Tim Burton was born in 1958 in California. He showed an early interest in art and filmmaking, creating crude stop motion animations in his backyard. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Burton worked for Disney but was fired for films deemed unsuitable for children. His films, including Beetlejuice and Batman, feature misunderstood characters in dark settings. Burton draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and other dark artists. He is known for collaborating frequently with actors like Johnny Depp and composer Danny Elfman.

1. Tim By
Catherine
Burton Broyles
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2. Youth
•Born: 1958 in Burbank • Loved art, painting
California and drawing
• Mom owned a Cat • He would use “crude
themed Shop stop motion animation
techniques”
• Dad was a former (Wikepedia, 2012) in
baseball player and his back yard with
worked at the stadium an 8mm camera
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3. • After High •Got hired by Disney in 1982 “Disney
School he attended Apprentice let him have the freedom to work on
his own personal projects” (Imdb.com,
California Institute
of Arts 2012)
• Was fired two years later
•He studied because his films “were unsuitable
character for children”
animation
•He didn’t make another
film till 1988 “Beetle juice”
Then “Batman” in 1989
•Been making several films since
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4. Awards - Honors
• Tim Burton has made
•National Board of Review An emmy for Beetle
16 films Juice (1990)
Awards in 2008 for Best 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
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5. Techniques - Style
•Re-collaboration of Actors such
as Johnny Depp
•Dolls for Stop Motion Animation
•Gothic Feel to his Films
• His Characters
are usually kind and
•Main Character is often
happy despite their
misunderstood
poor settings • Often uses Danny Elfman
for musical composition
•Often has dissembled dogs
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Films

7. “These are some of the “I wouldn’t know a “He was my absolute favorite director
Q wildest Characters in
comics and yet they
good script if it
bit me in the
until around 2001. The worlds he
created held my attention in a deeper
way than other filmmaker's.” -Eric
u seem most real to me”
-Tim Burton
face” -Tim
Burton
Larnick
o
He had to compromise with producers,
writers, actors and scores of other people
“I've always been
involved with a movie. Making a film is a
misrepresented. You know,
t
collaborative process; no one person is
I could dress in a clown responsible for a film's perfection, even on
the greatest movies of all time.” -Erik
costume and laugh with
e the happy people but
Larnick
“It should come as no shock to the fans of
they'd still say I'm a
s
director Tim Burton that he spent his
dark personality.” -Tim formative years glued to the tube, watching
old cartoons and horror flicks.” -Hal Erickson
Burton
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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
Influence in a strange sometimes very dark
setting
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9. Sources
"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>.
"Google Images." Google Images. Web. 29 May 2012. <http://
www.google.com/imgres?q=emmy>.
"The Official Tim Burton Website." The Official Tim Burton
Website. Web. 29 May 2012. <http://timburton.com/>.
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