Q&A: Danny Elfman

6:00 AM PDT 10/23/2012 by Tim Appelo

"My constant worry is that I'll run out of ideas." So far, not a chance, as composer Danny Elfman, winner of the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Maestro Award, scores eight films in 2012 alone.

Composer Danny Elfman has won a Grammy and an Emmy and earned four Oscar nominations with almost 80 film scores. On Oct. 25 at the W Hotel in Hollywood, THR film critic Todd McCarthy will present Elfman, 59, with the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Maestro Award, previously won by Alan Menken, Thomas Newman, Hans Zimmer and Marvin Hamlisch. McCarthy will host a Q&A with Elfman and Sacha Gervasi, director of the Elfman-scored Hitchcock, due out in November. THR asked Elfman to reflect on his 27-year career and his biggest year, 2012.