# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-burton
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:02.618Z

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description: "He turned Hot Topic into a film studio. Burton's movies don't just flirt with the macabre — they live there, wrapping Victorian decay and suburban outsider angst in stop-motion stitches and Danny Elfman's spiraling scores."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born August 25, 1958, Timothy Walter Burton broke through with Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985, then hit his stride with Beetlejuice in 1988 and Edward Scissorhands in 1990 — films that made loneliness look like a Tim Sale sketch. He brought Batman to the screen in 1989 with shadows thick enough to taste, produced The Nightmare Before Christmas from his own poem in 1993, and kept spinning: Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd, a billion-dollar Alice in Wonderland. He's worked nearly every genre — biopic, musical, sci-fi, superhero — but the palette never shifts: spindly limbs, crumbling manors, misfits who don't quite fit their skin. Venice gave him a Golden Lion in 2007; France pinned him with the Order of Arts and Letters in 2010. He directed Wednesday for Netflix in 2022, earning an Emmy nod, and returned to Beetlejuice in 2024. Danny Elfman has scored all but three of his films.