Danny Elfman
Known for: Sound
Born: May 29, 1953
Place of birth: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
174 movies · 17 TV shows, newest first
9.0
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
2026
7.0
Send Help
2026
6.5
Dead Man's Wire
2026
NR
Wednesday: Fireplace
2025
5.0
A Danny Elfman Christmas Story
2025
10.0
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2025
7.2
Dracula
2025
NR
Bullet Time
2025
NR
Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone
2025
7.0
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
2024
NR
Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne's Dance Version
2024
6.9
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024
5.2
May the 12th Be with You
2024
4.0
Bloody Bridget
2023
5.6
White Noise
2022
8.3
Wednesday
2022
7.2
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
6.0
The Woman in the Window
2021
6.5
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
2021
7.2
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
8.0
The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert
2020
7.4
Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"
2020
6.6
Dolittle
2020
5.9
Men in Black: International
2019
6.6
Dumbo
2019
6.9
The Grinch
2018
6.7
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
6.7
Fifty Shades Freed
2018
6.1
Justice League
2017
7.1
78/52
2017
NR
Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales
2017
6.5
Tulip Fever
2017
NR
Urge
2017
5.5
The Circle
2017
7.2
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017
6.3
When We Rise
2017
6.5
Fifty Shades Darker
2017
6.4
The Girl on the Train
2016
10.0
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
2016
6.6
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
6.5
Before I Wake
2016
8.4
Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
2015
7.6
Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness"
2015
6.3
Goosebumps
2015
7.0
The End of the Tour
2015
7.3
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
5.9
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
7.0
Big Eyes
2014
6.7
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014
6.9
American Hustle
2013
6.8
The Unknown Known
2013
6.6
Epic
2013
5.9
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
10.0
Cirque du Soleil: IRIS
2013
6.9
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
2013
6.6
Hitchcock
2012
7.2
Silver Linings Playbook
2012
7.0
Frankenweenie
2012
6.3
Promised Land
2012
6.5
Men in Black 3
2012
6.1
Dark Shadows
2012
7.1
Real Steel
2011
8.0
Hollywood in Vienna
2011
6.5
Restless
2011
NR
A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton
2011
NR
Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival
2011
7.1
The Next Three Days
2010
6.0
DemiUrge Emesis
2010
6.6
Alice in Wonderland
2010
5.9
The Wolfman
20102.0
Do Not Disturb
2010
6.2
Taking Woodstock
2009
7.0
9
2009
6.1
Terminator Salvation
2009
7.0
Notorious
2009
7.2
Milk
2008
NR
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008
6.8
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008
6.5
Wanted
2008
6.8
Standard Operating Procedure
2008
NR
Proud Iza
2008
6.7
The Kingdom
2007
7.0
The Simpsons Movie
2007
6.5
Paranoid Park
2007
7.4
Sicko
2007
6.9
Meet the Robinsons
2007
6.2
Charlotte's Web
2006
6.5
Nacho Libre
2006
6.6
Deep Sea 3D
20068.5
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Sweet Sounds
2005
7.6
Corpse Bride
2005
NR
Becoming Oompa-Loompa
2005
7.0
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
6.7
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
2004
7.3
Spider-Man 2
2004
NR
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
2004
7.7
Big Fish
2003NR
The Making of 'Hulk'
2003NR
The Incredible Ang Lee
2003
5.6
Hulk
2003
7.1
Chicago
2002
9.0
Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space
2002
7.0
Red Dragon
2002
6.4
Men in Black II
2002
7.4
Spider-Man
2002
6.0
Novocaine
2001
5.8
Planet of the Apes
2001
6.1
Heartbreakers
2001
5.8
Spy Kids
2001
6.5
The Gift
2000
6.8
The Family Man
2000
6.2
Proof of Life
2000
7.8
The World of Stainboy
2000
6.5
The World of Stainboy
2000
7.1
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
NR
Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto
2000
7.2
Sleepy Hollow
1999
6.1
Anywhere but Here
1999
7.2
Psycho Path
1999
6.5
Instinct
1999
6.5
A Civil Action
1998
7.2
A Simple Plan
1998
5.1
Psycho
1998
8.5
The Making of 'The Frighteners'
1998
4.9
Modern Vampires
1998
8.2
Good Will Hunting
1997
5.7
Flubber
1997
7.2
Men in Black
1997
6.2
Perversions of Science
1997
6.4
Mars Attacks!
1996
6.0
Extreme Measures
1996
6.5
Freeway
1996
6.0
Bordello of Blood
1996
7.0
The Frighteners
1996
7.0
Mission: Impossible
1996
9.0
Oingo Boingo: Farewell (Live from the Universal Amphitheatre)
1996
5.3
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
1996
6.7
Dead Presidents
1995
6.6
To Die For
1995
5.6
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
1995
7.3
Dolores Claiborne
1995
6.8
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
1995NR
The Hollywood Soundtrack Story
1995
7.2
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
1994
6.7
Black Beauty
1994
4.7
Shrunken Heads
1994
7.8
The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993
8.0
The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
1993
6.4
Sommersby
1993
7.0
The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
1992
8.0
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
8.6
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
7.0
Batman Returns
1992
6.1
Article 99
1992
7.7
Edward Scissorhands
1990
6.5
The Flash
1990NR
Oingo Boingo: October 25th, 1990
1990
6.4
Darkman
1990
6.2
Dick Tracy
1990
6.4
Nightbreed
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
NR
Oh No, Not Them
1989
5.9
Prisoners of Gravity
1989
7.2
Batman
1989
8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
NR
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
1989
9.0
Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet
1989
6.8
Scrooged
1988
7.1
Face Like a Frog
1988
5.2
Hot to Trot
1988
5.0
Big Top Pee-wee
1988
7.2
Midnight Run
1988
7.4
Beetlejuice
1988
10.0
Oingo Boingo: Halloween '87
1987
6.4
Summer School
1987
6.1
Wisdom
1986
6.1
Amazing Stories
1986
6.3
Back to School
1986
8.0
Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz
1985
7.5
Amazing Stories
1985
7.2
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
6.5
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985
8.1
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984
6.2
Forbidden Zone
1982
7.5
Urgh! A Music War
1981
7.7
Annie Hall
1977
7.5
Hot Tomorrows
1977
6.9
Saturday Night Live
19757.5
A Look Into 'The Forbidden Zone'
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NR
Hodja Nasreddin
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Rhona Who Lives by the River
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