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