Age: 73
male
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.
On a night before Christmas Eve, the party of the Straibaums are celebrating a great deal with their oldest being married to a noble man with strong roots to the old ruling class and prominent figures of influence and power that could help ensure their famished fortunes as they have started to fall on hard times. A bright spot for the family and their children is that of the eccentric but very talented clockmaker, Drosselmer , a family friend with a long history of amazing and inspiring tales of seeing the world. Clara and her brother, Frtiz adore him and he often spoils them with gifts from his travels aboard, their family is very op and friendly but a bit conservative in wanting to maintain appearance and being able to maintain their place in society. This often leads to Clara and her father to clash as she wants to follow her heart while her father wants her to pursue a more grounded and safe lifestyle that is good for her and the welfare of their families. This in turn caused a rift between the two. Later, the nutcracker is revealed and the others think it odd but harmless while Fritz trying to get a nut to be opened, beaks the poor toy by accident, Clara is not upset as she knows it was an accident, Fritz apologized and said he was very sorry about it, The family told the children to calm down and it would be fixed in the morning,
