James Newberry is an award-winning film and television composer. His scores aim to subvert expectations and defy conventional norms.
Recent projects include ‘Is This Thing On?’ for Director, Bradley Cooper and Searchlight Pictures.The 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 has since gone on to win numerous more.
James has also written additional music for numerous top TV Shows over the last nine years, such as Apple TV+ series ‘Presumed Innocent’, ‘Tokyo Vice’ for Max, Netflix’s ‘Ozark’, AMC’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ and many more.
James is a classically trained percussionist and also performs clarinet, piano, hardware synthesizers, and experimental strings on his scores. He is currently based in LA.