James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American film composer, music producer and keyboardist. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include ''Pretty Woman'' (1990), ''The Prince of Tides'' (1991), ''The Fugitive'' (1993), ''Waterworld'' (1995), ''Space Jam'' (1996), ''Dinosaur'' (2000), ''Unbreakable'' (2000), ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' (2001), ''Treasure Planet'' (2002), ''Peter Pan'' (2003), ''King Kong'' (2005), ''Batman Begins'' (2005) and its sequel ''The Dark Knight'' (2008) which he composed with Hans Zimmer, ''The Hunger Games'' franchise (2012–2023), ''Fantastic Beasts'' trilogy (2016–2022), ''Raya and the Last Dragon'' (2021) and ''Jungle Cruise'' (2021). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films since ''The Sixth Sense'' (1999) and all of Lawrence's films since ''I Am Legend'' (2007). He has also worked with such other directors as Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P.J. Hogan, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Johnston, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, David Yates, and Barbra Streisand. Provided by Wikipedia