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