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