Select commercially released recordings of Danny Elfman's music for film, television, stage and the concert hall. For a full list of Elfman's compositions, see List of compositions by Danny Elfman. For Elfman's recordings as lead singer/songwriter for Oingo Boingo, see the Oingo Boingo discography page.
| Release Date | Album | Type | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Gratitude[1] | Single | ||
| 1984 | So-Lo | Album | MCA Records | Often retrospectively attributed to Oingo Boingo. |
| 2006 | Serenada Schizophrana | Album | First classical work. Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, which premiered the piece in 2005. Album features John Mauceri conducting the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra. | |
| 2019 | Eleven Eleven | Album | Sony Classical | Featuring violinist Sandy Cameron with John Mauceri conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet |
| 2020 | Happy | Single | ||
| 2021 | Sorry[2] | Single | ||
| 2021 | Love in the Time of COVID[3] | Single | ||
| 2021 | Kick Me[4] | Single | ||
| 2021 | True | Single | ||
| 2021 | Insects[5] | Single | ||
| 2021 | Big Mess[6] | Album | Anti-Records & Epitaph Records | |
| 2022 | Bigger. Messier. | Remixes | ||
| Release Date | Album | Type | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Forbidden Zone | |||
| 1986 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure/Back to School | Album features re-recordings of Elfman's scores for 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure and 1986's Back to School The original recording of Pee-wee's Big Adventure was unavailable until the 2011 release of the Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box Elfman appears in Back to School as lead singer of Oingo Boingo performing the song "Dead Man's Party", which appears on the MCA song soundtrack[7] | ||
| Wisdom | Soundtrack | |||
| 1987 | Summer School | Though this remains Elfman's only completely unreleased film score to date, he wrote and performed the pop tune "Happy", which appears on film's song soundtrack | ||
| 1988 | Beetlejuice | |||
| Midnight Run | ||||
| Big Top Pee-wee | Soundtrack | The original soundtrack release including dialogue was reissued by PEG An expanded album without dialogue was released by La-La Land Records in 2014 | ||
| Scrooged | Score | |||
| 1989 | Batman | Won Elfman's only Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media Re-released with complete remastered score by La-La Land Records in 2010 | ||
| 1990 | Nightbreed | |||
| Dick Tracy | Score | Sire Records | Nominated for 33rd Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television Complete score was remastered and released by Intrada Records in 2016 | |
| Darkman | MCA | In 2020, La-La Land Records issued a 2-CD album with the 1990 soundtrack album on CD 1, and an expanded score presentation on CD 2. | ||
| Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 1 | ||||
| Edward Scissorhands | MCA | Nominated for 34th Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television Complete expanded and remastered score released by Intrada Records in 2015 | ||
| 1992 | Article 99 | Soundtrack | ||
| Batman Returns | Expanded, remastered score released from La-La Land Records in 2010 | |||
| 1993 | Sommersby | Soundtrack | ||
| Re-released in 2006 with an additional disc featuring covers by Marilyn Manson, Fiona Apple, Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco, as well as several of Elfman's original song demos Elfman's first score for an animated film. | ||||
| 1994 | Black Beauty | Expanded edition released by La-La Land Records in 2013 | ||
| 1995 | Dolores Claiborne | Soundtrack | Expanded edition from the label in 2020. | |
| Dead Presidents | With one Elfman track: "Dead President's Theme" Score remains unreleased except for a suite included on Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 2 | |||
| To Die For | Soundtrack | |||
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Phillips | With three Elfman tracks: "Impossible Mission", "Claire" and "Trouble" | |
| Point Music | Expanded and remastered score released by La-La Land Records in 2019 | |||
| Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 2 | ||||
| Extreme Measures | Soundtrack | |||
| Mars Attacks! | Soundtrack | First Elfman score to receive an expanded edition, released in 2009 by La-La Land Records | ||
| 1997 | Men in Black | With two Elfman tracks: "M.I.B. Main Theme" and "M.I.B. Closing Theme" | ||
| Nominated for 70th Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score, and for 40th Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | ||||
| Flubber | Soundtrack | |||
| Good Will Hunting | Soundtrack with two Elfman tracks | |||
| Score | Music Box Records | Nominated for 70th Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score | ||
| 1998 | Soundtrack | Compass III | ||
| A Civil Action | Soundtrack | |||
| 1999 | Instinct | |||
| Anywhere but Here | With one Elfman track: "Anywhere But Here Score Suite" | |||
| Sleepy Hollow | In 2021 Intrada Records issued a 3-CD set featuring the full score and the soundtrack album remastered. | |||
| Release Date | Album | Type | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Family Man | Soundtrack | ||
| 2000 | Proof of Life | Soundtrack | ||
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | Soundtrack | Complete score released by La-La Land Records in 2012 | |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | With two Elfman tracks: "Main Titles" and "Farewell" | ||
| Sony Music Soundtrax | Nominated for 45th Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | |||
| Men in Black II | ||||
| Red Dragon | ||||
| Chicago | Sony Legacy | With two Elfman tracks: "After Midnight" and "Roxie’s Suite" | ||
| Starz | Channel Rebrand Soundtrack | |||
| 2003 | Hulk | |||
| Big Fish | Sony Classical | 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 | With two Elfman tracks: "Spidey Suite" and "Doc Ock Suite" | ||
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Abbey Road Studios | Nominated for 48th Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (Wonka's Welcome Song) | |
| Corpse Bride | ||||
| 2006 | Nacho Libre | With one Elfman track: "Ramses Suite" | ||
| Charlotte's Web | ||||
| 2007 | Meet the Robinsons | |||
| Soundtrack | ||||
| 2008 | Standard Operating Procedure | |||
| Wanted | ||||
| Milk | Nominated for 81st Academy Award for Best Original Score, and for 52nd Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | |||
| 2009 | Notorious | With one Elfman track: "The Notorious Theme" | ||
| Terminator Salvation | ||||
| Taking Woodstock | Soundtrack | With four Elfman tracks: "Taking Woodstock Titles", Elliot's Place, "Happening (Office #2)" and "Perspective Extended" | ||
| Score | La-La Land Records |
| Release Date | Album | Type | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Soundtrack | |||
| Alice in Wonderland | Nominated for 68th Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and for 53rd Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | |||
| Soundtrack | ||||
| 2011 | Restless | Soundtrack | La-La Land Records | |
| Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box | 17-disc box set of expanded and remastered presentations of the scores Elfman wrote for 13 of Tim Burton's films from 1985 to 2010, as well as music from television and special projects.[8] Accompanied by a 263-page illustrated book chronicling the creative partnership between Elfman and Burton, the set included much previously unreleased music, and marked the first time the score to Elfman's first film Pee-wee's Big Adventure was made available. | |||
| Real Steel | With one Elfman track: "Kenton" | |||
| Iris | Cirque Du Soleil Musique | |||
| Scrooged | Score | La-La-Land Records | ||
| 2012 | Dark Shadows | With two Elfman tracks: "Dark Shadows – Prologue" and "The End?" | ||
| Men in Black 3 | Soundtrack | |||
| Frankenweenie | ||||
| Silver Linings Playbook | With two Elfman tracks: "Silver Lining Titles" and "Walking Home" | |||
| Hitchcock | Soundtrack | |||
| Promised Land | Soundtrack | |||
| 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful | |||
| Epic | Soundtrack | |||
| American Hustle | Soundtrack | With one Elfman track: "Irving Montage" | ||
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Replaced Alan Silvestri | ||
| The Unknown Known | Soundtrack | La La Land Records | ||
| Big Eyes | With six Elfman tracks: "Opening", "Who's the Artist?", "Margaret", "Walter", "Victory" and "End Credits" | |||
| 2015 | The End of the Tour | Soundtrack | ||
| Fifty Shades of Grey | With two Elfman tracks: "Ana and Christian" and "Did That Hurt?" | |||
| Score | Additional music by David Buckley[10] | |||
| With music of co-composer Brian Tyler Themes by Alan Silvestri | ||||
| Goosebumps | Soundtrack | |||
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | |||
| Rabbit & Rogue | Soundtrack | Composed for the ballet Rabbit and Rogue choreographed by Twyla Tharp in 2008 for the American Ballet Theatre | ||
| The Girl on the Train | Soundtrack | |||
| 2017 | Tulip Fever | Soundtrack | ||
| Fifty Shades Darker | With two Elfman tracks: "On His Knees" and "Making It Real" | |||
| Score | Back Lot Music | Additional music by David Buckley | ||
| The Circle | Soundtrack | |||
| Justice League | Replaced Tom Holkenborg | |||
| 2018 | Fifty Shades Freed | With two tracks by Elfman: "Freed" and "Seeing Red" | ||
| Score | Back Lot Music | Additional music by David Buckley | ||
| Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot | Soundtrack | |||
| The Grinch | With two Elfman tracks: "A Wonderful Awful Idea" and "Stealing Christmas" | |||
| 2019 | Dumbo | Soundtrack | ||
| Soundtrack | Co-composed with Chris Bacon[11] | |||
| Release Date | Album | Type | Label | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Dolittle | Soundtrack | |||
| 2021 | The Woman in the Window | Soundtrack | Replaced Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross | ||
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Soundtrack | Themes by Michael Giacchino | ||
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Soundtrack | [12] |
Albums that include themes or music written by Elfman where he did not compose the full score:
| Release Date | Album | Type | Label | Tracks composed by Elfman |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Bachelor Party | "Bachelor Party" and "Something Isn't Right" with Oingo Boingo[13] | ||
| 1985 | Weird Science | "Weird Science" title song with Oingo Boingo[14] | ||
| 1991 | Pure Luck | Soundtrack | "Main Title" and "We Found Her" | |
| 1992 | Tales from the Crypt | Big Screen Records | "Tales from the Crypt (Main Title)" | |
| Army of Darkness | Soundtrack | "March of the Dead" | ||
| 1994 | Shrunken Heads | Soundtrack | "Main Title" | |
| 1997 | Songs in the Key of Springfield | "The Simpsons Theme" | ||
| 1998 | Psycho | "Intro", based on themes by Bernard Herrmann[15] | ||
| 2001 | Heartbreakers | Soundtrack | ||
| Spy Kids | Chapter III Records | "My Parents Are Spies", "Buddy Pack Escape", "Floop's Song (Cruel World)" and "Sneaking Around Machetes"[16] | ||
| Novocaine | Soundtrack | TVT Soundtrax | "Main Titles" and "I Wish" | |
| 2005 | Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives | "Desperate Housewives Theme" | ||
| 2008 | La-La Land Records | "Main Title" and "End Title" | ||
| 2009 | 9 | Soundtrack | Themes only. Score composed by Deborah Lurie. | |
| 2016 | Scream 2 The Deluxe Edition | Expanded score album for this 1997 film contained the first commercial release of Elfman's "Cassandra Aria" and "Cassandra Reprise"[17] | ||
| 2017 | Before I Wake | Soundtrack | "Sean", "Christmas" and "Defeated" | |
| When We Rise | Soundtrack | "When We Rise Suite", co-composed with Chris Bacon[18] | ||