About Tim Burton

Director/producer TIM BURTON's most recent film was the comic biography of "Ed Wood," perhaps the most notorious director in film history. His first feature-length film was "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" for Warner Bros., which he followed with "Beetlejuice." In 1989, Burton directed "Batman," starring Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger. The film successfully reinterpreted and revitalized the mythic superhero for a new generation and became the highest-grossing motion picture in the history of Warner Bros. The National Association of Theatre Owners awarded Burton their Director of the Year Award that year. Burton next directed and produced "Edward Scissorhands" and then returned to Gotham City for "Batman Returns," the highest-grossing film of 1992, which starred Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer in the continuing adventures of the Dark Knight. In 1993, he created and produced the stop-motion animation feature "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas," which he followed with "Ed Wood." He was one of the producers of "Batman Forever" and "James and the Giant Peach," which reunited him with the creative team behind "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas."