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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 THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Live Action Remake)
Suggested by enzotakerian
There shouldn't be a live action remake of this Halloween/Christmas classic, I'm just doing this for fun. There are different dimensions based on holidays. In the world of Halloween, Jack Skellington, a charming skeleton who is considered the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, has grown sick and tired of all the traditions involving scaring, shrieks of terror, and scary dances. While going for a walk in the woods with his ghost dog, Zero, Jack stumbles upon a group of doors, each one shaped like the symbol of a holiday. He gets most interested in the one shaped like a Christmas tree. Inside the world of Christmas, Jack finds himself amazed with all the bright colors, the snow, and the fact that the traditions are festive and jolly instead of dark and horrible. He shows his fellow monsters the wonders of Christmas and decides to run the holiday himself, with slight improvements. One resident, Sally the Ragdoll (who has feelings for Jack), sees a premonition of Christmas being ruined, but Jack is too excited to listen to her.
