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List of Compositions by Danny Elfman

Film Scores

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The following list consists of select films for which Danny Elfman composed the score and/or songs.

1980s

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Year Title Director Notes / Accolades
1982 Forbidden Zone Richard Elfman In addition to composing the score and songs with the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, performed a reworking of Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" as the character Satan.[1]
1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure Tim Burton Feature film debut
1986 'Back to School Alan Metter Appears in the film as the lead singer of Oingo Boingo performing their song "Dead Man's Party"
Wisdom Emilio Estevez
1987 Summer School Carl Reiner Only completely unreleased Elfman film score to date
1988 Beetlejuice Tim Burton
Midnight Run Martin Brest
Big Top Pee-wee Randal Kleiser
Hot to Trot Michael Dinner
Scrooged Richard Donner
1989 Batman Tim Burton Won only Grammy to date for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

1990s

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Year Title Director Notes
1990 Nightbreed Clive Barker
Dick Tracy Warren Beatty Nominated for 33rd Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
Darkman Sam Raimi
Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton Nominated for 34th Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television.
1992 Article 99 Howard Deutch
Batman Returns Tim Burton In addition to the composing the full score, co-wrote the song "Face to Face" with Siouxsie And The Banshees
1993 Sommersby Jon Amiel
The Nightmare Before Christmas Henry Selick In addition to the score, Elfman wrote all songs and lyrics and provided the singing voice of the main character Jack Skellington, among others
Black Beauty Caroline Thompson
1995 Dolores Claiborne Taylor Hackford
Dead Presidents Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes First Elfman score to be credited as conductor
To Die For Gus Van Sant Elfman and Van Sant performed some vocals on the score credited to "Little Gus And The Suzettes"
1996 Mission: Impossible Brian De Palma Elfman's score incorporates two themes by Lalo Schifrin from the original Mission Impossible TV Series, including "Theme from Mission: Impossible" and "The Plot"
The Frighteners Peter Jackson
Freeway Matthew Bright
Extreme Measures' Michael Apted
Mars Attacks! Tim Burton|
1997 Men in Black Barry Sonnenfeld Nominated for 70th Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Nominated for 40th Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
Flubber Les Mayfield
Good Will Hunting Gus Van Sant Nominated for 70th Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
1998 A Simple Plan Sam Raimi
A Civil Action Steven Zaillian
1999 Instinct Jon Turteltaub
Anywhere but Here' Wayne Wang
Sleepy Hollow Tim Burton

2000s

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Year Title Director Notes
2000 Proof of Life Taylor Hackford
The Family Man Brett Ratner
2001 Planet of the Apes Tim Burton
2002 Spider-Man Sam Raimi Nominated for 45th Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
Men in Black II Barry Sonnenfeld
Red Dragon Brett Ratner
Chicago Rob Marshall
2003 Hulk Ang Lee
Big Fish Tim Burton Nominated for 76th Academy Award for Best Original Score; for 61st Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and for 47th Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
2004 Spider-Man 2 Sam Raimi
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tim Burton Nominated for 48th Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (Wonka's Welcome Song)
Elfman sings all of the vocal parts of the Oompa Loompa characters
Corpse Bride Tim Burton In addition to the score, composed all songs and lyrics
Voiced of the character "Bonejangles" who performs the song "Remains of the Day"
2006 Deep Sea 3D Howard Hall Adapted from Elfman's concert work Serenada Schizophrana, with addiitonal music by Elfman and composer Deborah Lurie
Nacho Libre Jared Hess
Charlotte's Web Gary Winick
2007 Meet the Robinsons Stephen Anderson
The Kingdom Peter Berg
2008 Standard Operating Procedure Errol Morris Score ncorporates two movements from Elfman's Serenada Schizophrana concert work, specifically "Pianos" and "Blue Strings" reworked and retitled as "Main Titles: Vacation in Iraq" and "A Bad Feeling"
Wanted Timur Bekmambetov In addition to the score, wrote and performed the song "The Little Things" for the soundtrack
Hellboy II: The Golden Army Guillermo del Toro
Milk Gus Van Sant Nominated for 81st Academy Award for Best Original Score
52nd Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
2009 Notorious George Tillman, Jr.
Terminator Salvation McG
9 Shane Acker Elfman provided themes only
score composed by Deborah Lurie
Taking Woodstock Ang Lee

2010s

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Year Title Director Notes
2010 The Wolfman Joe Johnston
Alice in Wonderland Tim Burton Nominated for 68th Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
53rd Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
The Next Three Days Paul Haggis
2011 Restless Gus Van Sant
Real Steel Shawn Levy
2012 Dark Shadows Tim Burton
Men in Black 3 Barry Sonnenfeld
Frankenweenie Tim Burton
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
Hitchcock'" Sacha Gervasi
Promised Land Gus Van Sant
2013 Oz the Great and Powerful Sam Raimi
Epic Chris Wedge
American Hustle David O. Russell
2014 'Mr. Peabody & Sherman Rob Minkoff
The Unknown Known Errol Morris
Big Eyes Tim Burton
2015 The End of the Tour James Ponsoldt
Fifty Shades of Grey Sam Taylor-Johnson
Avengers: Age of Ultron Joss Whedon Co-composer with Brian Tyler
Goosebumps Rob Letterman
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass James Bobin
The Girl on the Train Tate Taylor
2017 Tulip Fever Justin Chadwick
Fifty Shades Darker James Foley Additional music by David Buckley
The Circle James Ponsoldt
Justice League Zack Snyder In addition to creating several new themes for his original score, Elfman used the "Batman Theme" from his Batman score, John Williams' "Superman Theme" from Superman, and the Wonder Woman theme from the track "Is She With You" composed by Hans Zimmer, Robert Badami, Melissa Muik, Mark Andrew Wherry and Steve Mazzaro for the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2018 Fifty Shades Freed James Foley
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot Gus Van Sant
The Grinch Scott Mosier
Yarrow Cheney
2019 Dumbo Tim Burton
Men in Black: International F. Gary Gray Co-composed with Chris Bacon

References

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  1. ^ Grow, Kory. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/inside-danny-elfmans-twisted-cult-film-forbidden-zone-70127/ "Inside Danny Elfman’s Twisted Cult Film ‘Forbidden Zone’"], Rolling Stone, November 6, 2015.
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