Danny Elfman
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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Dead Man's Wire
Dracula
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
White Noise
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The Woman in the Window
Dolittle
Men in Black: International
Dumbo
Fifty Shades Freed
The Grinch
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Fifty Shades Darker
Justice League
The Circle
Tulip Fever
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Girl on the Train
Before I Wake
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Fifty Shades of Grey
Goosebumps
Big Eyes
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
American Hustle
Oz the Great and Powerful
Epic
Silver Linings Playbook
Men in Black 3
Dark Shadows
Hitchcock
Frankenweenie
Promised Land
Real Steel
Alice in Wonderland
The Wolfman
The Next Three Days
Terminator Salvation
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Notorious
Taking Woodstock
Wanted
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Milk
Meet the Robinsons
The Kingdom
The Simpsons Movie
Charlotte's Web
Nacho Libre
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Spider-Man 2
Hulk
Big Fish
Spider-Man
Men in Black II
Red Dragon
Chicago
Planet of the Apes
Heartbreakers
Spy Kids
Novocaine
The Gift
The Family Man
Proof of Life
Sleepy Hollow
Instinct
Anywhere but Here
Psycho
A Simple Plan
Modern Vampires
A Civil Action
Men in Black
Good Will Hunting
Flubber
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
Bordello of Blood
The Frighteners
Mission: Impossible
Mars Attacks!
Freeway
Extreme Measures
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Dolores Claiborne
Dead Presidents
To Die For
Black Beauty
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Sommersby
Batman Returns
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Darkman
Dick Tracy
Edward Scissorhands
Nightbreed
The Flash
Batman
Beetlejuice
Midnight Run
Scrooged
Hot to Trot
Big Top Pee-wee
Summer School
Back to School
