List of film director and composer collaborations

The following film score composers and film directors typically work together on projects. The list is alphabetical by director's last name.

J. J. Abrams and Michael Giacchino

Giacchino has scored all of Abrams' film and television projects: Alias (2001–2006), Lost (2004–2010), Mission Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Fringe (2008–present), and Super 8 (2011).

Robert Aldrich and Frank De Vol

De Vol scored Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), Attack (1956), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968), Ulzana's Raid (1972), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Hustle (1975), The Choirboys (1977), The Frisco Kid (1979) and All the Marbles (1981).

Irwin Allen and John Williams

The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. Williams composed at least the theme music for 2 of Allen's shows: *Lost in Space (1965–1968) *The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)

Robert Altman and Johnny Mandel

Mandel and Altman worked together with a collaboration: That Cold Day in the Park (1969) and MASH (1970).

Jon Amiel and Christopher Young

Copycat (1995), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), Entrapment (1999) and The Core (2003).

Gerry Anderson and Barry Gray

Although Anderson has only made four films (all being scored by Gray), Barry Gray has worked on almost all of Anderson's TV shows, including Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO & the first season of Space: 1999, along with many others.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Jon Brion

Hard Eight (also known as Sydney) (1996), Magnolia (1999), and Punch-Drunk Love (2002). Jon had a cameo appearance in Boogie Nights.

Wes Anderson and Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh has scored all but two of Wes Anderson's films. These include Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), but not The Darjeeling Limited (2007) or Fantastic Mr. Fox (film) (2009).

Theo Angelopoulos and Eleni Karaindrou

Angelopoulos and Karaindrou have collaborated on every movie Angelopoulos has made since Voyage to Cythera (1984).

Darren Aronofsky and Clint Mansell

Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000),The Fountain (2006), The Wrestler (2008) and Black Swan (2010).

Richard Attenborough and George Fenton

Fenton and Attenborough worked together on drama movies: Gandhi (1982), Cry Freedom (1987), Shadowlands (1993), In Love and War (1996) and Grey Owl (1999).

John Badham and Hans Zimmer

Bird on a Wire (1990), Point of No Return (1993) and Drop Zone (1994).

Michael Bay and Steve Jablonsky

Jablonsky and Bay worked together with action films such as The Island (2005), Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Josh Becker and Joseph LoDuca

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except (1987), Lunatics: A Love Story (1991), Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur (1994), Running Time (1997) and Alien Apocalypse (2005).

Bernardo Bertolucci and Ryuichi Sakamoto

The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990) and Little Buddha (1993).

Luc Besson and Éric Serra

Éric Serra has scored every film directed by Luc Besson except Angel-A. These include Le Dernier Combat, Subway, Le Grand Bleu, Nikita, Atlantis, Léon, The Fifth Element, Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc and Arthur and the Minimoys.

Jan de Bont and Mark Mancina

Mancina and De Bont worked together on action movies: Speed (1994), Twister (1996) and Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997).

Danny Boyle and John Murphy

Murphy and Boyle worked on three movies together on: 28 Days Later (2002), Millions (2005) and Sunshine (2007).

Danny Boyle and A. R. Rahman

Rahman and Boyle worked on two movies together on: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and 127 Hours (2010).

Tim Burton and Danny Elfman

The two began their collaboration in the mid-1980s with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Since then, they have combined to direct and score (respectively) a dozen movies, including "The Jar" (an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents), Batman and Batman Returns (1989/1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Planet of the Apes (2001), Beetlejuice (1988),Corpse Bride (2005), Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Mars Attacks! (1996). The Burton-directed features which Elfman has not scored are Ed Wood (1994), which was done by Howard Shore; and Sweeney Todd, which used pre-existing songs by Stephen Sondheim.

Kenneth Branagh and Patrick Doyle

Collaborated on all of Branagh's film adaptations of Shakespeare, as well as several other films: Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Hamlet (1996), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), As You Like It (2006), and Thor (2011).

Mel Brooks and John Morris

The Producers (1968), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Young Frankenstein (1974), Blazing Saddles (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1978), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987) and Life Stinks (1991).

James Cameron and Brad Fiedel

The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and True Lies, (1994).

James Cameron and James Horner

Aliens (1986), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009)

John Carpenter and John Carpenter

Carpenter directs and composes with the horror movies: Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), Body Bags (1993), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Village of the Damned (1995), Escape from L.A. (1996), Vampires (1998) and Ghosts of Mars (2001).

Nick Cassavetes and Aaron Zigman

Zigman and Cassavetes worked together on drama movies: John Q. (2002), The Notebook (2004), Alpha Dog (2006) and My Sister's Keeper (2009).

Peter Chelsom and John Altman

Altman and Chelsom worked together with a collaboration with three movies: Hear My Song (1991), Funny Bones (1995) and Shall We Dance (2004).

Michael Cimino and David Mansfield

Mansfield and Cimino worked together the melodrama movies: Heaven's Gate (1980), Year of the Dragon (1985), The Sicilian (1987) and Desperate Hours (1990).

Wes Craven and Marco Beltrami

Beltrami scores on Craven's horror movies: Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000), Cursed (2005), Red Eye (2005) and My Soul to Take (2010).

Coen Brothers and Carter Burwell

Burwell has scored the Coens' Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) Intolerable Cruelty (2003), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008) and True Grit (2010), and is credited for "additional music" on O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).

Rob Cohen and Randy Edelman

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), Dragonheart (1996), Daylight (1996), The Skulls (2000), xXx (2002) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Francis Ford Coppola and Carmine Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola's father, Carmine, scored several of his son's films made for American Zoetrope studios: The Godfather: Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Outsiders (1983), Gardens of Stone (1987), New York Stories (1989) and The Godfather: Part III (1990).

Alex Cox and Pray for Rain

Pray for Rain scored Cox's Straight to Hell (1987), Death and the Compass (1992) and Three Businessmen (1998), and were among the contributors to the score of Sid and Nancy (1986). Their original score for Cox's The Winner (1996) was replaced when the film was edited by its producers into a version Cox disowned.

Michael Crichton and Jerry Goldsmith

Coma (1978), The First Great Train Robbery (1979), Runaway (1984), and The 13th Warrior (1999), which was co-produced by Michael Crichton and partly directed by him (uncredited). Jerry Goldsmith also scored Congo and Timeline, which were based on novels by Michael Crichton. Goldsmith's score for Timeline was ultimately replaced with one composed by Brian Tyler, when the movie was heavily re-edited several times and Goldsmith finally did not feel like investing any more time in the project.

David Cronenberg and Howard Shore

All of Cronenberg's films since The Brood in 1979 have been scored by Shore, except for The Dead Zone (1983), which was scored by Michael Kamen. They are both from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson

Wilson works with her husband Crowe: Almost Famous (2000), Vanilla Sky (2001) and Elizabethtown (2005).

Joe Dante and Jerry Goldsmith

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Gremlins (1984), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).

Frank Darabont and Thomas Newman

The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and The Green Mile (1999), both were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Score

Brian De Palma and Pino Donaggio

Donaggio scored De Palma's Carrie (1976), Home Movies (1979), Dressed to Kill (1980), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Raising Cain (1992), and the forthcoming Toyer.

Jonathan Demme and Rachel Portman

Beloved (1998), The Truth About Charlie (2002) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

Danny DeVito and David Newman

Throw Momma from the Train (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Hoffa (1992), Matilda (1996), Death to Smoochy (2002), Duplex (2003) and the forthcoming I Married a Witch (2007).

Walt Disney Studios and Sherman Brothers

Brothers Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman contributed songs to several Disney films. Directors included Wolfgang Reitherman: The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book (1967), and The Aristocats (1970); Robert Stevenson: Mary Poppins (1964)and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); and Norman Tokar: Big Red (1962) and The Happiest Millionaire (1967). They also composed the tune "It's a Small World" for the Disneyland theme park.

Walt Disney Studios and Alan Menken

Alan Menken and Howard Ashman- both famous previously for several Broadway hits- began a long collaboration with Disney, considered by many to be among the animated franchise's best, bringing popularity back to the films starting with The Little Mermaid (1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Unfortunately, Ashaman died of AIDS before the release of Beauty... and during production of Aladdin (1992). A dedication at the end Beauty... is made in his honor.

Menken, however, continued on composing the music for Aladdin, Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), and Home on the Ranger (2004), though with different people composing the lyrics in Ashman's place, notably Stephen Schwartz (two times). He also recently scored the music for the animation film Tangled (2010).

Roger Donaldson and J. Peter Robinson

Robinson scores on Donaldson's movies: Cocktail (1988), Cadillac Man (1990), The World's Fastest Indian (2005) and The Bank Job (2008).

Clint Eastwood and Lennie Niehaus

Niehaus and Eastwood worked together on melodrama movies: Pale Rider (1985), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Bird (1988), White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), The Rookie (1990), Unforgiven (1992), A Perfect World (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Absolute Power (1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), True Crime (1999), Space Cowboys (2000) and Blood Work (2002).

Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini

Collaborated many times, including the Pink Panther series and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Atom Egoyan and Mychael Danna

Danna has scored Egoyan's Family Viewing (1987), Speaking Parts (1989), The Adjuster (1991), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Felicia's Journey (1999), Ararat (2002) and Where the Truth Lies (2005).

Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Prokofiev

Eisenstein and Prokofiev collaborated on Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible Parts One and Two.

Roland Emmerich and David Arnold

Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996) and Godzilla (1998).

Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser

The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 10,000 BC (2008), 2012 (2009), and Anonymous (2011)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Peer Raben

Provided music for nearly all of his films, here are the most famous examples: Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Katzelmacher (1969), Fox and His Friends (1974), Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Lola (1981), Veronika Voss (1982) and Querelle (1982)

Federico Fellini and Nino Rota

Fellini and Rota collaborated on 15 films, from The White Sheik in 1952 to Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal in 1978.

Bob Fosse and Ralph Burns

The two have collaborated on jazz movies: Lenny (1974), All That Jazz (1979) and Star 80 (1983).

John Frankenheimer and Gary Chang

Chang and Frankenheimer worked together on: 52 Pick-Up (1986), Dead Bang (1989), Against the Wall (1994), The Burning Season (1994), Andersonville (1996), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), George Wallace (1997) and Path to War (2002).

Richard Franklin and Brian May

May and Franklin worked together on: Patrick (1978), Roadgames (1981) and Cloak & Dagger (1984).

Terry Gilliam and Michael Kamen

Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

David S. Goyer and Ramin Djawadi

Djawadi and Goyer worked on two thriller movies: Blade: Trinity (2004) and The Unborn (2009).

Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman

Nyman has scored Greenaway's The Falls (1979), The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), A Zed and Two Noughts (1985), Drowning by Numbers (1988), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) and Prospero's Books (1990).

Paul Greengrass and John Powell

The Bourne Supremacy (2004), United 93 (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Green Zone (2010).

Taylor Hackford and Michel Colombier

Colombier and Hackford worked together on drama movies: Against All Odds (1984) and White Nights (1985).

Renny Harlin and Trevor Rabin

Rabin and Harlin worked together on: Deep Blue Sea (1999), Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) and 12 Rounds (2009).

Hal Hartley and Hal Hartley

Hartley directs and composes with the independent movies: Surviving Desire (1991), Ambition (1991), Theory of Achievement (1991), Simple Men (1992), Opera No. 1 (1994), Amateur (1994), Flirt (1995), Henry Fool (1997), Kimono (2000), No Such Thing (2001), The Girl from Monday (2005), Fay Grim (2006) and The Apologies (2010).

Mark Herman and Trevor Jones

Jones scores on Herman's comedy movies: Blame it on the Bellboy (1992) and Brassed Off (1996).

John Herzfeld and Anthony Marinelli

Marinelli and Herzfeld worked together in the thriller movies: 2 Days in the Valley (1996) and 15 Minutes (2001).

Werner Herzog and Popol Vuh

Popol Vuh provided original music for Herzog's feature films Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), Heart of Glass (1976), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987), and for his documentaries The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg (1984) and My Best Fiend (1999).

Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann

Herrmann composed the scores for Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Wrong Man (1956), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and Marnie (1965). In addition, Herrmann served as "sound consultant" on The Birds (1963), which does not use a musical score per se.

Agnieszka Holland and Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

Kaczmarek and Holland worked together on: Total Eclipse (1995), Washington Square (1997) and The Third Miracle (1999).

Ron Howard and James Horner

They have partnered on many films since Cocoon, including Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Missing.

Ishirō Honda and Akira Ifukube

Partnered on 20 films including Gojira (1954), Rodan (1956), The Mysterians (1957), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), Destroy All Monsters (1968), War of the Gargantuas (1970)

John Hughes and Ira Newborn

Newborn and Hughes scores on teenage movies: Sixteen Candles (1984), Weird Science (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and Uncle Buck (1989).

John Huston and Alex North

The Misfits (1961), Under the Volcano (1984), Prizzi's Honor (1985), and The Dead (1987).

Peter Jackson and Howard Shore

Howard Shore has composed The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He was slated to compose Jackson's remake of King Kong, but was ultimately replaced by James Newton Howard.

Neil Jordan and Elliot Goldenthal

Goldenthal and Jordan worked together on Irish melodrama movies: Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Collins (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), In Dreams (1999) and The Good Thief (2002).

Lawrence Kasdan and James Newton Howard

All of the films that Kasdan has directed since 1991 have been scored by Howard, including Grand Canyon (1991), Wyatt Earp (1994), French Kiss (1995), Mumford (1999), Dreamcatcher (2003), and the forthcoming The Risk Pool (TBC).

Krzysztof Kieslowski and Zbigniew Preisner

Preisner scored Kieslowski's No End (1984), The Decalogue (1988), The Double Life of Véronique (1991) and the Three Colors Trilogy (1993-4). In Véronique and Three Colours, his work sometimes appears as that of the fictitious Van den Budenmayer.

Takeshi Kitano and Joe Hisaishi

Hisaishi scored many of Kitano's pictures, beginning with A Scene at the Sea (1991)and ending with Dolls.

Zoltan Korda and Miklós Rózsa

The Four Feathers (1939), The Jungle Book (1942), Sahara (1943), The Macomber Affair (1947) and A Woman's Vengeance (1948).

Emir Kusturica and Goran Bregovic

Bregovic scored Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies (1988), Arizona Dream (1993), Underground (1995).

Ken Kwapis and Cliff Eidelman

Eidelman and Kwapis worked together on romantic comedies: The Beautician and the Beast (1997), The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005) and He's Just Not That Into You (2009).

John Landis and Elmer Bernstein

Bernstein has composed ironically bravado "classic Hollywood" scores for Landis comedies as Three Amigos and Animal House, while also providing the incidental music for such Landis projects as the music video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

John Lasseter and Randy Newman

Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), and Cars (2006).

David Lean and Maurice Jarre

Doctor Zhivago, (1965) A Passage to India (1984), Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard

Blanchard has scored many of Spike Lee's films; the collaboration beginning with Jungle Fever.

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone

Morricone scored all Leone's films from A Fistful of Dollars (1964) to his last, Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Quentin Tarantino has commented on their collaborations: "I think a case can even be made that with Leone and Morricone that they are the best director-composer team in the history of film. It's like you can't even imagine Leone's movies without Morricone's music. It's even more important than Hitchcock and Herrmann or any other director composer relationship in history."

Barry Levinson and Hans Zimmer

Rain Man (1988), Toys (1992) and An Everlasting Piece (2000).

George Lucas and John Williams

Every Star Wars film has been scored by Williams. The four directed by Lucas are the following: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005).

David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti

Badalamenti scored Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1993), Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001) for Lynch, as well as the television series Twin Peaks.

Adrian Lyne and Giorgio Moroder

Foxes (1980) and Flashdance (1983).

John Madden and Stephen Warbeck

The two collaborated on: Mrs. Brown (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) and Proof (2005). Which one was not composed by the movie: Killshot (2009), but Warbeck's score was rejected and was replaced by Klaus Badelt.

Michael Mann and Lisa Gerrard

Gerrard worked with the composer Pieter Bourke and director Michael Mann: The Insider (1999) and Ali (2001).

Garry Marshall and John Debney

Debney and Marshall worked together in romantic comedies since like: The Princess Diaries (2001), Raising Helen (2004), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), Georgia Rule (2007) and Valentine's Day (2010).

Douglas McGrath and Rachel Portman

Portman make a partnership with writer/director McGrath: Emma (1996), Nicholas Nickleby (2002) and Infamous (2006).

Sam Mendes and Thomas Newman

American Beauty (1999), Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005) and Revolutionary Road (2008). Away We Go (2009) was the first film of Mendes without an original score by Newman. Instead, the score to Away we go was provided by Alexi Murdoch.

John Milius and Basil Poledouris

Poledouris wrote the scores with Milius for: Big Wednesday (1978), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Farewell to the King (1989) and Flight of the Intruder (1991).

Anthony Minghella and Gabriel Yared

Yared wrote the scores on the late Minghella's movies: The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Cold Mountain (2003) and Breaking and Entering (2006).

Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi

Hisaishi scored Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Porco Rosso (1992), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and Ponyo (2008).

Christopher Nolan and David Julyan

Following (1998), Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002) and The Prestige (2006)

Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer

Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Phillip Noyce and Graeme Revell

Revell and Noyce scores on two movies: Dead Calm (1989) and The Saint (1997).

Steve Oedekerk and Robert Folk

Folk and Oedekerk worked together on comedy movies: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Nothing to Lose (1997), Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle (1999) and Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002).

Laurence Olivier and William Walton

Collaborated on all of Olivier's films, except for The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

Mamoru Oshii and Kenji Kawai

Kenji Kawai composed the music for the majority of Mamoru Oshii's work. This included ten of Oshii's feature films, one such film being Ghost in the Shell (film), a film credited as being instrumental in the rise in popularity of Japanese anime in the West. Oshii even said that "Kenji Kawai's music is responsible for 50 percent of [his] films' successes" and also that he (Oshii) "can't do anything without him".

Notable collaborations are: The Red Spectacles (1987 film), Patlabor: The Movie (1989 anime film), StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1991 anime film), Talking Head (film) (1992 film), Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993 anime film), Ghost in the Shell (film) (1995 anime film), Avalon (2001 film), Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004 anime film), The Sky Crawlers (film) (2008 anime film), and Assault Girls (2009 film).

Alexander Payne and Rolfe Kent

Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002) and Sideways (2004).

Sam Peckinpah and Jerry Fielding

Straw Dogs (1971), Junior Bonner (1972), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) and The Killer Elite (1975), Which one was not composed by the movie: The Getaway (1972), Fielding's score was rejected and was replaced by Quincy Jones.

Wolfgang Petersen and Klaus Doldinger

Doldinger collaborated with Petersen on: Einer von uns beiden (1974), Planübung (1977), Das Boot (1981) and The Neverending Story (1984).

Roman Polanski and Krzysztof Komeda

Komeda scored all of Polanski's early short and feature films between 1958 and 1968 with the notable exception of Repulsion (1965), which was scored by Chico Hamilton. Polanski employed Komeda as his regular composer right up until the latter's death in a skiing accident in April 1969.

Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958), When Angels Fall (1959), The Fat and the Lean (1961), Mammals (1961), Knife in the Water (1962), "La Rivière des Diamants" sequence from the omnibus film Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du Monde (1964), Cul-de-sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Rosemary's Baby (1968).

Roman Polanski and Philippe Sarde

The Tenant (1976), Tess (1979) and Pirates (1986).

Roman Polanski and Wojciech Kilar

Death and the Maiden (1994), The Ninth Gate (1999) and The Pianist (2002).

Sydney Pollack and Dave Grusin

Grusin collaborated with Pollack on: The Yakuza (1975), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Bobby Deerfield (1977), The Electric Horseman (1979), Absence of Malice (1981), Tootsie (1982), Havana (1990), The Firm (1993) and Random Hearts (1999).

Barry Ptolemy and Philip Glass

Glass collaborated with Ptolemy on Transcendent Man 2011.

Sam Raimi and Joseph LoDuca

The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992). LoDuca also worked on many projects produced by Raimi, including the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess and Jack of All Trades.

Sam Raimi and Danny Elfman

Darkman (1990), Army of Darkness (1993), A Simple Plan (1998), Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004).

Spider-Man 2 would sever the close working relationship between them because of many of the [unspecified] conflicts between Elfman and Raimi during the scoring and editing process; Elfman said this would be his last collaboration with him. As a result, much of the score for ...2 was either reused from the first Spider-Man film or new music composed by Christopher Young and John Debney, with only limited material of Elfman's original score surviving into the final film. (After the film's release, many of the new and original unused scores by Elfman made it onto the internet, though what the source was is indeterminable.) Spider-Man 3 (2007) was composed by Christopher Young. (Ironically, none of Young's music for Spider-Man 3 was released as a separate soundtrack CD.)

Mani Ratnam and A. R. Rahman

Main article: List of films directed by Mani Ratnam featuring A. R. Rahman

Roja (1992), Thiruda Thiruda (1993), Bombay (1995), Iruvar (1997), Dil Se (1998), Alaipayuthey (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004), Yuva (2004), Guru (2007), Raavan (2010) and Raavanan (2010).

Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass

Glass has composed the music for Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988), Anima Mundi (1992) and Naqoyqatsi (2002).

Rob Reiner and Marc Shaiman

When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Misery (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), North (1994), The American President (1995), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), The Story of Us (1999), Alex & Emma (2003) and Rumor Has It (2005).

Wolfgang Reitherman and Sherman Brothers

Brothers Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman contributed songs to several films which Reitherman directed for Walt Disney Pictures, including The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book, The Aristocats (1970), and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). See also Walt Disney Pictures and Sherman Brothers.

Jason Reitman and Rolfe Kent

Kent scores on Reitman's movies Thank You for Smoking (2005) and Up in the Air (2009).

Jay Roach and George S. Clinton

Clinton scores on Austin Powers trilogy: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).

Alan Rudolph and Mark Isham

Isham has scored Rudolph's Trouble in Mind (1985), Made in Heaven (1987), The Moderns (1988), Love at Large (1990), Mortal Thoughts (1991), Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Afterglow (1996) and Breakfast of Champions (1999).

Jay Russell and William Ross

William Ross scores on Jay Russell's drama movies: My Dog Skip (2000), Tuck Everlasting (2002) and Ladder 49 (2004).

Peter Segal and Teddy Castellucci

Castellucci and Segal scores on three Adam Sandler's movies: Anger Management (2003), 50 First Dates (2004) and The Longest Yard (2005).

Martin Scorsese and Elmer Bernstein

Bernstein scores on Scorsese's melodrama movies: Cape Fear (1991), The Age of Innocence (1993) and Bringing out the Dead (1999).

Martin Scorsese and Howard Shore

After Hours (1985), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), and Hugo (2011)

Ridley Scott and Hans Zimmer

Black Rain (1989), Thelma and Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001) and Matchstick Men (2003).

Ridley Scott and Marc Streitenfeld

A Good Year (2006), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), Robin Hood (2010).

Tony Scott and Hans Zimmer

Days of Thunder (1990), True Romance (1993), Crimson Tide (1995) and The Fan (1996).

Tony Scott and Harry Gregson-Williams

Gregson-Williams and Scott worked together on action movies: Enemy of the State (1998), Spy Game (2001), The Hire: Beat the Devil (2002), Man on Fire (2004), Domino (2005), Déjà Vu (2006), The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) and Unstoppable (2010).

Joel Schumacher and James Newton Howard

Flatliners (1990), Dying Young (1991) and Falling Down (1993). James Newton Howard also wrote the theme to the TV series 2000 Malibu Road, which was directed by Joel Schumacher.

Franklin J. Schaffner and Jerry Goldsmith

The Stripper (1963), Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Papillon (1973), Islands in the Stream (1977), The Boys from Brazil (1978), and Lionheart (1987). Jerry Goldsmith received Academy Award Nominations for four of these seven films.

S. Shankar and A. R. Rahman

Gentleman (1993), Kadhalan (1994), Indian (1996), Jeans (1998), Mudhalvan (1999), Nayak: The Real Hero (2001), Boys (2003), Sivaji (2007), and Enthiran (2010).

Ron Shelton and Alex Wurman

Wurman and Shelton collaborated on comedy movies: Play It to the Bone (1999) and Hollywood Homicide (2003).

Paul Schrader and Giorgio Moroder

American Gigolo (1980) and Cat People (1982).

M. Night Shyamalan and James Newton Howard

The two have collaborated on all of Shyamalan's films since 1999's The Sixth Sense, including Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004) (for which Howard received an Oscar nomination), Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008) and The Last Airbender (2010).

John Singleton and Stanley Clarke

Clarke and Singleton worked together with the African-American movies: Boyz n the Hood (1991), Poetic Justice (1993) and Higher Learning (1995).

Kevin Smith and James L. Venable

James L. Venable has composed music for all of Kevin Smith's films since Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). He also composed music for Clerks the Animated Series.

Zack Snyder and Tyler Bates

Bates has scored all of Snyder's films so far: Dawn of the Dead (2004), 300 (2007), Watchmen (2009), and Sucker Punch (2011), except for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010), which was scored by David Hirschfelder.

Stephen Sommers and Jerry Goldsmith

Goldsmith scores on two Sommers movies: Deep Rising (1998) and The Mummy (1999).

Stephen Sommers and Alan Silvestri

Silvestri scores on three Sommers movies: The Mummy Returns (2001), Van Helsing (2004) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).

Steven Spielberg and John Williams

Every film directed by Steven Spielberg since The Sugarland Express (1974), except Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Color Purple, has been scored by John Williams.

Bryan Singer and John Ottman

Ottman edited and composed the scores for Singer's The Usual Suspects (1995), Apt Pupil (1998), X2 (2003), Superman Returns (2006) and Valkyrie (2008).

John Stockwell and Paul Haslinger

Haslinger and Stockwell worked together on teenage movies: Cheaters (2000), Crazy/Beautiful (2001), Blue Crush (2002), Into the Blue (2005) and Turistas (2006).

Nicholas Stoller and Lyle Workman

Workman work with the producer Judd Apatow and director Stoller with the comedy movies: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) and Get Him to the Greek (2010).

Andrei Tarkovsky and Eduard Artemyev

Artemyev scored three of the five films Tarkovsky made in the USSR]: Solaris (1972), Mirror (1974) and Stalker (1979).

Betty Thomas and Richard Gibbs

Gibbs and Thomas together worked on comedy movies: Doctor Dolittle (1998), 28 Days (2000), I Spy (2002) and John Tucker Must Die (2006).

Giuseppe Tornatore and Ennio Morricone

Cinema Paradiso (1989), Everybody's Fine (1991), Especially on Sunday (1993), A Pure Formality (1995), The Star Maker (1995), The Legend of 1900 (1998), Malèna (2000) and the forthcoming The Disowned (2006) and Leningrad (2006).

Jon Turteltaub and Trevor Rabin

National Treasure (2004), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

Gus Van Sant and Danny Elfman

To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Psycho (1998 film), and Milk (2008)

Paul Verhoeven and Jerry Goldsmith

Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), and Hollow Man (2000).

Paul Verhoeven and Basil Poledouris

Flesh & Blood (1985), RoboCop (1987) and Starship Troopers (1997).

The Wachowski Brothers and Don Davis

Don Davis scored the first four films directed by the Wachowskis: Bound, and all three films of The Matrix trilogy.

Alejandro González Iñárritu and Gustavo Santaolalla

Babel (2006), Amores Perros (2000), and 21 Grams (2003) - Babel won an Academy Award for Best Score.

Peter Weir and Maurice Jarre

Dead Poets Society (1989), Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986).

Orson Welles and Bernard Herrmann

Herrmann and Welles did very well with two movies since like: Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).

Billy Wilder and Miklós Rózsa

Five Graves to Cairo (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and Fedora (1978).

James Wong and Shirley Walker

Walker scores on Final Destination movies: Final Destination (2000) and Final Destination 3 (2006).

David Yates and Nicholas Hooper

Punch (1996), The Way We Live Now (2001), State of Play (2003), The Young Visiters (2003), The Girl in the Café (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Robert Zemeckis and Alan Silvestri

Zemeckis and Silvestri have collaborated on every movie Zemeckis has made since Romancing the Stone (1984).

Terry Zwigoff and David Kitay

Ghost World (2001), Bad Santa (2003) and Art School Confidential (2006).

Richard Marquand and John Barry

The late Barry scores Marquand's movies since like: Until September (1984), Jagged Edge (1985) and Hearts of Fire (1987).

Walter Hill and Ry Cooder

Cooder and Hill worked together in action movies like: The Long Riders (1980), Southern Comfort (1981), Streets of Fire (1984), Brewster's Millions (1985), Crossroads (1986), Johnny Handsome (1989), Trespass (1992), Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and Last Man Standing (1996).

Sylvester Stallone and Bill Conti

Paradise Alley (1978), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982) and Rocky Balboa (2006).

Sylvester Stallone and Brian Tyler

Rambo (2008) and The Expendables (2010).

David Frankel and Theodore Shapiro

Shapiro and Frankel worked together on: The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Marley & Me (2008).

Sam Raimi and Christopher Young

The Gift (2000), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Drag Me to Hell (2009).

David Zucker and Ira Newborn

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Baseketball (1998).

David Zucker and James L. Venable

Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006) and An American Carol (2008).

Joe Dante and Pino Donaggio

Piranha (1978) and The Howling (1981).

Barry Sonnenfeld and Marc Shaiman

The Addams Family (1991) and The Addams Family Values (1993).

Barry Sonnenfeld and Danny Elfman

Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), and Men in Black III (2012)

Barry Sonnenfeld and James Newton Howard

Big Trouble (2002) and RV (2006).

Michael McGowan and Andrew Lockington

Lockington and McGowan worked together on: Saint Ralph (2004), Left Coast (2008) and One Week (2008).

John Landis and Ira Newborn

Into the Night (1985) and Innocent Blood (1992).

Christian Duguay and Normand Corbeil

Screamers (1995), The Assignment (1997), The Art of War (2000) and Extreme Ops (2002).

Catherine Hardwicke and Mark Mothersbaugh

Thirteen (2003) and Lords of Dogtown (2005).

James Foley and Carter Burwell

Two Bits (1995), Fear (1996), The Chamber (1996) and The Corruptor (1999).

Curtis Hanson and Jerry Goldsmith

The River Wild (1994) and L.A. Confidential (1997).

Curtis Hanson and Christopher Young

Wonder Boys (2000) and Lucky You (2007).

Mark Herman and John Altman

Little Voice (1998) and Hope Springs (2003).

Stephen Herek and David Newman

Newman and Herek worked together on comedy movies like: Critters (1986), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), The Mighty Ducks (1992), Life or Something Like It (2002) and Man of the House (2005).

Donald Petrie and Alan Silvestri

Grumpy Old Men (1993) and Richie Rich (1994).

Donald Petrie and John Debney

My Favorite Martian (1999) and Welcome to Mooseport (2004).

Donald Petrie and David Newman

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) and My Life in Ruins (2009).

William Lustig and Jay Chattaway

Chattaway and Lustig worked together in horror movies like: Maniac (1980), Vigilante (1983), Maniac Cop (1988), Relentless (1989) and Maniac Cop 2 (1990).

John McTiernan and Bill Conti

Nomads (1986) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).

John McTiernan and Michael Kamen

Die Hard (1988), Last Action Hero (1993) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).

John McTiernan and Jerry Goldsmith

Medicine Man (1992) and The 13th Warrior (1999).

Frank Darabont and Mark Isham

The Majestic (2001) and The Mist (2007).

Michael Lembeck and George S. Clinton

The Santa Clause 2 (2002), The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) and Tooth Fairy (2010).

David Fincher and Howard Shore

Seven (1995), The Game (1997) and Panic Room (2002).

Rowdy Herrington and Brad Fiedel

Gladiator (1992) and Striking Distance (1993).

Richard Donner and Michael Kamen

Lethal Weapon (1987), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998). Which one was not composed by the movie Assassins (1995), but was rejected and was replaced by Mark Mancina.

John Badham and Arthur B. Rubinstein

Rubinstein and Badham worked together like: Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Stakeout (1987), The Hard Way (1991), Another Stakeout (1993) and Nick in Time (1995).

Christopher Cain and William Ross

The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995) and September Dawn (2007).

Andy Fickman and Nathan Wang

Wang and Fickman worked on comedy movies: Who's Your Daddy? (2004), Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005), She's the Man (2006), The Game Plan (2007) and You Again (2010). Which one was not composed by the movie: Race to the Witch Mountain (2009), was composed by Trevor Rabin.

Stephen Herek and Michael Kamen

The Three Musketeers (1993), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) and 101 Dalmatians (1996).

Jon Avnet and Thomas Newman

Newman and Avnet worked together on drama movies: Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The War (1994) Up Close and Personal (1996) and Red Corner (1997).

Jonathan Mostow and Richard Marvin

The two collaborated on action movies: Flight of the Black Angel (1991), U-571 (2000) and Surrogates (2009).

Alex Proyas and Marco Beltrami

I, Robot (2004) and Knowing (2009).

Wolfgang Petersen and James Horner

The Perfect Storm (2000) and Troy (2004).

Michael Mann and Elliot Goldenthal

Heat (1995) and Public Enemies (2009).

Bennett Miller and Mychael Danna

Capote (2005) and Moneyball (2011).

Andy Tennant and George Fenton

Ever After (1998), Anna and the King (1999), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Hitch (2005), Fool's Gold (2008) and The Bounty Hunter (2010).

Edward Zwick and James Newton Howard

Blood Diamond (2006), Defiance (2008) and Love and Other Drugs (2010).

Rob Letterman and Henry Jackman

Jackman and Letterman made a collaborations of animation and comedy: Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) and Gulliver's Travels (2010).

Dennis Dugan and Rupert Gregson-Williams

They both collaborated on comedy movies: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), Grown Ups (2010), Just Go With It (2011) and Jack and Jill (2011).

Malcolm D. Lee and Stanley Clarke

The Best Man (1999), Undercover Brother (2002), Roll Bounce (2005) and Soul Men (2008). Which one was not composed by the movie: Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008), it was composed by David Newman.

Barry Levinson and Randy Newman

The Natural (1984) and Avalon (1990).

Barry Levinson and Ennio Morricone

Bugsy (1991) and Disclosure (1994).

Andrew Stanton and Thomas Newman

Finding Nemo (2003) and Wall-E (2008).

Michael Apted and David Arnold

The World is Not Enough (1999), Enough (2002), Amazing Grace (2007) and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010).

Shawn Levy and Christophe Beck

Beck and Levy worked togather on comedy movies: Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Pink Panther (2006) and Date Night (2010).