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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.
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Se7en
Original Music Composer
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Original Music Composer
The Departed
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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The Fly
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Original Music Composer
The Game
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The Silence of the Lambs
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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 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.
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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
When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos
From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...
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The Art of the Fall
From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...
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The Pale Blue Eye
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Crimes of the Future
2022
Spotlight
2015
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
Maps to the Stars
2014
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
Hugo
2011
A Dangerous Method
2011
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
2010
Edge of Darkness
2010
Doubt
2008
Eastern Promises
2007
The Departed
2006
A History of Violence
2005
The Aviator
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
Gangs of New York
2002
Panic Room
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
The Score
2001
The Cell
2000
High Fidelity
2000
Dogma
1999
eXistenZ
1999
Analyze This
1999
The Game
1997
Cop Land
1997
That Thing You Do!
1996
Crash
1996
Striptease
1996
Se7en
1995
Ed Wood
1994
The Client
1994
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Single White Female
1992
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Dead Ringers
1988
Big
1988
The Fly
1986
After Hours
1985
Videodrome
1983
Scanners
1981