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