1953-05-29 ( 71 years old ) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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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Movies
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2017-10-13
Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales
2017-09-29
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017-03-16
Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival
2011-01-01
DemiUrge Emesis
2010-04-22
Proud Iza
2008-01-01
Corpse Bride
2005-09-12
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005-07-13
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
2004-06-01
Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space
2002-11-26
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000-05-23
The Gift
2000-03-16
Psycho Path
2000-02-10
Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto
2000-01-01
The Making of 'The Frighteners'
1998-11-24
The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993-10-09
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992-10-23
Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet
1989-01-10
Oingo Boingo: Halloween '87
1987-10-31
Back to School
1986-06-13
Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz
1985-12-20
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984-01-01
Urgh! A Music War
1981-11-07
Oingo Boingo: Little Girls
1981-01-01
Forbidden Zone
1980-03-15
Hot Tomorrows
1977-04-01
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