List of film director–composer collaborations

The following film directors and film score composers have worked together on multiple projects.

Ali Abbasi

J. J. Abrams

Lenny Abrahamson

Andrew Adamson

Ben Affleck

Alan Alda

Moustapha Akkad

Robert Aldrich

Irwin Allen

Pedro Almodóvar

Robert Altman

Fede Álvarez

Jon Amiel

Sean Anders

Brad Anderson

Gerry Anderson

Lindsay Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul W. S. Anderson

Wes Anderson

Michael Anderson

Theo Angelopoulos

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Hideaki Anno

Michelangelo Antonioni

Judd Apatow

Michael Apted

Tetsuro Araki

Dario Argento

Gillian Armstrong

Jack Arnold

Darren Aronofsky

Hal Ashby

Himel Ashraf

Ari Aster

Richard Attenborough

Bille August

Hy Averback

John G. Avildsen

Jon Avnet

David Ayer

John Badham

Stuart Baird

Ralph Bakshi

Kyle Balda

Justin Baldoni

Charles Band

Wes Ball

Tony Barbieri

Bruno Barreto

Craig Bartlett

Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.

Noah Baumbach

Michael Bay

J. A. Bayona

Craig R. Baxley

Warren Beatty

Harold Becker

Josh Becker

Greg Beeman

Donald P. Bellisario

Richard Benjamin

Robert Benton

Bruce Beresford

Peter Berg

Edward Berger

Ingmar Bergman

Andrew Bergman

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bibo Bergeron

Luc Besson

Bahram Beyzai

Thomas Bezucha

Tony Bill

Mike Binder

Brad Bird

Gregg Bishop

Shane Black

Don Bluth

James Bobin

Paul Bogart

Mauro Bolognini

Uwe Boll

Jan de Bont

Josh Boone

Ole Bornedal

Boulting Brothers

Serge Bourguignon

David Bowers

Danny Boyle

John Brahm

Kenneth Branagh

Martin Brest

Craig Brewer

Steven Brill

Marshall Brickman

Philippe De Broca

James L. Brooks

Mel Brooks

Richard Brooks

Clarence Brown

Chris Buck

John Carl Buechler

Luis Buñuel

Charles Burnett

Jeff Burr

Tim Burton

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Edward L. Cahn

Christopher Cain

Thomas L. Callaway

James Cameron

Joe Camp

Bruce Campbell

Martin Campbell

Danny Cannon

Frank Capra

J.S. Cardone

Niki Caro

John Carpenter

D.J. Caruso

Steve Carver

John Cassavetes

Nick Cassavetes

Enzo G. Castellari

Nick Castle

William Castle

Gilbert Cates

Larry Charles

Michael Chaves

Damien Chazelle

Jeremiah S. Chechik

Peter Chelsom

Roger Christian

Jon M. Chu

Matt Cimber

Michael Cimino

Bob Clark

Jack Clayton

Ron Clements & John Musker

Graeme Clifford

George Clooney

Robert Clouse

Jean Cocteau

Coen Brothers

Pierre Coffin

Larry Cohen

Etan Cohen

Rob Cohen

Chris Columbus

Bill Condon

Jack Conway

James L. Conway

Ryan Coogler

Martha Coolidge

Stuart Cooper

Francis Ford Coppola

Sofia Coppola

Frank Coraci

Roger Corman

Don Coscarelli

George P. Cosmatos

Kevin Costner

Alex Cox

Wes Craven

Destin Daniel Cretton

Michael Crichton

John Cromwell

David Cronenberg

Cameron Crowe

Alfonso Cuarón

George Cukor

Irving Cummings

Sean S. Cunningham

Dan Curtis

Michael Curtiz

Rod Daniel

Lee Daniels

Joe Dante

Frank Darabont

Jules Dassin

Delmer Daves

Andrew Davis

John A. Davis

John DeBello

Dean DeBlois

Claire Denis

Philippe de Broca

Álex de la Iglesia

David DeCoteau

Alberto De Martino

Brian De Palma

Jonathan Demme

Ted Demme

Farid Dms Debah

James DeMonaco

Jacques Demy

Ruggero Deodato

Jacques Deray

Scott Derrickson

Howard Deutch

Danny DeVito

Lukas Dhont

  • Valentin Hadjadj
    • L'Infini (2014)
    • Girl (2018)
    • Our Nature (2021)
    • Close (2022)

Tom DiCillo

William Dieterle

Mark Dindal

Edward Dmytryk

Pete Docter

Xavier Dolan

Andrew Dominik

Roger Donaldson

Stanley Donen

Richard Donner

Michael Dougherty

Gordon Douglas

Lorenzo Doumani

Dennis Dugan

Christian Duguay

Bill Duke

Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass

Clint Eastwood

Blake Edwards

Robert Eggers

Atom Egoyan

Sergei Eisenstein

Stephan Elliot

Anna Eriksson

  • Herself
    • M (2018)
    • W (2022)

Roland Emmerich

Nora Ephron

John Erman

Daniel Espinosa

Gareth Evans

Chris Eyre

Roberto Faenza

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Jon Favreau

Paul Feig

Sam Fell

Federico Fellini

Abel Ferrara

Todd Field

Andy Fickman

Eduardo De Filippo

David Fincher

Terence Fisher

Mike Flanagan

Gary Fleder

Richard Fleischer

Ruben Fleischer

Victor Fleming

Anne Fletcher

Dexter Fletcher

John Flynn

James Foley

Bryan Forbes

Maya Forbes

Tom Ford

John Ford

Bill Forsyth

Bob Fosse

Georges Franju

Scott Frank

David Frankel

John Frankenheimer

Richard Franklin

James Frawley

Stephen Frears

Bart Freundlich

William Friedkin

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Lucio Fulci

Samuel Fuller

Brad Furman

Antoine Fuqua

Sidney J. Furie

Rodrigo Garcia

Alex Garland

Philippe Garrel

Mick Garris

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Greta Gerwig

Mel Gibson

Lewis Gilbert

Stuart Gillard

Terry Gilliam

Dan Gilroy

Tony Gilroy

William Girdler

John Glen

Bert I. Gordon

Jonathan Glazer

Will Gluck

Jean-Luc Godard

James Goldstone

Michael Gordon

Seth Gordon

Stuart Gordon

Raja Gosnell

David S. Goyer

William Graham

Walter Grauman

James Gray

David Gordon Green

Reinaldo Marcus Green

Peter Greenaway

Paul Greengrass

David Greene

Maggie Greenwald

Tom Gries

Luca Guadagnino

Christopher Guest

Davis Guggenheim

James Gunn

John Guillermin

Taylor Hackford

Randa Haines

Jack Haley Jr.

Don Hall

Lasse Hallstrom

John Hamburg

Guy Hamilton

John Lee Hancock

Curtis Hanson

Keiichi Hara

Catherine Hardwicke

Joseph Hardy

Sam Hargrave

Renny Harlin

Hal Hartley

Harvey Hart

Anthony Harvey

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Todd Haynes

Michel Hazanavicius

Amy Heckerling

Rob Hedden

Richard T. Heffron

Stuart Heisler

Brian Helgeland

Marielle Heller

Jim Henson

Stephen Herek

Michael O'Herlihy

Mark Herman

Rowdy Herrington

John Herzfeld

Werner Herzog

Peter Hewitt

Colin Higgins

George Roy Hill

Tim Hill

Walter Hill

Stephen Hillenburg

Arthur Hiller

Alfred Hitchcock

Bong Joon Ho

Michael Hoffman

P.J. Hogan

Todd Holland

Rod Holcomb

Agnieszka Holland

Savage Steve Holland

Ishirō Honda

Gavin Hood

Kevin Hooks

Stephen Hopkins

Tom Hooper

Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic

Mamoru Hosoda

John Hough

Ron Howard

Reginald Hudlin

John Hughes

Tim Hunter

John Huston

Peter Hyams

Nicholas Hytner

Hiroyuki Imaishi

Otar Iosseliani

Dan Ireland

Robert Iscove

Neal Israel

Jim Issac

James Ivory

Dianne Jackson

Mick Jackson

Peter Jackson

Jerry Jameson

Jim Jarmusch

Charles Jarrott

Barry Jenkins

Garth Jennings

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Norman Jewison

Roland Joffé

Rian Johnson

Joe Johnston

Lamont Johnson

Tim Johnson

Duncan Jones

Harmon Jones

Spike Jonze

Glenn Jordan

Neil Jordan

Mike Judge

Jeremy Kagan

Shusuke Kaneko

Jonathan Kaplan

Phil Karlson

Jake Kasdan

Lawrence Kasdan

Kazuyoshi Katayama

Lloyd Kaufman

Elia Kazan

Jennifer Kent

Irwin Kershner

James Kerwin

Bruce Kessler

Beeban Kidron

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Henry King

Takesi Kitano

Randal Kleiser

Walter Klenhard

Travis Knight

Masaki Kobayashi

David Koepp

Satoshi Kon

Andrei Konchalovsky

Zoltan Korda

Joseph Kosinski

Henry Koster

Stanley Kramer

John Krasinski

Stanley Kubrick

Buzz Kulik

Roger Kumble

Akira Kurosawa

Justin Kurzel

Karyn Kusama

Emir Kusturica

Ken Kwapis

Aldo Lado

Mary Lambert

Peter Landesman

John Landis

Fritz Lang

Walter Lang

John Lasseter

Francis Lawrence

Arnold Laven

David Lean

Ang Lee

Malcolm D. Lee

Spike Lee

Michael Lehmann

David Leitch

Michael Lembeck

Kasi Lemmons

Robert Z. Leonard

Tony Leondis

Sergio Leone

Mervyn LeRoy

Umberto Lenzi

Richard Lester

Louis Leterrier

Rob Letterman

Brian Levant

Henry Levin

Jonathan Levine

Barry Levinson

Shawn Levy

Jerry Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Robert Michael Lewis

Jonathan Liebesman

Kevin Lima

Doug Liman

Justin Lin

Richard Linklater

Dwight H. Little

Sam Liu

Ken Loach

Joshua Logan

Ulli Lommel

Peter Lord

Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

Joseph Losey

David Lowery

George Lucas

Jon Lucas & Scott Moore

Baz Luhrmann

Sidney Lumet

Rod Lurie

William Lustig

David Lynch

Adrian Lyne

Jonathan Lynn

Seth MacFarlane

John Madden

Terrence Malick

William Malone

David Mamet

James Mangold

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Anthony Mann

Daniel Mann

Delbert Mann

Michael Mann

Richard Marquand

Edwin L. Marin

Garry Marshall

George Marshall

Penny Marshall

Armand Mastroianni

Paul Mazursky

Patricia Mazuy

Craig McCracken

Martin McDonagh

Bernard McEveety

Vincent McEveety

McG

Michael McGowan

Douglas McGrath

Tom McGrath

Adam McKay

Andrew V. McLaglen

Sean McNamara

Christopher McQuarrie

Steve McQueen

James McTeigue

John McTiernan

Theodore Melfi

Sam Mendes

Ramón Menéndez

Jiří Menzel

Kieth Merrill

Nicholas Meyer

Russ Meyer

Nancy Meyers

Takashi Miike

John Milius

Bennett Miller

George Miller

George T. Miller

Michael Miller

Robert Ellis Miller

Tim Miller

Rob Minkoff

Steve Miner

Anthony Minghella

Vincente Minnelli

David Robert Mitchell

Mike Mitchell

Gorō Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki

Kenji Mizoguchi

Giuliano Montaldo

Tomm Moore

Rich Moore

Glen Morgan

Jonathan Mostow

Shuhei Morita

John Llewellyn Moxey

Robert Mulligan

Geoff Murphy

Andy Muschietti

Mike Nawrocki

Hal Needham

Jean Negulesco

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Ralph Nelson

Morgan Neville

Mike Newell

Joseph P. Newman

Paul Newman

Andrew Niccol

Jeff Nichols

Mike Nichols

Ted Nicolaou

Leonard Nimoy

Daisuke Nishio

Marcus Nispel

Christopher Nolan

Jonathan Nolan

Phillip Noyce

Victor Nuñez

Joe Nussbaum

Gavin O'Connor

Baran bo Odar

Steve Oedekerk

Takao Okawara

Laurence Olivier

Mark Osborne

Mamoru Oshii

Keishi Ōtomo

Frank Oz

Yasujirō Ozu

José Padilha

Alan J. Pakula

Nick Park

Alan Parker

Oliver Parker

Robert Parrish

John Pasquin

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Alexander Payne

Richard Pearce

Kris Pearn

Sam Peckinpah

Jordan Peele

Larry Peerce

Sean Penn

Vadim Perelman

Pierre Perifel

Oz Perkins

Tyler Perry

Matt Peters

Wolfgang Petersen

Elio Petri

Donald Petrie

Daniel Petrie

Brad Peyton

Renji Philip

Todd Phillips

Charles B. Pierce

Claude Pinoteau

Angelina Jolie Pitt

Sidney Poitier

Roman Polanski

Sydney Pollack

James Ponsoldt

Ted Post

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Kemp Powers

Otto Preminger

Michael Pressman

Alex Proyas

Albert Pyun

Eric Radomski

Bob Rafelson

Sam Raimi

S. S. Rajamouli

Harold Ramis

Lynne Ramsay

Mani Ratnam

Brett Ratner

Fred Olen Ray

Robert Redford

Peyton Reed

Dee Rees

Jerry Rees

Matt Reeves

Nicolas Winding Refn

Godfrey Reggio

Carl Reiner

Rob Reiner

Wolfgang Reitherman

Ivan Reitman

Jason Reitman

Chris Renaud

Jean Renoir

David Lowell Rich

Tony Richardson

William Richert

Diana Ringo

Guy Ritchie

Michael Ritchie

Martin Ritt

Jay Roach

Brian Robbins

Matthew Robbins

Yves Robert

Phil Alden Robinson

Mark Robson

Chris Rock

Robert Rodriguez

Nicolas Roeg

Joachim Rønning

Mark Rosman

Stuart Rosenberg

Rick Rosenthal

Gary Ross

Herbert Ross

Roberto Rossellini

Eli Roth

Joe Roth

Joseph Ruben

Alan Rudolph

Raúl Ruiz

Richard Rush

Jay Russell

Russo brothers

Mark Rydell

Boris Sagal

Luciano Salce

Carlos Saldanha

Sidney Salkow

David F. Sandberg

Ari Sandel

Chris Sanders

Joseph Sargent

Jeremy Saulnier

Claude Sautet

Victor Saville

John Sayles

Franklin J. Schaffner

Fred Schepisi

Ryan Schifrin

  • Lalo Schifrin
    • Abominable (2006)
    • No Rest for the Wicked: A Basil & Moebius Adventure (2011) Short
    • Tales of Halloween (2015) – Schifrin composed the film's main theme.
  • Andy Garfield
    • King in the Box (2007) – Short
    • The Tiffany Problem (2008) – Short

John Schlesinger

Volker Schlöndorff

Maria Schrader

Paul Schrader

Barbet Schroeder

John Schultz

David Schmoeller

Joel Schumacher

Robert Schwentke

Martin Scorsese

Ridley Scott

Tony Scott

George Seaton

Peter Segal

Susan Seidelman

Henry Selick

Joann Sfar

Tom Shadyac

S. Shankar

Adam Shankman

Thea Sharrock

Ron Shelton

Jim Sheridan

Taylor Sheridan

Gary Sherman

Vincent Sherman

Kaneto Shindō

Makoto Shinkai

Michael Showalter

Trey Edward Shults

M. Night Shyamalan

  • Trevor Gureckis

Charles Shyer

Vittorio De Sica

George Sidney

Don Siegel

Brad Silberling

Marisa Silver

Elliot Silverstein

Justin Simien

Bryan Singer

John Singleton

Douglas Sirk

Jerzy Skolimowski

Kevin Smith

Jack Smight

Zack Snyder

Steven Soderbergh

Courtney Solomon

Stephen Sommers

Barry Sonnenfeld

Alberto Sordi

Aaron Sorkin

Penelope Spheeris

Steven Spielberg

Roger Spottiswoode

Chad Stahelski

John M. Stahl

Sylvester Stallone

Richard Stanley

Andrew Stanton

Jack Starrett

Ben Stassen

George Stevens

Leslie Stevens

Robert Stevenson

Ben Stiller

Whit Stillman

John Stockwell

Nicholas Stoller

Charles Stone III

Oliver Stone

Tim Story

Mel Stuart

John Sturges

Jeannot Szwarc

Isao Takahata

Yōjirō Takita

Rachel Talalay

Andrei Tarkovsky

Béla Tarr

Genndy Tartakovsky

Frank Tashlin

Norman Taurog

Alan Taylor

Don Taylor

Tate Taylor

Julie Taymor

Bertrand Tavernier

Gary Templeton

Andy Tennant

Masaaki Tezuka

Betty Thomas

J. Lee Thompson

Richard Thorpe

Rawson Marshall Thurber

George Tillman, Jr.

Bruce Timm

Shannon Tindle

Norman Tokar

Giuseppe Tornatore

Guillermo del Toro

Andre De Toth

Jacques Tourneur

Robert Townsend

Dan Trachtenberg

Brian Trenchard-Smith

Colin Trevorrow

Joachim Trier

Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise

François Truffaut

Douglas Trumbull

Jon Turteltaub

David Twohy

Nora Twomey

Ron Underwood

Nick Vallelonga

Agnès Varda

W. S. Van Dyke

Gus Van Sant

Matthew Vaughn

Gore Verbinski

Henri Verneuil

Paul Verhoeven

King Vidor

Denis Villeneuve

Robert Vince

The Wachowskis

Lana Wachowski

David Wain

Taika Waititi

Chris Walas

Randall Wallace

Anthony Waller

Raoul Walsh

Fred Walton

James Wan

David S. Ward

Régis Wargnier

Denzel Washington

Shinichirō Watanabe

John Waters

Mark Waters

Jon Watts

Ric Roman Waugh

Scott Waugh

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Robert D. Web

Marc Webb

Simon Wells

Lo Wei

Peter Weir

Sam Weisman

Chris Weitz

Orson Welles

Audrey Wells

William A. Wellman

Wim Wenders

Paul Wendkos

Peter Werner

Ti West

John Whitesell

Richard Whorf

Billy Wilder

Gene Wilder

Chris Williams

Fred Williamson

Simon Wincer

Harry Winer

Jonathan Winfrey

Adam Wingard

Irwin Winkler

Michael Winner

Robert Wise

Len Wiseman

George C. Wolfe

James Wong

Kar-Wai Wong

John Woo

Sam Wood

Park Chan-wook

Edgar Wright

Joe Wright

Donald Wrye

William Wyler

Jim Wynorski

Boaz Yakin

Naoko Yamada

Takashi Yamazaki

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Peter Yates

David Yates

Wilson Yip

Bud Yorkin

Roger Young

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Ronny Yu

Robert M. Young

Terence Young

Masaaki Yuasa

S. Craig Zahler

Steven Zaillian

Alex Zamm

Franco Zeffirelli

Benh Zeitlin

Robert Zemeckis

Howard Zieff

Fred Zinnemann

Joseph Zito

Rob Zombie

David Zucker

Jerry Zucker

Andrzej Zulawski

Valerio Zurlini

Harald Zwart

Edward Zwick

Terry Zwigoff

References

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  1. ^ "The Fascist (1961)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 23, 2015.