Age: 79
male
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, one for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He consistently collaborates with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films. Shore has also composed concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film, which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008; a short piece named Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. Shore has also composed for television, including serving as the original musical director for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980. In addition to his three Oscars, Shore has won three Golden Globe Awards, four Grammy Awards, three Genie Awards, and nine Canadian Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Shore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Set just before World War II the story follows J.P. Brandt, a young American Air Force test pilot who is publicly humiliated and court-martialed after a stunt in a plane goes wrong, which endangers President Roosevelt. Despite this, he is able to get a job to pilot an experimental plane from the North to the South Pole. However, during the journey the plane is attacked by a Giant White Eagle, resulting in Brandt and the Crew crashing onto an undiscovered island with living dinosaurs, strange creatures, and a tribe of Vikings who ride giant eagles. After Brandt befriends the Vikings and manages to tame the island's apex predator, the legendary White Eagle who brought down his plane, naming him "Lindy", he discovers that the Nazis are planning to attack the United States with a new superweapon and Brandt and Lindy have to rally the Vikings to fight them.
