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Howard Shore

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Biography

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, one for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He consistently collaborates with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films. Shore has also composed concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film, which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008; a short piece named Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. Shore has also composed for television, including serving as the original musical director for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980. In addition to his three Oscars, Shore has won three Golden Globe Awards, four Grammy Awards, three Genie Awards, and nine Canadian Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Shore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Original Music Composer

Se7en

Original Music Composer

The Departed

Original Music Composer

The Fly

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Game

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Original Music Composer

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Original Music Composer

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Original Music Composer

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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The Discs That Changed How Britain Watched

When DVD landed in Britain in 1997 it promised cinema in your living room. The discs that followed rewired what collectors expected from a film at home.

10 films

Game On: Cinematic Journeys Through Digital Worlds

From arcade nostalgia to virtual reality epics, these films explore the thrill and terror of living inside the game.

8 films

Death as Choreography: Eight Films of Inventive Demise

From cosmic indifference to moral punishment, these eight horror films treat death as a precise, theatrical art form. Each kill is a set piece, a statement, and...

8 films

Remakes That Missed but Matter

From Neil LaBute's Wicker Man to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a journey through remakes that stumbled yet reveal why we keep returning to the classics.

8 films

The prestige is the trick you never see coming

A chain of films about magicians, mediums and con artists, tracing the moment cinema learned to lie to us and we learned to love it.

8 films

The Body's Unmaking

From Cronenberg's flesh to Claire Denis's restless bodies, these eight films chart a cinema of transformation that questions where the self ends and the body be...

8 films

Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux

From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.

7 films

When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability

What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...

8 films

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