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Danny Elfman [531]
Age: 72 years
Birthday: 1953-05-29
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits: 32
Popularity: 1.9398
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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.

Hollywood in Vienn…
2017-09-29
78/52
2017-10-13
Score: A Film Musi…
2017-03-16
Live From Lincoln …
2015-10-30
A Conversation wit…
2011-05-13
Oingo Boingo: 1983…
2011-01-01
DemiUrge Emesis
2010-04-22
Shadows of the Bat…
2008-10-18
Proud Iza
2008-01-01
Corpse Bride
2005-09-12
Charlie and the Ch…
2005-07-13
Behind the Scenes …
2004-06-01
Cosmic Symphonies:…
2002-11-26
Sleepy Hollow: Beh…
2000-05-23
The Gift
2000-03-16
Psycho Path
2000-02-10
Fantasporto – Ca…
2000-01-01
The Making of 'The…
1998-11-24
Oingo Boingo: Fare…
1996-04-16
How the Grinch Sto…
1994-11-19
The Nightmare Befo…
1993-10-09
The Making of Tim …
1993-10-03
The Magical World …
1992-10-23
Oingo Boingo: Skel…
1989-01-10
Oingo Boingo: Hall…
1987-10-31
Back to School
1986-06-13
Oingo Boingo: Live…
1985-12-20
Good Morning, Mr. …
1984-01-01
Urgh! A Music War
1981-11-07
Oingo Boingo: Litt…
1981-01-01
Forbidden Zone
1980-03-15
Hot Tomorrows
1977-04-01