Danny Elfman
Sound·b. 1953·Los Angeles, California, USA
42 horror credits
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.
Composer37 films
Send Help
Original Music Composer
Dracula
Original Music Composer
Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone
Original Music Composer
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Original Music Composer
Bloody Bridget
Original Music Composer
White Noise
Original Music Composer
Before I Wake
Original Music Composer
Goosebumps
Original Music Composer
Frankenweenie
Original Music Composer
Dark Shadows
Original Music Composer
The Wolfman
Original Music Composer
Do Not Disturb
Music
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Original Music Composer
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Original Music Composer
Corpse Bride
Original Music Composer
Red Dragon
Original Music Composer
Planet of the Apes
Original Music Composer
Sleepy Hollow
Original Music Composer
Modern Vampires
Original Music Composer
Mars Attacks!
Original Music Composer
Bordello of Blood
Main Title Theme Composer
The Frighteners
Original Music Composer
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
Music
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Music
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Main Title Theme Composer
Shrunken Heads
Music
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Original Music Composer
Army of Darkness
Original Music Composer
Batman Returns
Original Music Composer
Edward Scissorhands
Original Music Composer
Darkman
Original Music Composer
Nightbreed
Original Music Composer
Batman
Original Music Composer
Scrooged
Original Music Composer
Face Like a Frog
Music / Original Music Composer
Beetlejuice
Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
Original Music Composer
Actor6 films
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Self
DemiUrge Emesis
Narrator (voice)
Corpse Bride
Bonejangles (voice)
The Gift
Tommy Lee Ballard
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
Self
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)
Other Crew3 films
9
Songs
Psycho
Music Producer
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Songs