Tim Burton is an American film director known for his dark and quirky style. He was born in 1958 in California and was interested in art and filmmaking from a young age. After studying character animation, he got his start at Disney but was fired for films deemed unsuitable for children. His breakthrough films included Beetlejuice (1988) and Batman (1989). Burton frequently collaborates with actors like Johnny Depp and composer Danny Elfman. His films feature imaginative characters in Gothic settings and often deal with themes of misfits and outsiders. Burton draws influence from artists and filmmakers like Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, and Ray Harryhausen.

1. By
Tim Catherin
Burton e
Broyles

2. Youth
• Loved art,
painting and
•Born: 1958 in
drawing
Burbank California
• He would use
• Mom owned a Cat
“crude stop
themed Shop
motion
animation
• Dad was a former
techniques”
baseball player and
(Wikepedia,
worked at the
2012) in his
stadium
back yard with
an 8mm camera

3. • After High •Got hired by Disney in
School he 1982 “Disney let him have
attended Apprentice
the freedom to work on his
California own personal
Institute of projects” (Imdb.com, 2012)
Arts • Was fired two years later
because his films “were
•He studied unsuitable for children”
character
•He didn’t make
animation
another film till
1988 “Beetle juice”
Then “Batman” in
1989
•Been making several films since

4. Awards - Honors
• Tim Burton has An emmy for
•National Board of Review
made 16 films Beetle Juice
Awards in 2008 for Best (1990)
Director
•Producers Guild of America
Awards Best Producer in 2009
for 9
•Lacanian Psychoanalysis Prize in 2007
•The Order of the Arts and Letters
(2010) Knighted by Culture Minister
of France

5. Techniques -
Style
•Re-collaboration of
Actors such as Johnny
Depp
•Dolls for Stop Motion
Animation
• His
•Gothic Feel to his Films Characters are
usually kind
•Main Character is often and happy
misunderstood despite their • Often uses Danny
poor settings Elfman for musical
•Often has dissembled composition
dogs

6. Films

7. “These are some
“I wouldn’t “He was my absolute favorite
of the wildest
know a good director until around 2001.
Characters in The worlds he created held
script if it bit
Q comics and yet
they seem most
me in the
my attention in a deeper way
than other filmmaker's.” -
u real to me” -Tim
face” -Tim
Burton
Eric Larnick
“I've Burton been
always He had to compromise with
o misrepresented.
producers, writers, actors and
scores of other people involved
You know, I could with a movie. Making a film is a
t dress in a clown collaborative process; no one
person is responsible for a film's
costume and
e
perfection, even on the greatest
movies of all time.” -Erik Larnick
laugh with the “It should come as no shock to
happy people but
s
the fans of director Tim Burton
they'd still say I'm that he spent his formative years
glued to the tube, watching old
a dark cartoons and horror flicks.” -Hal
personality.” -Tim Erickson

8. •He was greatly influenced
by the writing of Edgar
Allen Poe
•Also, Stanley Kubrick,
Christopher Lee,Wes
Craven, Vincent
Price,Ray Harryhausen,
Roger Corman, Alan
Moore, Ed Wood,
Stephen King, John
Carpenter, Alfred
Hitchcock, Charles
Addams, Steven
Spielberg
Legacy -
• His films have a fantastic
balance of fun bouncy
characters in a strange
Influence sometimes very dark
setting

9. Source
s
"Tim Burton Biography." Moviefone. Web. 29 May 2012. <http://
www.moviefone.com/celebrity/tim-burton/1124543/biography>.
IMDb. IMDb.com. Web. 29 May 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/
name/nm0000318/bio>.
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www.google.com/imgres?q=emmy>.
"The Official Tim Burton Website." The Official Tim Burton
Website. Web. 29 May 2012. <http://timburton.com/>.