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