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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton covering Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker, though it is cited as William by other sources, such as the Tim Burton Collective.}} (born August 25, 1958) is an American animator, film director, producer, artist, writer, puppeteer and illustrator. Known for pioneering Goth culture in the American film industry, Burton is famous for his gothic horror and fantasy films. He has received numerous accolades including an Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and three BAFTA Awards. He was honored with the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007 and was given the Order of the Arts and Letters by Culture Minister of France in 2010.

Burton made his directorial film debut with the comedy ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure'' (1985) and gained prominence for ''Beetlejuice'' (1988) and ''Edward Scissorhands'' (1990). Burton also directed the superhero films ''Batman'' (1989) and ''Batman Returns'' (1992); the animated films ''Corpse Bride'' (2005) and ''Frankenweenie'' (2012); the science fiction films ''Mars Attacks!'' (1996) and ''Planet of the Apes'' (2001); the supernatural horror film ''Sleepy Hollow'' (1999); the fantasy films ''Big Fish'' (2003), ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2010), ''Dark Shadows'' (2012) and ''Dumbo'' (2019); the musicals ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' (2005) and ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (2007); and the biographical dramas ''Ed Wood'' (1994) and ''Big Eyes'' (2014). Starting in 2022, Burton has directed several episodes for the Netflix series ''Wednesday'', for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. He also directed ''Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'' (2024), the sequel to the 1988 film. Burton has frequently collaborated with composer Danny Elfman, who scored all but three of his films. He has released several books including ''The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories'' (1997). Provided by Wikipedia