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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
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Perversions of Science
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Batman Returns
A Civil Action
Dolittle
Beetlejuice
Tales from the Crypt
Corpse Bride
Wanted
Terminator Salvation
Mars Attacks!
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Sleepy Hollow
Hulk
Epic
Fifty Shades of Grey
Goosebumps
65
Tulip Fever
Fifty Shades Freed
Wednesday
Planet of the Apes
Frankenweenie
Men in Black
The Simpsons
Flubber
The Frighteners
Heartbreakers
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
The Woman in the Window
Justice League
Batman
Milk
Notorious
Modern Vampires
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Batman: The Animated Series
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Silver Linings Playbook
Oz the Great and Powerful
Dumbo
Men in Black II
The Grinch
Men in Black 3
Nacho Libre
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
Edward Scissorhands
The Simpsons Movie
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Meet the Robinsons
The Next Three Days
Spider-Man
Scrooged
The Family Man
9
Amazing Stories
Spy Kids
American Hustle
Mission: Impossible
Midnight Run
A Simple Plan
Fifty Shades Darker
Summer School
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
White Noise
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
Big Top Pee-wee
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Big Fish
Charlotte's Web
The Girl on the Train
Dark Shadows
Alice in Wonderland
Red Dragon
Good Will Hunting
Men in Black: International
Real Steel
Chicago
To Die For
Spider-Man 2
Psycho
Hot to Trot
The Kingdom
The Circle
The Flash
Before I Wake
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