-> ''"Half your billions should go to Music/JohnWilliams."''
-->-- '''Creator/AlfredHitchcock''' to Creator/StevenSpielberg, ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''

A subtrope of ProductionPosse; when a director or other influential individual in the creation of a movie/show/game is intrinsically associated with a particular composer who scores all or most of their projects. Artists and musicians in this type of business relationship are frequently friends, and have been known to feed into one another's creative processes.

This does not include examples where a composer and director work together by being both associated with a single franchise, such as ''Franchise/StarWars''. This also focuses on creators as specific individuals who have ongoing relationships with composers, rather than studios.

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!!Please sort examples by director first and composer second, unless specified:

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[[folder: Anime ]]

* Creator/HideakiAnno and Music/ShiroSagisu
* Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Music/JoeHisaishi
* Creator/MamoruOshii and Music/KenjiKawai
* Creator/MakotoShinkai and {{Tenmon}}
* Creator/KoichiMashimo and Music/YukiKajiura (starting on ''Manga/EatMan'' going through the ''GirlsWithGuns'' Trilogy and so far ending at ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'')
** Music/AliProject
** Music/KowOtani
* Ei Aoki and Music/YukiKajiura (mentioned above)
* Creator/OsamuTezuka and Music/IsaoTomita
* Creator/AkiraToriyama and Music/ShunsukeKikuchi
* Creator/SatoshiKon and Music/SusumuHirasawa
* Creator/KenjiKamiyama and Music/KenjiKawai or Music/YokoKanno
* Ei Aoki or Tetsuro Araki and Music/HiroyukiSawano
* Creator/AkiyukiShinbo and Music/YukiKajiura (mentioned above again)

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[[folder: Film and Western Live-Action ]]

* Creator/CharlesFeldman and Music/BurtBacharach.
* Music/MichelLegrand and Creator/JacquesDemy.
* Creator/NikitaMikhalkov and Music/EduardArtemyev.
* Music/CarmineCoppola and son Creator/FrancisFordCoppola.
* Music/LaloSchifrin and Creator/ClintEastwood.
* Music/AngeloBadalamenti and Creator/DavidLynch.
* Creator/BlakeEdwards and Music/HenryMancini, from ''Series/PeterGunn'' to ''Film/SonOfThePinkPanther'' (the last film for ''both'' of them).
* Creator/MelBrooks and Creator/JohnMorris, from ''Film/TheProducers'' up to ''Film/LifeStinks''. They met while working on Broadway musicals as writer and dance arranger.
* Creator/GerryAnderson and Music/BarryGray
* Creator/BusbyBerkeley and Music/HarryWarren. Their relationship is largely due to both being under contract to Creator/WarnerBros through much of the 1930s, but Warren was not a principal songwriter for ''Film/{{Dames}}'' or ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1937'', and ''Film/RomanScandals'' and ''Film/TheGangsAllHere'' were not Warner Bros. productions.
* Creator/ChristopherNolan and Music/DavidJulyan, Music/LudwigGoransson, or Music/HansZimmer
* Creator/RussellTDavies (writer/producer) and Music/MurrayGold
* Creator/ChrisCarter (writer/producer) and Music/MarkSnow
* Music/BillLee composed the music for Creator/SpikeLee's first four movies and Music/TerenceBlanchard scored the rest.
* Creator/IshiroHonda and Music/AkiraIfukube
* Creator/DarrenAronofsky and Music/ClintMansell
* Creator/WolfgangPetersen and Music/KlausDoldinger
* [[Creator/JeanMariePoire Jean-Marie Poiré]] and [[Music/{{Era}} Eric Lévi]] (''Film/LOperationCornedBeef'', ''Film/LesVisiteurs'')
* Creator/MatthewVaughn and Music/IlanEshkeri
* Creator/IvanReitman and Music/RandyEdelman.
* Creator/MichaelBay and Music/SteveJablonsky (Starting with ''Film/TheIsland2005'' and some of the live-action Film/TransformersFilmSeries as well as the Bay-produced horror remakes)
* Creator/KinjiFukasaku and Music/ToshiakiTsushima
* Creator/PhilLordAndChrisMiller and Music/MarkMothersbaugh.
* Creator/KennethBranagh and Music/PatrickDoyle.
* Creator/DavidFincher has had two such collaborators, Music/HowardShore (''Film/Se7en'' to ''Film/PanicRoom'', except ''Film/FightClub'') and [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross]] (all since ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'').
* Marc Streitenfeld scored five straight Creator/RidleyScott films, from ''Film/AGoodYear'' to ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. In-between, he even scored one movie by Scott's son Jake.
* Creator/LucBesson and Music/EricSerra.
* Creator/DenisVilleneuve and Music/JohannJohannsson (worked together on three movies).
* Creator/CelineSciamma and Jean-Baptiste de Laubier (a.k.a. Para One)
* Creator/PaulThomasAnderson and [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Jonny Greenwood]], from ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' to now.
* Creator/DestinDanielCretton and Joel P. West.
* Creator/DarioArgento and Music/{{Goblin}}.
* Creator/EdgarWright and Music/StevenPrice
* Creator/BernardoBertolucci and Music/RyuichiSakamoto (worked together on three movies: ''Film/TheLastEmperor'', ''The Sheltering Sky'', and ''Little Buddha'').
* Creator/JordanPeele and Music/MichaelAbels.
* Creator/WesAnderson has had Music/MarkMothersbaugh from ''Film/BottleRocket'' to ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'' and Music/AlexandreDesplat starting with ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox''.
* Justin Hurwitz has composed the score for every single one of Creator/DamienChazelle's films, with the two having known each other since they were college roommates.

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[[folder: Film and Western Live-Action Composers With Multiple Associated Directors ]]

* Creator/MichaelGiacchino:
** Creator/JJAbrams (except ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheForceAwakens'' and ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', where Music/JohnWilliams remained on the franchise).
** Creator/PeteDocter (bar ''Franchise/MonstersInc'', which goes to Music/RandyNewman, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'', which is done with [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross]], and [[Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert Jon Batiste]])
* Music/ElliottGoldenthal:
** Creator/JoelSchumacher.
** Creator/NeilJordan.
* [[Music/MiklosRozsa Miklós Rózsa]]:
** Creator/BillyWilder.
** Creator/ZoltanKorda.
* Music/MauriceJarre:
** Creator/DavidLean.
** Creator/PeterWeir.
** [[ZuckerAbrahamsZucker Jerry Zucker]]
* Music/BernardHerrmann:
** Creator/AlfredHitchcock used Herrmann exclusively for all his films from ''Film/TheTroubleWithHarry'' through ''Film/{{Marnie}}'', a period that marked the height of both their careers.
** Creator/OrsonWelles. Herrmann's association with Welles predates the one he had with Hitch, going all the way back to Welles's first feature, ''Film/CitizenKane'' (1941).
* Music/RandyNewman:
** Creator/BarryLevinson.
** Creator/JohnLasseter.
* Music/ThomasNewman:
** Creator/FrankDarabont.
** Creator/SamMendes.
** Creator/JonAvnet
* Music/DavidNewman:
** Creator/DannyDeVito
** Creator/StephenHerek.
** Creator/DonaldPetrie.
* Music/CarterBurwell:
** Creator/TheCoenBrothers.
** Creator/SpikeJonze
** Creator/JamesFoley.
* Music/HowardShore:
** Creator/DavidCronenberg.
** Creator/PeterJackson.
** Creator/MartinScorsese.
** Creator/DavidFincher.
* Music/JohnWilliams:
** Creator/StevenSpielberg, starting with ''The Sugarland Express'' .
** Creator/ChrisColumbus.
** Creator/OliverStone.
** Creator/IrwinAllen.
** Creator/GeorgeLucas
* Music/JerryGoldsmith:
** [[Creator/FranklinJSchaffner Franklin J. Schaffner]].
** Creator/JoeDante.
** Creator/SeanConnery (Connery even sported Goldsmith's iconic ponytail as tribute to the veteran composer in ''Film/MedicineMan''.)
** Creator/MichaelCrichton.
** Creator/StephenSommers.
** Creator/PaulVerhoeven.
** Creator/JohnMcTiernan.
** Creator/CurtisHanson.
** Creator/StevenSpielberg
* Music/ElmerBernstein:
** Creator/JohnLandis.
** Creator/JohnSturges.
** Creator/JohnWayne.
** Creator/MartinScorsese.
** Creator/IvanReitman.
** [[Creator/CharlesEames Charles]] & Creator/RayEames.
* Music/AlanSilvestri:
** Creator/RobertZemeckis, starting with ''Film/RomancingTheStone''.
** Creator/StephenSommers.
** Creator/GoreVerbinski
** Creator/DonaldPetrie.
* Music/HansZimmer:
** Creator/RidleyScott.
** Creator/TonyScott.
** Creator/RonHoward
** Creator/GoreVerbinski
** Creator/ChristopherNolan.
** James L. Brooks.
** Creator/JohnBadham.
** Creator/BarryLevinson.
** Zimmer and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Control_Productions_(American_company) his associates]] work on most of the films produced by Creator/JerryBruckheimer.
* Music/JamesHorner:
** Creator/JamesCameron worked together on ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', and ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.
** Creator/RonHoward.
** Creator/MelGibson.
* Music/DannyElfman
** Creator/TimBurton (except ''Film/EdWood'', ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' and ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'').
** Creator/SamRaimi.
** Creator/GusVanSant.
** Creator/BarrySonnenfeld.
* Music/EnnioMorricone:
** Creator/SergioLeone.
** Creator/DarioArgento.
** Creator/PierPaoloPasolini.
** Creator/GiuseppeTornatore.
* Music/NinoRota:
** Creator/FedericoFellini.
** Creator/LuchinoVisconti.
* Music/PinoDonaggio:
** Creator/BarryLevinson.
** Creator/BrianDePalma.
** Creator/JoeDante.
* Music/BillConti:
** Creator/SylvesterStallone.
** Creator/JohnMcTiernan.
** Creator/JohnGAvildsen
* Music/JamesNewtonHoward.
** Creator/MNightShyamalan.
** Creator/BarrySonnenfeld.
** Creator/LawrenceKasdan.
** Creator/JoelSchumacher.
* Music/MarcShaiman:
** Creator/BarrySonnenfeld.
** Creator/RobReiner.
* Music/ChristopherYoung:
** Creator/JonAmiel.
** Creator/SamRaimi.
** Creator/CurtisHanson.
* [[Music/AllahRakhaRahman A. R. Rahman]]:
** Creator/DannyBoyle.
** Creator/ManiRatnam.
** [[Creator/ShanmugamShankar S. Shankar]]
* Music/RachelPortman:
** Creator/DouglasMcGrath.
** Creator/JonathanDemme.
* Music/PhilipGlass:
** Creator/BarryPtolemy.
** Creator/GodfreyReggio.
* Music/BradFiedel:
** Creator/JamesCameron.
** Creator/RowdyHerrington.
* Music/MichaelKamen:
** Creator/RichardDonner.
** Creator/JohnMcTiernan.
** Creator/TerryGilliam.
* Music/BasilPoledouris:
** Creator/JohnMilius.
** Creator/PaulVerhoeven.
* Music/MarkIsham.
** Creator/FrankDarabont.
** Creator/AlanRudolph.
** Creator/RobertHarmon.
** Creator/PaulHaggis.
** Creator/ScottHicks
** Creator/GavinOConnor
* Music/WilliamRoss:
** Creator/ChristopherCain.
** Creator/JayRussell.
* Music/JohnDebney:
** Creator/GarryMarshall, from ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' onwards.
** Creator/DonaldPetrie.
** Creator/JonFavreau.
* Music/JohnPowell:
** Creator/PaulGreengrass
** Creator/BlueSkyStudios
* Music/VladimirCosma:
** Creator/GerardOury
** Yves Robert
** Édouard Molinaro
** Creator/ClaudeZidi
** Claude Pinoteau
** Creator/FrancisVeber
** Jean-Pierre Mocky
* Music/TangerineDream:
** Creator/MichaelMann
** Creator/BobbyRoth
* Music/{{Vangelis}}:
** Creator/RidleyScott
** Frédéric Rossif

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Creator/MasatoKato and Creator/YasunoriMitsuda
* Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto and Creator/KojiKondo (along with other musicians associated with Kondo, such as Hajime Wakai and Music/MahitoYokota).
* Creator/HironobuSakaguchi and Creator/NobuoUematsu
* Creator/YasumiMatsuno and Creator/HitoshiSakimoto
* Creator/RonGilbert and Michael Land.
* Creator/TimSchafer and Creator/PeterMcConnel.
* Creator/KojiIgarashi and Creator/MicharuYamane.
* {{Creator/Bungie}} and Martin O'Donnell.
* Creator/GoichiSuda and Music/MasafumiTakada
** Creator/GoichiSuda and Music/AkiraYamaoka, after Takada left GrasshopperManufacture
* [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Ryu]][[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry kis]][[Franchise/WhenTheyCry hi07]] and Dai
* Creator/TetsuyaNomura and Music/YokoShimomura
* Creator/LookingGlassStudios and Creator/IrrationalGames with Eric Brosius
* [[Franchise/DragonQuest Yuji Horii and Koichi Sugiyama]].

!!Creators who tend to compose scores for their own projects:
* Creator/AlejandroAmenabar
* Creator/AlexandreAstier
* Creator/JohnCarpenter
* Creator/ClintEastwood, since ''Film/MysticRiver''
* Creator/MikeFiggis
* Creator/TobyFox
* Creator/RobertRodriguez (a protege of John Debney, who's collaborated with Rodriguez on several projects)
* Creator/VictorSchertzinger
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