Howard Leslie Shore was born on October 18,1946 and is a Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores.
45 Facts About Howard Shore
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Howard Shore has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies.
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Howard Shore is a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.
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Howard Shore has composed for television, including serving as the original musical director for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980.
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Howard Shore was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bernice and Mac Shore.
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Howard Shore started studying music at the age of 8 or 9.
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Howard Shore learned a multitude of instruments and began playing in bands at the ages of 13 and 14.
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When Howard Shore was 13, he met and became good friends with a young Lorne Michaels in summer camp, and this friendship would later be influential in his career.
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Howard Shore studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute.
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From 1969 to 1972, Howard Shore was a member of the jazz fusion band Lighthouse.
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Howard Shore suggested the name for The Blues Brothers to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
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Howard Shore is currently in litigation with Star-Entertainment Berlin over their unauthorized use of his music and poor quality concerts, following a concert on 1st April 2023 at the Portsmouth Guildhall which was so bad every audience member was given a full refund and the production company were banned from the premises permanently.
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Howard Shore would go on to score all of Cronenberg's subsequent films, with the exception of The Dead Zone, which was scored by Michael Kamen.
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Howard Shore then scored two more of David Cronenberg's films: Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch.
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Howard Shore received his first BAFTA nomination for the score.
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Howard Shore is the only living composer to have scored a "Top Five" Oscar-winning film.
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Howard Shore scored another three films in 1994: The Client, Ed Wood, and Nobody's Fool.
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Howard Shore composed the score of the 2000 film The Cell.
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Ultimately, The Two Towers score did not receive an Academy Award nomination; Howard Shore did receive a BAFTA nomination for Gangs of New York.
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Howard Shore won his second Oscar for Best Original Score, as well as a third for Best Original Song for "Into the West", which he shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox.
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Howard Shore won his first Golden Globe, his third and fourth Grammy, and was nominated for a third BAFTA.
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In 2004, Howard Shore again collaborated with Martin Scorsese, scoring his epic film The Aviator, this time with the Brussels Philharmonic.
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Howard Shore won a second Golden Globe for the score, becoming the third composer to have won consecutive Golden Globes in the Original Score category.
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Howard Shore received his sixth Grammy nomination, and his fifth BAFTA nomination.
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Howard Shore collaborated again with David Cronenberg in 2005 to score A History of Violence, starring Viggo Mortensen.
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In 2007, Howard Shore composed the music for Soul of the Ultimate Nation, an online multiplayer video game.
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In 2010, Howard Shore composed the score to Eclipse, the third installment in the Twilight film series, following Carter Burwell and Alexandre Desplat, who scored the first and second films, respectively.
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Howard Shore replaced John Corigliano to score Edge of Darkness, starring Mel Gibson.
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Howard Shore composed the score to Martin Scorsese's Hugo, his fifth collaboration with the director, which earned him a sixth Golden Globe nomination and fourth Oscar nomination.
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Howard Shore composed the score to Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series.
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Recently Howard Shore has been busy with other projects, leaving other conductors including Markus Huber, Ludwig Wicki, Alexander Mickelthwaite, and John Mauceri to lead the orchestras.
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September 16,2010 Howard Shore conducted the RSO Vienna which performed "In Dreams from The Fellowship of the Ring" at Hollywood in Vienna in Vienna, Austria.
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Howard Shore was commissioned by Macy's to write a Fanfare for the Store's 150th anniversary featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wanamaker Organ, the world's largest playing pipe organ.
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Howard Shore was commissioned by the Beijing Music Festival to write Ruin and Memory, a piano concerto, for the pianist Lang Lang.
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In September 2021, it was reported that Howard Shore was in talk to compose the music for the upcoming The Lord of the Rings TV series on Amazon Prime Video, returning from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films; the series was eventually scored by Bear McCreary with Howard Shore writing the main title theme for the opening credits only.
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Howard Shore is married to Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer, producer and documentary filmmaker.
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Howard Shore is the uncle of film composer Ryan Shore.
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Howard Shore has received four Academy Award nominations, winning three, two for Best Original Score, for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Howard Shore won the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Howard Shore received his fourth nomination for his work on Hugo.
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Howard Shore has received six Golden Globe nominations, winning three consecutive awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song - "Into the West" for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Aviator, making him the second composer to have received consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score.
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Howard Shore won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Score for each of the Lord of the Rings films, and received a second award in 2003 for the song "Into the West" from "Return of the King" in the category of Best Song.
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Howard Shore has received five BAFTA nominations, but has not won.
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On June 11,2007, Howard Shore was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from York University in Toronto for "his sweeping artistic vision".
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Howard Shore has been honored with awards from The National Board of Review, Recording Academy Honors, The Broadcast Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics, Genie Award, World Soundtrack Award, New York's Gotham Award, and The Saturn Award for Science Fiction.