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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.
Danny Elfman
Composer
for Composer in Disney's A NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN (Live Action Movie)
Suggested by enzotakerian
Based on the Fantasia segment and the musical composition of the same night, this story is centered around the mythical elements of Walpurgis Night or St. John Eve, which is basically like Halloween. It involves bonfires and dances and the myths behind it involve witches and demons gathering around as the veil between Earth and the spirit world is opened and these creatures dance around and practice dark rituals. And all this activity is watched over by a giant demon known as Chernabog. This night of terror will end as dawn begins and the morning church bells ring. In the story, Chernabog has a totally evil plan to make it nighttime forever so that his reign of terror will never end. A young man and woman trying to put a stop to this, but they need help, and unfortunately no one in town believes them because the townsfolk always ignore all the rumours involving superstitions.
