Composer
Biography
American composer and conductor born in 1954, active in film music for over thirty years and credited with scores for nearly a hundred feature films. He composed the 1997 and 1998 versions of the 20th Century Fox fanfare and received an Academy Award nomination for his score to Anastasia (1997). He belongs to the extended Newman family of film composers, among the most Oscar-nominated in Hollywood history. He is a son of the composer Alfred Newman, studied violin and orchestral conducting at the University of Southern California, and played in studio orchestras before he began scoring. Heathers, Hoffa, Matilda and Galaxy Quest are among his films, and he arranged the music for Spielberg's West Side Story in 2021; he conducts orchestras in screenings of film scores and directed the film-music programme of the Sundance Institute.