Danny Elfman
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- May 29, 1953 (age 73)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Known For
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Filmography
Hodja Nasreddin
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dead Man's Wire
Movie · Original Music Composer
Send Help
Movie · Original Music Composer
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
TV · Main Title Theme Composer · 10 eps
Dracula
Movie · Original Music Composer
Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bullet Time
Movie · Music
Wednesday: Fireplace
Movie · Main Title Theme Composer
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Movie · Original Music Composer
Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne's Dance Version
Movie · Music
May the 12th Be with You
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Movie · Main Title Theme Composer
Bloody Bridget
Movie · Original Music Composer
65
Movie · Music
White Noise
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wednesday
TV · Main Title Theme Composer, Original Music Composer · 16 eps
The Woman in the Window
Movie · Original Music Composer
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dolittle
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert
Movie · Music
Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"
Movie · Main Title Theme Composer
Dumbo
Movie · Original Music Composer
Men in Black: International
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Grinch
Movie · Original Music Composer
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades Freed
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades Darker
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Circle
Movie · Original Music Composer
Justice League
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tulip Fever
Movie · Original Music Composer
Urge
Movie · Music
When We Rise
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie · Original Music Composer
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
Movie · Music
Before I Wake
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Girl on the Train
Movie · Original Music Composer
The End of the Tour
Movie · Original Music Composer
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Movie · Original Music Composer
Goosebumps
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades of Grey
Movie · Original Music Composer
Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness"
Movie · Music
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Big Eyes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Epic
Movie · Original Music Composer
American Hustle
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Unknown Known
Movie · Music
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Oz the Great and Powerful
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cirque du Soleil: IRIS
Movie · Music
Men in Black 3
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dark Shadows
Movie · Original Music Composer
Silver Linings Playbook
Movie · Original Music Composer
Promised Land
Movie · Original Music Composer
Frankenweenie
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hitchcock
Movie · Original Music Composer
Real Steel
Movie · Original Music Composer
Restless
Movie · Original Music Composer
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Next Three Days
Movie · Original Music Composer
Do Not Disturb
Movie · Music
The Wolfman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Terminator Salvation
Movie · Original Music Composer
Taking Woodstock
Movie · Original Music Composer
9
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Notorious
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Movie · Original Music Composer
Standard Operating Procedure
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wanted
Movie · Original Music Composer
Milk
Movie · Original Music Composer
Proud Iza
Movie · Music
The Kingdom
Movie · Original Music Composer
Meet the Robinsons
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Simpsons Movie
Movie · Main Title Theme Composer
Charlotte's Web
Movie · Original Music Composer
Deep Sea 3D
Movie · Original Music Composer
Nacho Libre
Movie · Original Music Composer
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Movie · Original Music Composer
Corpse Bride
Movie · Original Music Composer
Spider-Man 2
Movie · Original Music Composer
Big Fish
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hulk
Movie · Original Music Composer
Spider-Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Chicago
Movie · Original Music Composer
Men in Black II
Movie · Original Music Composer
Red Dragon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Planet of the Apes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Spy Kids
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Novocaine
Movie · Original Music Composer
Heartbreakers
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Family Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Proof of Life
Movie · Original Music Composer
The World of Stainboy
Movie · Music
The World of Stainboy
TV · Music · 6 eps
Sleepy Hollow
Movie · Original Music Composer
Anywhere but Here
Movie · Original Music Composer
Instinct
Movie · Original Music Composer
Psycho Path
Movie · Music Producer
A Simple Plan
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Civil Action
Movie · Original Music Composer
Psycho
Movie · Music Producer
Modern Vampires
Movie · Original Music Composer
Men in Black
Movie · Original Music Composer
Good Will Hunting
Movie · Original Music Composer
Flubber
Movie · Original Music Composer
Perversions of Science
TV · Theme Song Performance · 8 eps
Mars Attacks!
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Frighteners
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mission: Impossible
Movie · Original Music Composer
Freeway
Movie · Original Music Composer
Extreme Measures
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bordello of Blood
Movie · Main Title Theme Composer
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
Movie · Original Music Composer
To Die For
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dead Presidents
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Movie · Main Title Theme Composer
Dolores Claiborne
Movie · Original Music Composer
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Movie · Music
Black Beauty
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shrunken Heads
Movie · Music
Sommersby
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Family Dog
TV · Main Title Theme Composer · 10 eps
Batman Returns
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
Movie · Music
Article 99
Movie · Original Music Composer
Batman: The Animated Series
TV · Main Title Theme Composer · 85 eps
Edward Scissorhands
Movie · Original Music Composer
Darkman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Nightbreed
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dick Tracy
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Flash
Movie · Original Music Composer
Batman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Oh No, Not Them
Movie · Music
The Simpsons
TV · Main Title Theme Composer · 816 eps
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
TV · Music · 1 ep
Tales from the Crypt
TV · Theme Song Performance · 81 eps
Beetlejuice
Movie · Original Music Composer
Midnight Run
Movie · Original Music Composer
Face Like a Frog
Movie · Music, Original Music Composer
Scrooged
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hot to Trot
Movie · Original Music Composer
Big Top Pee-wee
Movie · Original Music Composer
Summer School
Movie · Original Music Composer
Back to School
Movie · Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wisdom
Movie · Original Music Composer
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Movie · Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
TV · Music · 2 eps
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · Music · 1 ep
Forbidden Zone
Movie · Original Music Composer