Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, one for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He consistently collaborates with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films. Shore has also composed concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film, which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008; a short piece named Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. Shore has also composed for television, including serving as the original musical director for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980. In addition to his three Oscars, Shore has won three Golden Globe Awards, four Grammy Awards, three Genie Awards, and nine Canadian Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Shore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (70)
The Shrouds
Crimes of the Future
The Pale Blue Eye
Pieces of a Woman
The Song of Names
The Catcher Was a Spy
Denial
Spotlight
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Rosewater
Maps to the Stars
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Cosmopolis
Hugo
A Dangerous Method
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Edge of Darkness
Doubt
Eastern Promises
The Last Mimzy
The Departed
A History of Violence
The Aviator
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gangs of New York
Panic Room
Spider
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Score
High Fidelity
The Cell
The Yards
Dogma
eXistenZ
Analyze This
Gloria
The Game
Cop Land
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Crash
That Thing You Do!
Striptease
Before and After
Se7en
White Man's Burden
Ed Wood
The Client
Nobody's Fool
Mrs. Doubtfire
Philadelphia
Sliver
Guilty as Sin
M. Butterfly
Prelude to a Kiss
Single White Female
The Silence of the Lambs
Naked Lunch
She-Devil
An Innocent Man
Big
Dead Ringers
The Fly
Fire with Fire
After Hours
Places in the Heart
Videodrome
Scanners