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This page is a list of collaborations between composers and directors. The list is sorted alphabetically by the composer's last name, and then by the director's last name. The films in which they collaborated are listed chronologically when they were released. The composer and director must have worked on at least two films together for it to be considered a "collaboration".

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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George Bruns and Wolfgang Reitherman

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Bill Conti and John G. Avildsen

  • 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)

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John Debney and Jon Favreau

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

Alexandre Desplat and Wes Anderson

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
  • Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
  • Isle of Dogs (2018)

Alexandre Desplat and David Yates

Alexandre Desplat and Chris Weitz

  • The Golden Compass (2007)
  • The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
  • A Better Life (2011)

Patrick Doyle and Kenneth Branagh

  • 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)

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Danny Elfman and Tim Burton

  • 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)
  • Alice in Wonderland (2010)
  • Dark Shadows (2012)
  • Frankenweenie (2012)
  • Big Eyes (2014)
  • Dumbo (2019)

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Nicholas Hooper and David Yates

James Newton Howard and Francis Lawrence

  • 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)

James Newton Howard and M. Night Shyamalan

  • 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)

James Newton Howard and David Yates

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

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Jóhann Jóhannsson and Denis Villeneuve

  • Prisoners (2013)
  • Sicario (2015)
  • Arrival (2016)

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Joel McNeely and Reverge Anselmo

  • Lover's Prayer (2001)
  • Stateside (2004)

Joel McNeely and Debbie Allen

  • Polly (1989)
  • Polly: Comin' Home! (1990)

Joel McNeely and William Dear

  • Wild America (1997)
  • Santa Who? (2000)

Joel McNeely and Charles Haid

  • Iron Will (1994)
  • Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
  • Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)

Joel McNeely and Peggy Holmes

  • Secret of the Wings (2012)
  • The Pirate Fairy (2014)

Joel McNeely and Mollie Miller

  • Parent Trap III (1989)
  • Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989)

Joel McNeely and Dominique Monféry

  • Destino (2003)
  • Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure (2006)

Joel McNeely and Frank Nissen

Joel McNeely and Bradley Raymond

  • Tinker Bell (2008)
  • Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)
  • Pixie Hollow Games (2011)

Joel McNeely and Deran Sarafian

  • Terminal Velocity (1994)
  • Road Rage (1999)

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Randy Newman and John Lasseter

Thomas Newman and Andrew Stanton

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John Ottman and Bryan Singer

  • 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)

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Alan Silvestri and Stephen Sommers

  • The Mummy Returns (2001)
  • Van Helsing (2004)
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

Alan Silvestri and Robert Zemeckis

  • 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)
  • The Witches (2020)
  • Pinocchio (2022)

Christopher L. Stone and Don Coscarelli

  • Phantasm II (1988)
  • Survival Quest (1988)
  • Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
  • Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

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U[]

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John Williams and Chris Columbus

John Williams and George Lucas

John Williams and Steven Spielberg

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