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

• 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)

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

Hideaki Anno

• Shirō Sagisu
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)
  • The End of Evangelion (1997)
  • Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
  • Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
  • Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
  • Shin Godzilla (2016)
  • Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (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
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (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

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)

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)

Michael Bay

Bruce Beresford

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

Ingmar Bergman

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)
  • 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 (2019)

Brad Bird

• Michael Giacchino
  • The Incredibles (2004)
  • Ratatouille (2007)
  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
  • Tomorrowland (2015)
  • Incredibles 2 (2018)
  • Ray Gunn (2026)

Paul Bogart

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)
  • 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)
  • Capital Punishment (2014)
  • Rampage: President Down (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)
  • Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (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)
  • Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
  • Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (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)
  • 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)

Edward L. Cahn

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)
  • xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (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

Nick Castle

• Craig Safan
  • Tag: The Assassination Game (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

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
  • 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

• John Williams
  • Home Alone (1990)
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
  • Stepmom (1998)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Bill Condon

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)
  • Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)
  • Hangar 18 (1980)
  • Earthbound (1981)
  • The Boogens (1981)

Ryan Coogler

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

Don Coscarelli

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

David Cronenberg

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

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)

Michael Curtiz

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)
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
  • Matinee (1993)
  • Small Soldiers (1998)
  • Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

Delmer Daves

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

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)

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)
  • Independence Day: Resurgence (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)

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 (1972)
  • 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)

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)
  • Fellini: A Director's Notebook (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)
  • Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (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)
  • 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 (1974)

Mike Flanagan

• The Newton Brothers
  • Oculus (2013)
  • Hush (2016)
  • Before I Wake (2016)
  • Ouija: Origin of Evil (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)
  • The Bachelor (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

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

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)

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

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)
  • The Exorcist: Believer (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)

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)
  • Exorcist: The Beginning (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

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

Walter Hill

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)
  • A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (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

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)

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)

Peter Jackson

• Howard Shore
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Rian Johnson

• Nathan Johnson
  • Brick (2005)
  • The Brothers Bloom (2008)
  • Looper (2012)
  • Knives Out (2019)
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (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)
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)

Neil Jordan

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

Shusuke Kaneko

• Kow Otani
  • My Soul Is Slashed (1991)
  • No Worries on the Recruit Front (1991)
  • Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan (1993)
  • It's a Summer Vacation Everyday (1994)
  • Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
  • Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
  • Haunted School 3 (1997)
  • Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999)
  • Pyrokinesis (2000)
  • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (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)
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (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)
  • Three Colors: Blue (1993)
  • Three Colors: White (1993)
  • Three Colors: Red (1993)

Henry King

Takeshi Kitano

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

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)

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

Walter Lang

Francis Lawrence

• James Newton Howard
  • I Am Legend (2007)
  • Water for Elephants (2011)
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
  • Red Sparrow (2018)
  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

Malcolm D. Lee

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

Spike Lee

Kasi Lemmons

• Terence Blanchard
  • Eve's Bayou (1997)
  • The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
  • Talk to Me (2007)
  • Harriet (2019)
  • Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (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

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)
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (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
  • Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
  • Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
  • Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
  • Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
  • The Death of Superman (2019) – Jake Castorena co–directed this film.
  • Reign of the Supermen (2019) – Jake Castorena co–directed this film.
  • Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019) – Justin Copeland co–directed this film.
  • Superman: Red Son (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)

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)
  • Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)

Garry Marshall

• John Debney
  • The Princess Diaries (2001)
  • Raising Helen (2004)
  • The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
  • Georgia Rule (2007)
  • Valentine's Day (2010)
  • New Year's Eve (2011)
  • Mother's Day (2016)

George Marshall

Armand Mastroianni

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

Tom McGrath

• Hans Zimmer
  • Madagascar (2005)
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
  • Megamind (2010) with Lorne Balfe
  • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
  • The Boss Baby (2017) with Steve Mazzaro
  • The Boss Baby: Family Business (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 Šust
  • 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)
  • Alamo: The Price of Freedom (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)
  • Anna: 6–18' (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)
  • Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998)
  • Ley Lines (1999)
  • Audition (1999)
  • Dead or Alive (1999)
  • Man, Next Natural Girl: 100 Nights in Yokohama (1999)
  • The City of Lost Souls (2000)
  • Visitor Q (2001)
  • Agitator (2001)
  • The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
  • Dead or Alive: Final (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)
  • The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013)
  • Over Your Dead Body (2014)
  • As the Gods Will (2014)
  • The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)
  • Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
  • Terra Formars (2016)
  • The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016)
  • Blade of the Immortal (2017)
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (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)

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)

Mamoru Oshii

• Kenji Kawai
  • Twilight Q (1987)
  • The Red Spectacles (1987)
  • Patlabor (1988)
  • Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
  • StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1991)
  • Talking Head (1992)
  • Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
  • Ghost in the Shell (1995)
  • Avalon (2001)
  • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
  • The Sky Crawlers (2008)
  • Assault Girls (2009)
  • The Last Druid: Garm Wars (2015)

Keishi Ōtomo

• Naoki Satō
  • Rurouni Kenshin (2012)
  • Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
  • Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)
  • The Top Secret: Murder in Mind (2016)
  • Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)
  • Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (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

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)
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (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)
  • St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (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)
  • Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
  • Peeples (2013)
  • A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
  • Six Triple Eight (2024)

Wolfgang Petersen

• Klaus Doldinger
  • Einer von uns beiden (1974)
  • Die Konsequenz (1977)
  • Planübung (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

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
  • Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)
  • Bloodmatch (1991)
  • Dollman (1991)
  • Brainsmasher... A Love Story (1993)
  • Knights (1993)
  • Arcade (1993) – Alternate score
  • Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994)
  • Spitfire (1995)
  • Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995)
  • Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996)
  • Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996)
  • Omega Doom (1996)
  • Nemesis 4: Death Angel (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)

Sam Raimi

S. S. Rajamouli

• M. M. Keeravani
  • Student No. 1 (2001)
  • Simhadri (2003)
  • Challenge (2004)
  • Chatrapathi (2005)
  • Vikramarkudu (2006)
  • Thief of Yama (2007)
  • Magadheera (2009)
  • Maryada Ramanna (2010)
  • Eega (2012)
  • Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)
  • Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (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

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)
  • Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (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

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)
  • Hostel: Part II (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
  • Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
  • The Electric State (2025)
  • Avengers: Doomsday (2026)
  • Avengers: Secret Wars (2027)

Luciano Salce

• Ennio Morricone
  • The Fascist (1961)^[1]
  • 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
  • Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
  • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
  • Rio (2011)
  • Rio 2 (2014)
  • Ferdinand (2017)

Joseph Sargent

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

Paul Schrader

• Angelo Badalamenti
  • The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
  • Witch Hunt (1994)
  • Forever Mine (1999)
  • Auto Focus (2002)
  • Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

Martin Scorsese

Ridley Scott

Tony Scott

• Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Enemy of the State (1998) with Trevor Rabin
  • Spy Game (2001)
  • The Hire: Beat the Devil (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)
  • Nayak: The Real Hero (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)
  • Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
  • Poltergeist III (1988)
  • Lisa (1990)
  • 39: A Film by Carroll McKane (2006)

Kaneto Shindō

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)
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
  • X-Men: Apocalypse (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
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) with Hans Zimmer
  • Army of the Dead (2021)
  • Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
  • Rebel Moon (2023)
  • Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

Steven Soderbergh

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)
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (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)
  • A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010)
  • A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise (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)
  • Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (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

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)

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)
  • The Glorias (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)
  • The Secret: Dare to Dream (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)

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)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (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)
  • Fear Over the City (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)

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)
  • Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015)
  • Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017)
  • A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

Raoul Walsh

James Wan

• Joseph Bishara
  • Insidious (2010)
  • The Conjuring (2013)
  • Insidious: Chapter 2 (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)
  • Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (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

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

Takashi Yamazaki

• Naoki Satō
  • Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005)
  • Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007)
  • Ballad (2009)
  • Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
  • Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki (2011)
  • Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 (2012)
  • The Eternal Zero (2013)
  • Stand by Me Doraemon (2014)
  • Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)
  • Parasyte: Part 2 (2015)
  • Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate (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

Alex Zamm

• Chris Hajian
  • Chairman of the Board (1998)
  • Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)
  • The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
  • Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts (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
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
  • The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
  • Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (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)