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James Newton Howard

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American composer and music producer

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According to Wikipedia, James Newton Howard is an American film composer, music producer and keyboardist. 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 Fugitive , Space Jam , Dinosaur , Peter Pan , King Kong , Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight which he composed with Hans Zimmer, The Hunger Games franchise , Fantastic Beasts trilogy , and Jungle Cruise . 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 even worked on other frequent scores with for other directors Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P.J. Hogan, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Johnston, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates.

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