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