Howard Leslie Shore - The Lord of the Rings

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 40 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979. Shore is a three-time winner of the Academy Award, and has also won two Golden Globe Awards and four Grammy Awards.

The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during the Second World War. It is the second best selling novel ever written with over 150 million copies sold. The three volumes of this epic are entitled The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King and have been reprinted numerous times and translated into many languages, becoming one of the most popular and influential works in the field of 20th-century fantasy literature and the subject of several films.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the 2003 concluding film in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, following The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Two Towers (2002), directed by Peter Jackson and based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Released on 17 December 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King received rave reviews and became one of the greatest critical and box-office successes of all time. Notably, it won all eleven Academy Awards for which it was nominated, an Oscar record (tying Ben-Hur and Titanic). It also won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the only time a fantasy film has done so.

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