Jonny Greenwood's score for The Master put four old records beside eleven of his own pieces.

It was his second score for Paul Thomas Anderson, after There Will Be Blood. The London Contemporary Orchestra plays six of the eleven, and Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford, Helen Forrest and Madisen Beaty sing songs of the 1950s, when the film is set. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 1 September 2012.