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.
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Good Will Hunting
Notorious
Oz the Great and Powerful
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Tulip Fever
Tales from the Crypt
Amazing Stories
Terminator Salvation
Big Top Pee-wee
Silver Linings Playbook
Flubber
The Flash
Frankenweenie
Hot to Trot
Dracula
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Batman: The Animated Series
Wednesday
The Circle
The Frighteners
A Civil Action
Big Eyes
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Woman in the Window
Psycho
Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Family Man
Fifty Shades Freed
Sleepy Hollow
Red Dragon
Midnight Run
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Men in Black: International
The Next Three Days
Justice League
Hulk
Before I Wake
Fifty Shades of Grey
Men in Black
Spider-Man 2
The Girl on the Train
To Die For
Dolittle
Dumbo
The Grinch
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Heartbreakers
Chicago
American Hustle
Planet of the Apes
Scrooged
Nacho Libre
Spider-Man
Alice in Wonderland
The Simpsons Movie
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Batman Returns
Corpse Bride
Mission: Impossible
Goosebumps
White Noise
Perversions of Science
Men in Black II
Charlotte's Web
Modern Vampires
Edward Scissorhands
Men in Black 3
Beetlejuice
Novocaine
Summer School
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Milk
Big Fish
A Simple Plan
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fifty Shades Darker
Spy Kids
Real Steel
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Batman
Wanted
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The Simpsons
Dark Shadows
Meet the Robinsons
Epic
Mars Attacks!
The Kingdom
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
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