Danny Elfman

Known for SoundBorn 1953-05-29 (age 73)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón

Cirque du Soleil: IRIS

Oingo Boingo: Halloween '87

Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space

Oingo Boingo: Farewell (Live from the Universal Amphitheatre)

Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe

Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Sweet Sounds

Wednesday

Batman: The Animated Series

The Making of 'The Frighteners'

The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert

Good Will Hunting

Hollywood in Vienna

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

The Simpsons

Tales from the Crypt

Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness"

Big Fish

Corpse Bride

Edward Scissorhands

Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"

Dracula

The World of Stainboy

Annie Hall

Sicko

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Avengers: Age of Ultron

The Holiday Movies That Made Us

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Score: A Film Music Documentary

Amazing Stories

Silver Linings Playbook

Urgh! A Music War

Milk

Hot Tomorrows

78/52

Real Steel

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Beetlejuice

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful