock, John Madden, Sam Mendes, Andrew Stanton, and Steven Soderbergh.

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