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).
Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
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1990 | Men Don't Leave | Paul Brickman | Geffen Pictures Warner Bros. | — |
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Jim Abrahams | Paramount Pictures | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande | |
1991 | Career Opportunities | Bryan Gordon | Hughes Entertainment Universal Pictures | Song album with three Newman tracks released by Curb |
The Linguini Incident | Richard Shepard | Academy Entertainment | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande | |
Naked Tango | Leonard Schrader | New Line Cinema | — | |
The Rapture | Michael Tolkin | Fine Line Features New Line Cinema | Song album with ten Newman tracks | |
Deceived | Damian Harris | Touchstone Pictures | — | |
Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | Act III Communications Universal Pictures | Song album with three Newman tracks and separate score album, both released by MCA | |
1992 | The Player | Robert Altman | Avenue Pictures Spelling Films Fine Line Features (US) Pathé (International) | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande |
Whispers in the Dark | Christopher Crowe | Paramount Pictures | Varèse Sarabande album release cancelled; released by Intrada in 2012 | |
Scent of a Woman | Martin Brest | City Light Films Universal Pictures | Soundtrack released by MCA | |
1993 | Flesh and Bone | Steve Kloves | Paramount Pictures | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande |
Josh and S.A.M. | Billy Weber | Castle Rock Entertainment New Line Cinema Columbia Pictures | ||
1994 | Threesome | Andrew Fleming | Motion Picture Corporation of America TriStar Pictures | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande. Twinned with American Buffalo |
The Favor | Donald Petrie | Orion Pictures | — | |
The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | Castle Rock Entertainment Columbia Pictures | Soundtrack released by Epic Soundtrax | |
The War | Jon Avnet | Universal Pictures | Song album with 12 Newman tracks released by MCA | |
Little Women | Gillian Armstrong | Columbia Pictures | Soundtrack released by Sony Classical | |
1995 | Unstrung Heroes | Diane Keaton | Hollywood Pictures | Soundtrack released by Hollywood Records |
How to Make an American Quilt | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures | Soundtrack released by MCA | |
1996 | Up Close & Personal | Jon Avnet | Cinergi Pictures Touchstone Pictures | Soundtrack released by Hollywood Records |
Phenomenon | Jon Turteltaub | Touchstone Pictures | Song album with one Newman track released by Reprise | |
American Buffalo | Michael Corrente | Capitol Films Channel Four Films The Samuel Goldwyn Company | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande. Twinned with Threesome | |
The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman | Phoenix Pictures Columbia Pictures | Soundtrack released by Angel Records | |
1997 | Red Corner | Jon Avnet | Avnet-Kerner Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Soundtrack released by EAR |
Mad City | Costa Gavras | Warner Bros. | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande | |
Oscar and Lucinda | Gillian Armstrong | Australian Film Finance Corporation Fox Searchlight Pictures | Soundtrack released by Sony Classical | |
1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Robert Redford | Touchstone Pictures | Soundtrack released by Hollywood Records |
Meet Joe Black | Martin Brest | City Light Films Universal Pictures | Soundtrack released by Universal Records | |
1999 | American Beauty | Sam Mendes | DreamWorks Pictures | Soundtrack released by DreamWorks Records |
The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | Castle Rock Entertainment Warner Bros. | Soundtrack released by Warner Bros. Records. | |
Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
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2000 | Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh | Jersey Films Universal Pictures (US) Columbia Pictures (International) | Soundtrack released by Sony Classical |
Pay It Forward | Mimi Leder | Bel Air Entertainment Tapestry Films Pathé Warner Bros. | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande | |
2001 | In the Bedroom | Todd Field | Good Machine Miramax Films | |
2002 | The Salton Sea | D. J. Caruso | Castle Rock Entertainment Warner Bros. | |
Road to Perdition | Sam Mendes | The Zanuck Company DreamWorks Pictures (US) 20th Century Fox (International) | Soundtrack released by Decca Records | |
White Oleander | Peter Kosminsky | Umbrella Entertainment Warner Bros. | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande | |
2003 | Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton | Pixar Animation Studios Walt Disney Pictures | Newman's first score for an animated film Soundtrack released by Walt Disney Records |
2004 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Brad Silberling | Nickelodeon Movies Paramount Pictures (US) DreamWorks Pictures (International) | Soundtrack released by Sony Classical |
2005 | Cinderella Man | Ron Howard | Imagine Entertainment Miramax Films Universal Pictures (North America) Buena Vista Pictures (International) | Soundtrack released by Decca Records |
Jarhead | Sam Mendes | Universal Pictures | ||
2006 | Little Children | Todd Field | New Line Cinema | Soundtrack released by Silva Screen Records |
The Good German | Steven Soderbergh | Virtual Studios Section Eight Productions Warner Bros. | Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande | |
2007 | Towelhead | Alan Ball | Scott Rudin Productions This is that Corporation Warner Independent Pictures | Soundtrack released by Lakeshore Records |
2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton | Pixar Animation Studios Walt Disney Pictures | Soundtrack released by Walt Disney Records |
Revolutionary Road | Sam Mendes | BBC Films DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Vantage (US) United International Pictures (International) | Soundtrack released by Nonesuch | |
2009 | Brothers | Jim Sheridan | Relativity Media Lionsgate | Soundtrack released by Relativity Music Group |
Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
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2020 | Let Them All Talk | Steven Soderbergh | HBO Max | — |
2021 | The Little Things | John Lee Hancock | Warner Bros. Pictures | — |
Operation Mincemeat | John Madden | FilmNation Entertainment Netflix | — | |
2022 | Dog | Channing Tatum Reid Carolin | FilmNation Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists Releasing | — |
A Man Called Otto | Marc Forster | Columbia Pictures TSG Entertainment II Stage 6 Films SF Studios Playtone Artistic Films | — | |
2023 | Elemental | Peter Sohn | Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios | — |
2024 | White Bird | Marc Forster | Lionsgate Mandeville Films Participant Media | — |
2025 | The Thursday Murder Club | Chris Columbus | Amblin Entertainment Jennifer Todd Pictures Maiden Voyage Pictures Netflix | — |
Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
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TBA | In the Blink of an Eye | Andrew Stanton | Searchlight Pictures Mighty Engine | — |
Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
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1979 | The Paper Chase | Various | "A Case Of Detente" (season 1, episode 21) Probably Thomas Newman's first film score |
1987 | Amazing Stories | Episode "Santa '85." Soundtrack released by Intrada | |
1990 | Heat Wave | Kevin Hooks | |
1992 | Those Secrets | David Manson | Soundtrack released by Masters Film Music |
Citizen Cohn | Frank Pierson | ||
2000 | Boston Public | Various | Main title theme |
2001 | Six Feet Under | ||
2003 | Angels in America | Mike Nichols | Soundtrack released by Nonesuch |
2012 | The Newsroom | Various | Main theme and pilot |
2017 | Five Came Back | Main theme | |
2018 | Castle Rock | Main theme and six episodes | |
2024 | Feud: Capote vs. The Swans | Various | Main Title Theme |
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | Various | Co-composed with Julia Newman | |
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, [2] which was performed by the Kronos Quartet and Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Slatkin during the orchestra's 2009–2010 season. [3] [4]
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. [5]
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. [6]
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler and a fictional character of his creation. Handler has published various children's books under the name, including A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film and Netflix TV series from 2017 to 2019 of the same name. Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe author who investigates and re-tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Daniel Handler is an American author, musician, screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is best known for his children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket. The former was adapted into a film in 2004, as well as a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019.
Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer, conductor and orchestrator best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), American Beauty and The Green Mile, Pay It Forward (2000), In the Bedroom (2001), Road to Perdition and White Oleander, Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), WALL-E (2008), the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), 1917 (2019), and Elemental (2023).
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is a fictional "autobiography" of A Series of Unfortunate Events author and character Lemony Snicket. It was published on May 1, 2002.
A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of thirteen children's novels written by American author Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket. The books follow the turbulent lives of orphaned siblings Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. After their parents' death in a fire, the children are placed in the custody of a murderous villain, Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance and causes numerous disasters with the help of his accomplices as the children attempt to flee. As the plot progresses, the Baudelaires gradually confront further mysteries surrounding their family and deep conspiracies involving a secret society, which also involves Olaf and Snicket, the author's own fictional self-insert.
Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the extended Newman family being the most Academy Award-nominated family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
Book the Second: The Reptile Room is the second book in the children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. The book tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans, as they are sent to live with a distant relative named Montgomery Montgomery.
The Gothic Archies are an American indie rock/gothic rock band established by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. In 1997, Merritt released The New Despair. The EP featured the song "Your Long White Fingers", which appeared frequently in the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 American black comedy adventure film directed by Brad Silberling from a screenplay by Robert Gordon, based on the first three novels of the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (1999), The Reptile Room (1999), and The Wide Window (2000), by Lemony Snicket. It stars Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Cedric the Entertainer, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge, and Meryl Streep, and Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 action-adventure game based on the film of the same name. Players take the roles of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, solving puzzles, fighting villains and finding objects. Players encounter characters such as Mr. Poe, Uncle Monty, and Aunt Josephine, along with villains such as Count Olaf, the Hook-Handed Man, the White-Faced Women, and the Bald Man with the Long Nose.
The 9th Art Directors Guild Awards, given on 12 February 2005, honored the best art directors of 2004.
The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events is the second studio album by American indie pop band the Gothic Archies, released on October 10, 2006, by Nonesuch Records. It is a concept album where the songs are inspired by the thirteen books of Daniel Handler's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events and were originally included at the end of the audiobook editions of each novel.
Finding Nemo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2003 Disney/Pixar film of the same name. Featuring original score composed and conducted by Thomas Newman, the cousin of Randy Newman, who had collaborated with Pixar productions since Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Monsters, Inc. (2001). The album consisted 39 instrumental tracks from Thomas' score and a cover of Bobby Darin's 1959 single "Beyond The Sea" (which is also a cover of the 1945 single "La Mer" by Charles Trenet) performed by Robbie Williams, released by Walt Disney Records on May 20, 2003.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is the soundtrack on the Sony Classical label of the 2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, starring Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Liam Aiken, and Emily Browning. The original score was composed by Thomas Newman.
Dylan Tichenor, A.C.E. is an American film editor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Hollywood Film Award and a Satellite Award, and has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and four Eddie Awards.
This is a list of books by Lemony Snicket, the pen name of American author Daniel Handler. Works published under the name Daniel Handler are not included. Handler, as Snicket, has published 26 fiction novels, thirteen in the main A Series of Unfortunate Events franchise. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages, and have sold more than 65 million copies.
All the Wrong Questions is a four-part children's book series and prequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The series explores Snicket's childhood apprenticeship to the secret society V.F.D and expands the fictional universe introduced in the novel The Bad Beginning, the first of thirteen installments in the A Series of Unfortunate Events books.
When Did You See Her Last? is the second book in the All the Wrong Questions series by Lemony Snicket, a series set before the events of A Series of Unfortunate Events. A dark humour story, Snicket returns to continue the tale of his time in Stain'd-by-the-Sea, accompanied by his chaperone, S. Theodora Markson.
A Series of Unfortunate Events is an American black comedy drama television series based on the book series of the same name by Lemony Snicket for Netflix. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, K. Todd Freeman, and Presley Smith. Dylan Kingwell, Avi Lake, Sara Rue and Lucy Punch join the cast in the second season.
Matthew Richard Cardarople is an American actor and comedian. He is usually typecast as nerds or individuals with socially awkward traits illustrating American kitsch culture. He has appeared in the ABC television series Selfie, the 2015 film Jurassic World, the 2016 TV series Stranger Things as a worker at the Hawkins arcade, and as the "Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender" in the TV series Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2021, he played Keith in the film Free Guy. His supporting roles include appearances in Michael Showalter's 2017 romantic comedy The Big Sick, and Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi's TV series Reservation Dogs.