Thomas Newman

Thomas Montgomery Newman born October 20 1955 is an American composer conductor and orchestrator He is best known for his film scores earning accolades of six Grammy Awards an Emmy Award two BAFTA Film Awards and 15 Academy Award nominations In a career that has spanned over four decades he has scored numerous films including The Player 1992 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Little Women 1994 Meet Joe Black1998 American Beauty and The Green Mile both 1999 Pay It Forward 2000 In the Bedroom 2001 Road to Perdition and White Oleander both 2002 Finding Nemo 2003 and its sequel Finding Dory 2016 Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events 2004 Cinderella Man 2005 WALLE 2008 the James Bond films Skyfall 2012 and Spectre 2015 Bridge of Spies 2015 1917 2019 and Elemental 2023 In television Newman has composed music for the HBO drama series Six Feet Under 2001 the 2003 miniseries Angels in America and the Netflix biographical crime drama Monsters The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story 2024 In the latter he cocomposed with his daughter Julia Newman He has collaborated with directors such as Robert Altman Jon Avnet Martin Brest Frank Darabont Todd Field John Lee Hancock John Madden Sam Mendes Andrew Stanton and Steven Soderbergh Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas Newman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia