Tim Burton - Wikipedia. Timothy Walter Burton[1] (; born August 2. American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, eccentric, and quirky fantasy films such as Beetlejuice (1.

Edward Scissorhands (1. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1. Ed Wood (1. 99. 4), the horror fantasy Sleepy Hollow (1. Corpse Bride (2. 00. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2.

Dark Shadows (2. 01. Frankenweenie (2. He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy Pee- wee's Big Adventure (1. Batman (1. 98. 9) and its first sequel Batman Returns (1. Planet of the Apes (2. Big Fish (2. 00. 3), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2.

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Alice in Wonderland (2. Burton has worked repeatedly with Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together. He has also worked with musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but three of the films Burton has directed.

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Actress Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's former domestic partner, has appeared in many of his films. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1.

Faber and Faber, and a compilation of his drawings, sketches and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2. A follow- up to The Art of Tim Burton, entitled The Napkin Art of Tim Burton: Things You Think About in a Bar, containing sketches made by Burton in napkins at bars and restaurants he occasionally visits, was released in 2. Both compilations were published by Steeles Publishing. Early life[edit]Burton was born in 1. Burbank, California, the son of Jean Burton (née Erickson), the owner of a cat- themed gift shop, and Bill Burton, a former minor league baseball player who would later work for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department.[2][3] As a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard on Evergreen Street using crude stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8 mm film without sound (one of his oldest known juvenile films is The Island of Doctor Agor, which he made when he was 1.

Burton studied at Burbank High School, but he was not a particularly good student. He was a very introspective person, and found his pleasure in painting, drawing and watching films. His future work would be heavily influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl.[4] After graduating from Burbank High School with Jeff Riekenberg, Burton attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, to study character animation.[5] As a student at Cal.

Arts, Burton made the shorts Stalk of the Celery Monster and King and Octopus.[6]Early career: 1. Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions' animation division, which offered Burton an animator's apprenticeship at the studio.[5] He worked as an animator, storyboard artist and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the Hound (1.

The Black Cauldron and Tron. His concept art never made it into the finished films.[7]While at Disney in 1. Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six- minute black- and- white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

The film was produced by Rick Heinrichs, whom Burton had befriended while working in the concept art department at Disney. The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema. This was followed by Burton's first live- action production Hansel and Gretel, a Japanese- themed adaptation of the Brothers Grimmfairy tale for the Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch. Having aired once in 1. Halloween and promptly shelved, prints of the film are extremely difficult to locate, fueling rumors that the project did not exist.

The short would finally go on public display in 2. Museum of Modern Art, and again in 2. Tim Burton art exhibit at LACMA.[8][9] It was again shown at the Seoul Museum of Art in 2. Burton's next live- action short, Frankenweenie, was released in 1. It tells the story of a young boy who tries to revive his dog after it is run over by a car. Filmed in black- and- white, it stars Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall (with whom he would work again in 1. Faerie Tale Theatre) and Daniel Stern.

After Frankenweenie was completed, Disney fired Burton, under the pretext of him spending the company's resources on doing a film that would be too dark and scary for children to see.[1. Pursuing then an opportunity to make a full- length film, he was approached by Griffin Dunne to direct the black comedy film After Hours. However, after Martin Scorsese's project The Last Temptation of Christ was cancelled (though later completed and released in 1. Scorsese showed an interest in directing After Hours. Respectfully, Burton bowed out.[citation needed]Pee- wee's Big Adventure[edit]Not long after, actor Paul Reubens saw Vincent and chose Burton to direct the cinematic spin- off of his popular character Pee- wee Herman. Pee- wee Herman gained mainstream popularity with a successful stage show at The Groundlings and then the Roxy which was later turned into an HBO special.

The film, Pee- wee's Big Adventure, was made on a budget of $8 million and grossed more than $4. North American box office.

Burton, a fan of the eccentric musical group Oingo Boingo, asked songwriter Danny Elfman to provide the music for the film. Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed, except for Ed Wood (because of a falling out that they had[1. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Beetlejuice[edit]After directing episodes for the revitalized version of '5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice (1. New England home. Their teenage daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) has an obsession with death which allows her to see the deceased couple.

Starring Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, and featuring Michael Keaton as the obnoxious bio- exorcist Beetlejuice, the film grossed $8. Academy Award for Best Makeup. It would be converted into a cartoon of the same name, with Burton playing a role as executive producer, that ran on ABC and later Fox. Burton's ability to produce hits with low budgets impressed studio executives, and he received his first big budget film, Batman. The production was plagued with problems. Burton repeatedly clashed with the film's producers, Jon Peters and Peter Guber, but the most notable debacle involved casting.

For the title role, Burton chose to cast Michael Keaton as Batman following their previous collaboration in Beetlejuice, despite Keaton's average physique, inexperience with action films, and reputation as a comic actor. Although Burton won in the end, the furor over the casting provoked enormous fan animosity, to the extent that Warner Brothers' share price slumped.[citation needed] Burton had considered it ridiculous to cast a "bulked- up" ultra- masculine man as Batman, insisting that the Caped Crusader should be an ordinary (albeit fabulously wealthy) man who dressed up in an elaborate bat costume to frighten criminals. Burton cast Jack Nicholson as The Joker (Tim Curry being his second choice) in a move that helped assuage fans' fears, as well as attracting older audiences not as interested in a superhero film.[citation needed]When the film opened in June 1. US$2. 50 million in the US alone and $4. Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.