Edward Scissorhands is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman. The orchestra consisted of 79 musicians. Elfman cites Scissorhands as epitomizing his most personal and favorite work. In addition to Elfman's music, three Tom Jones songs also appear: "It's Not Unusual", "Delilah" and "With These Hands". "It's Not Unusual" would later be used in Mars Attacks! (1996), another film of Burton's with music composed by Elfman. Edward Scissorhands is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman. The orchestra consisted of 79 musicians. Elfman cites Scissorhands as epitomizing his most personal and favorite work. In addition to Elfman's music, three Tom Jones songs also appear: "It's Not Unusual", "Delilah" and "With These Hands". "It's Not Unusual" would later be used in Mars Attacks! (1996), another film of Burton's with music composed by Elfman. false 2023-01-19 01:32:57 Edward Scissorhands 9.3 2015 2015-12-08 2015-12-08 71 Classical 113409 2272106 c0c489f3-2497-47db-9d7d-00f15e8d57d6 5b24fbab-c58f-4c37-a59d-ab232e2d98c4 6085faca-6db9-35dc-9112-10eade903705 Danny Elfman AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/D/Danny Elfman/folder.jpg Danny Elfman Artist /config/metadata/People/D/Danny Elfman/folder.jpg Tom Jones Artist /config/metadata/People/T/Tom Jones/folder.jpg Danny Elfman Tom Jones Danny Elfman 1 Introduction (Titles) 02:51 2 Storytime 02:36 3 Castle on the Hill 06:23 4 Beautiful New World / Home Sweet Home 02:41 5 Ballet de Suburbia (Suite) 01:17 6 Esmeralda 00:27 7 The Cookie Factory 02:18 8 Etiquette Lesson 01:38 9 Housewives / Esmeralda 2 / Paper Dolls 01:23 10 Edwardo the Barber 03:19 11 Kim at the Mall / Talk Show 01:45 12 Cloth World 00:50 13 The Heist 02:52 14 The Tide Changes / Kim Spies / Edward’s Rage 03:29 15 Ice Dance 01:47 16 Confrontation 01:12 17 Edward’s Rampage 00:36 18 Paranoia / Final Cut / Devil Bush 03:06 19 Death! 03:32 20 The Plot Unfolds 02:59 21 The Final Confrontation 03:10 22 Farewell 02:46 23 The Grand Finale 03:24 24 The End 04:53 25 Trailer 02:06 26 Kim Spies / Kim at the Mall / Paranoia (alternates) 02:38 27 O Little Town of Bethlehem / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 02:31 28 With These Hands 02:43 Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead singer 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, and Wednesday, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 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 honors 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.