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Danny Elfman
Composer, Actor, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn May 29, 1953 (72 years)
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.
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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.
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Danny Elfman Filmography
| 2026 | Send Help · as Original Music Composer |
| 2025 | Dead Man's Wire · as Original Music Composer |
| 2025 | Wednesday: Fireplace · as Main Title Theme Composer |
| 2025 | Dracula · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | May the 12th Be with You · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Bloody Bridget · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance · as Composer |
| 2022 | White Noise · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | Wednesday (TV Series) · as Main Title Theme Composer |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | The Woman in the Window · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert · as Composer |
| 2020 | Dolittle · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Men in Black: International · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | Dumbo · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | The Grinch · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | Fifty Shades Freed · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Justice League · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Tulip Fever · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | The Circle · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | When We Rise (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Fifty Shades Darker · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Before I Wake · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | The Oscars · as Composer |
| 2015 | Goosebumps · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | The End of the Tour · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Big Eyes · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | American Hustle · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Epic · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Captain Sparky vs. the Flying Saucers · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Hitchcock · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Frankenweenie · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Promised Land · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Men in Black³ · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Dark Shadows · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Real Steel · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Restless · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | |
| 2010 | The Next Three Days · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | The Wolfman · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Terminator Salvation · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Notorious · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Milk · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Wanted · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Standard Operating Procedure · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | The Kingdom · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Meet the Robinsons · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Nacho Libre · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Deep Sea · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Corpse Bride · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | No Experience Needed · as Composer |
| 2004 | Spider-Man 2 · as Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | Big Fish · as Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | Hulk · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Chicago · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Red Dragon · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Men in Black II · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Spider-Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Novocaine · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Heartbreakers · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | The Family Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | Proof of Life · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | Stainboy (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Anywhere But Here · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Instinct · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Psycho Path · as Music Producer |
| 1998 | A Civil Action · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | A Simple Plan · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Psycho · as Music Producer |
| 1998 | Modern Vampires · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Flubber · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Men in Black · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Mars Attacks! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Extreme Measures · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Bordello of Blood · as Main Title Theme Composer |
| 1996 | The Frighteners · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | |
| 1995 | Dead Presidents · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | To Die For · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | Dolores Claiborne · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight · as Main Title Theme Composer |
| 1994 | Black Beauty · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | |
| 1993 | The Nightmare Before Christmas · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Sommersby · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | |
| 1992 | Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series) · as Main Title Theme Composer |
| 1992 | Batman Returns · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | |
| 1991 | Liquid Television (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1990 | Edward Scissorhands · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | The Flash · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Darkman · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Dick Tracy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Nightbreed · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Batman · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | |
| 1988 | Scrooged · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Hot to Trot · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Big Top Pee-wee · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Midnight Run · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Beetlejuice · as Original Music Composer |
| 1987 | |
| 1987 | Summer School · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Wisdom · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Pee-wee's Playhouse (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1986 | Amazing Stories · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Back to School · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | Amazing Stories (1985) (TV Series) |
| 1985 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure · as Original Music Composer |
| 1985 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (TV Series) |
| 1980 | Forbidden Zone · as Original Music Composer |
Hodja Nasreddin · as Original Music Composer | |
Rhona Who Lives by the River (TV Series) |
| 2015 | |
| 2005 | Corpse Bride · as Bonejangles (voice) |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory · as Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | The Gift · as Tommy Lee Ballard |
| 2000 | |
| 1993 | The Nightmare Before Christmas · as Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown With The Tear Away Face (voice) |
| 1986 | Back to School · as Oingo Boingo Band Member |
| 1981 | Longshot · as Member - Oingo Boingo |
| 1980 | Forbidden Zone · as Satan |
| 1977 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden · as Drumming Demon |
| 1977 | Hot Tomorrows · as Singer |
| 1996 | Farewell: Live from the Universal Amphitheatre Halloween 1995 · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | The Nightmare Before Christmas · as Associate Producer |
Rhona Who Lives by the River (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2020 | Prop Culture (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | The Movies That Made Us (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | The Imagineering Story (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self |
| 2010 | Music · as Self |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | The 81st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2005 | Becoming Oompa-Loompa · as Self |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | Making the Amazing · as Self |
| 1998 | Psycho Path · as Self - Arranger |
| 1998 | The Making of 'The Frighteners' · as Himself |
| 1997 | Behind the Music (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | |
| 1992 | The Magical World of Chuck Jones · as Self |
| 1992 | HBO First Look (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | Prisoners of Gravity (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | Biography (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | Urgh! A Music War · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self - Composer |
| 1976 | Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | American Bandstand (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2023 | 65 · as Co Composer |
| 2009 | 9 · as Songs |
| 2001 | Spy Kids · as Songs |
| 1997 | Perversions of Science (TV Series) · as Theme Song Performance |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Theme Song Performance |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) · as Theme Song Performance |