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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
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A faithful re-telling of the Rankin/Bass classic TV special. Tensions in the North Pole rise as an imminent snowstorm causes the panicking elves at Santa's Workshop to a toy crisis that would result in the Island of Misfit Toys. Meanwhile Rudolph, a young reindeer with a shiny red glowing nose is born. Banned from reindeer games for fighting the other reindeer who made fun of him, and disappointing his tough-loving father Donner, Rudolph runs away from home. Along the way he meets Hermey the Elf who wants to be a dentist, and an unsuccessful miner Yukon Cornelius who all travel to the Island of Misfit Toys and must return to Santa's Workshop to find the toys a new home. Can Christmas go on while the storm hits? Will Rudolph save Christmas?
