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What is or has been the greatest director/composer relationship?  

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    • Steven Spielberg/John Williams
      30
    • Tim Burton/Danny Elfman
      2
    • Robert Zemeckis/Alan Silvestri
      1
    • M. Night Shyamalan/James Newton Howard
      0
    • Alfred Hitchcock/Bernard Herrmann
      5
    • Ridley Scott/Hans Zimmer
      1
    • Bryan Singer/John Ottman
      0
    • other (specify)
      5


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It's TJ's last poll all over again! But, because of the inclusion of Spielberg/Williams the answer will be easy to predict. Oh well. :mrgreen:

BTW, a notable exclusion: the Leone/Morricone collaboration.

- Marc

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Goldsmith's collaborations with Crichton, Dante, Verhoeven, Schaffner and Wise have yielded nothing but great scores for talented filmmakers.

Neil

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It's TJ's last poll all over again!

No, because I think the obvious #1 is Spielberg, in the first poll I was asking the 2nd greatest collaboration ever, in the second poll your favourite between Zemeckis/Silvestri Vs. Shyamalan/JNH...

Mirko - bored about explaining that again.

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Well Spielberg and Williams are both amazing geniuses. The important thing of course is that Spielberg likes music and respects williams' music. i recall for ET he said he would cut the film to william's bike chase sequence rather than other way around. It's because of these things that they are so successful.

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This is like asking "Which score is better, The Empire Strikes Back or Pirates of the Caribbean?"

~Sturgis, who voted for the only correct answer in this poll, the first one

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This is like asking "Which score is better, The Empire Strikes Back or Pirates of the Caribbean?"

I don't know, with you it's a close call. :-P

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Notably missing (yet again)

Henry Mancini and Blake Edwards

Nino Rota and Federico Fellini

Lalo Schifrin and Don Siegel

John Morris and Mel Brooks

Maurice Jarre and David Lean

Howard Shore and David Cronenberg

John Carpenter and John Carpenter :mrgreen: ... Just for starters

BKL

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Another collaborations - Just for the record:

? David Lynch (Director) ,

? Angelo Badalamenti (Composer)

? François Truffaut (Director) ,

? Georges Delerue (Composer)

? Kenneth Branagh (Director) ,

? Patrick Doyle (Composer)

? Lennie Niehaus (Composer) ,

? Clint Eastwood (Director)

? Basil Poledouris (Composer) ,

? John Milius (Director)

? Peer Raben (Composer) ,

? Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director)

? Richard Robbins (Composer) ,

? James Ivory (Director)

? Arthur B. Rubinstein (Composer) ,

? John Badham (Director)

? Luc Besson (Director) ,

? Eric Serra (Composer)

? Peter Greenaway (Director) ,

? Michael Nyman (Composer)

? Ennio Morricone (Composer) ,

? Sergio Leone (Director)

? Ennio Morricone (Composer) ,

? Pier Paolo Pasolini (Director)

? James Horner (Composer) ,

? Ron Howard (Director)

? Carter Burwell (Composer) ,

? Joel & Ethan Coen (Director)

? Sydney Pollack (Director),

? Dave Grusin (Composer)

? Joe Dante (Director) ,

? Jerry Goldsmith (Composer)

Anyone knows more?

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Anyone knows more?

Bernard Herrmann & Brian De Palma

Pino Donaggio & Brian De Palma

Jerry Goldsmith & Ridley Scott

Erich Wolfgang Korngold & Michael Curtiz

Basil Poledouris & Paul Verhoeven

Philip Glass & Godfrey Reggio

Marian - adding some more.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian DePalma  

who?

Oscar winner for The Last Emperor. He wrote wonderful scores for DePalma's Snake Eyes and Femme Fatale.

Neil

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so basically there are no collaborative efforts for DePalma as he changes all the time.

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Two or three movies together are not enough for consistent composer/director relationship.

Indeed De Palma loves working with different composers (Herrman, Morricone, Sakamoto , Donaggio, Williams, Elfman, Doyle, Moroder etc.)

Jerry Goldsmith & Ridley Scott

Are you kidding? Goldsmith hated to work with Scott. Once he said he'll never forgive him.

As for Verhoeven don't forget Goldsmith, Rogier van Oterloo, Loek Dikker, Dave A. Stewart :)

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Are you kidding? Goldsmith hated to work with Scott. Once he said he'll never forgive him.

And yet he wrote some of his finest scores for Scott's movies.

Neil

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Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian DePalma

Ennio Morricone and Brian DePalma

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Bernardo Bertolucci are a better known tandem.

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Alex Cremers

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Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian DePalma

Ennio Morricone and Brian DePalma

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Bernardo Bertolucci are a better known tandem.

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Alex Cremers

Yes, may be. But its only three movies together, still not enough for Big List.

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JW and Spielberg is undoubtedly the greatest composer/director collaboration. Indeed, i would go so far as to say it is one of the greatest of all cinematic relationships.

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold & Michael Curtiz

Max Steiner & Michael Curtiz may be more proper (32 movies)

:) These two men have done 32 movies together?!? OMG :)

I mean...it's a long collaboration...even longer that the best one, called Spielberg-Williams.

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These two men have done 32 movies together?!? OMG

Yes, it is even more than Henry Mancini and Blake Edwards (31 movies) if you exclude their three TV collaborations.

But then again Michael Curtiz made around 160 if not more.

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OTHER.... Jerry Goldsmith and Franklin Schaeffer.

Lionheart, Islands in the Stream, Patton, Planet of the Apes, Papillon, The Boys from Brazil and The Stripper.

Shame on the person who included Zimmer/Scott, Ottman/Singer over this one.

Also one of the best - Sakamoto/Bertolucci - The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha and The Last Emperor are all top of the line scores.

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There's nothing wrong with the Zimmer/Scott or Ottman/Singer choices. They're perfectly legitimate. That said, not every collaboration can be Williams/Spielberg great every time

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I challenge any man to prove to me that Ottman/Singer deserves a place on a list of great composer director partnerships over any of Jerry Goldsmith's collaborations, especially the Schaeffer collaboration. I suspect its absent because with the exception of the Herrmann/Hitchcock collaboration, too few film score fans even know about it. Which is a shame.

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I challenge any man to prove to me that Ottman/Singer deserves a place on a list of great composer director partnerships over any of Jerry Goldsmith's collaborations, especially the Schaeffer collaboration. I suspect its absent because with the exception of the Herrmann/Hitchcock collaboration, too few film score fans even know about it. Which is a shame.

It was mentioned in the fifth post of this thread. A very wise person stated it. :mrgreen:

Neil

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Anyone knows more?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned:

Oliver Stone / John Williams

Chris Columbus / John Williams

George Lucas / John Williams

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My vote went to Hitch & Benny, but I must point out you left out the 2nd greatest director-composer collabo: Fellini & Rota. In both these cases, these composers defined the nature of the films and that clearly makes them the best. (Of course, just my opinion.)

Director - passing through...

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My vote went to Hitch & Benny

Director - passing through...

You chose....wisely! :P

Also don't forget

Peter Weir and Maurice Jarre

Joe Johnston and James Horner

Edward Zwick and James Horner (though not since 1996)

Neil Jordan (Up the Irish) and Elliot Goldenthal

Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal (unless there's a divorce)

Alfred Hitchcock and Franz Waxman / Dmitri Tiomkin before that hack Herrmann came on the scene. Curse you, Lyn Murray :mrgreen:

And last but not least and maybe slightly out of sync with the above but we are talking collaborators:

Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Peter Sellars and John Adams

Movie quote of the day:

THE NAKED GUN (1988), starring Sir Leslie Nielsen and Academy Award winner Sir George Kennedy.

Frank: "How's Nordberg? I came as soon as I heard."

Ed: "The doctor's say he's got a 50/50 chance of making it though I'd say there's a 10% chance of that!"

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I'm not sure the composers of the 30's, 40's should be included, since it was, as far as I know more about the film companies deciding on who scores what. Just like the film companies decided who directs what and who acts in this or that.

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The winner of this poll is obvious, so I will just add more for the record:

• Takeshi Kitano (director)

• Joe Hisaishi (composer)

• Hayao Miyazaki (director)

• Joe Hisaishi (composer)

• Pedro Almodóvar (director)

• Alberto Iglesias (composer)

• Michael Curtiz (director)

• Max Steiner (composer)

• Raoul Walsh (director)

• Max Steiner (composer)

• John Ford (director)

• Max Steiner (composer)

• John Ford (director)

• Alfred Newman (composer)

• Henry King (director)

• Alfred Newman (composer)

• Henry Hathaway (director)

• Alfred Newman (composer)

• John Huston (director)

• Alex North (composer)

• Daniel Mann (director)

• Alex North (composer)

• Valerio Zurlini (director)

• Mario Nascimbene (composer)

• Frank Capra (director)

• Dimitri Tiomkin (composer)

• Howard Hawks (director)

• Dimitri Tiomkin (composer)

• Blake Edwards (director)

• Henry Mancini (composer)

• Billy Wilder (director)

• Miklós Rózsa (composer)

• John Huston (director)

• Toshiro Mayuzumi (composer)

• Shoei Imamura (director)

• Toshiro Mayuzumi (composer)

• Ishiro Honda (director)

• Akira Ifukube (composer)

• Yasujiro Ozu (director)

• Kojun Saitö (composer)

• Akira Kurosawa (director)

• Fumio Hayasaka (composer)

• Akira Kurosawa (director)

• Masaru Satö (composer)

• John Sturges (director)

• Elmer Bernstein (composer)

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This is like asking "Which score is better, The Empire Strikes Back or Pirates of the Caribbean?"

I don't know, with you it's a close call. :-P

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I enjoy the score. I consider it "enjoyable crap," really. It really isn't complex or anything like that at all. I just think it's a fun score. It is obviously no where near the same level as like any other score, I just like the occasional listen.

~Sturgis

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I just like the occasional listen.

You mean..."I just like the occasional pain." :P

Mirko - who doesn't hate PotC, there are worst scores for sure, but hey, what a boring score after 10 minutes...

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