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Best director composer duos

The best-rated director and composer pair with at least 3 films is Nolan and Zimmer, averaging 8.50 across 6 films.

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3+ films together

Best director and composer pairs

Best director composer duos
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1	Christopher Nolan	Hans Zimmer	6	8.5	2005 to 2017
2	Peter Jackson	Howard Shore	6	8.3	2001 to 2014
3	Sergio Leone	Ennio Morricone	6	8.2	1964 to 1984
4	Aditya Dhar	Shashwat Sachdev	3	8.2	2019 to 2026
5	Rajkumar Hirani	Shantanu Moitra	3	8.2	2006 to 2014
6	Denis Villeneuve	Hans Zimmer	3	8.1	2017 to 2024
7	James Cameron	James Horner	3	8.1	1986 to 2009
8	Lee Unkrich	Randy Newman	3	8.1	1999 to 2010
9	Akira Kurosawa	Masaru Satō	8	8.0	1957 to 1965
10	James Cameron	Brad Fiedel	3	8.0	1984 to 1994
11	Christopher Nolan	Ludwig Göransson	3	8.0	2020 to 2026
12	Hayao Miyazaki	Joe Hisaishi	11	8.0	1984 to 2023
13	Frank Capra	Dimitri Tiomkin	5	7.9	1937 to 1946
14	Andrei Tarkovsky	Eduard Artemyev	3	7.9	1972 to 1979
15	Denis Villeneuve	Jóhann Jóhannsson	3	7.9	2013 to 2016
16	Christopher Nolan	David Julyan	4	7.9	1998 to 2006
17	Makoto Shinkai	Radwimps	3	7.8	2016 to 2022
18	Akira Kurosawa	Fumio Hayasaka	7	7.8	1948 to 1954
19	Wolfgang Petersen	Klaus Doldinger	3	7.8	1974 to 1984
20	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Zbigniew Preisner	7	7.8	1985 to 1994
21	Dean DeBlois	John Powell	4	7.8	2010 to 2025
22	Prashanth Neel	Ravi Basrur	4	7.8	2014 to 2023
23	Alfred Hitchcock	Dimitri Tiomkin	4	7.7	1943 to 1954
24	David Lean	Maurice Jarre	4	7.7	1962 to 1984
25	Clint Eastwood	Kyle Eastwood	3	7.7	2006 to 2009

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