Director Name: Tim Burton Movies Directed: (imdb.com)
Frankenweenie
Alice in Wonderland
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Cinema16: American Short Films
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Big Fish
Planet of the Apes
The World of Stainboy
Sleepy Hollow
Mars Attacks!
Ed Wood
Batman Returns
Edward Scissorhands
Batman
Beetle Juice
"Faerie Tale Theatre"
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" The Jar
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Frankenweenie
Luau
Hansel and Gretel
Doctor of Doom
Stalk of the Celery
The Island of Doctor Agor
Future projects:Frankenweenie remake
Dark Shadows
Awards won: (wikipedia.org)Academy Awards * (2006) Nominated - Best Animated Feature / Corpse Bride
BAFTA Awards * (2004) Nominated - Best Direction / Big Fish
Cannes Film Festival * (1994) Nominated - Palme d'Or / Ed Wood
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards * (2004) Nominated - Best Director / Big Fish
Golden Globe Awards * (2008) Nominated - Best Director - Motion Picture / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
* (2008) Won - Best Director / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Producers Guild of America Awards * (2006) Nominated - Animated Motion Picture / Corpse Bride
* (2008) Honored- Scream Awards: Scream Immortal Award, for his unique interpretation of horror and fantasy
* (2007) Honored- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Fun Fact:Tim won an award for an award for designing what kind of poster in 9th grade?
-Anti-litter He won 10 dollars and first prize! The posters adorned Burbank garage trucks for two months.
Links to website:http://www.timburton.com/http://www.timburtoncollective.com/ Short Director Bio:His early film career was fueled by almost unbelievable good luck, but it's his talent and originality that have kept him at the top of the Hollywood tree. Tim Burton began drawing at an early age, going on to attend the California Institute of the Arts, studying animation after being awarded a fellowship from Disney, for whom he went on to work. Although he found that the mainstream Disney films he worked on (The Fox and the Hound (1981)) were far removed from his own sensibility, Disney let him have the freedom to work on his own personal projects, the six-minute animated black-and-white Gothic Vincent Price tribute Vincent (1982), and the 27-minute live-action Frankenweenie (1984), which was judged unsuitable for children and never released. However, Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman) saw it and decided that Burton, still only in his mid-twenties, would be the ideal person to direct his feature debut, Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985). An enormous (and surprise) box-office hit, it led to the supernatural comedy Beetle Juice (1988), which in turn led to Burton being entrusted with the reins on the hugely expensive Batman (1989). Although his least personal film, it was one of the most successful films of all time, and gave him unprecedented power in Hollywood considering the originality and adventurousness of his work thus far. Edward Scissorhands (1990), another hit, saw him at the peak of his creative powers and established a fruitful working relationship with actor Johnny Depp. Batman Returns (1992) was a far darker and quirkier film than the original, a reflection of how much creative freedom Burton had won (though Warner Bros were reputedly unhappy with the final result). And although Ed Wood (1994), his loving tribute to the life and work of the legendary Worst Director of All Time, Edward D. Wood Jr., was a box-office disaster, it garnered some of the best reviews of Burton's career, and suggests that he'll continue dazzling audiences for many years to come.
A short review on the director:Tim Burton's ideas and imagination are something that go beyond any film maker I've ever seen. There is not another word to describe Tim Burton other than a genius.Born in California in 1958, Burton was drawn to art and animation early in his career. His sensibilities conflicted with the mainstream, and he sought unconventional outlets for his vision. Burton’s first foray into feature directing was the off-beat Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, which was a huge hit. This lead to Tim’s helming of 1989’s Batman, the cache of which solidified his power to pursue his art in Hollywood. Henceforth examples of which range from Edward Scissorhands to Sweeney Todd.
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