Thomas Newman Biography

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THOMAS NEWMAN (Music) has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, most recently for his work on Brad Silberling's fantasy-adventure Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, starring Jim Carrey, in 2004. The previous year, he earned a nomination for the animated feature Finding Nemo.

Newman received Oscar nominations on two Sam Mendes films: the Academy Award-winning American Beauty and the critically acclaimed Road to Perdition. His other Oscar nominations were for Unstrung Heroes in 1996 and Little Women and The Shawshank Redemption, both in 1995. Newman received both a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award for his work on American Beauty, and he received an Emmy Award and two Grammy Awards for his main title music for the HBO original series Six Feet Under. Newman is the recipient of the BMI Richard Kirk Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as Composer of the Year from the Hollywood Film Festival Award in 2004.

Among his recent film credits are Cinderella Man, White Oleander, The Salton Sea, In the Bedroom, Pay It Forward and Erin Brockovich. His other film scores include The Green Mile, Meet Joe Black, The Horse Whisperer, The People vs. Larry Flynt, American Buffalo, Phenomenon, Red Corner, Up Close & Personal, Scent of a Woman, The Player, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Lost Boys and Desperately Seeking Susan. Newman also composed the score for director Mike Nichols' highly acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America.

A graduate of Yale University with a master's degree in music composition, Newman is the son of famed composer Alfred Newman and the nephew of notable composer Lionel Newman. His brother is composer David Newman, and his cousin is singer-songwriter-composer Randy Newman.