Thomas Newman

Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an award-winning American composer known for writing the soundtracks of Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), Finding Nemo (2003), Road to Perdition (2003), The Good German (2005), WALL-E (2008), and Passengers (2016). His professional career began in 1979, and his work with film has won him two BAFTA's (British Acadamy of Film and Television Awards), six Grammys, and an Emmy. He has been nominated for four Saturn Awards for his music, three World Soundtrack Awards, and many Academy Awards.

Newman studied music at USC Thornton in Southern California and Yale University, and upon a time was mentored by Stephen Sondheim. He is known for using a large variety of classic and obscure instrumentation throughout different scores in his oeuvre.

In 2018, Newman composed the score for Dome Karukoski's Tolkien, the 2019 biographical film about J.R.R. Tolkien's early years.

He resides in Los Angeles, California.