List of soundtrack composers - Definition and Overview

The following is a list of people who predominantly compose soundtrack music for film (i.e. film scores) and television:

• Craig Armstrong
• David Arnold
• Burt Bacharach
• John Barry
• Elmer Bernstein
• Leonard Bernstein
• Carter Burwell
• Wendy Carlos, aka Walter Carlos
• Eric Coates
• Bill Conti
• John Corigliano
• Patrick Doyle
• Antoine Duhamel
• Danny Elfman
• George Fenton
• Hugo Friedhofer
• Brad Fiedel
• Jerry Fielding
• Terry Frewer
• Michael Giacchino
• Philip Glass
• Ernest Gold
• Elliot Goldenthal
• Jerry Goldsmith
• Dave Grusin
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Bernard Herrmann
• David Hirschfelder
• James Horner
• James Newton Howard
• Maurice Jarre
• Quincy Jones
• Walter Jurmann
• Michael Kamen
• Yoko Kanno
• Yuki Kajiura
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Michel Legrand
• Albert Hay Malotte
• Henry Mancini
• Clint Mansell
• Cliff Martinez
• Alan Menken
• Hajime Mizoguchi
• Giorgio Moroder
• Jerome Moross
• Ennio Morricone
• Alfred Newman
• David Newman
• Lionel Newman
• Randy Newman
• Thomas Newman
• Alex North
• Michael Nyman
• Basil Poledouris
• Mike Post
• Andre Previn
• Laurence Rosenthal
• Nino Rota
• Miklós Rózsa
• Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Lalo Schifrin
• Eric Serra
• Marc Shaiman
• Edward Shearmur
• David Shire
• Howard Shore
• Alan Silvestri
• Mark Snow
• Max Steiner
• Patricia Lee Stotter
• Yann Tiersen
• Dimitri Tiomkin
• Vangelis
• Stephen Warbeck
• Ned Washington
• Franz Waxman
• John Williams
• Gabriel Yared
• Victor Young
• Hans Zimmer
• Inon Zur