List of compositions by Danny Elfman

This is a list of compositions by Danny Elfman for film, television, stage and the concert hall.
For a list of recordings, see Danny Elfman discography, and for Elfman's work as lead singer/songwriter of Oingo Boingo, see Oingo Boingo discography.

Film scores

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

Additional film work

In addition to his feature scores, Elfman has supplied thematic material and additional music for films scored by others :

Year	Title	Director	Composer	Notes
1984	Bachelor Party	Neal Israel	Robert Folk	"Bachelor Party Theme" with Oingo Boingo
1985	Weird Science	John Hughes	Ira Newborn	"Weird Science" title song with Oingo Boingo
1991	Pure Luck	Nadia Tass	Jonathan Sheffer	"Main Title" and "We Found Her"
1992	Army of Darkness	Sam Raimi	Joseph LoDuca	"March of the Dead"
1994	Shrunken Heads	Richard Elfman	Richard Band
1997	Scream 2	Wes Craven	Marco Beltrami	"Cassandra Aria" & "Cassandra Aria Reprise"
1998	Modern Vampires	Richard Elfman	Michael Wandmacher
1999	My Favorite Martian	Donald Petrie	John Debney	"Uncle Martin's Theme"
2001	Heartbreakers	David Mirkin	John Debney
2001	Novocaine	David Atkins	Steve Bartek
2010	Kick-Ass	Matthew Vaughn	John Murphy Henry Jackman Marius de Vries Ilan Eshkeri	"Walk to Rasul's"
2011	Do Not Disturb	Mali Elfman	Mike Einziger Oliver Hecks

Elfman composed the music for the Hollywood Pictures logo in 1991, and an excerpt from his main title for Sommersby was subsequently used as the logo music for Regency beginning in 1994.

Concert and stage works

The following list consists of select works composed for the stage and concert hall.

Year	Title	Other artists	Notes / Accolades
2005	Serenada Schizophrana	Commissioned and premiered by the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Sloane	First commissioned concert work Premiered February 23, 2005 at Carnegie Hall Recorded in 2006 by conductor John Mauceri and the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra
2008	Rabbit & Rogue		First ballet score, written for Twyla Tharp's Rabbit and Rogue Co-commission by American Ballet Theatre and Orange County Performing Arts Center Premiered June 3, 2008, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center LA Film Festival's Rabbit and Rogue contest provided free usage of Elfman's music to which filmmakers created short films
2011	Iris		Commissioned by Cirque Du Soleil for director Philippe Decouflé's Cirque du Soleil show based on the history and themes of cinema Elfman's score was pre-recorded with an orchestra of 100 musicians, that was then mixed with the show's eight live, in-house musicians during performance.
2013	Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton	John Mauceri conductor	Nearly two hours of orchestral suites newly arranged by Elfman from his scores for the films of Tim Burton Premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in London on October 7, 2013, with John Mauceri conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra, and Elfman performing the songs of characters Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas segment. Continues to tour internationally, with performances in Europe, Japan, Australia, and throughout the U.S. The 2015 performance at Lincoln Center was recorded live and broadcast on PBS
2017	Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven"	Violinist Sandy Cameron, conductor John Mauceri and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra	First violin concerto Co-commissioned by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Live at Stanford University, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for violinist Sandy Cameron Premiered in Prague June 21, 2017, with Cameron, Mauceri and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra Recorded in 2019 with Cameron, Mauceri and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
2018	Piano Quartet	Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet	First piano quartet Co-commissioned by the Lied Center for Performing Arts University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet Premiered February 6, 2018, at the Lied Center in Lincoln, Nebraska
2019	Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus		Incidental music for the Broadway production written by Taylor Mac, directed by George C. Wolfe and produced by Scott Rudin
2019	Percussion Quartet	Third Coast Percussion	Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion, who premiered the piece at Philip Glass Center's 2019 Central Coast Days & Nights Festival on October 10, 2019
2022	Danny Elfman: From Boingo to ‘Batman’ to ‘Big Mess’ to Beyond!	Steve Bartek, Wes Borland, Stu Brooks, Nili Brosh, Josh Freese	Initially announced as Danny Elfman: Past, Present and Future! From Boingo to Batman and Beyond! as part of Coachella 2020, the concert was postponed to April 16, 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic Featuring selections of Elfman's film and television music arranged for band, orchestra and choir, as well as songs from his solo album Big Mess and new arrangements of songs from his Oingo Boingo catalogue Expanded for two concerts performed Halloween weekend at the Hollywood Bowl
2022	Cello Concerto	Gautier Capucon, Wiener Symphoniker, David Robertson	Commissioned jointly by Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. World premiere Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna 18 March 2022
2022	Percussion Concerto	Colin Currie, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ludwig Wicki	Commissioned jointly by London Philharmonic Orchestra and Soka University of America World premiere Royal Festival Hall, London 25 March 2022
2022	Wunderkammer	National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Andrew Gourlay	Commissioned by National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain World premiere Bridgewater Hall, Manchester 3 August and then at the BBC Proms, 6 August 2022
2023	Suite for Chamber Orchestra	Orpheus Chamber Orchestra	Co-commissioned by the Library of Congress, The Andre Kostelanetz Royalty Pool, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland World premiere St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.) 4 May 2023

Television

Elfman has written the theme music and occasional episodic scores for several television series, including:

Year	Title	Notes
1985	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Episode: "The Jar", directed by Tim Burton
1985	Amazing Stories	Episodes: "Mummy, Daddy" & "The Family Dog" with Steve Bartek
1986	Pee-wee's Playhouse	Episodes: "Monster in the Playhouse," "Cowboy and the Cowntess," "Store," & "Pee-Wee Catches A Cold"
1986	Sledge Hammer!	Theme music only Score composed by Don Davis, Ron Grant, Lance Rubin & Richard Stone
1986	Fast Times	Theme music only, with Oingo Boingo Score composed by Barry Goldberg, Arthur Barrow & Steve Schiff
1989	Tales from the Crypt	Theme music only Score composed by various others including Jay Ferguson, Nicholas Pike, Alan Silvestri, J. Peter Robinson & Michael Kamen
1989	Beetlejuice: The Animated Series	Theme music only Score composed by Tom Szczesniak
1989	Oh, No! Not THEM!	Theme music only Score composed by Andrea Saparoff Unaired pilot for unproduced American remake of The Young Ones
1989	The Simpsons	Theme music only Score composed by Richard Gibbs, Patrick Williams, Ray Colcord, Alf Clausen & Bleeding Fingers Music Nominated- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
1990	The Flash	Theme music only Score composed by Shirley Walker
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	"Main Title" & "End Credit" Score composed by various others including Shirley Walker
1993	Family Dog	Theme music only Score composed by Steve Bartek
1997	Perversions of Science	Theme music only Score composed by J. Peter Robinson & Ernest Troost
1999	Dilbert	Theme music only, rearrangement of the title song for Forbidden Zone Score composed by Adam Cohen & Ian Dye
2004	Desperate Housewives	Theme music only Score composed by Steve Bartek, Stewart Copeland & Steve Jablonsky Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music
2005	Point Pleasant	Theme music only Score composed by Robert Duncan
2008	Amas de Casa Desesperadas	Theme music only Score composed by Steve Bartek, Stewart Copeland & Steve Jablonsky
2017	When We Rise	Miniseries Score composed with Chris Bacon
2022	Wednesday	Television series Theme music Score composed with Chris Bacon Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music Nominated- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
TBA	Rhona Who Lives By The River	Television series Score composer, songwriter and executive producer

On October 30, 2015, PBS's "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton, for which Elfman won Outstanding Music Direction at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards.
In 2019 selections from his score to the film Midnight Run were used in the third season of Netflix's Stranger Things, including "Stairway Chase" in episodes 5 and 6, and "Wild Ride" and "Package Deal" in episode 6.

Video games

Year	Title	Notes
2004	Fable	Opening title theme Score composed by Russell Shaw
2008	Lego Batman: The Videogame	Excerpts from Batman; DS version also uses excerpts from Batman Returns Score arranged by Morgan Peeters
2008	Fable II	Composed with Russell Shaw
2009	Wanted: Weapons of Fate	Themes from Wanted Score composed by Ulf Andersson
2012	Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes	Excerpts from Batman and Batman Returns Compliments score composed by Rob Westwood
2013	Puppet Masterpiece Theater: The Circus	iPad app created by children's entertainment group Organa Kids
2014	Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham	Excerpts from Batman Compliments score composed by Rob Westwood

Miscellaneous

1987: Music for Sally Cruikshank's Face Like A Frog animated short.
1991: Music for Nike's "Barkley Superhero" animated television commercial.
1996: Music for a 1996/97 Nissan television advertising campaign.
1998: Music for a 1998/99 Lincoln-Mercury television advertising campaign.
1998: Provided part-composed, part-sampled music for Luigi Serafini's solo exhibition il Teatro della Pittura at the Fondazione Mudima di Milano in Milan, Italy.
1998: For Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot Psycho remake, Elfman and Steve Bartek adapted the original score composed by Bernard Herrmann.
2000: Music for Tim Burton's "Stainboy" animated internet series commissioned by Shockwave.com.
2002: Music for Honda's "Power of Dreams" advertising campaign, the first cinema commercial to be shot in the IMAX format.
2006: Elfman's "Overeager Overture" commemorating conductor John Mauceri's tenure with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra premiered September 15, 2006, at the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Mauceri.
2005: Elfman's Batman theme for the DC Animated Universe briefly appeared in the The Batman episode "Night and the City".
2006: Provided music for Erik Sanko's first feature-length marionette performance The Fortune Teller.
2009: Incidental music for the Tim Burton exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009-2010.
2013: Composed the music and provided the English-language vocals for the Hong Kong Disneyland attraction Mystic Manor.
2016: Scored the "Making of an Oscar" animation which opened the 88th Academy Awards.
2016: Composed atonal "horror" music for the short Funny or Die video "Trump Stalks Clinton," which used footage from the Second U.S. presidential debate.
2018: Elfman's Flash theme briefly appeared in The Flash episode "Elseworlds: Part One", which is part of the Arrowverse.
2019: Elfman's Batman theme for the DC Animated Universe briefly appeared in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies feature film Justice League vs. the Fatal Five.
2019: Elfman's Batman and Flash themes briefly appeared in the Supergirl episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One" and in The Flash episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three" respectively, both part of the Arrowverse.
2020: Re-recorded and released a "nursery rhyme" version of his 1982 Oingo Boingo song "Running on a Treadmill" while under quarantine from the coronavirus pandemic.
2020: Scored the 10-minute video "Joe Biden," which introduced Joe Biden's acceptance of the presidential candidacy nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
2021: Released Big Mess, Elfman's first "rock record in 27 years" and first solo record since 1984's So-Lo.
2021: Elfman's Batman theme for the DC Animated Universe briefly appeared during the Warner 300 presentation scene in the Looney Tunes film Space Jam: A New Legacy.
2021: Elfman's Spider-Man theme briefly appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home.
2022: Elfman's Batman theme for the DC Animated Universe briefly appeared in the Harley Quinn episode "Batman Begins Forever".
2023: Elfman's Batman theme is used in the DC Extended Universe film The Flash.
2024: Elfman's Batman theme briefly appeared in the Amazon Prime Video series Invincible episode "I Thought You Were Stronger".
2024: Elfman's Batman theme for the DC Animated Universe briefly appeared in the DC Animated Movie Universe feature film Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three.
2025: Scored the music for the Dark Universe section of Universal Epic Universe.