Danny Elfman

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 PeeWees Big Adventure Beetlejuice Batman Edward Scissorhands Batman Returns Mars Attacks Sleepy Hollow Big Fish and Alice in Wonderland as well as scoring Raimis Darkman A Simple Plan SpiderMan SpiderMan 2 Oz the Great and Powerful and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Van Sants Academy Awardwinning 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 Selicks 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia