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Danny Elfman
Los Angeles, California, USA
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the…
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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
TV show Main Title Theme Composer
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2026
Send Help
Movie Original Music Composer
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2026
Dead Man's Wire
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
Wednesday: Fireplace
Movie Main Title Theme Composer
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2025
A Danny Elfman Christmas Story
Movie Narrator
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2025
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
TV show Self
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2025
Dracula
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
Bullet Time
Movie Music
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2025
Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone
Movie Original Music Composer
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2024
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Movie Main Title Theme Composer
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2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Movie Original Music Composer
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2024
May the 12th Be with You
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
Bloody Bridget
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
65
Movie Music
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2022
White Noise
Movie Original Music Composer
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2022
Wednesday
TV show Main Title Theme Composer
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2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Movie Original Music Composer
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2021
The Woman in the Window
Movie Original Music Composer
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2021
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
Movie Original Music Composer
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2020
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
TV show Self
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2020
The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert
Movie Music
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2020
Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"
Movie Main Title Theme Composer
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2020
Dolittle
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Men in Black: International
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Dumbo
Movie Original Music Composer
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2018
The Grinch
Movie Original Music Composer
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2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Movie Original Music Composer
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2018
Fifty Shades Freed
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Justice League
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
78/52
Movie Self
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2017
Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales
Movie Self
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2017
Tulip Fever
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Urge
Movie Music
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2017
The Circle
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Movie Self
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2017
When We Rise
TV show Original Music Composer
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2017
Fifty Shades Darker
Movie Original Music Composer
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2016
The Girl on the Train
Movie Original Music Composer
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2016
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
Movie Music
