Tim Burton

Birthday: 1958-08-25
Birthplace: Burbank, California, USA
Gender: Male
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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).

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Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2024-09-04	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice	Baby Beetlejuice (voice) (uncredited)
	2022-12-02	Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento	self
	2016-09-28	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	Passenger on an Attraction (uncredited)
	2016-08-16	Houdini: The Untold Story	Houdini
	2015-10-30	Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
	2012-05-23	Men in Black 3	Alien on TV Monitors (uncredited)
	2011-05-13	A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton
	1994-01-01	Conversations with Vincent
	1993-10-09	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Zero (voice) (uncredited)
	1992-12-25	Hoffa	Corpse (uncredited)
	1992-09-18	Singles	Brian
	1985-07-26	Pee-wee's Big Adventure	Thug in Alley (uncredited)
	1982-04-03	Luau	The Supreme Being / Mortie
	1979-07-10	Doctor of Doom	Don Carlo
	1979-06-22	The Muppet Movie	Additional Muppet Performer