James Newberry is an award-winning film and television composer. His scores aim to subvert expectations, defy conventional norms, and elevate the art of filmmaking.
Recent projects include forthcoming ‘Is This Thing On?’ for Director, Bradley Cooper. Feature stars Will Arnett and Laura Dern. Other recent projects include ‘Barron's Cove’, starring Garrett Hedlund and directed by Evan Kelman; Elegance Bratton’s ‘Move Ya Body: The Birth of House’; HBO’s ‘Enigma’; ‘Row of Life’ and Suzannah Herbert’s ‘Natchez’. ‘Natchez’ won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Tribeca Festival in June 2025 and is being positioned by Oscilloscope as a potential Oscar contender for the upcoming awards season.
James has also written additional music for numerous top TV Shows over the last decade, such as Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent, Tokyo Vice for Max, Netflix’s Ozark, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead and many more.
He is a classically trained percussionist and also performs clarinet, piano, hardware synthesizers, and experimental strings on his scores.
He is currently based in California.