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.

Filmography

• 2026Dead Man's Wire — Original Music Composer
• 2026Send Help — Original Music Composer
• Stuart Fails to Save the Universe — Main Title Theme Composer
• 2025A Danny Elfman Christmas Story — Narrator, Writer
• 2025Bullet Time — Music
• 2025Dracula — Original Music Composer
• 2025Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone — Original Music Composer
• 2025Wednesday: Fireplace — Main Title Theme Composer
• 2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Original Music Composer
• 2024Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne's Dance Version — Music
• 2024May the 12th Be with You — Original Music Composer
• 2024The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful — Main Title Theme Composer
• 202365 — Music
• 2023Bloody Bridget — Original Music Composer
• 2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Original Music Composer
• Wednesday — Main Title Theme Composer, Original Music Composer
• 2022White Noise — Original Music Composer
• 2021Aliens, Clowns & Geeks — Original Music Composer
• 2021The Woman in the Window — Original Music Composer
• 2020Dolittle — Original Music Composer
• 2020Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny" — Main Title Theme Composer
• 2020The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert — Music
• 2019Dumbo — Original Music Composer
• 2019Men in Black: International — Original Music Composer
• 2018Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — Original Music Composer
• 2018Fifty Shades Freed — Original Music Composer
• 2018The Grinch — Original Music Composer
• 2017Fifty Shades Darker — Original Music Composer
• 2017Justice League — Original Music Composer
• 2017The Circle — Original Music Composer
• 2017Tulip Fever — Original Music Composer
• 2017Urge — Music
• When We Rise — Original Music Composer
• 2016Alice Through the Looking Glass — Original Music Composer
• 2016Before I Wake — Original Music Composer
• 2016The Girl on the Train — Original Music Composer
• 2016Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón — Music
• 2015Avengers: Age of Ultron — Original Music Composer
• 2015Fifty Shades of Grey — Original Music Composer
• 2015Goosebumps — Original Music Composer
• 2015Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
• 2015Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness" — Music
• 2015The End of the Tour — Original Music Composer
• 2014Big Eyes — Original Music Composer
• 2014Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Original Music Composer
• 2013American Hustle — Original Music Composer
• 2013Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers — Original Music Composer
• 2013Cirque du Soleil: IRIS — Music
• 2013Epic — Original Music Composer
• 2013Oz the Great and Powerful — Original Music Composer
• 2013The Unknown Known — Music
• 2012Dark Shadows — Original Music Composer
• 2012Frankenweenie — Original Music Composer
• 2012Hitchcock — Original Music Composer
• 2012Men in Black 3 — Original Music Composer
• 2012Promised Land — Original Music Composer
• 2012Silver Linings Playbook — Original Music Composer
• 2011A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton — Producer
• 2011Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival
• 2011Real Steel — Original Music Composer
• 2011Restless — Original Music Composer
• 2010Alice in Wonderland — Original Music Composer
• 2010DemiUrge Emesis — Narrator (voice)
• 2010Do Not Disturb — Music
• 2010The Next Three Days — Original Music Composer
• 2010The Wolfman — Original Music Composer
• 20099 — Songs, Original Music Composer
• 2009Notorious — Original Music Composer
• 2009Taking Woodstock — Original Music Composer
• 2009Terminator Salvation — Original Music Composer
• 2008Hellboy II: The Golden Army — Original Music Composer
• 2008Milk — Original Music Composer
• 2008Proud Iza — Narrator, Music
• 2008Standard Operating Procedure — Original Music Composer
• 2008Wanted — Original Music Composer
• 2007Meet the Robinsons — Original Music Composer
• 2007Paranoid Park — Thanks
• 2007Sicko — Thanks
• 2007The Kingdom — Original Music Composer
• 2006Charlotte's Web — Original Music Composer
• 2006Deep Sea 3D — Original Music Composer
• 2006Nacho Libre — Original Music Composer
• 2005Becoming Oompa-Loompa
• 2005Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited), Original Music Composer
• 2005Corpse Bride — Bonejangles (voice), Original Music Composer
• 2004Spider-Man 2 — Original Music Composer
• 2003Big Fish — Original Music Composer
• 2003Hulk — Original Music Composer
• 2002Chicago — Original Music Composer
• 2002Men in Black II — Original Music Composer
• 2002Red Dragon — Original Music Composer
• 2002Spider-Man — Original Music Composer
• 2001Heartbreakers — Original Music Composer
• 2001Novocaine — Original Music Composer
• 2001Planet of the Apes — Original Music Composer
• 2001Spy Kids — Songs, Original Music Composer
• 2000Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto
• 2000Proof of Life — Original Music Composer
• 2000The Family Man — Original Music Composer
• 2000The Gift — Tommy Lee Ballard
• 2000The World of Stainboy — Music
• The World of Stainboy — Music
• 1999Anywhere but Here — Original Music Composer
• 1999Instinct — Original Music Composer
• 1999Psycho Path — Self - Arranger, Music Producer
• 1999Sleepy Hollow — Original Music Composer
• 1998A Civil Action — Original Music Composer
• 1998A Simple Plan — Original Music Composer
• 1998Modern Vampires — Original Music Composer
• 1998Psycho — Music Producer
• 1997Flubber — Original Music Composer
• 1997Good Will Hunting — Original Music Composer
• 1997Men in Black — Original Music Composer
• Perversions of Science — Theme Song Performance
• 1996Bordello of Blood — Main Title Theme Composer
• 1996Darkman III: Die Darkman Die — Original Music Composer
• 1996Extreme Measures — Original Music Composer
• 1996Freeway — Original Music Composer
• 1996Mars Attacks! — Original Music Composer
• 1996Mission: Impossible — Original Music Composer
• 1996The Frighteners — Original Music Composer
• 1995Darkman II: The Return of Durant — Music
• 1995Dead Presidents — Original Music Composer
• 1995Dolores Claiborne — Original Music Composer
• 1995Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight — Main Title Theme Composer
• 1995To Die For — Original Music Composer
• 1994Black Beauty — Original Music Composer
• 1994Shrunken Heads — Music
• 1993Sommersby — Original Music Composer
• 1993The Nightmare Before Christmas — Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice), Original Music Composer, Songs
• 1992Article 99 — Original Music Composer
• 1992Batman Returns — Original Music Composer
• Batman: The Animated Series — Main Title Theme Composer
• 1992The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade — Music
• 1990Darkman — Original Music Composer
• 1990Dick Tracy — Original Music Composer
• 1990Edward Scissorhands — Original Music Composer
• 1990Nightbreed — Original Music Composer
• 1990Oingo Boingo: October 25th, 1990
• 1990The Flash — Original Music Composer
• 1989Batman — Original Music Composer
• 1989Oh No, Not Them — Music
• 1989Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet — Himself, Waiter
• Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton — Music
• Tales from the Crypt — Theme Song Performance
• The Simpsons — Main Title Theme Composer
• 1988Beetlejuice — Original Music Composer
• 1988Big Top Pee-wee — Original Music Composer
• 1988Face Like a Frog — Music, Original Music Composer
• 1988Hot to Trot — Original Music Composer
• 1988Midnight Run — Original Music Composer
• 1988Scrooged — Original Music Composer
• 1987Summer School — Original Music Composer
• 1986Amazing Stories — Original Music Composer
• 1986Back to School — Oingo Boingo Band Member, Original Music Composer
• 1986Wisdom — Original Music Composer
• Amazing Stories — Music
• 1985Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz — Self - Lead Vocals, Guitar
• 1985Pee-wee's Big Adventure — Original Music Composer
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Music
• 1982Forbidden Zone — Satan, Original Music Composer
• 1977Annie Hall — Lacey Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1977Hot Tomorrows — Singer
• Hodja Nasreddin — Original Music Composer
• Rhona Who Lives by the River — Executive Producer, Music

Appearances as themselves (26)

• Tim Burton: Life in the Line — Self
• The Holiday Movies That Made Us — Self
• 201778/52 — Self
• 2017Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales — Self
• 2017Score: A Film Music Documentary — Self
• Hollywood in Vienna — Self
• 2008Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight — Self
• 2005Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Sweet Sounds — Himself
• 2004Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man' — Self
• 2004Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing — Self
• 2003The Incredible Ang Lee — Self
• 2003The Making of 'Hulk' — Self
• 2002Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space — Self
• 2000Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend — Self
• 1998The Making of 'The Frighteners' — Self
• 1996Oingo Boingo: Farewell (Live from the Universal Amphitheatre) — Self
• 1995The Hollywood Soundtrack Story — Self
• 1994How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition — Self
• 1993The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' — Self - Composer
• 1992The Magical World of Chuck Jones — Self
• Prisoners of Gravity — Self
• 1987Oingo Boingo: Halloween '87 — Himself
• 1984Good Morning, Mr. Orwell — Self
• 1981Urgh! A Music War — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• A Look Into 'The Forbidden Zone' — Himself