Howard Shore is among the most respected and active film composers and music conductors working today. He won three Academy Awards® for his work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy; these were for The Fellowship of the Ring, The Return of the King, and the song "Into the West". The trilogy also earned him four Grammy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Shore received his third Golden Globe Award for his score for Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. He has earned the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards' Henry Mancini Award; the National Board of Review's Career Achievement Award; the Hollywood Film Festival's Outstanding Achievement in Music in Film Award; the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Award; the city of Vienna has honored him with the Max Steiner Award; he holds honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and York University, and he is an Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres among other honors.
Howard Shore has collaborated with David Cronenberg on a number of groundbreaking films. Their work together includes The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers (for which Shore won a Genie Award), Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, Crash, eXistenZ, the short Camera, Spider, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises (for which Shore won his second Genie Award), A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis.
Shore began his career as a founding member of the group Lighthouse, with whom he recorded and toured from 1969 to 1972. He was one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live and served as the music director, conducting the show's live broadcasts from 1975 to 1980 and writing the show's theme. At the same time, he began his collaboration with David Cronenberg.
His many film scores include John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness, David Slade's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Martin Scorsese's The Departed, The Aviator, Gangs of New York and After Hours; Tim Burton's Ed Wood; Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia; David Fincher's Panic Room, The Game, and Se7en; Penny Marshall's Big; and Chris Columbus's Mrs. Doubtfire. In 2008, Howard Shore's opera The Fly premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera, with a libretto by David Henry Hwang directed by David Cronenberg. His piano concerto Ruin and Memory written for Lang Lang premiered in Beijing, China on October 11, 2010.
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