Age: 75
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James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. 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), Space Jam (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), Dinosaur (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Signs (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Peter Pan (2003), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel, The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Blood Diamond (2006), Michael Clayton (2007), The Hunger Games series (2012–present), the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films and eight of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Peter Jackson, Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P. J. Hogan, Paul Greengrass, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Roth, Martin Campbell, Joe Johnston, Tony Gilroy, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates; conductor Pete Anthony; and violinists Bruce Dukov, and Eun-Mee Ahn.
James Newton Howard
Composer
for Composer in Superboy: A Clark Kent story
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Set in the quiet heart of Smallville, this R-rated origin story follows 15-year-old Clark Kent at the end of his freshman year—a kid learning to balance adolescence, secrets, and the growing burden of being different. For two months, he’s been secretly fighting low-level criminals as Superboy, hiding behind a mask and a homemade costume: a blue longsleeve T-shirt with a painted Superman logo, jeans, and red Converse shoes. But Clark’s world changes when his shy, reclusive classmate Matthew Thomson begins to change. After enduring years of relentless bullying, Matthew’s mind snaps the moment his telekinetic powers emerge, transforming his pain into pure rage. One by one, his tormentors die—thrown, crushed, torn apart by invisible force—until six are dead and four remain. Now, Smallville is gripped by fear, and Clark is forced into his first true test as a hero. Facing Matthew means confronting someone his own age, someone not born evil but broken by cruelty. Their showdown is raw and tragic, filled with moral conflict and devastating power. Clark must decide how far he’ll go to stop his friend before he kills again—and whether justice means saving Matthew or ending him. The battle leaves Smallville scarred, and Clark forever changed, realizing that being a hero isn’t about glory—it’s about sacrifice, compassion, and the heavy cost of doing what’s right.
