Age: 75
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James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Space Jam (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), Dinosaur (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Signs (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Peter Pan (2003), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel, The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Blood Diamond (2006), Michael Clayton (2007), The Hunger Games series (2012–present), the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films and eight of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Peter Jackson, Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P. J. Hogan, Paul Greengrass, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Roth, Martin Campbell, Joe Johnston, Tony Gilroy, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates; conductor Pete Anthony; and violinists Bruce Dukov, and Eun-Mee Ahn.
Set just before World War II the story follows J.P. Brandt, a young American Air Force test pilot who is publicly humiliated and court-martialed after a stunt in a plane goes wrong, which endangers President Roosevelt. Despite this, he is able to get a job to pilot an experimental plane from the North to the South Pole. However, during the journey the plane is attacked by a Giant White Eagle, resulting in Brandt and the Crew crashing onto an undiscovered island with living dinosaurs, strange creatures, and a tribe of Vikings who ride giant eagles. After Brandt befriends the Vikings and manages to tame the island's apex predator, the legendary White Eagle who brought down his plane, naming him "Lindy", he discovers that the Nazis are planning to attack the United States with a new superweapon and Brandt and Lindy have to rally the Vikings to fight them.
