LOS ANGELES , Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Hollywood film composer James Newton Howard earned his seventh Oscar nod for penning the music for the acclaimed legal thriller "Michael Clayton."
"It's always a really exciting thing to get nominated," Howard told UPI in a recent phone interview. "It was particularly rewarding for this movie because I love the movie so much and we worked so hard on it and (writer-director Tony Gilroy) is a great guy."