Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, The Horse Whisperer, American Beauty and The Green Mile, Pay It Forward, In the Bedroom, Road to Perdition and White Oleander, Finding Nemo and its sequel Finding Dory, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Cinderella Man, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre, Bridge of Spies, 1917, and Elemental.
Newman also composed the music for the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and 2003 miniseries Angels in America. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with directors such as Sam Mendes, Robert Altman, Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont, Steven Soderbergh, Jon Avnet, John Madden and John Lee Hancock.