Craig Armstrong has scored numerous soundtracks, including his work with film director Baz Luhrman, producing big-selling soundtracks for ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge’. Other film scores includeJake Scott's debut film, ‘Plunkett & Macleane’, ‘Mission: Impossible’ and ‘Cruel Intentions’.

Armstrong worked with renowned trip-hop group Massive Attack on its genre-defining 'Protection' album., and the group subsequently released Armstrong's debut full-length album on its Melankolic. This led to him collaborating with such big-name artists as U2, Madonna, Hole, the Spice Girls, Suede and Tina Turner.

Armstrong returned in 2002 with his second non-soundtrack full-length effort, 'As if to Nothing', which boasted a new version of U2's 'Stay (Faraway, So Close).' In 2004, he provided the score for the Ray Charles biopic Ray, and in 2005, an anthology of his film work was released.