List of film director–composer collaborations

The following film directors and film score composers have worked together on at least five projects, organized by name of the director.

A

Lenny Abrahamson

• Stephen Rennicks
• Adam & Paul (2004)
• Garage (2007)
• What Richard Did (2012)
• Frank (2014)
• Room (2015)
• The Little Stranger (2018)

Andrew Adamson

• Harry Gregson-Williams
• Shrek (2001)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• ' (2005)
• ' (2008)
• Mr. Pip (2013)

Robert Aldrich

• Frank De Vol
• World for Ransom (1954)
• 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)
• ...All the Marbles (1981)

Irwin Allen

• Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter
• The Sea Around Us (1953)
• The Animal World (1956)
• The Story of Mankind (1957)
• The Big Circus (1959)
• The Lost World (1960)
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
• The Time Tunnel (1966)

Pedro Almodóvar

• Alberto Iglesias
• The Flower of My Secret (1995)
• Live Flesh (1997)
• All About My Mother (1999)
• Talk to Her (2002)
• Bad Education (2004)
• Volver (2006)
• Broken Embraces (2009)
• The Skin I Live In (2011)
• I'm So Excited! (2013)
• Julieta (2016)
• Dolor y gloria (2019)
• The Human Voice (2020)
• Parallel Mothers (2021)
• Strange Way of Life (2023)
• The Room Next Door (2024)

Jon Amiel

• Christopher Young
• Copycat (1995)
• The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
• Entrapment (1999)
• The Core (2003)
• Creation (2009)

Paul Thomas Anderson

• Jonny Greenwood
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• The Master (2012)
• Inherent Vice (2014)
• Phantom Thread (2017)
• Licorice Pizza (2021)
• One Battle After Another (2025)

Wes Anderson

• Alexandre Desplat
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• Isle of Dogs (2018)
• The French Dispatch (2021)
• Asteroid City (2023)
• The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Theo Angelopoulos

• Eleni Karaindrou
• Voyage to Cythera (1984)
• The Beekeeper (1986)
• Landscape in the Mist (1988)
• The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
• Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
• Eternity and a Day (1998)
• ' (2004)
• The Dust of Time (2008)

Hideaki Anno

• Shirō Sagisu
• ' (1997)
• The End of Evangelion (1997)
• ' (2007)
• ' (2009)
• ' (2012)
• Shin Godzilla (2016)
• ' (2021)

Michelangelo Antonioni

• Giovanni Fusco
• Story of a Love Affair (1950)
• The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
• I vinti (1953)
• Le Amiche (1955)
• Il Grido (1957)
• L'Avventura (1960)
• L'Eclisse (1962)
• Red Desert (1964)

Judd Apatow

• Michael Andrews
• ' (2007)
• Funny People (2009)
• Bridesmaids (2011)
• The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
• The Big Sick (2017)
• The King of Staten Island (2020)
• The Bubble (2022)

Dario Argento

• Goblin
• Deep Red (1975)
• Suspiria (1977)
• Tenebre (1982)
• Phenomena (1985)
• Sleepless (2001)
• Ennio Morricone
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
• Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
• The Stendhal Syndrome (1995)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

Darren Aronofsky

• Clint Mansell
• Pi (1998)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• The Fountain (2006)
• The Wrestler (2008)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Noah (2014)

John G. Avildsen

• Bill Conti
• Rocky (1976)
• Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
• The Formula (1980)
• Neighbors (1981)
• The Karate Kid (1984)
• The Karate Kid Part II (1986)
• Happy New Year (1987)
• For Keeps (1988)
• Lean on Me (1989)
• The Karate Kid Part III (1989)
• Rocky V (1990)
• 8 Seconds (1994)
• Inferno (1999)

B

John Badham

• Arthur B. Rubinstein
• Whose Life is it Anyway? (1981)
• Blue Thunder (1983)
• WarGames (1983)
• Stakeout (1987)
• The Hard Way (1991)
• Another Stakeout (1993)
• Nick of Time (1995)

• Maury Laws
• The Daydreamer (1966) – Only Jules Bass
• The King Kong Show (1966)
• Mad Monster Party? (1967)
• Cricket on the Hearth (1967)
• Mouse on the Mayflower (1968)
• The Smokey Bear Show (1969)
• The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (1970)
• Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
• The Tomfoolery Show (1970)
• ' (1972)
• Festival of Family Classics (1972)
• The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
• ' (1975)
• The First Easter Rabbit (1976)
• The Hobbit (1977)
• Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)
• Jack Frost (1979)
• The Ivory Ape (1980)
• The Return of the King (1979)
• The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1980)
• The Flight of Dragons (1982)
• The Wind in the Willows (1987)

Michael Bay

• Steve Jablonsky
• Bad Boys II (2003) – With Trevor Rabin
• The Island (2005)
• Transformers (2007)
• ' (2009)
• ' (2011)
• Pain & Gain (2013)
• ' (2014)
• ' (2017)

Bruce Beresford

• Georges Delerue
• Crimes of the Heart (1986)
• Her Alibi (1989)
• Mister Johnson (1990)
• Black Robe (1991)
• Rich in Love (1992)

Ingmar Bergman

• Erlan von Koch
• Crisis (1946)
• It Rains on Our Love (1946)
• A Ship Bound for India (1947)
• Music in Darkness (1948)
• Port of Call (1948)
• Prison (1949)
• Erik Nordgren
• Thirst (1949)
• This Can't Happen Here (1950)
• Summer Interlude (1951)
• Waiting Women (1952)
• Summer with Monika (1953)
• Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
• The Seventh Seal (1957)
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• Ansiktet (1958)
• The Virgin Spring (1960)
• The Devil's Eye (1960)
• Through A Glass Darkly (1961)

Bernardo Bertolucci

• Ennio Morricone
• Before the Revolution (1964)
• Partner (1968)
• 1900 (1976)
• Luna (1979)
• Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)

Luc Besson

• Éric Serra
• Le Dernier Combat (1983)
• Subway (1985)
• Le Grand Bleu (1988)
• Nikita (1990)
• Atlantis (1991)
• Léon (1994)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• ' (1999)
• Arthur and the Minimoys (2006)
• Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009)
• ' (2010)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
• The Lady (2011)
• Lucy (2014)
• Anna (2019)

Brad Bird

• Michael Giacchino
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• ' (2011)
• Tomorrowland (2015)
• Incredibles 2 (2018)
• Ray Gunn (2026)

Paul Bogart

• Arthur B. Rubinstein
• The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972)
• Look Homeward, Angel (1972)
• The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973)
• The Easter Promise (1975)
• You Can't Take It with You (1979)

Mauro Bolognini

• Ennio Morricone
• Le streghe (1967) English: "The Witches"
• Arabella (1967)
• L'assoluto naturale (1969)
• Un bellissimo novembre (1969) English: "That Splendid November"
• Metello (1970)
• Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
• Drama of the Rich (1974) a.k.a. "The Murri Affair"
• Libera, My Love (1975)
• Down the Ancient Staircase (1975)
• The Inheritance (1976)
• Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
• The Lady of the Camellias (1980)
• The Venetian Woman (1986)
• Farewell Moscow (1987)
• Gli indifferenti (1987) English: A Time of Indifference
• Husband and Lovers (1991) Italian: "La villa del venerdi"

Uwe Boll

• Jessica de Rooij
• Seed (2007)
• ' (2007)
• Postal (2007)
• ' (2007)
• 1968 Tunnel Rats (2008)
• Rampage (2009)
• Darfur (2009)
• Max Schmeling (2010)
• Auschwitz (2011)
• ' (2011)
• Blubberella (2011)
• ' (2011)
• Assault on Wall Street (2013)
• Capital Punishment (2014)
• ' (2016)

Boulting Brothers

• John Addison
• Seven Days to Noon (1950)
• High Treason (1951)
• Josephine and Men (1955)
• Private's Progress (1956)
• Lucky Jim (1957)
• Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
• A French Mistress (1960)

Kenneth Branagh

• Patrick Doyle
• 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)
• Sleuth (2007)
• Thor (2011)
• ' (2014)
• Cinderella (2015)
• Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
• All is True (2018)
• Artemis Fowl (2019)
• Death on the Nile (2022)

Mel Brooks

• John Morris
• The Producers (1968)
• The Twelve Chairs (1970)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• High Anxiety (1977)
• History of the World, Part I (1981)
• To Be or Not to Be (1983)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Life Stinks (1991)

Clarence Brown

• Herbert Stothart
• The Son-Daughter (1932)
• Night Flight (1933)
• Chained (1934)
• Anna Karenina (1935)
• Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
• Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
• The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
• Conquest (1937)
• Of Human Hearts (1938)
• Idiot's Delight (1939)
• Edison, the Man (1940)
• Come Live with Me (1941)
• They Met in Bombay (1941)
• The Human Comedy (1943)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
• National Velvet (1944)
• The Yearling (1946)

Luis Buñuel

• Raúl Lavista
• Susana (1951)
• A Woman Without Love (1952)
• El bruto (1953)
• Wuthering Heights (1953)
• The River and Death (1954)
• The Exterminating Angel (1962)

Jeff Burr

• Jim Manzie
• From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
• Stepfather II (1989)
• ' (1990)
• ' (1994)
• Night of the Scarecrow (1995)

Tim Burton

• Danny Elfman
• Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Batman (1989)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Batman Returns (1992)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (Produced and Created By Tim Burton)

• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Corpse Bride (2005) (Mike Johnson served as co-director).
• Alice in Wonderland (2010)
• Dark Shadows (2012)
• Frankenweenie (2012)
• Big Eyes (2014)
• Dumbo (2019)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

C

Edward L. Cahn

• Richard LaSalle
• Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)
• When the Clock Strikes (1961)
• You Have to Run Fast (1961)
• Secret of Deep Harbor (1961)
• Gun Street (1961)
• The Clown and the Kid (1961)
• Incident in an Alley (1962)
• Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter
• It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
• Pier 5, Havana (1959)
• A Dog's Best Friend (1959)
• Vice Raid (1960)
• Cage of Evil (1960)
• The Music Box Kid (1960)
• Noose for a Gunman (1960)
• Three Came to Kill (1960)
• The Walking Target (1960)
• Frontier Uprising (1961)
• Five Guns to Tombstone (1961)
• The Police Dog Story (1961)
• Operation Bottleneck (1961)
• Gun Fight (1961)
• The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
• Ronald Stein
• Girls in Prison (1956)
• The She-Creature (1956)
• Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956)
• Runaway Daughters (1956)
• Flesh and the Spur (1956)
• Dragstrip Girl (1957)
• Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
• Jet Attack (1958)
• Suicide Battalion (1958)

Joe Camp

• Euel Box
• Benji (1974) with Betty E. Box
• Hawmps! (1976)
• For the Love of Benji (1977)
• The Double McGuffin (1979)
• Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)
• Benji the Hunted (1987) with Betty E. Box

Frank Capra

• Dimitri Tiomkin
• Lost Horizon (1937)
• You Can't Take It with You (1938)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Meet John Doe (1941)
• The Battle of Russia (1943)
• The Battle of China (1944)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

John Carpenter

• Alan Howarth
• Escape from New York (1981) with John Carpenter
• Christine (1983) with John Carpenter
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986) with John Carpenter
• Prince of Darkness (1987) with John Carpenter
• They Live (1988) with John Carpenter

D.J. Caruso

• Brian Tyler
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Standing Up (2013)
• The Disappointments Room (2016)
• ' (2017)
• Redeeming Love (2022)

Nick Cassavetes

• Aaron Zigman
• John Q. (2002)
• The Notebook (2004)
• Alpha Dog (2006)
• My Sister's Keeper (2009)
• Yellow (2012)
• The Other Woman (2014)
• God Is a Bullet (2023)

Enzo G. Castellari

• Guido De Angelis & Maurizio De Angelis
• Sting of the West (1972)
• High Crime (1973)
• Street Law (1974)
• Cipolla Colt (1975)
• The Big Racket (1976)
• Keoma (1976)
• The House by the Edge of the Lake (1979)
• The Shark Hunter (1979)
• The Last Shark (1981)
• Light Blast (1985)
• Francesco De Masi
• Renegade Riders (1967)
• Any Gun Can Play (1968)
• Johnny Hamlet (1968)
• Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
• Eagles Over London (1969)
• Hector the Mighty (1972)
• The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
• Escape from the Bronx (1983)
• Eagles Over London (1969)

Nick Castle

• Craig Safan
• ' (1982)
• The Last Starfighter (1984)
• Major Payne (1995)
• Mr. Wrong (1996)
• Delivering Milo (2001)
• 'Twas the Night (2001)

Damien Chazelle

• Justin Hurwitz
• Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
• Whiplash (2014)
• La La Land (2016)
• First Man (2018)
• Babylon (2022)

Bob Clark

• Paul Zaza
• Murder by Decree (1979) with Carl Zittrer
• Porky's (1982) with Carl Zittrer
• A Christmas Story (1983) with Carl Zittrer
• Turk 182! (1985)
• From the Hip (1987)
• Loose Cannons (1990)
• It Runs in the Family (1994)
• Baby Geniuses (1999)
• I'll Remember April (1999)
• Catch a Falling Star (2000) with Mark Pont
• Now & Forever (2002)
• ' (2004)
• Carl Zittrer
• Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
• Deathdream (1974)
• Black Christmas (1974)
• Murder by Decree (1979) with Paul Zaza
• Porky's (1982) with Paul Zaza
• ' (1983)
• A Christmas Story (1983) with Paul Zaza

George Clooney

• Alexandre Desplat
• The Ides of March (2011)
• The Monuments Men (2014)
• Suburbicon (2017)
• The Midnight Sky (2020)
• The Boys in the Boat (2023)

Jean Cocteau

• Georges Auric
• The Blood of a Poet (1930)
• Beauty and the Beast (1946)
• The Eagle with Two Heads (1948)
• Les Parents terribles (1948)
• Orpheus (1950)
• Testament of Orpheus (1960) with Martial Solal

Coen Brothers

• Carter Burwell
• 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)
• A Serious Man (2009)
• True Grit (2010)
• Hail, Caesar! (2016)
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
• Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
• Honey Don't! (2025)

Rob Cohen

• Randy Edelman
• ' (1993)
• Dragonheart (1996)
• Daylight (1996)
• The Skulls (2000)
• xXx (2002)
• ' (2008)
• The Boy Next Door (2015)

Chris Columbus

• John Williams
• Home Alone (1990)
• ' (1992)
• Stepmom (1998)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Bill Condon

• Carter Burwell
• Gods and Monsters (1998)
• Kinsey (2004)
• ' (2011)
• ' (2012)
• The Fifth Estate (2013)
• Mr. Holmes (2015)
• The Good Liar (2019)

James L. Conway

• Bob Summers
• In Search of Noah's Ark (1976)
• The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977 to 1978)
• The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
• Beyond and Back (1978)
• ' (1978)
• Hangar 18 (1980)
• Earthbound (1981)
• The Boogens (1981)

Ryan Coogler

• Ludwig Göransson
• Fruitvale Station (2013)
• Creed (2015)
• Black Panther (2018)
• ' (2022)
• Sinners (2025)

Francis Ford Coppola

• Carmine Coppola
• Tonight for Sure (1962)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• The Outsiders (1983)
• Gardens of Stone (1987)
• New York Stories (1989)
• The Godfather Part III (1990)

Frank Coraci

• Rupert Gregson-Williams
• Click (2006)
• Zookeeper (2011)
• Here Comes the Boom (2012)
• Blended (2014)
• The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
• Hot Air (2018)

Roger Corman

• Les Baxter
• House of Usher (1960)
• Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
• Tales of Terror (1962)
• The Young Racers (1963)
• The Raven (1963)
• ' (1963)
• ' (1969)
• Fred Katz
• A Bucket of Blood (1959)
• The Wasp Woman (1959)
• Ski Troop Attack (1960)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• Ronald Stein
• Apache Woman (1955)
• Day the World Ended (1955)
• The Oklahoma Woman (1956)
• Gunslinger (1956)
• It Conquered the World (1956)
• Naked Paradise (1957)
• Not of This Earth (1957)
• Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
• The Undead (1957)
• Sorority Girl (1957)
• She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
• Last Woman on Earth (1960)
• Atlas (1961)
• The Premature Burial (1962)
• The Terror (1963)
• The Haunted Palace (1963)

Don Coscarelli

• Fred Myrow
• Jim, the World's Greatest (1975)
• Kenny & Company (1977)
• Phantasm (1979)
• Phantasm II (1988) with Christopher L. Stone
• Survival Quest (1988) with Christopher L. Stone
• ' (1994) with Christopher L. Stone

Alex Cox

• Pray for Rain
• Sid and Nancy (1986)
• Straight to Hell (1986)
• Death and the Compass (1992)
• Three Businessmen (1998)
• Searchers 2.0 (2007)
• Repo Chick (2009)

Wes Craven

• Marco Beltrami
• Scream (1996)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Scream 3 (2000)
• Cursed (2005)
• Red Eye (2005)
• My Soul to Take (2010)
• Scream 4 (2011)

Destin Daniel Cretton

• Joel P. West
• I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
• Short Term 12 (2013)
• The Glass Castle (2017)
• Just Mercy (2019)
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

John Cromwell

• Max Steiner
• The Silver Cord (1933)
• Double Harness (1933)
• Spitfire (1934)
• This Man Is Mine (1934)
• Of Human Bondage (1934)
• The Fountain (1934)
• I Dream Too Much (1935) - incidental music
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
• Since You Went Away (1944)
• Caged (1950)

David Cronenberg

• Howard Shore
• The Brood (1979)
• Scanners (1981)
• Videodrome (1983)
• The Fly (1986)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• Naked Lunch (1991)
• M. Butterfly (1993)
• Crash (1996)
• Existenz (1999)
• Spider (2002)
• A History of Violence (2005)
• Eastern Promises (2007)
• A Dangerous Method (2011)
• Cosmopolis (2011)
• Maps to the Stars (2014)
• Crimes of the Future (2022)
• The Shrouds (2024)

Cameron Crowe George Cukor

• Max Steiner
• A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
• Rockabye (1932)
• What Price Hollywood? (1932)
• Little Women (1933)
• Our Betters (1933)

Irving Cummings

• Cyril J. Mockridge
• Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
• Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
• Lillian Russell (1940)
• Down Argentine Way (1940)
• Belle Starr (1941)
• My Gal Sal (1942) with Leigh Harline
• Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) with Leigh Harline
• Alfred Newman
• Lillian Russell (1940) with David Buttolph and Cyril J. Mockridge
• That Night in Rio (1941)
• Belle Starr (1941)
• Springtime in the Rockies (1942) with Charles Henderson
• The Dolly Sisters (1945) with Charles Henderson

Sean S. Cunningham

• Harry Manfredini
• Here Come the Tigers (1978)
• Manny's Orphans (1978)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Spring Break (1983)
• Deepstar Six (1989)
• ' (2001)

Michael Curtiz

• Bernhard Kaun
• The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
• The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)
• Doctor X (1932)
• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
• Alias the Doctor (1932)
• The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
• Private Detective 62 (1933)
• Jimmy the Gent (1934)
• British Agent (1934)
• Black Fury (1935)
• The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Captain Blood (1935)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) William Keighley co-directed the film.
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
• The Sea Hawk (1940)
• The Sea Wolf (1941)
• Heinz Roemheld
• Mandalay (1934)
• British Agent (1934) With Bernhard Kaun
• Captain Blood (1935)
• Little Big Shot (1935)
• Front Page Woman (1935)
• Kid Galahad (1937) with Max Steiner
• Marked Woman (1937)
• Four Mothers (1941)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with Max Steiner
• Janie (1944)
• Max Steiner
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
• Kid Galahad (1937) With Heinz Roemheld
• Four Daughters (1938)
• Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
• Gold is Where You Find It (1938)
• Dodge City (1939)
• Daughters Courageous (1939)
• Four Wives (1939)
• Santa Fe Trail (1940)
• Virginia City (1940)
• Dive Bomber (1941)
• Captains of the Clouds (1942)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• This Is The Army (1943)
• Passage to Marseille (1944)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Night and Day (1946) with Ray Heindorf
• Life with Father (1947)
• The Breaking Point (1950)
• Force of Arms (1951)
• The Jazz Singer (1952) with Ray Heindorf
• The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)

D

Rod Daniel

• Miles Goodman
• Teen Wolf (1985)
• Carly Mills (1986)
• Like Father Like Son (1987)
• K-9 (1989)
• The Super (1991)

Joe Dante

• Jerry Goldsmith
• Gremlins (1984)
• Explorers (1985)
• Innerspace (1987)
• The 'Burbs (1989)
• ' (1990)
• Matinee (1993)
• Small Soldiers (1998)
• ' (2003)

Delmer Daves

• Max Steiner
• A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
• The Hanging Tree (1959)
• A Summer Place (1959)
• Parrish (1961)
• Susan Slade (1961)
• Rome Adventure (1962)
• Spencer's Mountain (1963)
• Youngblood Hawke (1964)
• Franz Waxman
• Destination Tokyo (1943)
• The Very Thought of You (1944)
• Pride of the Marines (1945)
• Dark Passage (1947)
• Task Force (1949)
• Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

Claire Denis

• Stuart Staples
• The Intruder (2004)
• White Material (2009)
• Bastards (2013)
• Let the Sunshine In (2017)
• High Life (2018)

Philippe de Broca

• Georges Delerue
• The Love Game (1960)
• The Joker (1960)
• Five Day Lover (1961)
• Cartouche (1962)
• That Man from Rio (1964)
• Male Companion (1964)
• Up to His Ears (1965)
• King of Hearts (1966)
• The Devil by the Tail (1969)
• Give Her the Moon (1970)
• Dear Louise (1972)
• Incorrigible (1975)
• Julie Gluepot (1977)
• Dear Detective (1978)
• Practice Makes Perfect (1979)
• The African (1983)
• Chouans! (1988)

Álex de la Iglesia

• Roque Baños
• Muertos de risa (Dying of Laughter, 1999)
• La comunidad (Common Wealth, 2000)
• 800 balas (800 Bullets, 2002)
• Crimen ferpecto (Perfect Crime, 2004)
• The Oxford Murders (2008)
• Balada Triste de Trompeta (The Last Circus, 2010)

Alberto De Martino

• Ennio Morricone
• O.K. Connery (1967)
• Dirty Heroes (1967) with Bruno Nicolai
• Bandits in Rome (1968) with Bruno Nicolai
• Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972) with Bruno Nicolai
• The Antichrist (1974)
• Holocaust 2000 (1977)
• Blood Link (1982)
• Bruno Nicolai
• $100,000 for Ringo (1965)
• The Spy with Ten Faces (1966)
• Django Shoots First (1966)
• Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)
• Dirty Heroes (1967) with Ennio Morricone
• Bandits in Rome (1968) with Ennio Morricone
• Carnal Circuit (1969)
• Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972) with Ennio Morricone

Brian De Palma

• Pino Donaggio
• Carrie (1976)
• Home Movies (1979)
• Dressed to Kill (1980)
• Blow Out (1981)
• Body Double (1984)
• Raising Cain (1992)
• Passion (2012)
• Domino (2018)

Jacques Demy

• Michel Legrand
• Lola (1961)
• Bay of Angels (1963)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
• Donkey Skin (1970)
• A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
• Lady Oscar (1979)
• Parking (1985)
• Three Seats for the 26th (1988)

Jacques Deray

• Claude Bolling
• Borsalino (1970)
• Easy, Down There! (1971)
• Borsalino & Co. (1974)
• Flic Story (1975)
• Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
• Three Men to Kill (1980)
• Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (1982)
• Credo (1983)
• He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
• Netchaiev est de retour (1991)
• Une femme explosive (1996)
• Lettre d'une inconnue (2002)

Danny DeVito

• David Newman
• Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
• The War of the Roses (1989)
• Hoffa (1992)
• Matilda (1996)
• Death to Smoochy (2002)
• Duplex (2003)

Tom DiCillo

• Jim Farmer
• Johnny Suede (1991)
• Living in Oblivion (1995)
• Box of Moonlight (1996)
• The Real Blonde (1997)
• Double Whammy (2001)

William Dieterle

• Victor Young
• Love Letters (1945)
• The Searching Wind (1946)
• The Accused (1949)
• Paid in Full (1950)
• September Affair (1950)
• Omar Khayyam (1957)

Edward Dmytryk

• Roy Webb
• Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)
• Hitler's Children (1943)
• The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
• Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
• Murder, My Sweet (1944)
• Back to Bataan (1945)
• Cornered (1945)
• Crossfire (1947)

Roger Donaldson

• J. Peter Robinson
• Cocktail (1988)
• Cadillac Man (1990)
• The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
• The Bank Job (2008)
• Seeking Justice (2011)
• McLaren (2017)

Gordon Douglas

• Max Steiner
• I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
• Mara Maru (1952)
• The Iron Mistress (1952)
• The Charge at Feather River (1953)
• So This Is Love (1953)
• The McConnell Story (1955)
• Fort Dobbs (1958)
• The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Dennis Dugan

• Rupert Gregson-Williams
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
• You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
• Grown Ups (2010)
• Just Go With It (2011)
• Jack and Jill (2011)
• Grown Ups 2 (2013)

Christian Duguay

• Normand Corbeil
• Screamers (1995)
• The Assignment (1997)
• The Art of War (2000)
• Extreme Ops (2002)
• Boot Camp (2008)

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Clint Eastwood

• Lennie Niehaus
• 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)
• Blood Work (2002)
• Mystic River (2003)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• Changeling (2008)
• Gran Torino (2008)

Blake Edwards

• Henry Mancini
• High Time (1960)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) – A collaboration with Johnny Mercer.
• Experiment in Terror (1962)
• Days of Wine and Roses (1962) – A collaboration with Johnny Mercer.
• The Pink Panther (1963) – A collaboration with Johnny Mercer.
• A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• The Great Race (1965) – A collaboration with Johnny Mercer.
• What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
• Gunn (1967)
• The Party (1968)
• Darling Lili (1970) – A collaboration with Johnny Mercer.
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
• Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
• 10 (1979)
• S.O.B. (1981)
• Victor/Victoria (1982) – A collaboration with Leslie Bricusse.
• Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
• Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
• The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
• A Fine Mess (1986)
• That's Life! (1986)
• Blind Date (1987)
• Justin Case (1988)
• Sunset (1988)
• Peter Gunn (1989)
• Skin Deep (1989)
• Switch (1991)
• Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
• Victor/Victoria (1995) – Completed by Frank Wildhorn.

Atom Egoyan

• Mychael Danna
• Family Viewing (1987)
• Speaking Parts (1989)
• The Adjuster (1991)
• Exotica (1994)
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
• Felicia's Journey (1999)
• Ararat (2002)
• Where the Truth Lies (2005)
• Adoration (2008)
• Chloe (2009)
• Devil's Knot (2013)
• The Captive (2014)
• Remember (2015)
• Guest of Honour (2019)

Stephan Elliot

• Guy Gross
• Frauds (1993)
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
• Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
• A Few Best Men (2011)
• Swinging Safari (2017)

Roland Emmerich

• Harald Kloser
• The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• 10,000 BC (2008)
• 2012 (2009)
• Anonymous (2011)
• White House Down (2013)
• ' (2016)
• Midway (2019)

Gareth Evans

• Aria Prayogi & Fajar Yuskemal
• Merantau (2009)
• The Raid (2011) (Original version)
• The Raid 2 (2014) with Joseph Trapanese
• Apostle (2018)
• Havoc (2025) (Only Prayogi)

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Roberto Faenza

• Ennio Morricone
• Escalation (1968)
• Si salvi chi vuole (1980)
• Copkiller (1986)
• The Bachelor (1990)
• Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993)
• Sostiene Pereira (1995)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Peer Raben
• Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
• Katzelmacher (1969)
• The American Soldier (1970)
• Gods of the Plague (1970)
• ' (1970)
• Whity (1971)
• Rio das Mortes (1971)
• Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
• ' (1971)
• ' (1972)
• Fox and His Friends (1974)
• ' (1975)
• Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975)
• Satan's Brew (1976)
• I Only Want You To Love Me (1976)
• Chinese Roulette (1976)
• The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
• In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
• Despair (1978)
• The Third Generation (1979)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
• Lola (1981)
• Lili Marleen (1981)
• Veronika Voss (1982)
• Querelle (1982)

Paul Feig

• Theodore Shapiro
• Spy (2015)
• Ghostbusters (2016)
• Snatched (2017)
• A Simple Favor (2018)
• Last Christmas (2019)
• The School for Good and Evil (2022)
• Another Simple Favor (2025)

Federico Fellini

• Nino Rota
• The White Sheik (1952)
• I Vitelloni (1953)
• La Strada (1954)
• Il Bidone (1955)
• Nights of Cabiria (1957)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• 8½ (1963)
• Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
• Fellini Satyricon (1969)
• ' (1969)
• The Clowns (1970)
• Roma (1972)
• Amarcord (1973)
• Fellini's Casanova (1976)
• Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)

Abel Ferrara

• Joe Delia
• 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976)
• The Driller Killer (1979)
• Ms. 45 (1981)
• China Girl (1987)
• King of New York (1990)
• Bad Lieutenant (1992)
• Body Snatchers (1993)
• Dangerous Game (1993)
• The Addiction (1995)
• The Funeral (1996)
• The Blackout (1997)
• Alive in France (2017)
• Piazza Vittorio (2017)
• Tommaso (2019)
• Siberia (2020)

Andy Fickman

• Nathan Wang
• Who's Your Daddy? (2004)
• ' (2005)
• She's the Man (2006)
• The Game Plan (2007)
• You Again (2010)
• Playing with Fire (2019)
• One True Loves (2023)

Eduardo De Filippo

• Nino Rota
• Side Street Story (1950)
• Filomena Marturano (1951)
• Ragazze da marito (1952)
• Marito e moglie (1952)
• Fortunella (1958)

David Fincher

• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• The Social Network (2010)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
• Gone Girl (2014)
• Mank (2020)
• The Killer (2023)
• The Adventures of Cliff Booth (2026)

Terence Fisher

• James Bernard
• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
• Horror of Dracula (1958)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
• The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
• The Gorgon (1964)
• ' (1966)
• Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
• The Devil Rides Out (1968)
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

Mike Flanagan

• The Newton Brothers
• Oculus (2013)
• Hush (2016)
• Before I Wake (2016)
• ' (2016)
• Gerald's Game (2017)
• Doctor Sleep (2019)
• The Life of Chuck (2024)

Gary Fleder

• Mark Isham
• Kiss the Girls (1997)
• Don't Say a Word (2001)
• Impostor (2001)
• ' (2008)
• Homefront (2013)'

Victor Fleming

• Herbert Stothart
• The White Sister (1933)
• Treasure Island (1934)
• The Good Earth (1937)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• A Guy Named Joe (1943)
• Adventure (1945)

Bryan Forbes

• John Barry
• The L-Shaped Room (1962)
• Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
• King Rat (1965)
• The Wrong Box (1966)
• The Whisperers (1967)
• Deadfall (1968)

John Ford

• Alfred Newman
• Arrowsmith (1931)
• Flesh (1932)
• Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
• The Hurricane (1937)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• December 7th (1943)
• When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
• What Price Glory (1952)
• Cyril J. Mockridge
• The World Moves On (1934)
• Judge Priest (1934)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Donovan's Reef (1963)
• Richard Hageman
• Stagecoach (1939) with W. Franke Harling, Louis Gruenberg, John Leipold, Leo Shuken, Gerard Carbonara, & Stephen Pasternacki
• The Long Voyage Home (1940)
• The Fugitive (1947)
• Fort Apache (1948)
• 3 Godfathers (1948)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• Wagon Master (1950)

Georges Franju

• Maurice Jarre
• La Tête contre les murs (1958)
• Les Yeux sans visage (1960)
• Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961)
• Thérèse Desqueyroux
• Judex (1963)

David Frankel

• Theodore Shapiro
• The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• Marley & Me (2008)
• The Big Year (2011)
• Hope Springs (2012)
• One Chance (2013)
• Collateral Beauty (2016)

Stephen Frears

• Alexandre Desplat
• The Queen (2006)
• Chéri (2009)
• Tamara Drewe (2010)
• Philomena (2013)
• Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
• The Lost King (2022)

Lucio Fulci

• Fabio Frizzi
• Four of the Apocalypse (1975) with Vince Tempera & Franco Bixio
• Dracula in the Provinces (1975) with Vince Tempera & Franco Bixio
• Sette note in nero (1977) with Vince Tempera & Franco Bixio
• Silver Saddle (1978) with Vince Tempera & Franco Bixio
• Zombi 2 (1979)
• Contraband (1980)
• City of the Living Dead (1980)
• The Beyond (1981)
• Manhattan Baby (1982)
• A Cat in the Brain (1990)

Samuel Fuller

• Harry Sukman
• Forty Guns (1957)
• Verboten! (1959)
• The Crimson Kimono (1959)
• Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
• Merrill's Marauders (1962)

G

Rodrigo Garcia

• Edward Shearmur
• Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
• Nine Lives (2005)
• Passengers (2008)
• Mother and Child (2009)
• Four Good Days (2020)

Philippe Garrel

• Jean-Louis Aubert
• Jealousy (2013)
• In the Shadow of Women (2015)
• Lover for a Day (2017)
• The Salt of Tears (2020)
• The Plough (2023)

Bert I. Gordon

• Albert Glasser
• Beginning of the End (1957)
• The Cyclops (1957)
• The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
• Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
• War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
• Earth vs. The Spider (1958)
• The Boy and the Pirates (1960)
• Tormented (1960)

James Goldstone

• Dave Grusin
• A Man Called Gannon (1968)
• Winning (1969)
• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
• Eric (1975)
• The Sad and Lonely Sundays (1976)

Stuart Gordon

• Richard Band
• Re-Animator (1985)
• From Beyond (1986)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
• Castle Freak (1995)
• Masters of Horror (2005)- H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House

David Gordon Green

• David Wingo
• George Washington (2000) with Andrew Gillis
• All the Real Girls (2003) with Michael Linnen
• Snow Angels (2007) with Jeff McIlwain
• The Sitter (2011) with Jeff McIlwain
• Prince Avalanche (2013) with Explosions in the Sky
• Joe (2013) with Jeff McIlwain
• Manglehorn (2014) with Explosions in the Sky
• Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
• ' (2023) with Amman Abbasi

Peter Greenaway

• Michael Nyman
• Vertical Features Remake (1978)
• The Falls (1980)
• The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
• A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
• Drowning by Numbers (1988)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
• Prospero's Books (1990)

Paul Greengrass

• John Powell
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
• United 93 (2006)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
• Green Zone (2010)
• Jason Bourne (2016)

H

Guy Hamilton

• John Barry
• Man in the Middle (1964)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• The Party's Over (1965)
• Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Renny Harlin

• Trevor Rabin
• Deep Blue Sea (1999)
• ' (2004)
• 12 Rounds (2009)
• 5 Days of War (2011)
• The Misfits (2021) with Lasse Enersen

Anthony Harvey

• John Barry
• Dutchman (1966)
• The Lion in Winter (1968)
• They Might Be Giants (1971)
• The Glass Menagerie (1973)
• Svengali (1983)

Henry Hathaway

• Alfred Newman
• The Real Glory (1939)
• Brigham Young (1940)
• Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
• Call Northside 777 (1948)
• Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
• Fourteen Hours (1951)
• Nevada Smith (1966)

Howard Hawks

• Dimitri Tiomkin
• Only Angels Have Wings (1938)
• Red River (1948)
• The Big Sky (1952)
• Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
• Rio Bravo (1959)

Amy Heckerling

• David Kitay
• Look Who's Talking (1989)
• Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
• Clueless (1995)
• Loser (2000)
• Vamps (2012)

Stephen Herek

• David Newman
• 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)
• Man of the House (2005)

Werner Herzog

• Popol Vuh
• Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
• The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
• Heart of Glass (1976)
• ' (1979)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg (1984)
• Cobra Verde (1987)
• My Best Fiend (1999)
• Ernst Reijseger
• The White Diamond (2004)
• The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
• Salt and Fire (2016)
• ' (2019)
• Family Romance, LLC (2019)
• ' (2020)

Walter Hill

• Ry Cooder
• The Long Riders (1980)
• Southern Comfort (1981)
• Streets of Fire (1984)
• Brewster's Millions (1985)
• Crossroads (1986)
• Johnny Handsome (1989)
• Trespass (1992)
• ' (1993)
• Last Man Standing (1996)

Alfred Hitchcock

• Bernard Herrmann
• The Trouble with Harry (1955)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
• Vertigo (1958)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
• Marnie (1965)

Michael Hoffman

• James Newton Howard
• Promised Land (1987)
• Some Girls (1988)
• Restoration (1995)
• One Fine Day (1996)
• The Emperor's Club (2002)

Agnieszka Holland

• Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
• Total Eclipse (1995)
• Washington Square (1997)
• The Third Miracle (1999)
• Shot in the Heart (2001)
• ' (2006)

Ishirō Honda

• Akira Ifukube
• Godzilla (1954)
• Rodan (1956)
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
• The Mysterians (1957)
• Varan the Unbelievable (1958)
• Battle in Outer Space (1959)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
• Atragon (1963)
• Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
• Dogora (1964)
• Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
• Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
• Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
• The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
• King Kong Escapes (1967)
• Destroy All Monsters (1968)
• Latitude Zero (1969)
• Space Amoeba (1970)
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Ron Howard

• James Horner
• Cocoon (1985)
• Willow (1988)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Ransom (1996)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• The Missing (2003)
• Hans Zimmer
• Backdraft (1991)
• The Da Vinci Code (2006)
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• Angels & Demons (2009)
• The Dilemma (2011) with Lorne Balfe
• Rush (2013)
• Inferno (2016)
• Rebuilding Paradise (2020) with Lorne Balfe
• Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
• Eden (2024)

Reginald Hudlin

• Marcus Miller
• House Party (1990)
• Boomerang (1992)
• The Great White Hype (1996)
• The Ladies Man (2000)
• Serving Sara (2002)
• Marshall (2017)
• Safety (2020)
• Sidney (2022)
• Candy Cane Lane (2023)

John Hughes

• Ira Newborn
• Sixteen Candles (1984)
• Weird Science (1985)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
• Uncle Buck (1989)

John Huston

• Alex North
• The Misfits (1961)
• Wise Blood (1979)
• Under the Volcano (1984)
• Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• The Dead (1987)

Nicholas Hytner

• George Fenton
• The Madness of King George (1994)
• The Crucible (1996)
• The Object of My Affection (1998)
• Center Stage (2000)
• The History Boys (2006)
• The Lady in the Van (2015)

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Otar Iosseliani

• Nicolas Zourabichvili
• Favorites of the Moon (1984)
• And Then There Was Light (1989)
• Brigands-Chapter VII (1996)
• Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999)
• Monday Morning (2002)
• Gardens in Autumn (2006)

James Ivory

• Richard Robbins
• The Europeans (1979)
• Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
• Quartet (1981)
• Heat and Dust (1983)
• The Bostonians (1984)
• A Room With a View (1985)
• Maurice (1987)
• Slaves of New York (1989)
• Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
• Howards End (1992)
• The Remains of the Day (1993)
• Jefferson in Paris (1995)
• Surviving Picasso (1996)
• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
• The Golden Bowl (2000)
• Le Divorce (2003)
• The White Countess (2005)

J

Peter Jackson

• Howard Shore
• ' (2001)
• ' (2002)
• ' (2003)
• ' (2012)
• ' (2013)
• ' (2014)

Rian Johnson

• Nathan Johnson
• Brick (2005)
• The Brothers Bloom (2008)
• Looper (2012)
• Knives Out (2019)
• ' (2022)
• Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

Glenn Jordan

• David Shire
• Only When I Laugh (1981)
• Promise (1986)
• Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
• Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
• The Boys (1991)
• Jane's House (1994)
• ' (1999)

Neil Jordan

• Elliot Goldenthal
• Interview with the Vampire (1994)
• Michael Collins (1996)
• The Butcher Boy (1997)
• In Dreams (1999)
• The Good Thief (2002)

K

Shusuke Kaneko

• Kow Otani
• My Soul Is Slashed (1991)
• No Worries on the Recruit Front (1991)
• ' (1993)
• It's a Summer Vacation Everyday (1994)
• ' (1995)
• ' (1996)
• Haunted School 3 (1997)
• ' (1999)
• Pyrokinesis (2000)
• ' (2001)

Phil Karlson

• George Duning
• Lorna Doone (1951)
• Scandal Sheet (1952)
• Tight Spot (1955)
• 5 Against the House (1955)
• The Brothers Rico (1957)
• Gunman's Walk (1958)

Jake Kasdan

• Michael Andrews
• Orange County (2002)
• The TV Set (2006)
• ' (2007)
• Bad Teacher (2011)
• Sex Tape (2014)

Lawrence Kasdan

• James Newton Howard
• Grand Canyon (1991)
• Wyatt Earp (1994)
• French Kiss (1995)
• Mumford (1999)
• Dreamcatcher (2003)
• Darling Companion (2012)

Krzysztof Kieślowski

• Zbigniew Preisner
• No End (1984)
• A Short Film About Killing (1988)
• The Decalogue (1988)
• The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
• ' (1993)
• ' (1993)
• ' (1993)

Henry King

• Alfred Newman
• Ramona (1936)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
• Little Old New York (1940)
• A Yank in the RAF (1941)
• Remember the Day (1941)
• The Black Swan (1942)
• The Song of Bernadette (1943)
• Wilson (1944)
• A Bell for Adano (1945)
• Margie (1946)
• Captain from Castile (1947)
• Prince of Foxes (1949)
• Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
• The Gunfighter (1950)
• David and Bathsheba (1951)
• Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
• Carousel (1956)
• The Bravados (1958)

Takeshi Kitano

• Joe Hisaishi
• A Scene at the Sea (1991)
• Sonatine (1993)
• Getting Any? (1995)
• Kids Return (1996)
• Hana-bi (1997)
• Kikujiro (1999)
• Brother (2000)
• Dolls (2002)
• Keiichi Suzuki
• Zatōichi (2003)
• Outrage (2010)
• Beyond Outrage (2012)
• Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015)
• Outrage Coda (2017)

Travis Knight

• Dario Marianelli
• The Boxtrolls (2014)
• Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
• Bumblebee (2018)
• Wildwood (2026)
• Masters of the Universe (2026)

Masaki Kobayashi

• Toru Takemitsu
• The Inheritance (1962)
• Harakiri (1962)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Samurai Rebellion (1967)
• Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)
• Inn of Evil (1971)
• The Fossil (1975)
• Glowing Autumn (1979)
• Tokyo Trial (1983)
• Family Without a Dinner Table (1985)

Andrei Konchalovsky

• Eduard Artemyev
• Siberiade (1979)
• Homer and Eddie (1989)
• The Inner Circle (1991)
• House of Fools (2002)
• Gloss (2007)
• The Nutcracker in 3D (2010)
• The Postman's White Nights (2014)
• Sin (2019)

Zoltan Korda

• Miklós Rózsa
• The Four Feathers (1939)
• The Jungle Book (1942)
• Sahara (1943)
• The Macomber Affair (1947)
• A Woman's Vengeance (1948)

Stanley Kramer

• Ernest Gold
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• On the Beach (1959)
• Inherit the Wind (1960)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• Ship of Fools (1965)
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
• The Runner Stumbles (1979)

Roger Kumble

• Edward Shearmur
• Cruel Intentions (1999)
• The Sweetest Thing (2002)
• College Road Trip (2008)
• Furry Vengeance (2010)
• Falling Inn Love (2019)

Akira Kurosawa

• Fumio Hayasaka
• Drunken Angel (1948)
• Stray Dog (1949)
• Scandal (1950)
• Rashomon (1950)
• The Idiot (1951)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• I Live in Fear (1955) – Masaru Sato composed the second half.
• Masaru Sato
• Throne of Blood (1957)
• The Lower Depths (1957)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
• Yojimbo (1961)
• Sanjuro (1962)
• High and Low (1963)
• Red Beard (1965)

Ken Kwapis

• Cliff Eidelman
• The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
• Sexual Life (2005)
• The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005)
• He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
• Big Miracle (2012)

L

Aldo Lado

• Ennio Morricone
• La corta notte delle bambole di vetro (1971) – English: "Short Night of Glass Dolls"
• Who Saw Her Die? (1972)
• La cosa buffa (1972)
• L'ultimo treno della notte (1975) – English: "Last Stop on the Night Train"
• L'umanoid (1979) – English: "The Humanoid"
• La disubbidienza (1981) – English: "Disobedience"

John Landis

• Elmer Bernstein
• Animal House (1978)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Trading Places (1983)
• Thriller (1983)
• Spies Like Us (1985)
• Three Amigos (1986)
• Oscar (1991)

Walter Lang

• Cyril J. Mockridge
• Second Honeymoon (1937)
• I'll Give a Million (1938)
• The Little Princess (1939)
• The Great Profile (1940)
• The Magnificent Dope (1942)
• Claudia and David (1946)
• Sentimental Journey (1946)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
• Desk Set (1957)
• Alfred Newman
• The Blue Bird (1940)
• Tin Pan Alley (1940)
• Song of the Islands (1942)
• Sitting Pretty (1948)
• When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
• You're My Everything (1949)
• On the Riviera (1951)
• With a Song in My Heart (1952)
• Call Me Madam (1953)

Francis Lawrence

• James Newton Howard
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Water for Elephants (2011)
• ' (2013)
• ' (2014)
• ' (2015)
• Red Sparrow (2018)
• ' (2023)
• ' (2026)

Malcolm D. Lee

• Stanley Clarke
• The Best Man (1999)
• Undercover Brother (2002)
• Roll Bounce (2005)
• Soul Men (2008)
• The Best Man Holiday (2013)
• ' (2016)

Spike Lee

• Terence Blanchard
• Jungle Fever (1991)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• Crooklyn (1994)
• Clockers (1995)
• Get on the Bus (1996)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Bamboozled (2000)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• She Hate Me (2004)
• Sucker Free City (2004)
• Inside Man (2006)
• Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
• Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
• Chi-Raq (2015)
• BlacKkKlansman (2018)
• Da 5 Bloods (2020)
• Bill Lee
• ' (1983)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• School Daze (1988)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Mo' Better Blues (1990)

Kasi Lemmons

• Terence Blanchard
• Eve's Bayou (1997)
• The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
• Talk to Me (2007)
• Harriet (2019)
• ' (2022)

Robert Z. Leonard

• Herbert Stothart
• In Gay Madrid (1930)
• Peg o' My Heart (1933)
• Naughty Marietta (1935)
• Maytime (1937)
• The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
• Broadway Serenade (1939)
• Pride and Prejudice (1940)
• New Moon (1940)
• Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

Sergio Leone

• Ennio Morricone
• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
• For a Few Dollars More (1965)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Mervyn LeRoy

• Herbert Stothart
• Waterloo Bridge (1940)
• Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
• Random Harvest (1942)
• Madame Curie (1943)
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

Umberto Lenzi

• Franco Micalizzi
• Syndicate Sadists (1975)
• The Tough Ones (1976)
• Violent Naples (1976)
• The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977)
• The Biggest Battle (1978)
• La banda del gobbo (1978)
• From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
• Scusi, lei è normale? (1979)
• Black Demons (1991)
• Mean Tricks (1992)

Richard Lester

• Ken Thorne
• It's Trad, Dad! (1962) – incidental music
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
• How I Won the War (1967)
• The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
• Juggernaut (1974)
• The Ritz (1976)
• Superman II (1980)
• Superman III (1983)
• Finders Keepers (1984)

Brian Levant

• David Newman
• The Flintstones (1994)
• Jingle All the Way (1996)
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
• Are We There Yet? (2005)
• Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
• The Spy Next Door (2010)
• Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)
• A Christmas Story 2 (2012)

Henry Levin

• George Duning
• The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
• The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
• The Gallant Blade (1948)
• The Man from Colorado (1948)
• Jolson Sings Again (1949)
• And Baby Makes Three (1949)
• Convicted (1950)
• The Petty Girl (1950)
• The Flying Missile (1950)
• Two of a Kind (1951)
• The Family Secret (1951)

Barry Levinson

• Marcelo Zarvos
• What Just Happened (2008)
• You Don't Know Jack (2010)
• The Bay (2012)
• The Humbling (2014)
• Rock the Kasbah (2015)

Shawn Levy

• Christophe Beck
• Big Fat Liar (2002)
• Just Married (2003)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
• The Pink Panther (2006)
• Date Night (2010)
• Little Brother (2012)
• The Internship (2013)
• Free Guy (2021)

Jerry Lewis

• Walter Scharf
• The Jerry Lewis Show (1958)
• The Bellboy (1960)
• The Ladies Man (1961)
• The Errand Boy (1961)
• The Nutty Professor (1963)

Herschell Gordon Lewis

• Larry Wellington
• Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
• Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966)
• The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
• Blast-Off Girls (1967)
• Just for the Hell of It (1968)
• The Wizard of Gore (1970)

Doug Liman

• John Powell
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
• Jumper (2008)
• Fair Game (2010)
• Locked Down (2021)

Justin Lin

• Brian Tyler
• Annapolis (2006)
• ' (2006)
• Finishing the Game (2007)
• Fast & Furious (2009)
• Fast Five (2011)
• F9 (2021)

Richard Linklater

• Graham Reynolds
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
• Bernie (2011)
• Up to Speed (2012)
• Before Midnight (2013)
• Last Flag Flying (2017)
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2018)
• Blue Moon (2025)

Sam Liu

• Frederik Wiedmann
• ' (2015)
• Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
• ' (2017)
• ' (2018)
• The Death of Superman (2019) – Jake Castorena co–directed this film.
• Reign of the Supermen (2019) – Jake Castorena co–directed this film.
• ' (2019) – Justin Copeland co–directed this film.
• ' (2020)

Ken Loach

• George Fenton
• Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
• Land and Freedom (1995)
• Carla's Song (1996)
• My Name is Joe (1998)
• Bread and Roses (2000)
• The Navigators (2001)
• Sweet Sixteen (2002)
• Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
• Tickets (2005)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
• It's a Free World... (2007)
• Looking for Eric (2009)
• Route Irish (2010)
• The Angels' Share (2012)
• Jimmy's Hall (2014)
• I, Daniel Blake (2016)
• Sorry We Missed You (2019)

David Lowery

• Daniel Hart
• Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
• Pete's Dragon (2016)
• A Ghost Story (2017)
• The Old Man and the Gun (2018)
• Green Knight (2021)
• Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)

Sidney Lumet

• Quincy Jones
• The Pawnbroker (1964)
• The Deadly Affair (1967)
• Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
• The Anderson Tapes (1971)
• The Wiz (1978)

Rod Lurie

• Larry Groupe
• Deterrence (1999)
• The Contender (2000)
• Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
• Nothing But the Truth (2008)
• Straw Dogs (2011)
• The Outpost (2019)

William Lustig

• Jay Chattaway
• Maniac (1980)
• Vigilante (1983)
• Maniac Cop (1988)
• Relentless (1989)
• Maniac Cop 2 (1990)

David Lynch

• Angelo Badalamenti
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• The Straight Story (1999)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)

M

John Madden

• Stephen Warbeck
• Prime Suspect (1995)
• Mrs. Brown (1997)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
• Proof (2005)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

• Alfred Newman
• Dragonwyck (1946)
• A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
• No Way Out (1950)
• All About Eve (1950)
• People Will Talk (1951)

Daniel Mann

• Alex North
• The Rose Tattoo (1955)
• I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
• Hot Spell (1958)
• A Dream of Kings (1969)
• Willard (1971)
• Lost in the Stars (1974) – Musical Director
• Journey into Fear (1975)

Delbert Mann

• Allyn Ferguson
• The Man Without a Country (1973) with Jack Elliott
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
• The Last Days of Patton (1986)
• April Morning (1988)
• Ironclads (1991)
• ' (1992)

Garry Marshall

• John Debney
• The Princess Diaries (2001)
• Raising Helen (2004)
• ' (2004)
• Georgia Rule (2007)
• Valentine's Day (2010)
• New Year's Eve (2011)
• Mother's Day (2016)

George Marshall

• Victor Young
• The Forest Rangers (1942)
• True to Life (1943)
• Riding High (1943)
• And the Angels Sing (1944)
• The Blue Dahlia (1946)
• A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
• Frank Skinner
• Destry Rides Again (1939)
• When the Daltons Rode (1940)
• Hazard (1948)
• Tap Roots (1948)
• Destry (1954) with Henry Mancini and Herman Stein

Armand Mastroianni

• Harry Manfredini
• Cameron's Closet (1988)
• Double Revenge (1988)
• ' (1994)
• Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith (2009)
• Dark Desire (2012)
• Louis Febre
• First Daughter (1999)
• Final Run (1999)
• Nowhere to Land (2000)
• First Target (2000)
• Hidden Target (2002)

Paul Mazursky

• Bill Conti
• Blume in Love (1973)
• Harry and Tonto (1974)
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
• An Unmarried Woman (1978)
• Winchell (1998)
• Coast to Coast (2003)

Martin McDonagh

• Carter Burwell
• In Bruges (2008)
• Seven Psychopaths (2012)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
• The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
• Wild Horse Nine (2026)

Vincent McEveety

• Buddy Baker
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1970)
• The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
• Charley and the Angel (1973)
• Superdad (1973)
• Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
• The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
• Robert F. Brunner
• The Biscuit Eater (1972)
• The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
• The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
• Gus (1976)
• Amy (1981)

Tom McGrath

• Hans Zimmer
• Madagascar (2005)
• ' (2008)
• Megamind (2010) with Lorne Balfe
• ' (2012)
• The Boss Baby (2017) with Steve Mazzaro
• ' (2021) with Steve Mazzaro

Andrew V. McLaglen

• Henryk Wars
• Gun the Man Down (1956)
• Man in the Vault (1956)
• Freckles (1960)
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961)
• Fools' Parade (1971)

Sam Mendes

• Thomas Newman
• American Beauty (1999)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Jarhead (2005)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• Skyfall (2012)
• Spectre (2015)
• 1917 (2019)

Jiří Menzel

• Jiří Å ust
• Closely Watched Trains (1966)
• Capricious Summer (1968)
• Larks on a String (1969)
• Seclusion Near a Forest (1976)
• Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)
• Cutting It Short (1981)
• The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
• My Sweet Little Village (1985)
• Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)

Kieth Merrill

• Merrill Jenson
• Three Warriors (1977)
• Take Down (1979)
• Windwalker (1980)
• Harry's Wife (1981)
• ' (1988)

Russ Meyer Nikita Mikhalkov

• Eduard Artemyev
• At Home Among Strangers (1974)
• An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)
• A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1980)
• (1980-1993)
• Burnt by the Sun (1994)
• The Barber of Siberia (1998)
• Sunstroke (2014)

Takashi Miike

• Kōji Endō
• Rainy Dog (1997)
• Full Metal Yakuza (1997)
• The Bird People in China (1998)
• ' (1998)
• Ley Lines (1999)
• Audition (1999)
• Dead or Alive (1999)
• ' (1999)
• The City of Lost Souls (2000)
• Visitor Q (2001)
• Agitator (2001)
• The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
• ' (2002)
• Sabu (2002)
• Graveyard of Honor (2002)
• The Man in White (2003)
• Gozu (2003)
• One Missed Call (2003)
• Zebraman (2004)
• Three... Extremes (2004)
• Izo (2004)
• Demon Pond (2005)
• The Great Yokai War (2005)
• Imprint (2006)
• Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
• Sun Scarred (2006)
• Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
• Like a Dragon (2007)
• Detective Story (2007)
• 13 Assassins (2010)
• Ace Attorney (2012)
• Lesson of the Evil (2012)
• Shield of Straw (2013)
• ' (2013)
• Over Your Dead Body (2014)
• As the Gods Will (2014)
• The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)
• Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
• Terra Formars (2016)
• ' (2016)
• Blade of the Immortal (2017)
• ' (2017)
• Laplace's Witch (2018)
• First Love (2019)

John Milius

• Basil Poledouris
• Big Wednesday (1978)
• Conan the Barbarian (1982)
• Red Dawn (1984)
• Farewell to the King (1989)
• Flight of the Intruder (1991)

George T. Miller

• Bruce Rowland
• The Man from Snowy River (1982)
• Cool Change (1986)
• Bushfire Moon (1987)
• Gross Misconduct (1993)
• Andre (1994)
• Zeus and Roxanne (1997)

Vincente Minnelli

• André Previn
• Kismet (1955)
• Designing Woman (1957)
• Gigi (1958)
• Bells Are Ringing (1960)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
• Goodbye Charlie (1964)

Hayao Miyazaki

• Joe Hisaishi
• 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)
• Ponyo (2008)
• The Wind Rises (2013)
• The Boy and the Heron (2023)

Kenji Mizoguchi

• Fumio Hayasaka
• Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
• Miss Oyu (1951)
• The Lady of Musashino (1951)
• Ugetsu (1953)
• The Crucified Lovers (1954)
• Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
• Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)
• Tales of the Taira Clan (1955)

Giuliano Montaldo

• Ennio Morricone
• Ad ogni costo (1967)
• Gli intoccabili (1969)
• Sacco and Vanzetti (1971)
• Giordano Bruno (1973)
• L'Agnese va a morire (1976)
• Il giocattolo (1979)
• Il giorno prima (1987)
• Gli occhiali d'oro (1987)
• Tempo di uccidere (1991)
• I Demoni di San Pietroburgo (2008)

Jonathan Mostow Robert Mulligan

• Elmer Bernstein
• Fear Strikes Out (1957)
• The Rat Race (1960)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
• Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
• Bloodbrothers (1978)

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Mike Newell

• Richard Hartley
• Bad Blood (1982)
• Dance with a Stranger (1985)
• The Good Father (1985)
• Soursweet (1988)
• An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
• Great Expectations (2012)

Jeff Nichols

• David Wingo
• Take Shelter (2011)
• Mud (2012)
• Midnight Special (2016)
• Loving (2016)
• The Bikeriders (2023)

Christopher Nolan

• Hans Zimmer
• Batman Begins (2005) With James Newton Howard
• The Dark Knight (2008) With James Newton Howard
• Inception (2010)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Dunkirk (2017)

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Mamoru Oshii

• Kenji Kawai
• Twilight Q (1987)
• The Red Spectacles (1987)
• Patlabor (1988)
• ' (1989)
• ' (1991)
• Talking Head (1992)
• ' (1993)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Avalon (2001)
• ' (2004)
• The Sky Crawlers (2008)
• Assault Girls (2009)
• ' (2015)

Keishi Ōtomo

• Naoki Satō
• Rurouni Kenshin (2012)
• ' (2014)
• ' (2014)
• The Top Secret: Murder in Mind (2016)
• ' (2021)
• ' (2021)

Frank Oz

• Miles Goodman
• The Dark Crystal (1982) Jim Henson co-directed this film.
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
• What About Bob? (1991)
• Housesitter (1992)

Yasujirō Ozu

• Senji Itō
• The Only Son (1936)
• What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
• Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
• A Hen in the Wind (1948)
• Late Spring (1949)
• Early Summer (1951)
• Takanobu Saitô
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• Early Spring (1956)
• Tokyo Twilight (1957)
• Equinox Flower (1958)
• Floating Weeds (1959)
• Late Autumn (1960)
• An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

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Alan J. Pakula

• Michael Small
• Klute (1971)
• Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
• The Parallax View (1974)
• Comes A Horseman (1978)
• Rollover (1981)
• Dream Lover (1986)
• Orphans (1987)
• See You in The Morning (1989)
• Consenting Adults (1992)

Nick Park

• Julian Nott
• A Grand Day Out (1989)
• The Wrong Trousers (1993)
• A Close Shave (1995)
• ' (2005)
• A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)

Oliver Parker

• Charlie Mole
• Othello (1995)
• An Ideal Husband (1999)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
• I Really Hate My Job (2007)
• St Trinian's (2007)
• Dorian Gray (2009)
• ' (2009)
• Dad's Army (2016)
• Swimming with Men (2018)

Pier Paolo Pasolini

• Ennio Morricone
• Uccellacci e uccellini (1966)
• Teorema (1968)
• Il Decameron (1971)
• I racconti di Canterbury (1972)
• Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte (1974)
• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)

Alexander Payne

• Rolfe Kent
• Citizen Ruth (1996)
• Election (1999)
• About Schmidt (2002)
• Sideways (2004)
• Downsizing (2017)

Sam Peckinpah

• Jerry Fielding
• Noon Wine (1966)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• Straw Dogs (1971)
• Junior Bonner (1972)
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
• The Killer Elite (1975)

Larry Peerce

• Charles Fox
• The Incident (1967)
• Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
• A Separate Peace (1972)
• The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
• Two-Minute Warning (1976)
• Why Would I Lie? (1980)
• Love Child (1982)

Tyler Perry

• Aaron Zigman
• Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
• Meet the Browns (2008)
• The Family That Preys (2008)
• Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
• I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009)
• Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
• For Colored Girls (2010)
• Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
• Good Deeds (2012)
• Madea's Witness Protection (2012)
• ' (2013)
• Peeples (2013)
• A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
• Six Triple Eight (2024)

Wolfgang Petersen

• Klaus Doldinger
• Einer von uns beiden (1974)
• Die Konsequenz (1977)
• ' (1977)
• Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)
• Das Boot (1981)
• The NeverEnding Story (1984) With Giorgio Moroder

Elio Petri

• Ennio Morricone
• A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
• The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
• Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
• Todo modo (1976)
• Good News (1979)

Todd Phillips

• Christophe Beck
• School for Scoundrels (2006)
• The Hangover (2009)
• Due Date (2010)
• The Hangover Part II (2011)
• The Hangover Part III (2013)

Charles B. Pierce

• Jaime Mendoza-Nava
• The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
• Bootleggers (1974)
• The Winds of Autumn (1976)
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
• Grayeagle (1977)
• The Norseman (1978)
• The Evictors (1979)

Roman Polanski

• Alexandre Desplat
• The Ghost Writer (2010)
• Carnage (2011)
• Venus in Fur (2013)
• Based on a True Story (2017)
• An Officer and a Spy (2019)
• The Palace (2023)
• Krzysztof Komeda
• Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)
• When Angels Fall (1959)
• The Fat and the Lean (1961)
• Mammals (1961)
• Knife in the Water (1962)
• Cul-de-sac (1966)
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Sydney Pollack

• Dave Grusin
• The Yakuza (1974)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• Bobby Deerfield (1977)
• The Electric Horseman (1979)
• Absence of Malice (1981)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Havana (1990)
• The Firm (1993)
• Random Hearts (1999)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

• Brian Easdale
• Black Narcissus (1947)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• Hour of Glory (1949)
• Gone to Earth (1950)
• The Fighting Pimpernel (1950)
• The Wild Heart (1952)
• Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• The Queen's Guards (1961)

Albert Pyun

• Anthony Riparetti
• Alien from L.A. (1988)
• Cyborg (1989) – Directors Cut
• Deceit (1989) with James Saad
• ' (1991)
• Bloodmatch (1991)
• Dollman (1991)
• Brainsmasher... A Love Story (1993)
• Knights (1993)
• Arcade (1993) – Alternate score
• ' (1994)
• Spitfire (1995)
• ' (1995)
• ' (1996)
• ' (1996)
• Omega Doom (1996)
• ' (1996)
• Mean Guns (1997)
• Crazy Six (1997)
• Postmortem (1998)
• Urban Menace (1999)
• Corrupt (1999)
• The Wrecking Crew (2000)
• Invasion (2005)
• Left for Dead (2007)
• Road to Hell (2008)
• Bulletface (2010)
• Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010)

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Sam Raimi

• Danny Elfman
• Darkman (1990)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• ' (2013)
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
• Send Help (2026)

S. S. Rajamouli

• M. M. Keeravani
• ' (2001)
• Simhadri (2003)
• Challenge (2004)
• Chatrapathi (2005)
• Vikramarkudu (2006)
• Thief of Yama (2007)
• Magadheera (2009)
• Maryada Ramanna (2010)
• Eega (2012)
• ' (2015)
• ' (2017)
• RRR (2022)

Mani Ratnam

• A. R. Rahman
• Roja (1992)
• Thiruda Thiruda (1993)
• Bombay (1995)
• Iruvar (1997)
• Dil Se.. (1998)
• Alai Payuthey (2000)
• Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
• Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004)
• Yuva (2004)
• Guru (2007)
• Raavan (2010)
• Raavanan (2010)
• Kadal (2013)
• O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)
• Kaatru Veliyidai (2017)

Brett Ratner

• Lalo Schifrin
• Money Talks (1997)
• Rush Hour (1998)
• Rush Hour 2 (2001)
• After the Sunset (2004)
• Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Fred Olen Ray

• Chuck Cirino
• Alienator (1990)
• Mob Boss (1990)
• Inner Sanctum (1991)
• Evil Toons (1992)
• Dinosaur Island (1994) – Jim Wynorski served as co-director.
• Possessed by the Night (1994)
• Inner Sanctum II (1994)
• Witch Academy (1995)
• Mystery on Makeout Mountain (1997)
• Little Miss Magic (1998)
• Mom, Can I Keep Her (1998)
• The Lair (2007–2009)
• Dire Wolf (2009)
• Megaconda (2010)
• Lady Chatterly's Ghost (2011)
• Carmel Spiders (2011)
• Jeffery Walton
• Bikini Drive-In (1995)
• Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold (1995)
• Invisible Mom (1996)
• Inferno (1997)
• Hybrid (1997)
• Invisible Dad (1998)
• Solar Flare (2008)
• Super Shark (2011)
• A Mother's Revenge (2016)
• Unwanted Guest (2016)
• The Twin (2017)
• Deadly Shores (2018)

Matt Reeves

• Michael Giacchino
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Let Me In (2010)
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
• War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
• The Batman (2022)

Nicolas Winding Refn

• Peter Peter
• Pusher (1996)
• Bleeder (1999)
• Pusher II (2004)
• Pusher 3 (2005)
• Valhalla Rising (2009)

Godfrey Reggio

• Philip Glass
• Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
• Powaqqatsi (1988)
• Anima Mundi (1992)
• Naqoyqatsi (2002)
• Visitors (2013)

Carl Reiner

• Jack Elliott
• The Comic (1969)
• Where's Poppa? (1970)
• The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971 to 1974)
• Oh God! (1977)
• The Jerk (1979)
• Sibling Rivalry (1990)

Rob Reiner

• 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)
• Rumor Has It (2005)
• The Bucket List (2007)
• Flipped (2010)
• The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
• And So It Goes (2014)
• LBJ (2016)
• ' (2023)

Wolfgang Reitherman

• George Bruns
• Goliath II (1960)
• 101 Dalmatians (1961)
• The Sword in the Stone (1963)
• The Jungle Book (1967)
• The Aristocats (1970)
• Robin Hood (1973)

Jean Renoir

• Joseph Kosma
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
• Partie de campagne (1936)
• La Grande Illusion (1937)
• La Marseillaise (1938)
• La Bête Humaine (1938)
• The Rules of the Game (1939) .
• Elena and Her Men (1956)
• Experiment in Evil (1959)
• Picnic on the Grass (1959)
• The Elusive Corporal (1962)
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970)

Tony Richardson

• John Addison
• The Entertainer (1960)
• A Taste of Honey (1961)
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
• Tom Jones (1963)
• The Loved One (1965)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
• Dead Cert (1974)
• Joseph Andrews (1977)

Jay Roach

• Theodore Shapiro
• Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
• Game Change (2012)
• The Campaign (2012)
• Trumbo (2015)
• Bombshell (2019)

Yves Robert

• Vladimir Cosma
• Very Happy Alexander (1968)
• Clerambard (1969)
• The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
• Hail the Artist (1973)
• The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974)
• Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
• Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
• Courage fuyons (1979)
• The Twin (1984)
• My Father's Glory (1990)
• My Mother's Castle (1990)

Robert Rodriguez

• John Debney
• Spy Kids (2001)
• ' (2002)
• Sin City (2005)
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)
• Predators (2010)
• ' (2023) with Rebel Rodriguez
• Carl Thiel
• Planet Terror (2007)
• ' (2009)
• ' (2011)
• Machete Kills (2013)
• ' (2014)

Nicolas Roeg

• Stanley Myers
• Eureka (1983)
• Insignificance (1985) with Hans Zimmer
• Castaway (1986)
• Track 29 (1988)
• The Witches (1990)
• Cold Heaven (1991)
• Heart of Darkness (1993)

Stuart Rosenberg

• Lalo Schifrin
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• WUSA (1970)
• Voyage of the Damned (1976)
• Love and Bullets (1979)
• The Amityville Horror (1979)
• Brubaker (1980)

Roberto Rossellini

• Renzo Rossellini
• A Pilot Returns (1942)
• The Man with a Cross (1943)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• Desire (1946)
• Paisan (1946)
• Germany, Year Zero (1948)
• L'amore (1948)
• Stromboli (1950)
• The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
• The Machine That Kills Bad People (1952)
• Europe '51 (1952)
• Rivalry (1953)
• Where Is Freedom? (1954)
• Fear (1954)
• General Della Rovere (1959)
• Escape by Night (1960)
• Garibaldi (1961)
• Vanina Vanini (1961)

Eli Roth

• Nathan Barr
• Cabin Fever (2002) with Angelo Badalamenti
• Hostel (2005)
• ' (2007)
• The House with a Clock in its Walls (2018)
• Fin (2021) with Lisbeth Scott and Kyle Rodriguez

Alan Rudolph

• Mark Isham
• 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)
• Breakfast of Champions (1999)
• Trixie (2000)

Raúl Ruiz

• Jorge Arriagada
• Dog's Dialogue (1977)
• The Suspended Vocation (1978)
• The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979)
• The Territory (1981)
• On Top of the Whale (1982)
• City of Pirates (1983)
• Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
• Manoel's Destinies (1985)
• Treasure Island (1985)
• The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)
• Life Is a Dream (1986)
• The Blind Owl (1987)
• Dark at Noon (1993)
• Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
• Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
• Shattered Image (1998)
• Time Regained (1999)
• Comedy of Innocence (2000)
• Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
• Savage Souls (2001)
• Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (2002)
• A Place Among the Living (2003)
• That Day (2003)
• Days in the Country (2004)
• The Lost Domain (2005)
• Klimt (2006)
• Nucingen House (2008)
• Litoral (2008)
• Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
• Night Across the Street (2012)

Russo brothers

• Alan Silvestri
• ' (2018)
• ' (2019)
• The Electric State (2025)
• ' (2026)
• ' (2027)

S

Luciano Salce

• Ennio Morricone
• The Fascist (1961)
• La voglia matta (English: "Crazy Desire") (1962)
• La cuccagna (English: "A Girl... and a Million") (1962)
• Le Monachine (English: "The Little Nuns") (1963)
• Slalom (1965)
• El Greco (1966)
• Come imparai ad amare le donne (English: "How I Learned to Love Women") (1967)
• Dove vai in vacanza? (English: "Where Are You Going on Holiday?") (1978)

Carlos Saldanha

• John Powell
• Robots (2005) – Co-Directed by
• ' (2006)
• ' (2009)
• Rio (2011)
• Rio 2 (2014)
• Ferdinand (2017)

Joseph Sargent

• Charles Bernstein
• White Lightning (1973)
• Coast to Coast (1980)
• Caroline? (1990)
• Ivory Hunters (1990)
• The Love She Sought (1990)
• Somebody's Daughter (1992)
• Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
• The Long Island Incident (1998)
• Out of the Ashes (2003)
• Sybil (2007)
• Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)
• Billy Goldenberg
• The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973)
• Memorial Day (1983)
• Love Is Never Silent (1985)
• There Must Be a Pony (1986)
• Miss Rose White (1992)

Claude Sautet

• Philippe Sarde
• The Things of Life (1970)
• Max and the Junkmen (1971)
• César and Rosalie (1972)
• Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (1974)
• Mado (1976)
• A Simple Story (1978)
• A Bad Son (1980)
• Garçon! (1983)
• The Long Island Incident (1998)
• A Few Days with Me (1988)
• Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995)

John Sayles

• Mason Daring
• Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)
• Lianna (1983)
• The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
• Matewan (1987)
• Eight Men Out (1988)
• City of Hope (1991)
• Passion Fish (1992)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
• Lone Star (1996)
• Men With Guns (1997)
• Limbo (1999)
• Sunshine State (2002)
• Silver City (2004)
• Honeydripper (2007)
• Amigo (2010)
• Go for Sisters (2013)

Franklin J. Schaffner

• Jerry Goldsmith
• The Stripper (1963)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Patton (1970)
• Papillon (1973)
• Islands in the Stream (1977)
• The Boys from Brazil (1978)
• Lionheart (1987)

Fred Schepisi

• Jerry Goldsmith
• The Russia House (1990)
• Mr. Baseball (1992)
• Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
• I.Q. (1994)
• Fierce Creatures (1997)
• Bruce Smeaton
• The Devil's Playground (1976)
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
• Barbarosa (1982)
• Iceman (1984)
• Plenty (1985)
• Roxanne (1987)
• A Cry in the Dark (1988)

Paul Schrader

• Angelo Badalamenti
• The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
• Witch Hunt (1994)
• Forever Mine (1999)
• Auto Focus (2002)
• ' (2005)

Martin Scorsese

• Elmer Bernstein
• Cape Fear (1991)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
• Bringing out the Dead (1999)
• Howard Shore
• After Hours (1985)
• Made in Milan (1990)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Departed (2006)
• Hugo (2011)

Ridley Scott

• Hans Zimmer
• Black Rain (1989)
• Thelma and Louise (1991)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Hannibal (2001)
• Black Hawk Down (2001)
• Matchstick Men (2003)
• Harry Gregson-Williams
• Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• The Martian (2015)
• The Last Duel (2021)
• House of Gucci (2021)
• Gladiator II (2024)
• The Dog Stars (2026)

Tony Scott

• Harry Gregson-Williams
• Enemy of the State (1998) with Trevor Rabin
• Spy Game (2001)
• ' (2002)
• Man on Fire (2004)
• Domino (2005)
• Déjà Vu (2006)
• The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
• Unstoppable (2010)

George Seaton

• Alfred Newman
• Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
• The Big Lift (1950)
• For Heaven's Sake (1950)
• The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
• The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
• Airport (1970)

Tom Shadyac

• John Debney
• Liar Liar (1997)
• Dragonfly (2002)
• Bruce Almighty (2003)
• Evan Almighty (2007)
• Brian Banks (2019)

S. Shankar

• A. R. Rahman
• Gentleman (1993)
• Kaadhalan (1994)
• Indian (1996)
• Jeans (1998)
• Mudhalvan (1999)
• ' (2001)
• Boys (2003)
• Sivaji (2007)
• Enthiran (2010)
• I (2015)

Gary Sherman

• Joe Renzetti
• Dead & Buried (1981)
• Vice Squad (1982) with Keith Rubinstein
• Mysterious Two (1982)
• ' (1987)
• Poltergeist III (1988)
• Lisa (1990)
• ' (2006)

Kaneto Shindō

• Hikaru Hayashi
• Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
• The Naked Island (1960)
• Ningen (1962)
• Mother (1963)
• Onibaba (1964)
• Akuto (1965)
• Lost Sex. (1966)
• Kuroneko (1968)
• Heat Wave Island (1969)
• Live Today, Die Tomorrow!. (1970)
• Sanka (1972)
• The Heart (1973)
• The Life of Chikuzan. (1977)
• Edo Porn (1981)
• Burakkubōdo (1986)
• Tree Without Leaves. (1986)
• Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)
• A Last Note (1995)
• Will to Live. (1999)
• By Player (2000)
• Owl (2003)
• Postcard (2010)
• Akira Ifukube
• Children of Hiroshima. (1952)
• Epitome (1953)
• Life of a Woman (1953)
• Dobu. (1954)
• Wolf (1955)
• Shirogane ShinjÅ« (1956)
• Ruri no Kishi. (1956)
• An Actress (1956)
• Umi no Yarōdomo (1957)
• Sorrow Is Only for Women. (1958)

M. Night Shyamalan

• James Newton Howard
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Unbreakable (2000)
• Signs (2002)
• The Village (2004)
• Lady in the Water (2006)
• The Happening (2008)
• The Last Airbender (2010)
• After Earth (2013)

Vittorio De Sica

• Alessandro Cicognini
• Shoeshine (1946)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• Miracle in Milan (1951)
• Umberto D. (1952)
• Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
• The Gold of Naples (1954)
• The Roof (1956)

Don Siegel

• Lalo Schifrin
• Coogan's Bluff (1968)
• The Beguiled (1971)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Charley Varrick (1973)
• Telefon (1977)

Bryan Singer

• John Ottman
• Public Access (1993)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Apt Pupil (1998)
• X2 (2003)
• Superman Returns (2006)
• Valkyrie (2008)
• Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
• ' (2014)
• ' (2016)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Douglas Sirk

• Frank Skinner
• Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
• Magnificent Obsession (1954)
• Sign of the Pagan (1954)
• All That Heaven Allows (1955)
• Never Say Goodbye (1956)
• Written on the Wind (1956)
• Battle Hymn (1957)
• Intertude (1957)
• The Tarnished Angels (1958)
• Imitation of Life (1959)

Jerzy Skolimowski

• Stanley Myers
• King, Queen, Knave (1972)
• Moonlighting (1982)
• Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
• The Lightship (1985)
• Torrents of Spring (1989)

Kevin Smith

• James L. Venable
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
• Jersey Girl (2004)
• Clerks II (2006)
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
• Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (2013)
• Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)

Zack Snyder

• Tom Holkenborg
• ' (2016) with Hans Zimmer
• Army of the Dead (2021)
• Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
• Rebel Moon (2023)
• ' (2024)

Steven Soderbergh

• David Holmes
• Out of Sight (1998)
• Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• Ocean's Twelve (2004)
• Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
• Haywire (2011)
• Logan Lucky (2017)
• Mosaic (2018)
• The Laundromat (2019)
• No Sudden Move (2021)
• Black Bag (2025)
• Cliff Martinez
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
• Kafka (1991)
• King of the Hill (1993)
• The Underneath (1995)
• Gray's Anatomy (1996)
• Schizopolis (1996)
• The Limey (1999)
• Traffic (2000)
• Solaris (2002)
• Contagion (2011)
• The Knick (2014–2015)
• Kimi (2022)
• Thomas Newman
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• The Good German (2006)
• Side Effects (2013)
• Unsane (2018)
• Let Them All Talk (2020)

Alberto Sordi

• Piero Piccioni
• Smoke Over London (1966)
• Pardon, Are You For or Against? (1966)
• An Italian in America (1967)
• Help Me, My Love (1969)
• Polvere di stelle (1973)
• While There's War There's Hope (1974)
• A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)
• Storia di un italiano (1979)
• Catherine and I (1980)
• I Know That You Know That I Know (1982)
• Journey with Papa (1982)
• Il tassinaro (1983)
• Everybody in Jail (1984)
• A Taxi Driver in New York (1987)
• Acquitted for Having Committed the Deed (1993)
• Nestore l'ultima corsa (1996)
• Incontri proibiti (1998)

Steven Spielberg

• John Williams
• The Sugarland Express (1974)
• Jaws (1975)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• 1941 (1979)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• Always (1989)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Hook (1991)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• ' (1997)
• Amistad (1997)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• The Unfinished Journey (1999)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• The Terminal (2004)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Munich (2005)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
• War Horse (2011)
• Lincoln (2012)
• The BFG (2016)
• The Post (2017)
• The Fabelmans (2022)
• Disclosure Day (2026)

Andrew Stanton

• Thomas Newman
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• WALL-E (2008)
• Finding Dory (2016)
• In the Blink of an Eye (2026)
• Toy Story 5 (2026)

Ben Stassen

• Ramin Djawadi
• Fly Me to the Moon (2008)
• ' (2010)
• ' (2012)
• The House of Magic (2013)
• The Wild Life (2016)

George Stevens

• Roy Webb
• Kentucky Kernels (1934)
• Laddie (1935)
• The Nitwits (1935)
• Alice Adams (1935)
• Quality Street (1937)
• Vivacious Lady (1938)
• I Remember Mama (1948)

Robert Stevenson

• George Bruns
• Johnny Tremain (1957)
• The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
• Son of Flubber (1963)
• The Love Bug (1968)
• Herbie Rides Again (1974)

John Stockwell

• Paul Haslinger
• Cheaters (2000)
• Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
• Blue Crush (2002)
• Into the Blue (2005)
• Turistas (2006)
• ' (2012)
• In the Blood (2014)

Tim Story

• Christopher Lennertz
• Think Like a Man (2012)
• Ride Along (2014)
• Think Like a Man Too (2014)
• Ride Along 2 (2016)
• Shaft (2019)
• Tom & Jerry (2021)

Mel Stuart

• Lalo Schifrin
• The Way Out Men (1965)
• Wall Street Where the Money is (1966)
• The Making of a President: 1964 (1965)
• I Love My Wife (1970)
• Up from the Ape (1975)
• Brenda Starr (1976)

John Sturges

• Elmer Bernstein
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• By Love Possessed (1961)
• A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
• McQ (1974)

T

Béla Tarr

• Mihály Vig
• Almanac of Fall (1984)
• Damnation (1988)
• Satantango (1994)
• Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
• The Man from London (2007)
• The Turin Horse (2011)

Frank Tashlin

• Walter Scharf
• Hollywood or Bust (1956)
• Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
• The Geisha Boy (1958)
• Cinderfella (1960)
• It's Only Money (1962)

Norman Taurog

• Walter Scharf
• You Can't Have Everything (1937)
• Living It Up (1954)
• You're Never Too Young (1955)
• The Birds and the Bees (1956)
• Bundle of Joy (1956)
• Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
• Tickle Me (1965)

Julie Taymor

• Elliot Goldenthal
• Titus (1999)
• Frida (2002)
• Across the Universe (2007)
• The Tempest (2010)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)
• ' (2020)

Bertrand Tavernier

• Philippe Sarde
• The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974)
• Spoiled Children (1977)
• Coup de Torchon (1981)
• L.627 (1992)
• Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
• The Princess of Montpensier (2010)
• The French Minister (2013)

Andy Tennant

• George Fenton
• Ever After (1998)
• Anna and the King (1999)
• Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
• Hitch (2005)
• Fool's Gold (2008)
• The Bounty Hunter (2010)
• Wild Oats (2016)
• ' (2020)
• Unit 234 (2023)

Giuseppe Tornatore

• Ennio Morricone
• Cinema Paradiso (1989) – with Andrea Morricone
• Everybody's Fine (1990)
• A Pure Formality (1994)
• The Star Maker (1995)
• The Legend of 1900 (1998)
• Malèna (2000)
• The Unknown Woman (2006)
• Baarìa (2009)
• The Best Offer (2013)
• The Correspondence (2016)

Andre De Toth

• David Buttolph
• Carson City (1952)
• House of Wax (1953)
• Crime Wave (1953)
• Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
• Riding Shotgun (1954)
• The Bounty Hunter (1954)

Jacques Tourneur

• Roy Webb
• Cat People (1942)
• I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
• The Leopard Man (1943)
• Experiment Perilous (1944)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Easy Living (1949)

François Truffaut

• Georges Delerue
• Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
• Jules and Jim (1961)
• The Soft Skin (1964)
• Two English Girls (1971)
• Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972)
• Day for Night (1973)
• Love on the Run (1979)
• The Last Metro (1980)
• The Woman Next Door (1981)
• Confidentially Yours (1983)

V

Agnès Varda

• Joanna Bruzdowicz
• Vagabond (1985)
• Le petit amour (1988)
• Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
• The Gleaners and I (2000)
• The Beaches of Agnès (2008) with Stéphane Vilar

W. S. Van Dyke

• Herbert Stothart
• The Cuban Love Song (1931)
• Laughing Boy (1934)
• San Francisco (1936)
• After the Thin Man (1936)
• Rosalie (1937)
• Marie Antoinette (1938)
• Sweethearts (1938)
• Bitter Sweet (1940)
• I Married an Angel (1942)
• Cairo (1942)

Gus Van Sant

• Danny Elfman
• To Die For (1995)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Milk (2008)
• Restless (2011)
• Promised Land (2012)
• Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
• Dead Man's Wire (2026)

Gore Verbinski

• Hans Zimmer
• The Ring (2002)
• The Weather Man (2005)
• ' (2006)
• ' (2007)
• Rango (2011)
• The Lone Ranger (2013)

Henri Verneuil

• Ennio Morricone
• Guns for San Sebastian (1968) with Laurie Johnson
• The Sicilian Clan (1969)
• The Burglars (1971) Italian: "Le Casse"
• Night Flight from Moscow (1973)
• The Night Caller (1975)
• I as in Icarus (1979)

King Vidor

• Alfred Newman
• Street Scene (1931)
• Cynara (1932)
• Our Daily Bread (1934)
• The Wedding Night (1935)
• Stella Dallas (1937)

W

The Wachowskis

• Don Davis
• Bound (1996)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Animatrix (2003)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

David Wain

• Craig Wedren
• Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
• The Ten (2007)
• Wainy Days (2007)
• Role Models (2008)
• Wanderlust (2012)
• They Came Together (2014)
• ' (2015)
• ' (2017)
• A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

Raoul Walsh

• Max Steiner
• They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
• Desperate Journey (1942)
• The Man I Love (1946)
• Pursued (1947)
• Cheyenne (1947)
• Fighter Squadron (1948)
• White Heat (1949)
• Distant Drums (1951)
• Battle Cry (1955)
• Band of Angels (1957)
• A Distant Trumpet (1964)
• Adolph Deutsch
• They Drive by Night (1940)
• High Sierra (1941)
• Manpower (1941)
• Northern Pursuit (1943)
• Uncertain Glory (1944)

James Wan

• Joseph Bishara
• Insidious (2010)
• The Conjuring (2013)
• ' (2013)
• The Conjuring 2 (2016)
• Malignant (2021)

Régis Wargnier

• Patrick Doyle
• Indochine (1992)
• A French Woman (1995)
• East/West (1999)
• Man to Man (2005)
• Have Mercy on Us All (2007)
• La Ligne droite (2011)

Shinichirō Watanabe

• Yoko Kanno
• Macross Plus (1994)
• Cowboy Bebop (1998–1999)
• ' (2001)
• Kids on the Slope (2012)
• Terror in Resonance (2014)

Mark Waters

• Rolfe Kent
• The House of Yes (1997) with Michael Glenn Williams
• Freaky Friday (2003)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Just Like Heaven (2005)
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
• Vampire Academy (2014)
• Magic Camp (2020)

Keoni Waxman

• The Keeper (2009)
• Hunt to Kill (2010)
• Maximum Conviction (2012)
• Force of Execution (2013)
• Absolution (2015)
• End of a Gun (2016)
• Contract to Kill (2016)
• Cartels (2017)
• The Hard Way (2019)

Peter Weir

• Maurice Jarre
• The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
• Witness (1985)
• The Mosquito Coast (1986)
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Fearless (1993)

William A. Wellman

• Alfred Newman
• Call of the Wild (1935)
• Beau Geste (1939)
• Roxie Hart (1942)
• The Iron Curtain (1948)
• Yellow Sky (1948)

Wim Wenders

• Jürgen Knieper
• The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
• The Scarlet Letter (1973)
• Wrong Move (1975)
• The American Friend (1977)
• Room 666 (1982)
• The State of Things (1982)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• Lisbon Story (1994)

Paul Wendkos

• Billy Goldenberg
• Fear No Evil (1969)
• Terror on the Beach (1973)
• The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
• Intimate Agony (1983)
• The Awakening of Candra (1983)
• Scorned and Swindled (1984)
• Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)
• Message from Nam (1993)

Ti West

• Jeff Grace
• The Roost (2005)
• Trigger Man (2007) with Ti West
• The House of the Devil (2009)
• The Innkeepers (2011)
• In a Valley of Violence (2016)

Billy Wilder

• Miklós Rózsa
• Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• Fedora (1978)

Michael Winner

• Jerry Fielding
• Lawman (1971)
• The Nightcomers (1971)
• Chato's Land (1972)
• The Mechanic (1972)
• Scorpio (1973)
• The Big Sleep (1978)

Park Chan-wook

• Yeong-wook Jo
• Joint Security Area (2000)
• Yeoseot gae ui siseon (2003)
• Oldboy (2003)
• Lady Vengeance (2005)
• I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
• Thirst (2009)
• Night Fishing (2011)
• The Handmaiden (2016)
• Decision to Leave (2022)
• No Other Choice (2025)

Joe Wright

• Dario Marianelli
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Atonement (2007)
• The Soloist (2009)
• Anna Karenina (2012)
• Darkest Hour (2017)

William Wyler

• Alfred Newman
• These Three (1936)
• Dodsworth (1936)
• Come and Get It (1936) – Howard Hawks co-directed this film.
• Dead End (1937)
• Wuthering Heights (1939)
• The Westerner (1940) with Dimitri Tiomkin

Y

Takashi Yamazaki

• Naoki Satō
• ' (2005)
• ' (2007)
• Ballad (2009)
• Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
• ' (2011)
• ' (2012)
• The Eternal Zero (2013)
• Stand by Me Doraemon (2014)
• ' (2014)
• ' (2015)
• ' (2016)
• Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura (2017)
• The Great War of Archimedes (2019)
• Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)
• Ghost Book Obakezukan (2022)
• Godzilla Minus One (2023)

David Yates

• Nicholas Hooper
• Punch (1996)
• The Tichborne Claimant (1998)
• The Young Visiters (2003)
• The Girl in the Café (2005)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Wilson Yip

• Kenji Kawai
• Dragon Tiger Gate (2006)
• Ip Man (2008)
• Ip Man 2 (2010)
• Ip Man 3 (2015)
• ' (2019)

Z

Alex Zamm

• Chris Hajian
• Chairman of the Board (1998)
• Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)
• ' (2007)
• ' (2009)
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (2011)
• Tooth Fairy 2 (2012)
• The Little Rascals Save the Day (2014)
• A Royal Christmas (2014)
• Jingle All the Way 2 (2014)
• Crown for Christmas (2015)
• Woody Woodpecker (2017)

Robert Zemeckis

• Alan Silvestri
• Romancing the Stone (1984)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
• Back to the Future Part III (1990)
• Death Becomes Her (1992)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Contact (1997)
• What Lies Beneath (2000)
• Cast Away (2000)
• The Polar Express (2004)
• Beowulf (2007)
• A Christmas Carol (2009)
• Flight (2012)
• The Walk (2015)
• Allied (2016)
• Welcome to Marwen (2018)
• The Witches (2020)
• Pinocchio (2022)
• Here (2024)

David Zucker

• Ira Newborn
• ' (1988)
• ' (1991)
• ' (1994)
• High School High (1996)
• BASEketball (1998)

Andrzej Zulawski

• Andrzej Korzynski
• The Third Part of the Night (1971)
• The Devil (1972)
• Possession (1981)
• On the Silver Globe (1988)
• My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989)
• Szamanka (1996)
• Fidelity (2000)
• Cosmos (2015)

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