<P> In 1992, Newman composed the score to Martin Brest's film Scent of a Woman . </P> <P> In 1994, he got his first Academy Award nominations with the scores to The Shawshank Redemption and Little Women . He also scored the film The War . In 1996, he scored Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes, receiving yet another Oscar nomination . In 1998, he scored Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer as well as Meet Joe Black . In 1999, Newman composed the score to Sam Mendes' first feature film American Beauty, created using mainly percussion instruments . Newman believed the score helped move the film along without disturbing the "moral ambiguity" of the script, saying "It was a real delicate balancing act in terms of what music worked to preserve that ." This was his first collaboration with Mendes, and he would go on to score all of the director's subsequent films except for the comedy - drama Away We Go, which featured songs instead of a score . He received a fourth Oscar nomination for this score, and although he lost again (to John Corigliano for The Red Violin), he did receive a Grammy and a BAFTA . </P> <P> His critical and commercial success has continued in the following years with his scores for films such as Meet Joe Black, The Green Mile, Erin Brockovich, In the Bedroom and The Salton Sea . He was nominated consecutively for a further three Academy Awards, for Road to Perdition (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). However, he lost on each occasion to Elliot Goldenthal (for Frida), Howard Shore (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), and Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (for Finding Neverland) respectively . </P> <P> He was again nominated for an Oscar for scoring Steven Soderbergh's The Good German (2006). At the Oscar ceremony, he appeared in the opening segment by Errol Morris, who jokingly stated that Newman had been nominated for and failed to win an Oscar eight times . Newman replied: "No, I've failed seven but this will be my eighth", and indeed, he again lost, this time to Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel . </P>

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