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Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American film composer, usually for Pixar films. He is the cousin of Randy Newman, who has also composed soundtracks for Pixar and Disney. Thomas has had achievements and awards for his works in Finding Nemo and WALL-E (both directed by Andrew Stanton), and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for Saving Mr. Banks.

His compositions are easily recognized for his heavy use of strings, tuned percussion instruments, and an almost ethereal electronic sound that gives his works an other worldly feel. He also frequently plays piano in his own compositions, usually during soft mellow scenes.

Filmography[]

Year Film Position Subsidiary
1995 Unstrung Heroes Music Hollywood Pictures
1996 Up Close & Personal Touchstone Pictures
Phenomenon Touchstone Pictures
1998 The Horse Whisperer Touchstone Pictures
2001 In the Bedroom Miramax Films
2003 Finding Nemo Pixar
2008 WALL-E Original Score Composed and Conducted
2011 The Help Music Touchstone Pictures
2013 Saving Mr. Banks Walt Disney Pictures
2016 Finding Dory Pixar
2023 Elemental Original Score Composed and Conducted

Trivia[]

  • He was originally picked to score Wreck-It Ralph, but was replaced by Henry Jackman. This may be because he was too busy working on the score for Skyfall.
  • He was originally scoring The Good Dinosaur as the third collaboration with Pixar when it was set to be directed by Bob Peterson with Peter Sohn, but following Peterson's exit, due to story problems, and Sohn being announced as the project's sole director, Newman was replaced by Mychael and Jeff Danna, resulting being scored Finding Dory as the third collaboration with the studio.
    • However, Newman would eventually provide the musical score for Elemental as the fourth collaboration with the studio; coincidentally, also being directed by Sohn.
  • Newman is the second out of six composers to work on a Pixar film (the first being his cousin, Randy).

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