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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.
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After coming back to dreadful London, Benjamin Barker, now known as Sweeney Todd, is now working as barber at Fleet Street. There he meets the lovely yet dangerous and obsessive Mrs. Lovett, where her pies are the most dreadful in London. Together, they make a plan where Sweeney and her kill people and Mrs. Lovett makes a bunch of pies made from human meat. But a dark underlying secret is kept from Sweeney when he finds out that Mrs. Lovett was the one who kept that secret, and it'll destroy him for the rest of his days. A Horror Musical Directed By Guillermo del Torro. Made originaly by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, and Christopher Bond. Adapted by Guillermo del Torro, Leigh Janiak, and James Wan
