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Danny Elfman

Profession
Sound
Born
May 29, 1953 · 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

Avengers: Age of Ultron poster
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Film · 2015 · ★ 7.3
Spider-Man poster
Spider-Man
Film · 2002 · ★ 7.4
Spider-Man 2 poster
Spider-Man 2
Film · 2004 · ★ 7.3
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory poster
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Film · 2005 · ★ 7.0
Men in Black poster
Men in Black
Film · 1997 · ★ 7.2
Alice in Wonderland poster
Alice in Wonderland
Film · 2010 · ★ 6.6
Good Will Hunting poster
Good Will Hunting
Film · 1997 · ★ 8.2
Edward Scissorhands poster
Edward Scissorhands
Film · 1990 · ★ 7.7
Justice League poster
Justice League
Film · 2017 · ★ 6.1
Silver Linings Playbook poster
Silver Linings Playbook
Film · 2012 · ★ 7.2
Fifty Shades of Grey poster
Fifty Shades of Grey
Film · 2015 · ★ 5.9
Men in Black 3 poster
Men in Black 3
Film · 2012 · ★ 6.6

Filmography