Davis was nominated for the Emmys in 1990 for "Beauty and the Beast" and won in 1995 for "SeaQuest DSV". He wrote scores mostly for television series up until 1995, in which he wrote a few of the cues for the animated Disney motion picture "A Goofy Movie". He continued to score television series until the two then young directors, the Wachowskis, hired him to score their neo-noir film "Bound". It was reasonably successful at the box office. "Bound" was the film which led Davis into becoming the composer for the entire "Matrix" trilogy. Subsequently, Davis has composed scores for films such as "", "Jurassic Park III" (recommended to the filmmakers by John Williams, the composer of the scores for the first two films in the series), "House on Haunted Hill", "Behind Enemy Lines", and "The Unsaid". In 2004, he produced the music score for the BBC science fiction documentary series "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets", released as "Voyage to the Planets and Beyond" in the United States.