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James Newton Howard
American composer and music producer
b. 1951age 75Living
A film composer whose scores range from the romantic sweep of Pretty Woman to the tension of The Sixth Sense and the mythic scale of King Kong and The Dark Knight, the latter written with Hans Zimmer. He has scored more than a hundred films, including all four Hunger Games installments and the Fantastic Beasts trilogy, and worked repeatedly with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence. His work has earned a Grammy, an Emmy and nine Academy Award nominations.