Tim Burton

Directing · 3.5 popularity

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Movies

Born: August 25, 1958
From: Burbank, California, USA
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Biography

Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for pioneering goth subculture in Hollywood, with his films employing a distinctive style that blends gothic horror and dark fantasy aesthetics with whimsical and surreal elements. He has received numerous accolades, including one Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three BAFTA Awards. He was honoured with the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007 and France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2010. Burton made his directorial debut with the comedy film Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985). He gained wider prominence for directing Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), as well as producing The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), which was based on a poem he wrote. He had directed films spanning a variety of genres such as animation, biopic, drama, fantasy, musical, science fiction, superhero, and supernatural horror; these include Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Dark Shadows (2012), Frankenweenie (2012), Big Eyes (2014), Dumbo (2019), and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Burton has directed several episodes of the Netflix series Wednesday (2022–present), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. He frequently collaborates with musician Danny Elfman, who has scored all but three of his films. He has also published several books, including The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Burton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

56 films

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

20246.9

The Nightmare Before Christmas

19937.8

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

20166.8

Men in Black 3

20126.5

The Muppet Movie

19797.2

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

19856.5

Singles

19926.4

Hoffa

19926.3

Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale

20218.3

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

Joker: Put on a Happy Face

20208.0

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

20248.2

Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter

20106.1

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

20016.9

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

19949.0

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

20007.1

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

The Making of Edward Scissorhands

19908.0

Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice

20107.7

Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection

20058.0

Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland

20106.9

Batman Returns: The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin

19926.5

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

20127.4

Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood

20047.9

The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?

20156.7

Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre

20006.1

A Look Through His Lens

2024

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

20157.5

A Century of Cinema

19948.3

Ritratti di cinema

2025

Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck

20136.3

The Many Faces of Catwoman

20058.7

Tim Burton : un monstre de cinéma

20257.3

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

19947.5

The Making of Big Eyes

20157.0

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

2020

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

2008

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd

20087.7

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons

20127.3

Doctor of Doom

19794.8

The Batmobile

20126.8

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

20046.5

Houdini: The Untold Story

2016

Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!%

2004

Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror

201010.0

The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

1993

Designing the Burtonesque

2024

A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton

2011

Luau

19824.8

Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton

20158.4

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition

19947.2

Miniatures in Motion: Bringing Frankenweenie to Life

20126.8

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Sweet Sounds

20058.5

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

20223.0

Backstage at Disney

1983

Conversations with Vincent

1994