List of film director–composer collaborations

The following film directors and film score composers have worked together on multiple projects.
Ali Abbasi
J. J. Abrams
Lenny Abrahamson
Andrew Adamson
Ben Affleck
Alan Alda
Moustapha Akkad
Robert Aldrich
Irwin Allen
Pedro Almodóvar
Robert Altman
Fede Álvarez
Jon Amiel
Sean Anders
Brad Anderson
Gerry Anderson
Lindsay Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson
Wes Anderson
Michael Anderson
Theo Angelopoulos
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Hideaki Anno
Michelangelo Antonioni
Judd Apatow
Michael Apted
Tetsuro Araki
Dario Argento
Gillian Armstrong
Jack Arnold
Darren Aronofsky
Hal Ashby
Himel Ashraf
Ari Aster
Richard Attenborough
Bille August
Hy Averback
John G. Avildsen
Jon Avnet
David Ayer
John Badham
Stuart Baird
Ralph Bakshi
Kyle Balda
Justin Baldoni
Charles Band
Wes Ball
Tony Barbieri
Bruno Barreto
Craig Bartlett
Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.
Noah Baumbach
Michael Bay
J. A. Bayona
Craig R. Baxley
Warren Beatty
Harold Becker
Josh Becker
Greg Beeman
Donald P. Bellisario
Richard Benjamin
Robert Benton
Bruce Beresford
Peter Berg
Edward Berger
Ingmar Bergman
Andrew Bergman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bibo Bergeron
Luc Besson
Bahram Beyzai
Thomas Bezucha
Tony Bill
Mike Binder
Brad Bird
Gregg Bishop
Shane Black
Don Bluth
James Bobin
Paul Bogart
Mauro Bolognini
Uwe Boll
Jan de Bont
Josh Boone
Ole Bornedal
Boulting Brothers
Serge Bourguignon
David Bowers
Danny Boyle
John Brahm
Kenneth Branagh
Martin Brest
Craig Brewer
Steven Brill
Marshall Brickman
Philippe De Broca
James L. Brooks
Mel Brooks
Richard Brooks
Clarence Brown
Chris Buck
John Carl Buechler
Luis Buñuel
Charles Burnett
Jeff Burr
Tim Burton
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Edward L. Cahn
Christopher Cain
Thomas L. Callaway
James Cameron
Joe Camp
Bruce Campbell
Martin Campbell
Danny Cannon
Frank Capra
J.S. Cardone
Niki Caro
John Carpenter
D.J. Caruso
Steve Carver
John Cassavetes
Nick Cassavetes
Enzo G. Castellari
Nick Castle
William Castle
Gilbert Cates
Larry Charles
Michael Chaves
Damien Chazelle
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Peter Chelsom
Roger Christian
Jon M. Chu
Matt Cimber
Michael Cimino
Bob Clark
Jack Clayton
Ron Clements & John Musker
Graeme Clifford
George Clooney
Robert Clouse
Jean Cocteau
Coen Brothers
Pierre Coffin
Larry Cohen
Etan Cohen
Rob Cohen
Chris Columbus
Bill Condon
Jack Conway
James L. Conway
Ryan Coogler
Martha Coolidge
Stuart Cooper
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Frank Coraci
Roger Corman
Don Coscarelli
George P. Cosmatos
Kevin Costner
Alex Cox
Wes Craven
Destin Daniel Cretton
Michael Crichton
John Cromwell
David Cronenberg
Cameron Crowe
Alfonso Cuarón
George Cukor
Irving Cummings
Sean S. Cunningham
Dan Curtis
Michael Curtiz
Rod Daniel
Lee Daniels
Joe Dante
Frank Darabont
Jules Dassin
Delmer Daves
Andrew Davis
John A. Davis
John DeBello
Dean DeBlois
Claire Denis
Philippe de Broca
Álex de la Iglesia
David DeCoteau
Alberto De Martino
Brian De Palma
Jonathan Demme
Ted Demme
Farid Dms Debah
James DeMonaco
Jacques Demy
Ruggero Deodato
Jacques Deray
Scott Derrickson
Howard Deutch
Danny DeVito
Lukas Dhont
Tom DiCillo
William Dieterle
Mark Dindal
Edward Dmytryk
Pete Docter
Xavier Dolan
Andrew Dominik
Roger Donaldson
Stanley Donen
Richard Donner
Michael Dougherty
Gordon Douglas
Lorenzo Doumani
Dennis Dugan
Christian Duguay
Bill Duke
Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass
Clint Eastwood
Joel Edgerton
Blake Edwards
Robert Eggers
Atom Egoyan
Sergei Eisenstein
Stephan Elliot
Anna Eriksson
Roland Emmerich
Nora Ephron
John Erman
Daniel Espinosa
Gareth Evans
Chris Eyre
Roberto Faenza
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jon Favreau
Tim Fehlbaum
Paul Feig
Sam Fell
Federico Fellini
Abel Ferrara
Todd Field
Andy Fickman
Eduardo De Filippo
David Fincher
Terence Fisher
Mike Flanagan
Gary Fleder
Richard Fleischer
Ruben Fleischer
Victor Fleming
Anne Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher
John Flynn
James Foley
Bryan Forbes
Maya Forbes
Tom Ford
John Ford
Bill Forsyth
Bob Fosse
Georges Franju
Scott Frank
David Frankel
John Frankenheimer
Richard Franklin
James Frawley
Stephen Frears
Bart Freundlich
William Friedkin
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Lucio Fulci
Samuel Fuller
Brad Furman
Antoine Fuqua
Sidney J. Furie
Rodrigo Garcia
Alex Garland
Philippe Garrel
Mick Garris
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Greta Gerwig
Mel Gibson
Lewis Gilbert
Stuart Gillard
Terry Gilliam
Dan Gilroy
Tony Gilroy
William Girdler
John Glen
Bert I. Gordon
Jonathan Glazer
Will Gluck
Jean-Luc Godard
James Goldstone
Michael Gordon
Seth Gordon
Stuart Gordon
Raja Gosnell
David S. Goyer
William Graham
Walter Grauman
James Gray
Adam Green
David Gordon Green
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Peter Greenaway
Paul Greengrass
David Greene
Maggie Greenwald
Tom Gries
Luca Guadagnino
Christopher Guest
Davis Guggenheim
James Gunn
John Guillermin
Taylor Hackford
Randa Haines
Jack Haley Jr.
Don Hall
Lasse Hallstrom
John Hamburg
Guy Hamilton
John Lee Hancock
Curtis Hanson
Keiichi Hara
Catherine Hardwicke
Joseph Hardy
Sam Hargrave
Renny Harlin
Hal Hartley
Harvey Hart
Anthony Harvey
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Michel Hazanavicius
Amy Heckerling
Rob Hedden
Richard T. Heffron
Stuart Heisler
Brian Helgeland
Marielle Heller
Jim Henson
Stephen Herek
Michael O'Herlihy
Mark Herman
Rowdy Herrington
John Herzfeld
Werner Herzog
Peter Hewitt
Colin Higgins
George Roy Hill
Tim Hill
Walter Hill
Stephen Hillenburg
Arthur Hiller
Alfred Hitchcock
Bong Joon Ho
Michael Hoffman
P.J. Hogan
Todd Holland
Rod Holcomb
Agnieszka Holland
Savage Steve Holland
Ishirō Honda
Gavin Hood
Kevin Hooks
Stephen Hopkins
Tom Hooper
Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic
Mamoru Hosoda
John Hough
Ron Howard
Reginald Hudlin
John Hughes
Tim Hunter
John Huston
Peter Hyams
Nicholas Hytner
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Otar Iosseliani
Dan Ireland
Robert Iscove
Neal Israel
Jim Issac
James Ivory
Dianne Jackson
Mick Jackson
Peter Jackson
Jerry Jameson
Jim Jarmusch
Charles Jarrott
Barry Jenkins
Garth Jennings
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Norman Jewison
Roland Joffé
Rian Johnson
Joe Johnston
Lamont Johnson
Tim Johnson
Angelina Jolie
Duncan Jones
Harmon Jones
Spike Jonze
Glenn Jordan
Neil Jordan
Mike Judge
Jeremy Kagan
Kenji Kamiyama
Shusuke Kaneko
Jonathan Kaplan
Phil Karlson
Jake Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan
Kazuyoshi Katayama
Lloyd Kaufman
Elia Kazan
Jennifer Kent
Irwin Kershner
James Kerwin
Bruce Kessler
Beeban Kidron
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Henry King
Takesi Kitano
Randal Kleiser
Walter Klenhard
Travis Knight
Masaki Kobayashi
David Koepp
Satoshi Kon
Andrei Konchalovsky
Zoltan Korda
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Joseph Kosinski
Henry Koster
Stanley Kramer
John Krasinski
Stanley Kubrick
Buzz Kulik
Roger Kumble
Akira Kurosawa
Justin Kurzel
Karyn Kusama
Emir Kusturica
Ken Kwapis
Aldo Lado
Mary Lambert
Peter Landesman
John Landis
Fritz Lang
Walter Lang
John Lasseter
Francis Lawrence
Arnold Laven
David Lean
Ang Lee
Malcolm D. Lee
Spike Lee
Michael Lehmann
David Leitch
Michael Lembeck
Kasi Lemmons
Robert Z. Leonard
Tony Leondis
Sergio Leone
Mervyn LeRoy
Umberto Lenzi
Richard Lester
Louis Leterrier
Rob Letterman
Brian Levant
Henry Levin
Jonathan Levine
Barry Levinson
Shawn Levy
Jerry Lewis
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Robert Michael Lewis
Jonathan Liebesman
Kevin Lima
Doug Liman
Justin Lin
Richard Linklater
Dwight H. Little
Sam Liu
Ken Loach
Joshua Logan
Ulli Lommel
Peter Lord
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Joseph Losey
David Lowery
George Lucas
Jon Lucas & Scott Moore
Baz Luhrmann
Sidney Lumet
Rod Lurie
William Lustig
David Lynch
Adrian Lyne
Jonathan Lynn
Seth MacFarlane
John Madden
Terrence Malick
William Malone
David Mamet
James Mangold
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Anthony Mann
Daniel Mann
Delbert Mann
Michael Mann
Richard Marquand
Edwin L. Marin
Garry Marshall
George Marshall
Penny Marshall
Armand Mastroianni
Paul Mazursky
Patricia Mazuy
Craig McCracken
Martin McDonagh
Bernard McEveety
Vincent McEveety
McG
Michael McGowan
Douglas McGrath
Tom McGrath
Adam McKay
Andrew V. McLaglen
Sean McNamara
Christopher McQuarrie
Steve McQueen
James McTeigue
John McTiernan
Theodore Melfi
Sam Mendes
Ramón Menéndez
Jiří Menzel
Kieth Merrill
Nicholas Meyer
Russ Meyer
Nancy Meyers
Takashi Miike
John Milius
Bennett Miller
George Miller
George T. Miller
Michael Miller
Robert Ellis Miller
Tim Miller
Rob Minkoff
Steve Miner
Anthony Minghella
Vincente Minnelli
David Robert Mitchell
Mike Mitchell
Gorō Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Giuliano Montaldo
Tomm Moore
Rich Moore
Glen Morgan
Jonathan Mostow
Shuhei Morita
Greg Mottola
John Llewellyn Moxey
Robert Mulligan
Geoff Murphy
Andy Muschietti
Mike Nawrocki
Hal Needham
Jean Negulesco
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Ralph Nelson
Morgan Neville
Mike Newell
Joseph P. Newman
Paul Newman
Andrew Niccol
Jeff Nichols
Mike Nichols
Ted Nicolaou
Leonard Nimoy
Daisuke Nishio
Marcus Nispel
Christopher Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
Phillip Noyce
Victor Nuñez
Joe Nussbaum
Gavin O'Connor
Baran bo Odar
Steve Oedekerk
Takao Okawara
Laurence Olivier
Mark Osborne
Mamoru Oshii
Keishi Ōtomo
Frank Oz
Yasujirō Ozu
José Padilha
Alan J. Pakula
Nick Park
Alan Parker
Oliver Parker
Robert Parrish
John Pasquin
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Alexander Payne
Richard Pearce
Kris Pearn
Sam Peckinpah
Jordan Peele
Larry Peerce
Sean Penn
Vadim Perelman
Pierre Perifel
Oz Perkins
Tyler Perry
Matt Peters
Wolfgang Petersen
Elio Petri
Donald Petrie
Daniel Petrie
Brad Peyton
Renji Philip
Todd Phillips
Charles B. Pierce
Claude Pinoteau
Angelina Jolie Pitt
Sidney Poitier
Roman Polanski
Sydney Pollack
James Ponsoldt
Ted Post
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Kemp Powers
Otto Preminger
Michael Pressman
Alex Proyas
Albert Pyun
Eric Radomski
Bob Rafelson
Sam Raimi
S. S. Rajamouli
Harold Ramis
Lynne Ramsay
Mani Ratnam
Brett Ratner
Fred Olen Ray
Robert Redford
Peyton Reed
Dee Rees
Jerry Rees
Matt Reeves
Nicolas Winding Refn
Godfrey Reggio
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Wolfgang Reitherman
Ivan Reitman
Jason Reitman
Chris Renaud
Jean Renoir
David Lowell Rich
Tony Richardson
William Richert
Diana Ringo
Guy Ritchie
Michael Ritchie
Martin Ritt
Jay Roach
Brian Robbins
Matthew Robbins
Yves Robert
Phil Alden Robinson
Mark Robson
Chris Rock
Robert Rodriguez
Nicolas Roeg
Joachim Rønning
Bernard Rose
Mark Rosman
Martin Rosen
Stuart Rosenberg
Rick Rosenthal
Gary Ross
Herbert Ross
Roberto Rossellini
Eli Roth
Joe Roth
Joseph Ruben
Alan Rudolph
Raúl Ruiz
Richard Rush
Jay Russell
Russo brothers
Mark Rydell
Boris Sagal
Luciano Salce
Carlos Saldanha
Sidney Salkow
David F. Sandberg
Ari Sandel
Chris Sanders
Joseph Sargent
Jeremy Saulnier
Claude Sautet
Victor Saville
John Sayles
Franklin J. Schaffner
Fred Schepisi
Ryan Schifrin
John Schlesinger
Volker Schlöndorff
Maria Schrader
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
John Schultz
David Schmoeller
Joel Schumacher
Robert Schwentke
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
George Seaton
Peter Segal
Susan Seidelman
Henry Selick
Joann Sfar
Tom Shadyac
S. Shankar
Adam Shankman
Thea Sharrock
Ron Shelton
Jim Sheridan
Taylor Sheridan
Gary Sherman
Vincent Sherman
Kaneto Shindō
Makoto Shinkai
Michael Showalter
Trey Edward Shults
M. Night Shyamalan
Charles Shyer
Vittorio De Sica
Andy Sidaris
George Sidney
Don Siegel
Brad Silberling
Marisa Silver
Elliot Silverstein
Justin Simien
Bryan Singer
John Singleton
Douglas Sirk
Jerzy Skolimowski
Kevin Smith
Jack Smight
Zack Snyder
Steven Soderbergh
Courtney Solomon
Stephen Sommers
Barry Sonnenfeld
Alberto Sordi
Aaron Sorkin
Penelope Spheeris
Steven Spielberg
Roger Spottiswoode
Chad Stahelski
John M. Stahl
Sylvester Stallone
Richard Stanley
Andrew Stanton
Jack Starrett
Ben Stassen
George Stevens
Leslie Stevens
Robert Stevenson
Ben Stiller
Whit Stillman
John Stockwell
Nicholas Stoller
Charles Stone III
Oliver Stone
Tim Story
Mel Stuart
John Sturges
Jeannot Szwarc
Isao Takahata
Yōjirō Takita
Rachel Talalay
Andrei Tarkovsky
Béla Tarr
Genndy Tartakovsky
Frank Tashlin
Norman Taurog
Alan Taylor
Don Taylor
Tate Taylor
Julie Taymor
Bertrand Tavernier
Gary Templeton
Andy Tennant
Masaaki Tezuka
Betty Thomas
J. Lee Thompson
Richard Thorpe
Rawson Marshall Thurber
George Tillman, Jr.
Bruce Timm
Shannon Tindle
Norman Tokar
Giuseppe Tornatore
Guillermo del Toro
Andre De Toth
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Townsend
Dan Trachtenberg
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Colin Trevorrow
Joachim Trier
Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
François Truffaut
Douglas Trumbull
Jon Turteltaub
David Twohy
Nora Twomey
Ron Underwood
Nick Vallelonga
Agnès Varda
W. S. Van Dyke
Gus Van Sant
Matthew Vaughn
Gore Verbinski
Henri Verneuil
Paul Verhoeven
King Vidor
Denis Villeneuve
Robert Vince
The Wachowskis
Lana Wachowski
David Wain
Taika Waititi
Chris Walas
Randall Wallace
Anthony Waller
Raoul Walsh
Fred Walton
James Wan
David S. Ward
Régis Wargnier
Denzel Washington
Shinichirō Watanabe
John Waters
Mark Waters
Jon Watts
Ric Roman Waugh
Scott Waugh
Keoni Waxman
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Robert D. Web
Marc Webb
Simon Wells
Lo Wei
Peter Weir
Sam Weisman
Chris Weitz
Orson Welles
Audrey Wells
William A. Wellman
Wim Wenders
Paul Wendkos
Peter Werner
Ti West
John Whitesell
Richard Whorf
Billy Wilder
Gene Wilder
Chris Williams
Fred Williamson
Simon Wincer
Harry Winer
Jonathan Winfrey
Adam Wingard
Irwin Winkler
Michael Winner
Robert Wise
Len Wiseman
George C. Wolfe
James Wong
Kar-Wai Wong
John Woo
Sam Wood
Park Chan-wook
Edgar Wright
Joe Wright
Donald Wrye
William Wyler
Jim Wynorski
Boaz Yakin
Naoko Yamada
Takashi Yamazaki
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Peter Yates
David Yates
Wilson Yip
Bud Yorkin
Roger Young
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Ronny Yu
Robert M. Young
Terence Young
Masaaki Yuasa
S. Craig Zahler
Steven Zaillian
Alex Zamm
Franco Zeffirelli
Benh Zeitlin
Robert Zemeckis
Howard Zieff
Fred Zinnemann
Joseph Zito
Rob Zombie
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
Andrzej Zulawski
Valerio Zurlini
Harald Zwart
Edward Zwick
Terry Zwigoff