Danny Elfman
Biography
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (46)
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Original Music Composer (Sound)
2026
Dead Man's Wire
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2026
Wednesday: Fireplace
Main Title Theme Composer (Sound)
2025
A Danny Elfman Christmas Story
as Narrator
2025
Dracula
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2025
Bullet Time
Music (Sound)
2025
Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2025
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2024
Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s Dance Version
Music (Sound)
2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2024
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
as Self
2024
May the 12th Be with You
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2024
Bloody Bridget
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2023
White Noise
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2022
The Woman in the Window
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2021
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
Music (Sound)
2021
The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert
Music (Sound)
2020
Dolittle
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2020
Men in Black: International
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2019
Dumbo
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2019
The Grinch
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2018
Fifty Shades Freed
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2018
Justice League
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2017
78/52
as Self
2017
Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales
as Self
2017
Tulip Fever
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2017
Urge
Music (Sound)
2017
The Circle
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
as Self
2017
Fifty Shades Darker
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2017
The Girl on the Train
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2016
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
Music (Sound)
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2016
Before I Wake
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2016
Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
2015
Goosebumps
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2015
The End of the Tour
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2015
Fifty Shades of Grey
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2015
Big Eyes
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2014
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2014
American Hustle
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2013
The Unknown Known
Music (Sound)
2013
Epic
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2013
