Howard Shore has composed the scores to more than 60 films and recently received the Oscar® for Best Original Score for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He also scored The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final installment of the epic trilogy based on the novels by J. R. R. Tolkien, which is scheduled for release in December.

Mr. Shore's outstanding film work includes Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, Tim Burton's Ed Wood, David Fincher's Seven, The Game, and Panic Room, Kevin Smith's Dogma, and Martin Scorsese's After Hours. Other film scores include The Score, The Yards, Analyze This, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Big.

Mr. Shore's long-standing collaboration with David Cronenberg has produced the scores to The Brood, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, Crash, eXistenZ, and Spider, among others.

Howard Shore was formally educated at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. He recorded with the group "Lighthouse" from 1969 to 1972. As one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live, he served as its musical director from 1975 to 1980.

Mr. Shore has been honored with numerous film critics' awards, a Grammy Award, three BAFTA Award nominations in Great Britain, a Gotham Award in New York, the Saturn Award for Science Fiction, and a Genie Award in Canada.

Mr. Shore's music has also been performed live in concerts throughout the world. Most recently, he performed his score The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall. In November 2000, he conducted the world premiere "Concert to Projection" of his original score to David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch in Belfast, Ireland. It was also performed in March 2001 at the Barbican Centre in London.

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