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James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an Academy Award
nominated film score composer.
Biography Throughout his prolific career, composer/musician/songwriter
James Newton Howard has scored films of all scales and genres, earning
multiple award nominations for his work. Howard began studying music as a
small child and went on to attend the Music Academy of the West in Santa
Barbara, California and then majored in piano performance at the University
of Southern California. After Howard left college, he toured with Elton
John as a keyboardist during the late 1970s and early 1980s before moving
into film music in the mid-1980s.
By the 1990s, Howard truly hit his career stride, scoring the surprise
blockbuster romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990) and receiving his first
Academy Award nomination for his score for Barbra Streisand's drama The
Prince of Tides (1991). Setting the musical mood for
Charlie Wilson's War
ER: Original Television Theme Music And Score
The Man in the Moon
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