Who was the director of the 2006 German-American political war thriller film for which James Newton Howard made the film score?
James Newton Howard James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, music producer and musician. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and eight Academy Award nominations. His film scores include "Pretty Woman" (1990), "The Prince of Tides" (1991), "The Fugitive" (1993), "The Devil's Advocate" (1997), "The Sixth Sense" (1999), "Dinosaur" (2000), "" (2001), "Treasure Planet" (2002), "Signs" (2002), "The Village" (2004), "King Kong" (2005), "Batman Begins" (2005), "I Am Legend" (2007), "Blood Diamond" (2006), "The Dark Knight" (2008), "The Bourne Legacy" (2012), "The Hunger Games" series (2012–2015), "Nightcrawler" (2014) and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (2016). He has collaborated with directors M. Night Shyamalan, having scored nine of his films since "The Sixth Sense," and Francis Lawrence, having scored all of his films since "I Am Legend".
Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine's group and who has a connection to Shosanna's past. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film, "The Inglorious Bastards" (1978).