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Over ninety film credits to his name, Thomas Newman is a certifiable legend in the world of cinematic composition and one of the living members of the Newman Family music dynasty.

He’s one of my favourite composers with a CV to die for; “The Lost Boys,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “American Beauty,” “The Green Mile,” “The Adjustment Bureau”, “Meet Joe Black”, the series “Castle Rock,” and the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre” are just scratching the surface of films graced by Newman’s musical stylings. He can do it all, because he’s done it all, and there are no signs he’s slowing down.

By his own admission, he has genres that excite him more than others. In a 2023 interview to promote his score for Pixar’s “Elemental”, he was moved to say “I mean, I like psychological drama. There’s something wonderful about writing a score that’s maybe 25 minutes and that there’s no music for 15 minutes and suddenly music comes in. It really elevates and then it goes away. And that it’s not turning every corner. But a lot of the movies I’ve done recently, I guess, have been essential to write larger scores. Some of the Bond movies that I’ve done and obviously animation really require a lot more music, and I love that, too. So I mean, I don’t know that there’s any genre that I prefer. What I always want to do is work on a movie that I find interesting and that I can be expressive and feel like there’s going to be some joy in the making.”