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.

Lenny Abrahamson

Andrew Adamson

Irwin Allen

Pedro Almodóvar

Jon Amiel

Paul Thomas Anderson

Wes Anderson

Theo Angelopoulos

Hideaki Anno

Michelangelo Antonioni

Judd Apatow

Dario Argento

Darren Aronofsky

John G. Avildsen

John Badham

Michael Bay

Bruce Beresford

Ingmar Bergman

Bernardo Bertolucci

Luc Besson

Brad Bird

Paul Bogart

Mauro Bolognini

Uwe Boll

Boulting Brothers

Kenneth Branagh

Mel Brooks

Clarence Brown

Luis Buñuel

Jeff Burr

Tim Burton

Edward L. Cahn

Joe Camp

Frank Capra

John Carpenter

D.J. Caruso

Nick Cassavetes

Enzo G. Castellari

Nick Castle

Damien Chazelle

Bob Clark

George Clooney

Jean Cocteau

Coen Brothers

Rob Cohen

Chris Columbus

Bill Condon

James L. Conway

Ryan Coogler

Francis Ford Coppola

Frank Coraci

Roger Corman

Don Coscarelli

Alex Cox

Wes Craven

Destin Daniel Cretton

John Cromwell

David Cronenberg

Cameron Crowe
George Cukor

Irving Cummings

Sean S. Cunningham

Michael Curtiz

Rod Daniel

Joe Dante

Delmer Daves

Claire Denis

Philippe de Broca

Álex de la Iglesia

Alberto De Martino

Brian De Palma

Jacques Demy

Jacques Deray

Danny DeVito

Tom DiCillo

William Dieterle

Edward Dmytryk

Roger Donaldson

Gordon Douglas

Dennis Dugan

Christian Duguay

Clint Eastwood

Blake Edwards

Atom Egoyan

Stephan Elliot

Roland Emmerich

Gareth Evans

• Aria Prayogi & Fajar Yuskemal

Roberto Faenza

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Paul Feig

Federico Fellini

Abel Ferrara

Andy Fickman

Eduardo De Filippo

David Fincher

Terence Fisher

Mike Flanagan

Gary Fleder

Victor Fleming

Bryan Forbes

John Ford

Georges Franju

David Frankel

Stephen Frears

Lucio Fulci

Samuel Fuller

Rodrigo Garcia

Philippe Garrel

Bert I. Gordon

James Goldstone

Stuart Gordon

David Gordon Green

Peter Greenaway

Paul Greengrass

Guy Hamilton

Renny Harlin

Anthony Harvey

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Amy Heckerling

Stephen Herek

Werner Herzog

Walter Hill

Alfred Hitchcock

Michael Hoffman

Agnieszka Holland

Ishirō Honda

Ron Howard

Reginald Hudlin

John Hughes

John Huston

Nicholas Hytner

Otar Iosseliani

James Ivory

Peter Jackson

Rian Johnson

Glenn Jordan

Neil Jordan

Shusuke Kaneko

Phil Karlson

Jake Kasdan

Lawrence Kasdan

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Henry King

Takeshi Kitano

Travis Knight

Masaki Kobayashi

Andrei Konchalovsky

Zoltan Korda

Stanley Kramer

Roger Kumble

Akira Kurosawa

Ken Kwapis

Aldo Lado

John Landis

Walter Lang

Francis Lawrence

Malcolm D. Lee

Spike Lee

Kasi Lemmons

Robert Z. Leonard

Sergio Leone

Mervyn LeRoy

Umberto Lenzi

Richard Lester

Brian Levant

Henry Levin

Barry Levinson

Shawn Levy

Jerry Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Doug Liman

Justin Lin

Richard Linklater

Sam Liu

Ken Loach

David Lowery

Sidney Lumet

Rod Lurie

William Lustig

David Lynch

John Madden

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Daniel Mann

Delbert Mann

Garry Marshall

George Marshall

Armand Mastroianni

Paul Mazursky

Martin McDonagh

Vincent McEveety

Tom McGrath

Andrew V. McLaglen

Sam Mendes

Jiří Menzel

Kieth Merrill

Russ Meyer
Nikita Mikhalkov

Takashi Miike

John Milius

George T. Miller

Vincente Minnelli

Hayao Miyazaki

Kenji Mizoguchi

Giuliano Montaldo

Jonathan Mostow
Robert Mulligan

Mike Newell

Jeff Nichols

Christopher Nolan

Mamoru Oshii

Keishi Ōtomo

Frank Oz

Yasujirō Ozu

Alan J. Pakula

Nick Park

Oliver Parker

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Alexander Payne

Sam Peckinpah

Larry Peerce

Tyler Perry

Wolfgang Petersen

Elio Petri

Todd Phillips

Charles B. Pierce

Roman Polanski

Sydney Pollack

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Albert Pyun

Sam Raimi

S. S. Rajamouli

Mani Ratnam

Brett Ratner

Fred Olen Ray

Matt Reeves

Nicolas Winding Refn

Godfrey Reggio

Carl Reiner

Rob Reiner

Wolfgang Reitherman

Jean Renoir

Tony Richardson

Jay Roach

Yves Robert

Robert Rodriguez

Nicolas Roeg

Stuart Rosenberg

Roberto Rossellini

Eli Roth

Alan Rudolph

Raúl Ruiz

Russo brothers

Luciano Salce

Carlos Saldanha

Joseph Sargent

Claude Sautet

John Sayles

Franklin J. Schaffner

Fred Schepisi

Paul Schrader

Martin Scorsese

Ridley Scott

Tony Scott

George Seaton

Tom Shadyac

S. Shankar

Gary Sherman

Kaneto Shindō

M. Night Shyamalan

Vittorio De Sica

Don Siegel

Bryan Singer

Douglas Sirk

Jerzy Skolimowski

Kevin Smith

Zack Snyder

Steven Soderbergh

Alberto Sordi

Steven Spielberg

Andrew Stanton

Ben Stassen

George Stevens

Robert Stevenson

John Stockwell

Tim Story

Mel Stuart

John Sturges

Béla Tarr

Frank Tashlin

Norman Taurog

Julie Taymor

Bertrand Tavernier

Andy Tennant

Giuseppe Tornatore

Andre De Toth

Jacques Tourneur

François Truffaut

Agnès Varda

W. S. Van Dyke

Gus Van Sant

Gore Verbinski

Henri Verneuil

King Vidor

The Wachowskis

David Wain

Raoul Walsh

James Wan

Régis Wargnier

Shinichirō Watanabe

Mark Waters

Keoni Waxman

Peter Weir

William A. Wellman

Wim Wenders

Paul Wendkos

Ti West

Billy Wilder

Michael Winner

Park Chan-wook

Joe Wright

William Wyler

Takashi Yamazaki

David Yates

Wilson Yip

Alex Zamm

Robert Zemeckis

David Zucker

Andrzej Zulawski