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 nominations for Academy Awards.

In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including ''The Player'' (1992), ''The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994), ''Meet Joe Black'' (1998), ''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 Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (2004), ''Cinderella Man'' (2005), ''WALL-E'' (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'', as well as the Netflix biographical crime drama ''Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story'' (2024). In the lattermost, he co-composed 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. Provided by Wikipedia