Howard Shore
Howard Shore (born 1946) is a Canadian film composer best known for his work on the Lord of the Rings films and doing the scores for every film for David Cronenberg since 1979 (except one). He also been the music director of a few of Lorne Michaels's projects (such as Saturday Night Live and Late Night With Conan O'Brien, written music for opera, worked with Roger Waters from Pink Floyd on a few songs and performed on the world's largest pipe organ.
He frequently collaborates with Peter Jackson, Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese as well.
Films scored by Howard Shore include
- The Brood (1979)
- Scanners (1981)
- Videodrome (1983)
- After Hours (1985)
- The Fly (1986)
- Big (1988)
- Dead Ringers (1988)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Naked Lunch (1991)
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
- Ed Wood (1994) The only Tim Burton film to not be scored by Danny Elfman.
- Se7en (1995)
- The Game (1997)
- Dogma (1999)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) Won two Oscars and four Grammys for his work.
- Panic Room (2002)
- Gangs of New York (2002)
- The Aviator (2004)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- King Kong (2005) This score was rejected and replaced with a score by James Newton Howard.
- The Departed (2006)
- Eastern Promises (2007)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
- A Dangerous Method (2011)
- Hugo (2011)
- The Hobbit (2012-2013)