Litmus Music has acquired Randy Newman‘s music publishing and his stake in his recorded music catalog, the company announced Thursday. The deal includes both songs and film scores from ...

But since the 1970s, Newman has written music for 29 films, including such animated blockbusters as Toy Story (1, 2, 3, and 4), Monsters, Inc., and A Bug’s Life, as well as The Natural, the dark ...

Randy Newman’s ingenious lyricism earned him devoted fans but not mainstream success. His turn to Hollywood would bring wider recognition.

As a boy growing up in Beverly Hills, Calif., Randy Newman received an upright piano for his fifth birthday. It was also around this time that his life started to slide sideways.

Newman has penned dozens for adults (Ragtime, the Natural, Awakenings) and—more famously—animated movies (A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., Cars, and all the Toy Story movies, including the now ...

Or so he says. That's another thing about Randy Newman: He's prone to a Mark Twain brand of satirical humor. It's in most of his songs and all of his stage banter.

Newman got some more of that, too, when "Monsters Inc." lost the Best Original Score award to Howard Shore's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." ...