name	Finding Nemo
director	Andrew Stanton
producer	Graham Walters
screenplay	Andrew StantonBob PetersonDavid Reynolds
story	Andrew Stanton
starring	Albert BrooksEllen DeGeneresAlexander Gould
music	Thomas Newman
cinematography	Sharon CalahanJeremy Lasky
editing	David Ian Salter
studio	Pixar
distributor	Walt Disney Pictures
released
runtime	100 minutes
country
language	English
budget	$94 million
gross	$867,893,978 }}

''Finding Nemo'' is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrew Stanton, produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) who, along with a regal tang called Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), searches for his abducted son Nemo (Alexander Gould). Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and to let Nemo take care of himself. It is Pixar's first movie to be released in cinemas in the summer. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the second highest-grossing film of 2003, behind ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'', earning a total of $868 million worldwide. ''Finding Nemo'' is also the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006, and was the highest-grossing G-rated film of all time, before Pixar's own ''Toy Story 3'' overtook it. It is also the fifth highest-grossing animated film of all time and the 26th highest-grossing film of all time. In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the 10th greatest animated film ever made during their Top 10.

Plot[link]

Two clownfish, Marlin and his wife Coral are admiring their new home in the Great Barrier Reef. They are protecting their clutch of eggs that are due to hatch in a few days. Coral sees a barracuda a short distance away. Marlin tells Coral to get back into the anemone but she tries to protect their eggs. The barracuda then attacks them and Marlin attempts to defend his wife but the barracuda knocks him out. When he regains consciousness, he finds that the barracuda has eaten Coral and all but one of their eggs. He names the last remaining egg Nemo, a name that Coral liked.

The film then moves on to Nemo's first day of school. Nemo has a small right fin (due to a minor injury to his egg from the barracuda attack) which causes Marlin to not only worry over his swimming ability but also doubt his son’s general capabilities. After Marlin embarrasses Nemo during a school field trip, Nemo disobeys his father and sneaks away from the reef towards a boat, resulting in him being captured by a scuba diver. However, as the boat sails away, the diver accidentally knocks his diving mask into the water.

Not long afterwards, Marlin bumps into Dory, a naïve but good-hearted and optimistic Regal tang with short-term memory loss. While meeting self-declared vegetarian sharks Bruce, a great white shark; Anchor, a hammerhead shark; and Chum, a mako shark, Marlin discovers the diver's mask that was dropped from the boat and notices an address written on it. However, he struggles with Dory and the mask snaps against Dory's nose, causing a nosebleed. The scent of blood causes Bruce to lose control of himself, and he attempts to eat Marlin and Dory. Shortly after the two escape from Bruce, the mask is dropped into a trench in the deep sea. During a hazardous struggle with an anglerfish in the trench, Dory realizes she is able to read the address written on the mask, which leads to Sydney, Australia, and manages to remember it despite her short-term memory loss. After receiving directions from a large school of moonfish, Marlin and Dory set out to find Sydney. After a struggle with jellyfish that nearly sting Dory and him to death, Marlin falls exhausted after the risky escape and wakes up to see a surf-cultured sea turtle named Crush, who takes Dory and him on the East Australian Current. Marlin sees Dory unconscious, thinks she is dead and blames himself, but she wakes up also alive and well. In the current, Marlin reluctantly shares the details of his journey with a group of young sea turtles, and his story spreads rapidly across the ocean through word of mouth and eventually reaches Nemo in Sydney.

Meanwhile, Nemo's captor - P. Sherman, a dentist - drops him into a fish tank in his office on Sydney Harbour. There, Nemo meets a group of aquarium fish called the "Tank Gang", led by a crafty and ambitious moorish idol named Gill. The "Tank Gang" includes Bloat, a puffer fish, Bubbles, a Yellow Tang, Peach, a starfish, Gurgle, a Royal gramma, Jacques, a pacific cleaner shrimp and Deb, a Blacktailed Humbug. The fish are frightened to learn that the dentist plans to give Nemo to his niece, Darla, who is overly-enthusiastic and infamous for killing a goldfish, named Chuckles, who was given to her previously, by constantly shaking his bag. In order to avoid the situation, Gill gives Nemo a role in an escape plan, which involves jamming the tank's filter and forcing the dentist to remove the fish from the tank to clean it manually. The fish would be placed in plastic bags, at which point they would roll out the window and into the harbor. After a friendly pelican named Nigel visits with news of Marlin's adventure, Nemo succeeds in jamming the filter, but the plan backfires when the dentist installs a new high-tech filter.

Upon leaving the East Australian Current, Marlin and Dory become lost in a huge blooms of plankton and krill, and are engulfed by the mouth of a whale after swimming in its path. Inside the whale's immense mouth, a desperate Marlin repeatedly charges against the baleen in the whale's mouth in a futile attempt to free himself and Dory, then breaks down in despair. Dory reassures him, then calmly tries to communicate with the whale. In response, the whale carries them to Sydney Harbour and expels them through its blowhole. They are then met by Nigel, who recognizes Marlin from the stories he has heard and rescues him and Dory from a flock of hungry seagulls by scooping them into his beak and taking them to the dentist's office. By this time, Darla has arrived and the dentist is prepared to give Nemo to her. Nemo tries to play dead in hopes of saving himself, and, at the same time, Nigel arrives. Marlin sees Nemo and mistakes this act for the actual death of his son. After the dentist throws Nemo out, Gill helps Nemo escape into a drain through a sink plug-hole after a chaotic struggle.

Overcome with despair, Marlin leaves Dory and begins to swim back towards his home. Dory then loses her memory and becomes confused, but meets Nemo, who has escaped into the ocean through an underwater drain pipe. Dory's memory is suddenly restored after she reads the word "Sydney" on a nearby drain pipe and, remembering her journey, she guides Nemo to Marlin. After the two joyfully reunite, Dory is caught in a fishing net with a school of grouper. Nemo enters the net with bravery and directs the group to swim downward to break the net, reminiscent of a similar scenario that occurred in the fish tank earlier in the film. The fish, including Dory, succeed in breaking the net and escape. After some days, Nemo leaves for school once more and Marlin is no longer overprotective or doubtful of his son's safety and watches Nemo swim away into the distance.

Back at the dentist's office, the high-tech filter breaks down and The Tank Gang have escaped into the harbor, but realize they are confined to the bags of water that the dentist put them into when cleaning the tank.

Cast[link]

Alexander Gould as Nemo, a juvenile Clownfish, Marlin's son

Albert Brooks as Marlin, a male Clownfish, Nemo's father

Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, a Pacific Regal Blue Tang

Willem Dafoe as Gill, a Moorish Idol

Brad Garrett as Bloat, a Pufferfish

Allison Janney as Peach, a Starfish

Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, a Royal Gramma

Stephen Root as Bubbles, a Yellow Tang

Vicki Lewis as Deb (and "Flo", Deb's reflection), a Four-Striped Damselfish

Joe Ranft as Jacques, a Pacific Cleaner Shrimp

Geoffrey Rush as Nigel, a Australian Pelican

John Ratzenberger as the school of Moonfish

Andrew Stanton as Crush, a Green sea turtle

Nicholas Bird as Squirt, a juvenile Sea Turtle, Crush's son

Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, a Spotted Eagle Ray

Barry Humphries as Bruce, a Great White Shark

Eric Bana as Anchor, a Hammerhead Shark

Bruce Spence as Chum, a Mako Shark

Jordy Ranft as Tad, a juvenile Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Erica Beck as Pearl, a juvenile Flapjack Octopus

Erik Per Sullivan as Sheldon, a juvenile Seahorse

Bill Hunter as Dr. Philip Sherman, the dentist

LuLu Ebeling as Darla, the dentist's niece

Elizabeth Perkins as Coral, Marlin's wife

Rove McManus as a Crab

Jess Harnell as the seagulls.

Production[link]

The inspiration for Nemo was made up of multiple experiences. The idea goes back to when director Andrew Stanton was a child, when he loved going to the dentist to see the fish tank, assuming that the fish were from the ocean and wanted to go home. In 1992 shortly after his son was born, he and his family took a trip to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (which was called Marine World at the time). There he saw the shark tube and various exhibits he felt that the underwater world could be done beautifully in computer animation. Later, in 1997 he took his son for a walk in the park, but found that he was over protecting him constantly and lost an opportunity to have any "father-son experiences" on that day. In an interview with ''National Geographic'' magazine, he stated that the idea for the characters of Marlin and Nemo came from a photograph of two clownfish peeking out of an anemone:

"It was so arresting. I had no idea what kind of fish they were, but I couldn't take my eyes off them. And as an entertainer, the fact that they were called clownfish—it was perfect. There's almost nothing more appealing than these little fish that want to play peekaboo with you."

Also, clownfish are very colourful, but don't tend to come out of an anemone very often, and for a character who has to go on a dangerous journey, Stanton felt a clownfish was the perfect kind of fish for the character.

Pre-production of the film took place in early 1997. Stanton began writing the screenplay during the post-production of ''A Bug's Life''. As such, it began production with a complete screenplay, something that co-director Lee Unkrich called "very unusual for an animated film." The artists took scuba diving lessons so they could go and study the coral reef. The idea for the initiation sequence came from a story conference between Andrew Stanton and Bob Peterson while driving to record the actors. Ellen DeGeneres was cast after Stanton was watching ''Ellen'' with his wife and seeing Ellen "change the subject five times before finishing one sentence" as Stanton recalled. There was a pelican character known as Gerald (who in the final film ends up swallowing and choking on Marlin and Dory) who was originally a friend of Nigel. They were going to play against each other as Nigel being neat fastidious while Gerald being scruffy and sloppy. However the filmmakers could not find an appropriate scene for them that didn't slow the pace of the picture down, so Gerald's character was minimized.

Stanton himself provided the voice of Crush the sea turtle. Stanton originally did the voice for the film's story reel, and assumed they would find an actor later. When Stanton's performance was popular in test screenings, Stanton decided to keep his performance in the film. Stanton recorded all his dialogue while lying on a sofa in co-director Lee Unkrich's office.

Crush's son Squirt was voiced by Nicholas Bird, the young son of fellow Pixar director Brad Bird. According to Stanton, the elder Bird was playing a tape recording of his young son around the Pixar studios one day. Stanton felt the voice was "this generation's Thumper" and immediately cast Nicholas.

Megan Mullally revealed that she was originally doing a voice in the film. According to Mullally, the producers were quite disappointed to learn that the voice of her character Karen Walker on the television show ''Will & Grace'' wasn't her natural speaking voice. The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her to use her Karen Walker voice for the role. When Mullally refused, she was fired.

The movie was dedicated to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died of melanoma in October 2002.

Editions[link]

The film was originally released on May 30, 2003. The VHS and DVD was released on on November 4, 2003. After the success of the 3D re-release of ''The Lion King'', Disney and Pixar announced a 3D re-release of ''Finding Nemo'' on September 14, 2011. The film was also released on DVD in a "Gold Edition", which came with a ''Finding Nemo'' stuffed toy character.

Reception[link]

''Finding Nemo'' received universal acclaim and currently holds a 98% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes with 100% by top critics, an average of 89% on Metacritic and four stars from ''Empire''. Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, calling it "one of those rare movies where I wanted to sit in the front row and let the images wash out to the edges of my field of vision." Broadway star Nathan Lane who was also the voice of Timon in ''The Lion King'', said ''Finding Nemo'' was his favorite animated film.

The film's prominent use of clownfish prompted mass purchase of the animal as pets in the United States, even though the movie portrayed the use of fish as pets negatively and suggested that saltwater aquariums are notably tricky and expensive to maintain. The demand for clownfish was supplied by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish in regions like Vanuatu.

At the same time, the film had a quote that "all drains lead back to the ocean" (Nemo escapes from the aquarium by going down a sink drain, ending up in the sea). Since water typically undergoes treatment before leading to the ocean, the JWC Environmental company quipped that a more realistic title for the movie might be ''Grinding Nemo''. However, in Sydney, much of the sewer system does pass directly to outfall pipes deep offshore, without a high level of treatment (although pumping and some filtering occur). Additionally, according to the DVD, there was a cut sequence with Nemo going through a treatment plant's mechanisms before ending up in the ocean pipes. However, in the final product, logos for "Sydney Water Treatment" are featured prominently along the path to the ocean, implying that Nemo did pass through some water treatment.

Also, in the movie, it was said that the temperature in the water tank was "82 degrees", which presumably would be in Fahrenheit; however, Australia is almost entirely metric, using Celsius for temperature.

Tourism in Australia strongly increased during the summer and autumn of 2003, with many tourists wanting to swim off the coast of Eastern Australia to "find Nemo". The Australian Tourism Commission (ATC) launched several marketing campaigns in China and the USA in order to improve tourism in Australia, many of them utilising ''Finding Nemo'' clips. Queensland also used ''Finding Nemo'' to draw tourists to promote its state for vacationers.

Box-office performance[link]

''Finding Nemo'' set a record as the highest-grossing opening weekend for an animated feature, making $70,251,710 (surpassed a year later in 2004 by ''Shrek 2'', which was in turn out-grossed by ''Shrek the Third'' in 2007). It earned $339,714,978 in the U.S.A. and Canada and $528,179,000 overseas for a worldwide total of $867,893,978. It was the second highest-grossing movie of 2003, behind ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''. Domestically, overseas and worldwide, it was the highest-grossing Disney·Pixar film, up until 2010 when ''Toy Story 3'' surpassed it ($415.0 million domestically, $648.2 million overseas and $1.063 billion worldwide).

''Finding Nemo'' became the highest-grossing animated film in the U.S.A. and Canada ($339.7 million), overseas ($528.2 million) and worldwide ($867.9 million), in all three occasions having outgrossed ''The Lion King'' ($328,541,776 in North America, $455,300,000 overseas and $783,841,776 worldwide). Domestically, in 2004, it was overtaken by ''Shrek 2'' ($441,226,247), in 2010 by ''Toy Story 3'' ($415,004,880) and in 2011, after the re-release of ''The Lion King'', it stands as the fourth highest-grossing animated film of all time. Overseas, it was surpassed by ''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' ($690.1 million) and ''Toy Story 3'' ($648.2 million). Worldwide, it now ranks fifth among animated movies after ''Toy Story 3'' ($1,063,171,911), ''The Lion King'' ($951,583,777), ''Shrek 2'' ($919,838,758) and ''Ice Age 3'' ($886,686,817).

Among its international markets, in many it had impressive box-office runs. In Japan, it ultimately grossed $102,441,470 becoming the highest-grossing Western animated film of all time until it was out-grossed by ''Toy Story 3'' ($126.7 million) and currently ranks 14th on the country's all-time chart. $10 million-plus-grossing markets include the ones following. In UK, Ireland and Malta, it grossed £37,178,973 ($67,117,404) being the seventh best animation film. In France and the Maghreb region ($64,781,395), it is third among animation films behind ''Ice Age 3'' and ''Ratatouille'' and 8th best film on the all-time chart. In Germany ($53,926,684), it is third behind the two first ''Ice Age'' sequels, while in Spain ($29,462,544), in Italy ($27,701,112) and in Australia ($26,820,431) it also had above-modest but not exceptional earnings. In Mexico, it opened with $7,002,432 and finished its box office run $17,841,841 and in the Netherlands, with a $1,484,562 debut and a $10,529,033 total it is the second highest-grossing animated feature in the country after ''Ice Age 3'' ($13,453,093). A final remarkable country is Austria, where it earned $8,672,773 and ranks third among animated titles behind the two ''Ice Age'' sequels.

Accolades[link]

Finding Nemo won the Academy Award and Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. It also won the award for best Animated Film at the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, the National Board of Review Awards, the Online Film Critics Society Awards, and the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.

The film received many awards, including:

Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Movie and Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie, Ellen DeGeneres.

Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, Ellen DeGeneres

''Finding Nemo'' was also nominated for:

Two Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress, Ellen DeGeneres

A Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Two MTV Movie Awards for Best Movie and Best Comedic Performance, Ellen DeGeneres

In June 2008 the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten", the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ''Finding Nemo'' was acknowledged as the 10th best film in the animation genre. It was the most recently released film among all ten lists, and one of only three movies made after the year 2000, the others being ''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' and ''Shrek''.

American Film Institute recognition:

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated

AFI's 10 Top 10 – #10 Animated film

Environmental concerns and consequences[link]

The reaction to the film by the general public has led to environmental devastation for the clownfish and has provoked an outcry from several environmental protection agencies, including Marine Aquarium Council, Australia. Apparently, the demand for tropical fish skyrocketed after the film's release. This has caused reef species decimation in Vanuatu and many other reef areas.

Even more bizarre, after seeing the film, some aquarium owners released their pets into the ocean, but the wrong ocean. This has introduced species harmful to the indigenous environment and is harming reefs worldwide as well.

Music[link]

name	Finding Nemo
type	soundtrack
artist	Thomas Newman
cover	FindingNemo_Soundtrack.jpg
released	May 20, 2003
recorded	2002
genre	Score
length	60:21
label	Walt Disney
producer	Thomas Newman, Bill Bernstein
chronology	Pixar soundtrack
last album	''Monsters, Inc.(2001)''
this album	''Finding Nemo'' (2003)
next album	''The Incredibles''(2004) }}

''Finding Nemo'' is the original soundtrack album. It was the first Pixar film not to be scored by Randy Newman. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, losing to ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''.

Theme park attractions[link]

''Finding Nemo'' has inspired numerous attractions and properties at Disney Parks around the world.

Disneyland Resort

:* 2007 ''Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage'' (Disneyland Park) :* 2005 ''Turtle Talk with Crush'' (Disney California Adventure Park)

Walt Disney World Resort

:* 2004 ''Turtle Talk with Crush'' (Epcot) :* 2007 ''The Seas with Nemo & Friends'' (Epcot) :* 2007 ''Finding Nemo – The Musical'' (Disney's Animal Kingdom) :* 2012 ''Disney's Art of Animation Resort''

Disneyland Resort Paris

:* 2007 ''Crush's Coaster'' (Walt Disney Studios Park)

Tokyo Disney Resort

:* 2009 ''Turtle Talk with Crush'' (Tokyo DisneySea)

Hong Kong Disneyland Resort

:* 2008 ''Turtle Talk with Crush'' (Hong Kong Disneyland)

''Finding Nemo – The Musical''[link]

The stage musical "Tarzan Rocks!" occupied the Theater in the Wild at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida from 1999 to 2006. When, in January 2006, it closed, it was rumored that a musical adaptation of ''Finding Nemo'' would replace it. This was confirmed in April 2006, when Disney announced that the adaptation, with new songs written by Tony Award-winning ''Avenue Q'' composer Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, would "combine puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops" and open in late 2006. Tony Award-winning director Peter Brosius signed on to direct the show, with Michael Curry (puppet designer), who designed puppets for Disney's successful stage version of ''The Lion King'', serving as leading puppet and production designer.

Anderson-Lopez said that the couple agreed to write the adaptation of "one of their favorite movies of all time" after considering "The idea of people coming in [to see the musical] at 4, 5 or 6 and saying, 'I want to do that'....So we want to take it as seriously as we would a Broadway show." To condense the feature-length film to thirty minutes, she said she and Lopez focused on a single theme from the movie, the idea that "The world's dangerous and beautiful."

The forty-minute show (which is performed five times daily) opened on January 2, 2007. Several musical numbers took direct inspiration from lines in the film, including "(In The) Big Blue World," "Fish Are Friends, Not Food," "Just Keep Swimming," and "Go With the Flow." In January 2007, a New York studio recording of the show was released on iTunes, with Lopez and Anderson-Lopez providing the voices for Marlin and Dory, respectively. ''Avenue Q'' star Stephanie D'Abruzzo also appeared on the recording, as Sheldon/Deb.

''Nemo'' was the first non-musical animated film to which Disney added songs in order to produce a stage musical. In 2009 ''Finding Nemo – The Musical'' was honored with a Thea award for Best Live Show from the Themed Entertainment Association.

Video game[link]

A video game based on the film was released in 2003, for PC, Xbox, PS2, GameCube and GBA.

Cancelled sequel[link]

In 2005, after disagreements between Disney's Michael Eisner and Pixar's Steve Jobs over the distribution of Pixar's films, Disney announced that they would be creating a new animation studio, Circle 7 Animation, to make sequels to the seven Disney-owned Pixar films (which consisted of the films released between 1995 and 2006). The studio had put ''Toy Story 3'' and ''Monsters, Inc. 2'' in development, and had also hired screenwriter Laurie Craig to write a draft for ''Finding Nemo 2''. While not too much is known about the draft, its plot was supposed to feature a reversal of the first movie: Marlin was to have been lost, and Nemo had to find him. The sequel was scrapped with the closure of Circle 7 in early 2006.

References[link]

External links[link]

from Disney from Pixar

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:''Not to be confused with Tom Newman''

name	Thomas Newman
birth name	Thomas Montgomery Newman
birth date	October 20, 1955
origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
occupation	Composer
website	IMDb
afiawards	Best Original Score1997 ''Oscar and Lucinda''
baftaawards	Best Film Music1999 ''American Beauty''
emmyawards	Outstanding Main Title Theme Music2001 ''Six Feet Under''
grammyawards	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media2001 ''American Beauty''
background	non_performing_personnel }}

Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer and conductor, best known for his many film scores.

Newman has received a total of ten Academy Award nominations, although as of 2011, he has yet to win the award. He has however won a BAFTA, two Grammys and an Emmy, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe. Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.

Early life[link]

Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the youngest son of Mississippi-born Martha Louise (née Montgomery) and composer Alfred Newman. He is a member of a film-scoring dynasty in Hollywood that includes his father, brother David Newman, sister Maria Newman, uncles Lionel Newman and Emil Newman, cousin Randy Newman (who is also known as a singer and songwriter) and his nephew Joey Newman. Newman was educated at Yale University before starting his career in music.

Film scoring career[link]

His first major score was for the 1984 film ''Reckless''. In 1999, Newman composed the score to Sam Mendes' first feature film ''American Beauty'', created using mainly percussion instruments. Newman believed the score helped move the film along without disturbing the "moral ambiguity" of the script, saying "It was a real delicate balancing act in terms of what music worked to preserve that." This was his first collaboration with Mendes, and he would go on to score all of the director's subsequent films except for ''Away We Go''. He received a fourth Oscar nomination for this score, and although he lost again (to John Corigliano for ''The Red Violin''), he did receive a Grammy and a BAFTA.

His critical and commercial success has continued in recent years with his scores for films such as ''The Green Mile'', ''Erin Brockovich'', ''In the Bedroom'', and ''The Salton Sea''. He was nominated consecutively for a further three Academy Awards, for ''Road to Perdition'' (2002), ''Finding Nemo'' (2003), and ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (2004). However, he lost on each occasion, to Elliot Goldenthal (for ''Frida''), Howard Shore (for ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''), and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (for ''Finding Neverland'') respectively.

He was again nominated for an Oscar for scoring Steven Soderbergh's ''The Good German'' (2006). At the Oscar ceremony, he appeared in the opening segment by Errol Morris, who jokingly stated that Newman had been nominated for and failed to win an Oscar eight times. Newman replied: "No, I've failed seven but this will be my eighth", and indeed, he again lost, this time to Gustavo Santaolalla for ''Babel''.

His first score since ''The Good German'' was for the 2008 animated film ''WALL-E'', collaborating for the second time with director Andrew Stanton (with the first collaboration being ''Finding Nemo''). The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (as had "Nemo"). Newman received two Oscar nominations: one for Best Original Score, and another for Best Original Song for "Down to Earth", which he co-wrote with Peter Gabriel. He was nominated in the Original Score category with two other veteran composers, James Newton-Howard and Danny Elfman, both of whom have also been nominated for several Oscars but each time unsuccessfully. Newman lost both the score and song nominations to A R Rahman for his work on ''Slumdog Millionaire''. He and Peter Gabriel did however win a Grammy for "Down to Earth".

In 2008 Newman scored ''Towelhead'' and Sam Mendes' ''Revolutionary Road'' and in 2009 he scored ''Brothers''. Newman's scores of 2011 include ''The Help'', ''The Debt'', and ''The Adjustment Bureau''.

Newman is to score the 23rd James Bond movie ''Skyfall'', directed by his long time collaborator Sam Mendes, which celebrates the film franchise's 50th anniversary.

Film compositions[link]

Year	! Title	! Notes
rowspan="3"	1984
''Revenge of the Nerds''
''Grandview, U.S.A.''
rowspan="5"	1985	''Desperately Seeking Susan''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande. Album shared with ''Making Mr. Right''
''Girls Just Want to Have Fun (film)	Girls Just Want to Have Fun''
''The Man With One Red Shoe''
''Real Genius''
''Amazing Stories (TV series)	Amazing Stories''	Episode Santa '85. Soundtrack released by Intrada
rowspan="2"	1986	''Gung Ho
	Song album with two Newman tracks
rowspan="3"	1987	''Light of Day''	Song album with one Newman track
''The Lost Boys (soundtrack)	The Lost Boys''	Song album with one Newman track
''Less Than Zero (film)	Less Than Zero''	Song album; no Newman score
rowspan="2"	1988	''The Prince of Pennsylvania''
''The Great Outdoors (film)	The Great Outdoors''	Song album with one Newman track
rowspan=""	1989
rowspan="4"	1990	''Men Don't Leave''
''Heat Wave (1990 film)	Heat Wave TV''
''Naked Tango''
''Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
rowspan="5"	1991		Song album with three Newman tracks released by Curb
''Deceived''
''The Rapture (film)	The Rapture	Song album with ten Newman tracks
''The Linguini Incident''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
''Fried Green Tomatoes (score)	Fried Green Tomatoes''	Song album with three Newman tracks and separare score album, both released by MCA
rowspan="5"	1992	''Those Secrets TV''	Soundtrack released by Masters Film Music
''The Player''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
''Whispers in the Dark''	Varèse Sarabande album release cancelled
''Citizen Cohn	Citizen Cohn TV''
''Scent of a Woman (soundtrack)	Scent of a Woman''	Soundtrack released by MCA
rowspan="2"	1993		Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
''Josh and S.A.M.''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
rowspan="6"	1994		American Buffalo (film)>American Buffalo''
''The Favor''
''The Shawshank Redemption (soundtrack)	The Shawshank Redemption''	Soundtrack released by Sony BMG
''The War (film)	The War''	Song album with 12 Newman tracks released by MCA
''Corrina, Corrina (film)	Corrina, Corrina''	Song album with one Newman track
''Little Women (1994 film)	Little Women''	Soundtrack released by Sony Classical
rowspan="2"	1995	''Unstrung Heroes''	Soundtrack released by Hollywood Records
''How to Make an American Quilt''	Soundtrack released by MCA
rowspan="4"	1996	''Up Close & Personal''	Soundtrack released by Hollywood Records
''Phenomenon (film)	Phenomenon''	Song album with one Newman track released by Reprise
''American Buffalo (film)	American Buffalo''	Threesome (film)>Threesome''
''The People vs. Larry Flynt''	Soundtrack released by Angel Records
rowspan="3"	1997		Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
''Red Corner''	Soundtrack released by EAR
''Oscar and Lucinda''	Soundtrack released by Sony Classical
rowspan="2"	1998		Soundtrack released by Hollywood Records
''Meet Joe Black''	Soundtrack released by Universal Records
rowspan="2"	1999		Soundtrack released by DreamWorks
''The Green Mile (film)	The Green Mile''	Soundtrack released by Warner Bros.
rowspan="2"	2000		Soundtrack released by Sony Classical
''Pay It Forward''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
rowspan="1"	2001	''In the Bedroom''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
rowspan="3"	2002	''The Salton Sea''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
''Road to Perdition (soundtrack)	Road to Perdition''	Soundtrack released by Decca Records
''White Oleander (2002 film)	White Oleander''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
rowspan="2"	2003		Soundtrack released by Walt Disney Records
''Music from the HBO Film: Angels in America	Angels in America''	Soundtrack released by Nonesuch
rowspan="1"	2004		Soundtrack released by Sony Classical
rowspan="2"	2005	''Cinderella Man''	Soundtrack released by Decca Records
''Jarhead (film)	Jarhead''	Soundtrack released by Decca Records
rowspan="2"	2006		Soundtrack released by Silva Screen Records
''The Good German (soundtrack)	The Good German''	Soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
rowspan="1"	2007		Soundtrack released by Lakeshore Records
rowspan="2"	2008		Soundtrack released by Walt Disney Records
''Revolutionary Road (film)	Revolutionary Road''	Soundtrack released by Nonesuch
rowspan="1"	2009		Soundtrack released by Relativity Music Group
rowspan="4"	2011		Soundtrack released by Relativity Music Group, Silva Screen Music
''The Adjustment Bureau''	Soundtrack released by Relativity Music Group
''The Help (film)	The Help''	Score album released by Varèse Sarabande
''The Iron Lady (film)	The Iron Lady''	Soundtrack released by Sony Classical
rowspan="3"	2012	''The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel''	Soundtrack released by Sony Classical
''The Newsroom (U.S. TV series)	The Newsroom''	Main Theme and Pilot
''Skyfall''
rowspan="1"	2013

Additional soundtracks[link]

2005: ''Madagascar'' (from ''American Beauty'')

2007: ''Sicko'' (from ''Little Children'', ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' and ''In the Bedroom'')

2010: ''Alice in Wonderland (Teaser Trailer)'' (from ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'')

Newman has composed music for television as well, including theme music for the series ''Boston Public'' and the miniseries ''Angels in America''. His theme music for the television show ''Six Feet Under'' won two Grammy Awards in 2003, for Best Instrumental Composition as well as Best Instrumental Arrangement. Newman also wrote a commissioned concert work for orchestra, ''Reach Forth Our Hands'', for the 1996 Cleveland Bicentennial. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has commissioned a new work by Newman to be performed by the Kronos Quartet and Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, during the orchestra's 2009-2010 season.

Newman is also responsible for the Coles Supermarket Jingle in the 2010 line of advertisements.

Awards & nominations[link]

Newman has received a total of ten Academy Award nominations, however as of 2010 he has yet to win the award, making him the most nominated living composer to have never won an Oscar, and behind Alex North, who received 14 unsuccessful nominations. Nine of his nominations are in the Best Original Score category, while one is for Best Original Song.

His first major success's for which he was recognised, came in 1994, when he earned two Academy Award nominations for his scores to ''Little Women'' and ''The Shawshank Redemption''; he was the only double-nominee that year, although he lost to Hans Zimmer for ''The Lion King''.

He received his third Academy Award nomination in 1996 for the score to Diane Keaton's comedy ''Unstrung Heroes'', but again lost, this time to Alan Menken for ''Pocahontas''.

He has also received one Golden Globe nomination for 1999's American Beauty, but did not win, as well as six Grammy nominations and two wins.

! Award	! Year	! Category	! Project	! Outcome
		Best Music, Original Score
Best Music, Original Score	''The Shawshank Redemption''
1996		''Unstrung Heroes'''
2000	Best Music, Original Score
2003	Best Music, Original Score	''Road to Perdition''
2004		''Finding Nemo''
2005		''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events''
2007		''The Good German''
Annie Award	2004		''Finding Nemo''
	2000	Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
2009		''WALL-E''
Classical Brit Award	2010
	1991
2002	Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
	2000
2009		''WALL-E''
2012	Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
	1995	[[Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television	''The Shawshank Redemption''
1997	Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television	''Unstrung Heroes''
2001
	Best Instrumental Composition for Title Theme
2005
	2003		''Road to Perdition''
2005		''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events''

American Film Institute[link]

Newman's scores for ''American Beauty'' and ''The Shawshank Redemption'' were nominated for AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores.

References[link]

External links[link]

Thomas Newman Complete

Thomas Newman at Filmreference.com

Thomas Newman at Soundtrackguide.net

Category:1955 births Category:American composers Category:American film score composers Category:BAFTA winners (people) Category:Emmy Award winners Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Living people Category:People from Los Angeles, California

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