Tim Burton
American filmmaker and artist (born 1958) · United States · Directors
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Something wrong?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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"Couch" by Lena SituationsSeries2024
Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceFilm, Director, Producer2022Lumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinemaAward
Mostra, VeniseSeries, 20222020
The Holiday Movies That Made UsSeries2019David di Donatello Award for Lifetime AchievementAward
DumboFilm, 2019Director, Producer2016Officer of Arts and LettersAward
The Grand TourSeries, 20162015
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?Film2012“There’s something beautiful about the stop-motion process, being able to touch the puppets.”In their words21 September 2012The Tim Burton Interview: On His Return to ‘Frankenweenie’ and Why He’s Thinking About Going Indie (September 21, 2012)Saturn Award for Best Animated FilmAward
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterFilm, 2012Producer2010“It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. It’s like weird, twisted poetry, the way kids perceive things. And quite beautiful sometimes.”In their words11 January 2010Tim Burton (January 11, 2010)2009Inkpot AwardAwardWinsor McCay AwardAward
9Film, 2009Producer2008Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or ComedyAward2007Golden Lion for Lifetime AchievementAward2006
El hormigueroSeries2005Saturn Award for Best Animated FilmAward
Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryFilm, 2005Director2004
Leçon de CinémaSeries2001
Once Upon a Time: The Super HeroesFilm1999
Sleepy HollowFilm, Director1996
The Daily ShowSeries1995
Batman ForeverFilm, Producer1993
The Nightmare Before ChristmasFilm, Writer, Producer1992
The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSeries1991Hugo AwardAwardHugo Award for Best Dramatic PresentationAward1990Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated ProgramAward
Edward ScissorhandsFilm, 1990Director, Writer1989
BeetlejuiceSeries, Creator, Producer1988
BeetlejuiceFilm, Director1983
Hansel and GretelFilm, Director1982
Faerie Tale TheatreSeries, Director1979
The Muppet MovieFilm, Additional Muppet Performer1958Born25 August 1958Also in Deutsch
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Burton (right) and Pedro Almodóvar at the première of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Madrid, in 2007
Burton speaking about 9 at Comic-Con, 2009
From left to right, director Tim Burton with cast Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers, at a press for Wednesday (season 2) in South Korea, 2025
Burton at a press event in South Korea, 2025In their own words 4
, There’s something beautiful about the stop-motion process, being able to touch the puppets.
It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. It’s like weird, twisted poetry, the way kids perceive things. And quite beautiful sometimes.
I never really got nightmares from movies. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?
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BBBeetlejuice Beetlejuice
JFJoker: Put on a Happy FaceDUDumbo
MCMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
AGAlice Through the Looking GlassTHThe Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?
BEBig Eyes
MBMen in Black 3
DSDark ShadowsAHAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
FRFrankenweenie
DDDark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
RTRay Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
AWAlice in Wonderland9
WBWaking Sleeping Beauty
SSSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetCFCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
CBCorpse Bride
BFBig Fish
PAPlanet of the ApesOHOnce Upon a Time: The Super HeroesSHSleepy Hollow
MAMars Attacks!
JPJames and the Giant PeachBFBatman Forever
EWEd Wood
CBCabin BoyTCThe Nightmare Before Christmas
BRBatman Returns
HOHoffa
SISinglesESEdward Scissorhands
BABatmanBEBeetlejuice
PAPee-wee's Big Adventure
FRFrankenweenieHGHansel and Gretel
VIVincentTMThe Muppet Movie170 credits on file
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PHPee-wee as HimselfCS"Couch" by Lena Situations
YB100 Years of Warner Bros.
SSSuperpowered: The DC Story
BGBeau geste
WEWednesdayMVMostra, VeniseTUThe Holiday Movies That Made Us
KCKonbini Vidéo ClubTTThe Grand Tour
EUEvening UrgantEHEl hormiguero
TSThe Culture ShowLCLeçon de Cinéma
TSThe World of StainboyTSThe Daily Show
FDFamily DogTLThe Tonight Show with Jay LenoBEBeetlejuice
TPThe New Alfred Hitchcock PresentsFTFaerie Tale TheatreAwards
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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.
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