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JAMES NEWTON HOWARD (Music) is one of Hollywood's most versatile and prolific composers, with nearly 90 films to his credit. He has received six Academy Award® nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and one Grammy nomination. In addition, he has won 24 ASCAP Awards for film and television shows scored from 1994 to 2002. His credits include films as diverse as The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Fugitive, Pretty Woman, The Prince of Tides, Grand Canyon, Dave, Primal Fear, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Devil's Advocate and Dinosaur. Howard's more recent projects include the live-action Peter Pan; Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen; M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, for which Howard received his sixth Oscar® nomination for Best Original Score; and Michael Mann's Collateral.  Upcoming projects include Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale. Howard attended the Santa Barbara Musical Academy of the West and the University of Southern California's School of Music and completed his formal education with orchestration study under legendary arranger Marty Paich. Though his training was classical, he nurtured an interest in rock and pop.  It was in his early work in the pop arena that he really honed his talents as songwriter, musician, arranger, producer and composer. He spent two years doing session work for a variety of performers, from Carly Simon to Ringo Starr, and also recorded two solo albums. In 1975, he joined pop superstar Elton John's band on the road and in the studio doing orchestrations and string arrangements. Having become one of the most sought-after musicians in the industry as a songwriter, record producer, conductor, keyboardist and film composer, he racked up a string of collaborations in the studio with some of pop's biggest names, including Barbra Streisand, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones, Chakha Khan, Olivia Newton-John, Earth Wind and Fire, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart and Glen Frey, among others.

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