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In this case, the fanlisting is for the American director Tim Burton, and was created by Sasha. If you're still not sure what a fanlisting is, please read Fanlistings 101 for more information!

About Tim Burton

Tim Burton is a unique, original filmmaker whose creative visual style and dark sense of humor stem, in part, from the horror films he loved (and identified with) as a child. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts and then worked at Walt Disney Studios, where he made two shorts that crystallized many themes in his later work: Vincent (1982), a stop-motion animation salute to Vincent Price (one of Burton's heroes, who narrates the short), and Frankenweenie (1984), a live-action reinterpretation of the horror classic, with a young boy who brings his dead dog back to life. The Disney studios didn't quite know what to do with either film (neither one went into national release), but Frankenweenie caught the attention of Paul Reubens, who hired Burton to direct his alter-ego Peewee Herman in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), a stylized, inventive, and surprisingly charming comedy that works because of Burton's affection for comic strip irreverence.

Burton's next film, Beetlejuice (1988), the story of a dead couple trying to deal with the afterlife, retained that irreverence (mostly in Michael Keaton's wonderfully over-the-top performance as a daffy demonic spirit) but showcased a much more sophisticated visual sense. (Increasingly bigger budgets allowed him to let his imagination run wild.) Burton then directed Batman (1989), a brooding, revisionist take on the character which quickly became one of the biggest moneymakers in box office history. His new-found clout enabled him to make the decidedly less commercial Edward Scissorhands (1990), a fable of an artificial boy set in a hyperrealistic suburbia that is probably Burton's most personal work, dealing with the plight of the outcast in a forbidding world. It was based on a character he'd developed in his boyhood; the film also featured Vincent Price as Edward Scissorhands' creator. Burton directed the mean-spirited sequel Batman Returns (1992) before returning to his roots, producing The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), a dazzling display of stop-motion animation; though directed by Henry Selick, it was based on Burton's designs and story. It was complemented by the music of Burton's longtime composer-collaborator, Danny Elfman. He followed it with Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet Of The Apes (2001), and much more.

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(with thanks to IMDB)

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