Tim Burton
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.
Born: 25 August 1958
Played In
Ritratti di cinema
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"Couch" by Lena Situations
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Tim Burton : un monstre de cinéma
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Pee-wee as Himself
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Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
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Designing the Burtonesque
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Baby Beetlejuice (voice) (uncredited)
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
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A Look Through His Lens
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Superpowered: The DC Story
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100 Years of Warner Bros.
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Beau geste
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Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
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Wednesday
Parrot
Mostra, Venise
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Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale
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The Holiday Movies That Made Us
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Joker: Put on a Happy Face
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
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The Grand Tour
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Passenger on an Attraction (uncredited)
Houdini: The Untold Story
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Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?
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The Making of Big Eyes
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Film Adventurer Karel Zeman
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Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
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Miniatures in Motion: Bringing Frankenweenie to Life
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Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
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The Batmobile
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Men in Black 3
Alien on TV Monitors (uncredited)
Evening Urgant
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A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton
Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror
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Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
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Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
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Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
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Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
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El hormiguero
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Sweet Sounds
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The Many Faces of Catwoman
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Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
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The Culture Show
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Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!%
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Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura
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Leçon de Cinéma
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Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
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Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
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Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
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The Daily Show
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
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Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
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Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
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A Century of Cinema
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Conversations with Vincent
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Zero (voice) (uncredited)
The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
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Hoffa
Corpse (uncredited)
Singles
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Batman Returns: The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Thug in Alley (uncredited)
Backstage at Disney
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Luau
The Supreme Being / Mortie
Doctor of Doom
Don Carlo
The Muppet Movie
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