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Thomas Newman is an American composer, conductor and orchestrator known for his many film scores. Most notably The Player (1992); The Shawshank Redemption (1994); American Beauty and The Green Mile (both 1999); In the Bedroom (2001); Finding Nemo (2003); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); Cinderella Man (2005); WALL-E (2008); the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), 1917 (2019), and Elemental (2023).

As a composer

Feature films

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Television

Additional soundtracks and music

• 2001: Hearts in Atlantis (Trailer) (from How to Make an American Quilt)
• 2003: Finding Nemo (Teaser Trailer) (from Scent of a Woman)
• 2005: Brokeback Mountain (Trailer) (from The Shawshank Redemption)
• 2005: Corpse Bride (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
• 2005: Madagascar (from American Beauty)
• 2005: Fun with Dick and Jane (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
• 2006: Eight Below (Trailer) (from Finding Nemo)
• 2007: Sicko (from Little Children, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and In the Bedroom)
• 2007: No Reservations (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and American Beauty)
• 2009: Bigfoot (Trailer) (from WALL-E)
• 2010: Alice in Wonderland (Teaser Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Newman has also composed music for television, including theme music for the series Boston Public and the miniseries Angels in America. His theme music for the television show Six Feet Under won two Grammy Awards in 2003, for Best Instrumental Composition as well as Best Instrumental Arrangement. He also wrote the theme for the HBO series Newsroom.

Newman also wrote a commissioned concert work for orchestra, Reach Forth Our Hands, for the 1996 Cleveland Bicentennial. The Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned an orchestral work by Newman, It Got Dark, which was performed by the Kronos Quartet and Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Slatkin during the orchestra's 2009–2010 season.

He composed the incidental music for the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2014 production of As You Like It, directed by Michael Attenborough and starring Zoe Waites.

He also collaborated with composer and multi-instrumentalist Rick Cox in an electro-acoustic album 35 Whirlpools Below Sound; which is released under the label Cold Blue Music in 2014.

References

1. Barcomb, James (June 6, 2014). "Thomas Newman to score Finding Dory". The Whale. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
2. "It Got Dark (LAPA commission; world premiere) (Thomas Newman)". LA Phil. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
3. Scheinin, Richard (2013-07-17). "Hollywood composer Thomas Newman writes for Kronos". The Mercury News. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
4. Groves, Martha (2009-12-03). "A member of a musical dynasty writes a postcard about the past". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
5. Marks, Peter (November 4, 2014). "Into the often drab woods with Shakespeare Theatre Company's 'As You Like It'". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
6. "CB0040 | Cold Blue Music". Retrieved 2019-07-23.

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