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