Known For
Sound
Born
May 29, 1953
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
191 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
Main Title Theme Composer
Send Help
Original Music Composer
Dead Man's Wire
Original Music Composer
Wednesday: Fireplace
Main Title Theme Composer
A Danny Elfman Christmas Story
Narrator
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self
Dracula
Original Music Composer
Bullet Time
Music
Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone
Original Music Composer
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Main Title Theme Composer
Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s Dance Version
Music
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Original Music Composer
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self
May the 12th Be with You
Original Music Composer
Bloody Bridget
Original Music Composer
White Noise
Original Music Composer
Wednesday
Main Title Theme Composer
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Original Music Composer
The Woman in the Window
Original Music Composer
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
Original Music Composer
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
Self
The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert
Music
Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"
Main Title Theme Composer
Dolittle
Original Music Composer
Men in Black: International
Original Music Composer
Dumbo
Original Music Composer
The Grinch
Original Music Composer
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades Freed
Original Music Composer
Justice League
Original Music Composer
78/52
Self
Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales
Self
Tulip Fever
Original Music Composer
Urge
Music
The Circle
Original Music Composer
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Self
When We Rise
Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades Darker
Original Music Composer
The Girl on the Train
Original Music Composer
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
Music
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Original Music Composer
Before I Wake
Original Music Composer
Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness"
Music
Goosebumps
Original Music Composer
The End of the Tour
Original Music Composer
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades of Grey
Original Music Composer
Big Eyes
Original Music Composer
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Original Music Composer