Allyson Newman is an Emmy nominated composer whose work can be heard on The L Word Generation Q (Showtime), Partner Track (Netflix) and First Day (Hulu). In 2024 she was nominated for two Society of Composers and Lyricists awards for her work on The L Word Generation Q and for the documentary Commitment to Life. Allyson was selected as one of twelve participants for the Spot the Composer program at the Marché du Film in Cannes 2024. Allyson’s past work includes the multi award winning documentary feature Limited Partnership that premiered on PBS Independent Lens in 2015. Allyson then went on to score the Emmy nominated (2016) series Her Story, and in 2017 participated in the BMI Conducting Workshop. Following this Allyson scored Kusama-Infinity which premiered at Sundance 2018 and was released theatrically around the world. In 2019 Allyson collaborated with Oscar Winning directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein to score State of Pride which opened the SXSW Film Festival. Also, that year Allyson scored A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem which had its premiere at Tribeca, as well as Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound which premiered at Cannes. Allyson scored the HULU film Diane Von Furstenberg: Women in Charge for which she was nominated a Hollywood Music in Media Award, and most recently Allyson scored Arrest the Midwife which premiered at SXSW 2025. Allyson is the co-president of the Alliance for Woman Film Composer.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Composer
- 10 on MovieCove · 19 credits in all
Known for
What are Allyson Newman's films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 9
Light 5 · Serious 4 · Dark 0
Grounded 6 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 4 · Charged 5 · Intense 0
Steady 7 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 6 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 8 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 6 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 4 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 3
Resolved 7 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet6
- Other1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Allyson Newman's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (6).
- Limited Partnership (2014) · composer · free
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) · composer · free
- Kusama: Infinity (2018) · composer · free
- Commitment to Life (2023) · composer · free
- Ava's Impossible Things (2016) · composer · free
- The Faraway, Nearby: Joe Weber and the Pursuit of Gravitational Waves (2024) · composer · free
Subscription and free streaming for Allyson Newman's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
19 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Arrest the Midwife (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Commitment to Life(2023)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
First Day(2020)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Honey and Clover: A Recipe for Disaster (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Deluge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
State of Pride (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Kusama: Infinity(2018)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
The Pick Up (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Hot to Trot(2018)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The News Today (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Java (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Ava's Impossible Things(2016)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Limited Partnership(2014)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
This Thing with Sarah(2013)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
POV (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
Career shape
A full career of 13 titles from 1988 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Kusama: Infinity (2018)
Highest rated
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
Awards
Nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2023, Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Allyson Newman's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 81st percentile, the median of the 8 of 9 with a score; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 83rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 9 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive2
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the sound and music 45/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles; fans 73, detractors 43. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Allyson Newman work with?
People who share at least 2 of Allyson Newman's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Thomas G. Miller shares the most, 3.
Editors
- Thomas G. MillerShared titles: Commitment to Life (2023), Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019), Limited Partnership (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Thomas G. Miller
- Carl PfirmanShared titles: Kusama: Infinity (2018), Limited Partnership (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Carl Pfirman
Producers
- Karen JohnsonShared titles: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019), Kusama: Infinity (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Karen Johnson
