Danny Elfman
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Daniel Elfman is a composer. Elfman is famous for creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the Batman theme, and his role as Jack Skellington's singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton and has scored most of his films. He also sang for the character Bonejangles in the movie Corpse Bride. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2002 BMI Film and TV Awards. Earlier in his career, Elfman lead the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995.
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Daniel Elfman is a composer. Elfman is famous for creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the Batman theme, and his role as Jack Skellington's singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton and has scored most of his films. He also sang for the character Bonejangles in the movie Corpse Bride. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2002 BMI Film and TV Awards. Earlier in his career, Elfman lead the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995.
Known For
Production Credits
Perversions of Science
Meet the Robinsons
Men in Black 3
Terminator Salvation
The Family Man
To Die For
Alice in Wonderland
White Noise
Heartbreakers
Spy Kids
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
The Flash
Real Steel
Batman
Red Dragon
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Girl on the Train
The Simpsons
The Next Three Days
Beetlejuice
Charlotte's Web
Goosebumps
Amazing Stories
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Woman in the Window
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
Chicago
Men in Black
Hulk
Planet of the Apes
The Frighteners
Fifty Shades Darker
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Mission: Impossible
Hot to Trot
The Grinch
Frankenweenie
Spider-Man
Sleepy Hollow
Wednesday
Corpse Bride
Dolittle
Flubber
American Hustle
Batman: The Animated Series
Tulip Fever
Tales from the Crypt
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades Freed
Before I Wake
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Big Fish
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Summer School
Justice League
A Simple Plan
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Big Top Pee-wee
Wanted
The Circle
Good Will Hunting
The Simpsons Movie
Milk
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Mars Attacks!
Batman Returns
Dumbo
Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Kingdom
Nacho Libre
Scrooged
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Midnight Run
Spider-Man 2
Epic
Edward Scissorhands
A Civil Action
Silver Linings Playbook
Dark Shadows
Men in Black II
Men in Black: International
Notorious
Novocaine
Oz the Great and Powerful
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Modern Vampires
Psycho
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