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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
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tulip Fever
Spy Kids
Silver Linings Playbook
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The Flash
Oz the Great and Powerful
Planet of the Apes
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Midnight Run
Mission: Impossible
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Real Steel
Wanted
The Girl on the Train
Justice League
Milk
The Simpsons
Fifty Shades Darker
65
Dolittle
Notorious
Summer School
Good Will Hunting
Big Fish
Charlotte's Web
Heartbreakers
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Dark Shadows
Hulk
A Civil Action
Big Top Pee-wee
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
American Hustle
Chicago
Batman: The Animated Series
Spider-Man
Perversions of Science
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Before I Wake
Goosebumps
Psycho
Red Dragon
Modern Vampires
Sleepy Hollow
Edward Scissorhands
A Simple Plan
Alice in Wonderland
Fifty Shades Freed
The Next Three Days
Batman Returns
Frankenweenie
Flubber
Mars Attacks!
Nacho Libre
Spider-Man 2
Fifty Shades of Grey
Terminator Salvation
The Simpsons Movie
Beetlejuice
Men in Black: International
Dumbo
The Family Man
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Epic
The Frighteners
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Tales from the Crypt
Hot to Trot
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Corpse Bride
The Grinch
Wednesday
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
White Noise
Men in Black II
Batman
Meet the Robinsons
Amazing Stories
Men in Black
The Woman in the Window
The Circle
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
The Kingdom
Men in Black 3
Scrooged
To Die For
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