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