Tim Burton

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, crumbl…