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