[[File:Doubt New York Premiere Arrivals -u0Dtep832ol.jpg|thumb|250px|Howard Shore]]

'''Howard Leslie Shore''' (born October 18, 1946) is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian Canadian] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer composer], notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 40 films, most notably the scores for ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_trilogy The Lord of the Rings]'' film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cronenberg David Cronenberg], having scored all but one of his films since 1979.

He is also a prolific composer of concert works; his first opera, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(opera) The Fly]'', based on the plot (though not his score) of Cronenberg's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film) 1986 film] premiered at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Ch%C3%A2telet Théâtre du Châtelet] in Paris on 2 July 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Shore#cite_note-0 [1&#93;]</sup>

Shore is a three-time winner of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award Academy Award], and has also won two [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Awards Golden Globe Awards] and four [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards Grammy Awards]. He is the uncle of film composer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Shore Ryan Shore].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Shore#cite_note-1 [2&#93;]</sup>

He is best known to this wiki for being the composer of the [[Eclipse score|''Eclipse'' score]].

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|predecessor= [[Alexandre Desplat]]

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|years=2010

|successor=[[Carter Burwell]]

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