James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American film score composer. Throughout his prolific career, 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.

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