In the 20 years that Alfred Newman (1901-70) was head of 20th Century Fox's music department, he scored 200 movies, earned 45 Oscar nominations and took home nine Academy Awards. He also had a son. As ...

Ask composer Thomas Newman to discuss the inspiration behind his Oscar-nominated score for Warner Bros. Pictures' retro melodrama "The Good German," and he avoids the obvious answer. Newman is, of ...

The Newman family business is large and renowned. Slightly intimidated by the shadow cast by the patriarch, David Newman started out in an affiliated branch, but moved to the home office a couple of ...