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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 Ghostbusters Division Episode 1: A Ghostbusters Division Christmas (1989)
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The holidays arrived for the new members of the Ghostbusters team since they evolved to extend to another half of New York, Carley (Christine Elise) Kylie (Winona Ryder), Andie (Molly Ringwald) and the daughter of Winston Zeddemore herself, Rachel Zeddemore (Traci Wolfe) are currently on a holiday break, spending time visiting not only some of their families but even the original busters. Peter (Bill Murray), Ray(Dan Aykroyd), Egon (Harold Ramis) and Winston (Ernie Hudson). Things were going fairly well, however in another home were two teenagers doing what was thought to be a harmless sleepover game, later that night. Unbeknownst to them, they summoned the most dangerous and twisted entity of all, the sinister Mary Worthing, best known as Bloody Mary (Joanna Johnson) and took the two first victims. A day after, similar reports began starting up that people are seeing this figure inside their bathroom mirror before the entity killed them. Spreading her legend around one by one, things escalate as even Rachel makes a terrible mistake of summoning her after hearing about the legend. However, she survived and went to warn the busters about the horror that's to come as Mary starts up a nightmarish spree, it was now time for not only the girls in beige to take out Bloody Mary, but also the boys as well. Will they save Christmas or will Worthing's curse take New York?..
