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