James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard is an Acadmey-Award nominated film composer. He is one of the most popular and most respected film composers of all-time. He is best known for films such as Green Lantern, Micheal Clayton, Treasure Planet, The Last Airbender, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He is mostly known for doing the score for Acadamy Award winning director, M. Night. Shymalan. Howard co-composed the music for the first two installments of Christiopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy with Hans Zimmer, another famous composer. He is the film composer for The Hunger Games. It is unknown if he will return for Catching Fire.

Trivia
He replaced Danny Elfman for 2 films, The Green Hornet and The Hunger Games.

He and Hans Zimmer have a Saturn Award and a Grammy Award for The Dark Knight.

He as scored more than 100 films.

He dropped out of The Dark Knight Rises to do The Hunger Games.

His trademark is that he never conducts his own music.

He wrote original music for Batman Begins' trailer.

He is known to work on a short schdule. He is often called to to score a last minute film, or add to music that has already been written. Danny Elfman with The Green Hornet and The Hunger Games, and Alan SIlvestri with Treasure Planet.