List of film director and composer collaborations

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

A

J. J. Abrams

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)
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
  • Mr. Pip (2013)

Ben Affleck

• Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Gone Baby Gone (2007)
  • The Town (2010)
  • Live by Night (2017)

Alan Alda

• Bruce Broughton
  • Sweet Liberty (1986)
  • Betsy's Wedding (1990)

Robert Aldrich

Irwin Allen

• John Williams
  • Lost in Space (1965–1968)
  • The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
  • Land of Giants (1968–1970)
  • The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • The Towering Inferno (1974)

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)

Robert Altman

Fede Alvarez

• Roque Banos
  • Evil Dead (2013)
  • Don't Breathe (2016)

Jon Amiel

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

Brad Anderson

• John Debney
  • The Call (2013)
  • Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
  • High Wire Act (2017)

Gerry Anderson

• Barry Gray
  • Four Feather Falls (1960)
  • Crossroads to Crime (1960)
  • Supercar (1961–1962)
  • Fireball XL5 (1962–1963)
  • Stingray (1964–1965)
  • Thunderbirds (1965–1966)
  • Thunderbirds Are Go (1966)
  • Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–1968)
  • Thunderbird 6 (1968)
  • Doppelgänger (1969)
  • UFO (1970–1971)
  • Space: 1999 (1975–1977)

Paul Thomas Anderson

Wes Anderson

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)
  • Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004)
  • The Dust of Time (2008)

Jean-Jacques Annaud

• James Horner
  • The Name of the Rose (1986)
  • Enemy at the Gates (2001)
  • Day of the Falcon (2011)
  • Wolf Totem (2015)

Michelangelo Antonioni

• Giovanni Fusco
  • N.U. (1948) (short film)
  • Seven Reeds, One Suit (1948) (short film)
  • Superstitions (1949) (short film)
  • Lies of Love (1949) (short film)
  • La villa dei mostri (1950) (short film)
  • 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

• Jon Brion
  • Step Brothers (2008)
  • This Is 40 (2012)
  • Trainwreck (2015)

Michael Apted

Tetsuro Araki

• Hiroyuki Sawano
  • Guilty Crown (2011)
  • Attack on Titan (2013–present)
  • Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (2016)

Dario Argento

Gillian Armstrong

• Thomas Newman
  • Little Women (1994)
  • Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

Darren Aronofsky

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

Hal Ashby

• Johnny Mandel
  • The Last Detail (1973)
  • Being There (1979)
  • Lookin' to Get Out (1982)

Richard Attenborough

• George Fenton
  • Gandhi (1982) With Ravi Shankar.
  • Cry Freedom (1987)
  • Shadowlands (1993)
  • In Love and War (1996)
  • Grey Owl (1999)

Bille August

• Hans Zimmer
  • The House of the Spirits (1993)
  • Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)

John G. Avildsen

• Bill Conti
  • Rocky (1976)
  • Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
  • The Formula (1980)
  • Murder Ink (1980) - They were both involved with this series.
  • 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)

Jon Avnet

• Thomas Newman
  • Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
  • The War (1994)
  • Up Close and Personal (1996)
  • Red Corner (1997)
  • WIGS (2012–2013)

David Ayer

B

John Badham

Stuart Baird

• Jerry Goldsmith
  • Executive Decision (1996)
  • U. S. Marshals (1998)
  • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Charles Band

Wes Ball

• John Paesano
  • The Maze Runner (2014)
  • Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
  • Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Tony Barbieri

• Harry Gregson-Williams
  • The Magic of Marciano (2000)
  • Em (2008)

Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.

Michael Bay

J. A. Bayona

• Fernando Velázquez
  • The Orphanage (2007)
  • The Impossible (2012)
  • A Monster Calls (2016)

Josh Becker

• Joseph LoDuca
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except (1985)
  • Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)
  • Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur (1994)
  • Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001)
  • Running Time (1997)
  • Jack of All Trades (2000)
  • Alien Apocalypse (2005)
  • Spine Chillers (2013) - They collaborated on an episode.
  • Morning, Noon & Night (2018)

Bruce Beresford

Peter Berg

• Steve Jablonsky
  • Battleship (2012)
  • Lone Survivor (2013)
  • Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Ingmar Bergman

Bernardo Bertolucci

• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • The Last Emperor (1987)
  • The Sheltering Sky (1990)
  • Little Buddha (1993)

Bibo Bergeron

• Hans Zimmer
  • The Road to El Dorado (2000)
  • Shark Tale (2004)

Luc Besson

• Éric Serra
  • Le Dernier Combat (1983)
  • Subway (1985)
  • Le Grand Bleu (1988)
  • Nikita (1990)
  • Atlantis (1991)
  • Léon (1994)
  • The Fifth Element (1997)
  • Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
  • Arthur and the Minimoys (2006)
  • Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009)
  • Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
  • The Lady (2011)
  • Lucy (2014)
  • Anna (2018)

Bahram Beyzai

Mike Binder

• Miles Goodman
  • Indian Summer (1993)
  • Blankman (1994)

Brad Bird

• Michael Giacchino
  • The Incredibles (2004)
  • Ratatouille (2007)
  • Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
  • Tomorrowland (2015)
  • Incredibles 2 (2018)

Shane Black

Don Bluth

James Bobin

• Christophe Beck
  • The Muppets (2011)
  • Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

Paul Bogart

• David Shire
  • Skin Game (1971)
  • Class of '44 (1973)
  • Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974)
  • Winner Takes All (1975)
  • Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
  • Broadway Bound (1992)
  • The Heidi Chronicles (1995)

Mauro Bolognini

• Ennio Morricone
  • Le streghe (1967)
  • Arabella (1967)
  • L'assoluto naturale (1969)
  • Un bellissimo novembre (1969)
  • Metello (1970)
  • Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
  • Drama of the Rich (1974)
  • 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)
  • Husband and Lovers (1991)

Uwe Boll

• Jessica de Rooij
  • Seed (2007)
  • In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
  • Postal (2007)
  • BloodRayne 2: Deliverance (2007)
  • 1968 Tunnel Rats (2008)
  • Rampage (2009)
  • Darfur (2009)
  • Max Schmeling (2010)
  • Auschwitz (2011)
  • BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011)
  • Blubberella (2011)
  • In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds (2011)
  • Assault on Wall Street (2013)
  • In the Name of the King 3: The Last Job (2014)
  • Capital Punishment (2014)
  • Rampage: President Down (2016)

Jan de Bont

• Mark Mancina
  • Speed (1994)
  • Twister (1996)
  • Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

David Bowers

• Edward Shearmur
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)

Danny Boyle

John Brahm

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)
  • Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
  • Cinderella (2015)
  • Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
  • Artemis Fowl (2019)

Martin Brest

• Thomas Newman
  • Scent of a Woman (1992)
  • Meet Joe Black (1998)

Philippe De Broca

• Georges Delerue
  • The Love Game (1960)
  • The Joker (1960)
  • Five Day Lover (1961)
  • Swords of Blood (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 Inspector (1977)
  • Le cavaleur (1979)
  • L’Africain (1983)
  • Chouans! (1988)

James L. Brooks

• Hans Zimmer
  • I'll Do Anything (1994)
  • As Good as It Gets (1997)
  • Spanglish (2004)
  • The Simpsons Movie (2007)
  • How Do You Know (2010)
  • The Longest Daycare (2012)

Mel Brooks

John Carl Buechler

• Richard Band
  • Troll (1986)
  • Cellar Dweller (1988)

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)
  • Simon of the Desert (1965) (short film)

Charles Burnett

• Stephen James Taylor
  • To Sleep with Anger (1990)
  • The Glass Shield (1994)
  • When It Rains (1995 short film)
  • Nightjohn (1996)
  • The Wedding (1998)
  • Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
  • Olivia's Story (2000 short film)
  • Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
  • The Blues (2003) - They collaborated on an episode
  • Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
  • Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (2018)

Jeff Burr

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 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)
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) (Produced by Tim Burton).
  • Dumbo (2019)

Gina Prince-Bythewood

• Mark Isham
  • The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
  • Beyond the Lights (2014)

C

Edward L. Cahn

Christopher Cain

James Cameron

Martin Campbell

• James Horner
  • The Mask of Zorro (1998)
  • Beyond Borders (2003)
  • The Legend of Zorro (2005)

Frank Capra

John Carpenter

• Himself
  • Dark Star (1974)
  • Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
  • Halloween (1978)
  • The Fog (1980)
  • Escape from New York (1981) With Alan Howarth.
  • Halloween II (1981) With Alan Howarth.
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) With Alan Howarth.
  • Christine (1983) With Alan Howarth.
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986) With Alan Howarth.
  • Prince of Darkness (1987) With Alan Howarth.
  • They Live (1988) With Alan Howarth.
  • Body Bags (1993) With Jim Lang.
  • In the Mouth of Madness (1994) With Jim Lang.
  • Village of the Damned (1995) With Dave Davies.
  • Escape from L.A. (1996) With Shirley Walker.
  • Vampires (1998)
  • Ghosts of Mars (2001)

D.J. Caruso

• Brian Tyler
  • Eagle Eye (2008)
  • Standing Up (2013)
  • The Disappointments Room (2016)
  • xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (2017)

Nick Cassavetes

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

Nick Castle

• Craig Safan
  • Tag: The Assassination Game (1982)
  • The Last Starfighter (1984)
  • Shangri-La Plaza (1991)
  • Major Payne (1995)
  • Mr. Wrong (1996)
  • Delivering Milo (2001)
  • 'Twas the Night (2001)

Gilbert Cates

• Charles Fox
  • The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
  • Oh, God! Book II (1980)
  • Absolute Strangers (1991)
  • Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994)
  • Innocent Victims (1996)
  • A Death in the Family (2001)
  • Collected Stories (2002)

Larry Charles

• Erran Baron Cohen
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
  • Brüno (2009)
  • The Dictator (2012)

Damien Chazelle

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

Peter Chelsom

• John Altman
  • Hear My Song (1991)
  • Funny Bones (1995)
  • Shall We Dance (2004)

Roger Christian

Jon M. Chu

• Brian Tyler
  • Now You See Me 2 (2016)
  • Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Michael Cimino

• David Mansfield
  • Heaven's Gate (1980)
  • Year of the Dragon (1985)
  • The Sicilian (1987)
  • Desperate Hours (1990)

Bob Clark

• Paul Zaza
  • Murder By Decree (1979)
  • Porky's (1982)
  • A Christmas Story (1983)
  • Turk 182! (1985)
  • From the Hip (1987)
  • Loose Cannons (1990)
  • It Runs in the Family (1994)
  • Fudge-a-Mania (1995)
  • Derby (1995)
  • Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)
  • Baby Geniuses (1999)
  • I'll Remember April (2000)
  • Now & Forever (2002)
  • Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
  • The Karate Dog (2005)

George Clooney

• Alexandre Desplat
  • The Ides of March (2011)
  • Argo (2012)
  • The Monuments Men (2014)
  • Suburbicon (2017)

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)
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • 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)

Larry Cohen

Etan Cohen

• Christophe Beck
  • Get Hard (2015)
  • Holmes and Watson (2018)

Rob Cohen

• Randy Edelman
  • Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
  • Dragonheart (1996)
  • Daylight (1996)
  • The Skulls (2000)
  • xXx (2002)
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
  • The Boy Next Door (2015)

Chris Columbus

Bill Condon

• Carter Burwell
  • Gods and Monsters (1998)
  • Kinsey (2004)
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
  • The Fifth Estate (2013)
  • Mr. Holmes (2015)

Ryan Coogler

• Ludwig Göransson
  • Fruitvale Station (2013)
  • Creed (2015)
  • Black Panther (2018)

Francis Ford Coppola

Frank Coraci

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

Roger Corman

George P. Cosmatos

Alex Cox

• Pray for Rain
  • Sid and Nancy (1986)
  • Straight to Hell (1986)
  • Death and the Compass (1992)
  • Three Businessmen (1998)
  • Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)
  • Emmanuelle: A Hard Look (2000)
  • Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku (2002) - They were both involved with this TV series.
  • Searchers 2.0 (2007)
  • Repo Chick (2009)
  • Tombstone-Rashomon (2017)

Wes Craven

Destin Daniel Cretton

• Joel P. West
  • I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
  • Short Term 12 (2013)
  • The Glass Castle (2017)

Michael Crichton

• Jerry Goldsmith
  • Pursuit (1972)
  • Coma (1978)
  • The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
  • Runaway (1984)

David Cronenberg

• Howard Shore
  • The Brood (1979)
  • Scanners (1981)
  • Videodrome (1983)
  • The Fly (1986)
  • Dead Ringers (1988)
  • Naked Lunch (1991)
  • Scales of Justice (1992–1993)
  • M. Butterfly (1993)
  • Crash (1996)
  • Existenz (1999)
  • Spider (2002)
  • A History of Violence (2005)
  • To Each His Own Cinema (2007) - They contributed a segment to the film.
  • Eastern Promises (2007)
  • A Dangerous Method (2011)
  • Cosmopolis (2011)
  • Maps to the Stars (2014)

Cameron Crowe

• Nancy Wilson
  • Say Anything... (1989) - Wilson composed additional music.
  • Jerry Maguire (1996) - Wilson composed the theme music.
  • Almost Famous (2000)
  • Vanilla Sky (2001)
  • Elizabethtown (2005)

Alfonso Cuarón

Sean S. Cunningham

• Harry Manfredini
  • Here Come the Tigers (1978)
  • Manny's Orphans (1978)
  • Friday The 13th (1980)
  • Spring Break (1983)
  • Deepstar Six (1989)
  • XCU: Extreme Close Up (2001)
  • Terminal Invasion (2002)
  • The Nurse with the Purple Hair (2017)

Dan Curtis

Michael Curtiz

D

Rod Daniel

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

Lee Daniels

• Mario Grigorov
  • Shadowboxer (2005)
  • Tennessee (2008)
  • Precious (2009)
  • The Paperboy (2012)

Joe Dante

Frank Darabont

Andrew Davis

• James Newton Howard
  • The Package (1989)
  • The Fugitive (1993)
  • A Perfect Murder (1998)

John A. Davis

• John Debney
  • Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
  • The Ant Bully (2006)

John DeBello

• Rick Patterson
  • Happy Hour (1987)
  • Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
  • Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1990)
  • Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1992)

Dean DeBlois

• John Powell
  • How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
  • How to Train Your Dragon 3 (2019)

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)
  • La habitación del niño (The Baby's Room, 2006)
  • The Oxford Murders (2008)
  • Balada Triste de Trompeta (The Last Circus, 2010)

David DeCoteau

• Harry Manfredini
  • Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
  • House of Usher (2008)
  • Playing with Fire (2008)
  • Stem Cell (2009)
  • 1313: Night of the Widow (2011)
  • 1313: Giant Killer Bees (2011)
  • 1313: Wicked Stepbrother (2011)
  • 1313: Action Slash Model (2011)
  • 1313: Boy Crazies (2011)
  • 1313: Haunted Frat (2012)
  • 2: Voodoo Academy (2012)
  • Snow White: A Deadly Summer (2012)
  • 1313: Cougar Cult (2012)
  • 1313: Bigfoot Island (2012)
  • 1313: Bermuda Triangle (2012)
  • 1313: UFO Invasion (2012)
  • 1313: Hercules Unbound! (2012)
  • 1313: Billy the Kid (2012)
  • A Halloween Puppy (2012)
  • Immortal Kiss: Queen of the Night (2012)
  • Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft (2013)
  • Bonnie & Clyde: Justified (2013)
  • Badass Showdown (2013)
  • 90210 Shark Attack (2014)
  • 3 Scream Queens (2014)
  • 666: Kreepy Kerry (2014)
  • Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper (2014)
  • 3 Wicked Witches (2014)
  • Knock 'em Dead (2014)
  • Doc Holliday's Revenge (2014)
  • Devilish Charm (2014)
  • Sorority Slaughterouse (2015)

Alberto De Martino

• Ennio Morricone
  • Dirty Heroes (1967)
  • O.K. Connery (1967)
  • Roma come Chicago (1968)
  • The Antichrist (1974)
  • Holocaust 2000 (1977)
  • Blood Link (1982)

Brian De Palma

Jonathan Demme

Ted Demme

• David A. Stewart
  • The Ref (1994)
  • Beautiful Girls (1996)

Jacques Demy

• Michel Legrand
  • Lola (1961)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins (1962) - They collaborated on a segment.
  • 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)

Howard Deutch

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)

Mark Dindal

• John Debney
  • The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
  • Chicken Little (2005)

Pete Docter

• Michael Giacchino
  • Up (2009)
  • Inside Out (2015)

Xavier Dolan

• Gabriel Yared
  • Tom at the Farm (2013)
  • It's Only the End of the World (2016)
  • The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018)

Roger Donaldson

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

Richard Donner

• Michael Kamen
  • Lethal Weapon (1987)
  • Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
  • Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996) - They collaborated on some episodes of the series, that Donner produced.
  • Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
  • Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Michael Dougherty

• Douglas Pipes
  • Trick 'r Treat (2007)
  • Krampus (2015)

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)
  • Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
  • Lies My Mother Told Me (2005)
  • Human Trafficking (2005–2006)
  • Boot Camp (2008)

Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass

• Michael Andrews
  • Cyrus (2010)
  • Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)
  • Togetherness (2015)

E

Clint Eastwood

Blake Edwards

• Henry Mancini
  • Mister Cory (1957)
  • This Happy Feeling (1958) - Mancini composed additional music for the film.
  • Peter Gunn (1958–1961)
  • Mr. Lucky (1959–1960)
  • Operation Petticoat (1959)
  • High Time (1960)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  • Experiment in Terror (1962)
  • Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
  • Soldier in the Rain (1963)
  • The Pink Panther (1963)
  • A Shot in the Dark (1964)
  • The Great Race (1965)
  • 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)
  • The Ferret (1984) - They were both involved in this unsold series pilot.
  • That's Life! (1986)
  • A Fine Mess (1986)
  • Blind Date (1987)
  • Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954–1992) - They contributed one episode in the series.
  • Sunset (1988)
  • Peter Gunn (1989)
  • Skin Deep (1989)
  • Switch (1991)
  • Julie (1992)
  • 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)

Sergei Eisenstein

• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  • Ivan the Terrible Part I (1944)
  • Ivan the Terrible Part II (1958)

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

John Erman

• John Morris
  • Stella (1990)
  • The Last Best Year (1990)
  • The Last to Go (1991)
  • Our Sons (1991)
  • Carolina Skeletons (1991)
  • Scarlett (1994)
  • Ellen Foster (1997)
  • Only Love (1998)

Gareth Evans

• Aria Prayogi / Fajar Yuskemal
  • Merantau (2009)
  • The Raid: Redemption (2011)
  • V/H/S/2 (2013) - Segment - Safe Haven
  • The Raid 2 (2014)

F

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)
  • The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
  • Whity (1971)
  • Rio das Mortes (1971)
  • Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
  • Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
  • Jail Bait (1973)
  • Fox and His Friends (1974)
  • Fear of Fear (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)

Jon Favreau

• John Debney
  • Elf (2003)
  • Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
  • Iron Man 2 (2010)
  • The Jungle Book (2016)

Paul Feig

Federico Fellini

Abel Ferrara

Todd Field

• Thomas Newman
  • In the Bedroom (2001)
  • Little Children (2006)

Andy Fickman

• Nathan Wang
  • Who's Your Daddy? (2004)
  • Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)
  • She's the Man (2006)
  • The Game Plan (2007)
  • You Again (2010)
  • Wright vs. Wrong (2010)

Eduardo De Filippo

• Nino Rota
  • Side Street Story (1950)
  • Filomena Marturano (1951)
  • Ragazze da marito (1952)
  • Marito e moglie (1952)
  • Fortunella (1958)
  • Kiss the Other Sheik (1965) - segment L'ora di punta

David Fincher

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)
  • Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
  • Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
  • The Devil Rides Out (1968)
  • Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
  • Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973)

Mike Flanagan

• The Newton Brothers
  • Oculus (2013)
  • Hush (2016)
  • Before I Wake (2016)
  • Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
  • Gerald's Game (2017)
  • The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

Gary Fleder

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

Anne Fletcher

• Christophe Beck
  • The Guilt Trip (2012)
  • Hot Pursuit (2015)

James Foley

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)

Tom Ford

• Abel Korzeniowski
  • A Single Man (2009)
  • Nocturnal Animals (2016)

Bob Fosse

• Ralph Burns
  • Sweet Charity (1969) - Orchestration.
  • Cabaret (1972)
  • Liza with a Z (1972) - Burns was credited as musical arranger.
  • Lenny (1974)
  • All That Jazz (1979)
  • Star 80 (1983)

Scott Frank

• Carlos Rafael Rivera
  • A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
  • Godless (2017)

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)

John Frankenheimer

• Gary Chang
  • 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)
  • Path to War (2002)

Richard Franklin

• Brian May
  • The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975)
  • Patrick (1978)
  • Roadgames (1981)
  • Cloak & Dagger (1984)

Stephen Frears