Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is an Oscar-, Golden Globe- and Grammy Award-winning Canadian composer, best known for composing the scores to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and films of David Cronenberg. He is also a prolific composer of concert works, and is currently writing his first opera, The Fly, based on the plot (though not the score) of Cronenberg's 1986 film. He is the uncle of composer Ryan Shore.

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an Academy Award- and Grammy-winning film composer, best known for composing the scores to “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy and “The Silence of the Lambs”. He was born to a Jewish family in and studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. From 1969 to 1972, he performed with the group Lighthouse. In 1974, Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning’s magical/musical “Spellbound”