Thomas Newman
Maltin on Movies
Leonard Maltin
4.2 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The music you remember from The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, 1917, and the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre was all written by Thomas Newman. His father was the legendary film composer Alfred Newman (who won nine Oscars and composed the 20th Century Fox fanfare). His brother David is also a film composer, and his cousin is songwriter/composer/performer Randy. Thomas admires them all but still managed to find his own “voice.” Leonard and Jessie are unabashed admirers, all the more so after speaking with this gifted but unassuming musical talent.
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| 1:02.8 | Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton. And you're listening to Malton |
| 1:06.8 | on movies. And our guest today was scheduled to be our guest just before a little thing came |
| 1:12.7 | along called the pandemic. And we were looking forward to meeting him in his home and having, |
| 1:18.7 | you know, invading his personal space and all that. And he couldn't have been nicer, |
| 1:25.6 | but we have waited to do it till now. And now is the time I get to say |
| 1:31.3 | our guest is Thomas Newman. Yes, the Thomas Newman, who composed all those film scores that you |
| 1:37.2 | love, everything from James Bond to finding Dory. What I like to picture is you sitting at a table with your family and you guys just |
| 1:47.0 | like throw Oscars at each other, you know? |
| 1:50.4 | It was probably in the old days. |
| 1:51.8 | You know, there were nine Oscars on a mantle at the house I grew up in. |
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