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Howard Shore has composed the scores to more than 60 films and recently received the Oscar for Best Original Score for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, for which he was also honored with the Los Angeles Film Critics and The Chicago Film Critics Award.

Shore's outstanding film work also includes The Silence Of The Lambs and Philadelphia, directed by Jonathan Demme; Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton; Seven and The Game, directed by David Fincher; Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith; and After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese. Other recent film scores are The Score, The Yards, Analyze This, Mrs. Doubtfire and Big.

Shore's long standing collaboration with David Cronenberg has produced the scores to The Brood (1979), Scanners (1980), Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Naked Lunch (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), Crash (1996) and eXistenZ (1999).

His upcoming projects include the highly anticipated 2nd installment of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and David Cronenberg's Spider, starring Ralph Fiennes, scheduled for release later this year. Shore's last project was the David Fincher thriller Panic Room, starring Jodie Foster.

Howard Shore was formally educated at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. He recorded with the group "Lighthouse" from 1969 to 1972. As one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live, he served as Musical Director from 1975 to1980.

Shore has been honored with 2 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, a Grammy Award nomination, and 2 BAFTA Award nominations in Great Britain. He has also received a Gotham Award in New York, the Saturn Award for Science Fiction and a Genie Award in Canada. In May 2000, Shore was honored during a week long retrospective of his work presented by the University of Ghent in Belgium.

Shore's music has also been performed live in concerts throughout world, including the Seville Film Music Festival in Seville, Spain; Cinesonic's 1st International Conference on Film Scores and Sound Design in Melbourne, Australia; and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada. In November 2000, Shore conducted the world premiere Concert to Projection of his original score to David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. The performance was part of the Belfast Festival at Queens, in Belfast Ireland, and featured Ornette Coleman and the Ulster Orchestra. Naked Lunch Concert to Projection was most recently performed in March 2001 at the Barbican Centre in London as part of the Barbican performance series Only Connect: A Series of Extraordinary Live Events.

In addition to his film score work, Shore's chamber music has been featured on Arabesque Record's "Reel Life - The Private Music of Film Composers Vol. 1".

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Release Date:	November 15, 2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Release Date:	December 13, 2013

The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014)
Release Date:	December 17, 2014

	Jimmy Picard
	Maps to the Stars
	Sinatra
	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
	The Spider
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
	Cosmopolis
	A Dangerous Method
	Hugo
	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
	Edge of Darkness
	Doubt
	The Fly: The Opera [Concert Work]
	The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
	Eastern Promises
	The Last Mimzy
	SUN: Soul of the Ultimate Nation [Video Game]
	The Departed
	King Kong (unused score)
	A History of Violence
	The Aviator
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	Gangs of New York
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
	Panic Room
	Spider
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
	The Score
	Camera
	Esther Kahn
	High Fidelity
	The Cell
	The Yards
	eXistenZ
	Analyze This
	Dogma
	Gloria
	Cop Land
	The Game
	Crash
	Striptease
	The Truth About Cats & Dogs
	Before And After
	Looking For Richard
	That Thing You Do!
	Seven
	Moonlight & Valentino
	White Man's Burden
	Ed Wood
	Nobody's Fool
	The Client
	Mrs. Doubtfire
	Guilty As Sin
	Late Night with Conan O'Brien [TV Series] (themes)
	M. Butterfly
	Philadelphia
	Sliver
	Prelude To A Kiss
	Single White Female
	A Kiss Before Dying
	Naked Lunch
	The Silence Of The Lambs
	Made in Milan
	Quick Change
	Scales of Justice [TV Series]
	She Devil
	The Lemon Sisters
	An Innocent Man
	Signs of Life
	The Local Stigmatic
	Big
	Dead Ringers
	Moving
	Heaven
	Nadine
	Belizaire The Cajun
	Fire With Fire
	The Fly
	After Hours
	Nothing Lasts Forever
	Places In The Heart
	Videodrome
	Scanners
	The Brood
	I Miss You, Hugs And Kisses
	Saturday Night Live [TV Series]