TIM BURTON Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated American film director, film producer, writer and artist
Mar 20, 2016
TIM BURTONAcademy Award and Golden Globe nominated
American film director, film producer, writer and artist
Tim Burton is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetle-juice, Edward Scis-
sorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The De-mon Barber of Fleet Street, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Re-turns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Al-ice in Wonderland, his most recent film, that is currently the second highest-grossing film of 2010 as well as the sixth highest-grossing film of all time. Among Burton’s many collaborators are Johnny Depp, who became one of his most esteemed friends since their first film together, musician Danny Elf-man and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was
released in 2009.