Tim & Danny
Timothy "Tim" William Burton (born August 25 , 1958 ) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe -nominated American film director, writer and designer notable for the quirky and often dark atmosphere in his high-profile films.
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American musician who is most famous for composing The Simpsons Theme and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer / songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995, and has composed film scores extensively since 1985 's Pee-wee's Big Adventure. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman has also written themes for video games such as Fable.
Tim & Danny
In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited him to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann. He later described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life. Elfman has spoken of the affinity he developed right away with Burton, and he has gone on to score all but two of his major studio films ( Ed Wood, which was scored by Howard Shore, and Sweeney Todd, a filmed version of the 1979 Broadway musical with music by Stephen Sondheim and score by Jonathan Tunick ).
