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Personal Life ......................................................................... 2

Exhibitions ......................................................... ............. 3

Awards................................................................ ............. 5

Future Projects................................................................. 6

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Tim BurtonBiography

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Projects............................................................... 7

Frequent Collaborators..................................................... 7

Alice in Wonderland .............................................................. 8

Personal Life

Tim Burton was born in 1958, in the city of Burbank, California, to Jean Burton (née Erickson), the owner of a cat-themed gift shop, and Bill Burton, a former minor league baseball player who would later work for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. As a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard on Evergreen Street using crude stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8 mm film without sound (one of his oldest known juvenile films is The Island of Doctor Agor, that he made when he was 13 years old). Burton studied at Burbank High School, but he was not a particularly good student. He was a very introspective person, and found his pleasure in painting, drawing and watching films. His future work would be heavily influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl

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After graduating from Burbank High School with Jeff Riekenberg, Burton attended the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California, to study character animation. As a student in CalArts, Burton made the shorts "Stalk of the Celery Monster" and "King and Octopus". He graduated in 1979. Burton was married to Lena Gisele, a German-born artist, for two years, whom he left to live with model and actress Lisa Marie; she acted in the films he made during their relationship from 1992 to 2001, most notably in Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!. After leaving her, Burton developed a romantic relationship with English actress Helena Bonham Carter, whom he met while filming Planet of the Apes. Lisa Marie responded in 2005 by holding an auction of personal belongings that Burton had left behind, much to his dismay.

Burton and Bonham Carter have two children: a son, Billy Raymond, named after his and Bonham Carter's fathers, born in 2003; and a daughter, Nell, born in 2007. Close friend Johnny Depp is a godfather of both of Burton's children. In Depp's introduction to Burton on Burton, he writes, "What more can I say about him? He is a brother, a friend, my godson's father. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for, and I know, full and well, he would do the same for me."

Burton was the President of the Jury for the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival, held from May 12 to 24, 2010 in Cannes, France. On March 15, 2010, Burton received the insignia of Chevalier of Arts and Letters from then-Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand. Burton has stated that his favorite films are Dracula A.D. 1972, The Wicker Man, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The War of the Gargantuas and The Omega Man.

Exhibitions

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Tim Burton At the Museum of Modern Art

From November 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010, Burton had a retrospective at the MoMA in New York with over 700 "drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera," including many from the filmmaker's personal collection. The show also included his amateur and student films, music videos, commercials, and digital slide shows, as well as a complete set of features and shorts.

Tim Burton At the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

From MoMA, the "Tim Burton" exhibition traveled directly to Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. Running from June 24 to October 10, 2010, the ACMI exhibition incorporated additional material from Burton's Alice in Wonderland, which was released in March 2010.

Tim Burton at the TIFF Bell LightboxThe exhibition was displayed at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from November 26, 2010 to April 17, 2011. It was accompanied by several personal appearances by Burton as well as a retrospective of his films.

Tim Burton At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)"The Art of Tim Burton" was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from May 29 to October 31, 2011 in the Museum's Resnick Pavilion. LACMA also featured six films of Tim Burton's idol, Vincent Price, for the anniversary of the what would have been the actor's 100th birthday during the closing weekend of the Exhibit.

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Tim Burton At the Cinématèque Francaise "Tim Burton, the exhibition/Tim Burton, l'exposition" was exhibited at the Cinémathèque Française from March 7 to August 5, 2012 in Paris, France.[48] All Tim Burton's movies are programmed during the exhibition.

Tim Burton At Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)"Tim Burton at Seoul Museum of Art" was exhibited as a promotion of Hyundai Card at Seoul Museum of Art from December 12, 2012 to April 15, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea.[49]This exhibition featured 862 of his works including drawings, paintings, short films, sculptures, music and costumes that have been used in the making of his feature-length movies.

The exhibition was divided into three parts. The first part, titled Surviving Burbank covers his younger years from 1958 to 1976. He was born Timothy Walter Burton in Burbank, California, United States. He was an introvert with a wild imagination that often gave birth to unique creations. The second, Beautifying Burbank, covers the years 1977 to 1984 including his time with Cal Arts and Walt Disney. Most of his work in that period was based on his fascination with childhood fantasies, inspiring the wacky but humorous Tim Burton characters that many of us recognize today. The last segment of the exhibition, Beyond Burbank, covers his most productive years from 1985 to the present. This is the period in which he created the great movies that made him world famous.

Awards

Emmy Award(1990) Won — Outstanding Children's Animated Program / Beetlejuice

Academy Awards(2006) Nominated — Best Animated Feature / Corpse Bride

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(2013) Nominated — Best Animated Feature / Frankenweenie

BAFTA Awards(2004) Nominated — Best Direction / Big Fish

Cannes Film Festival(1994) Nominated — Palme d'Or / Ed Wood

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards(2004) Nominated — Best Director / Big Fish

Golden Globe Awards(2008) Nominated — Best Director – Motion Picture / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(2008) Won — Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

National Board of Review Awards(2008) Won – Best Director / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Producers Guild of America Awards(2006) Nominated – Animated Motion Picture / Corpse Bride

(2008) Honored — Scream Awards: Scream Immortal Award, for his unique interpretation of horror and fantasy(2009) Won — Best Producer / 964th Venice International Film Festival(2007) Honored — Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

Lacanian Psychoanalysis Prize(2010) Won — Alice in Wonderland

The Order of the Arts and Letters(2010) Knighted by Culture Minister of France

Moscow International Film Festival(2012) "Golden George" for his contribution to world cinema.

Future Projects

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It was reported that Burton would direct a 3D stop motion animation adaptation of The Addams Family, which was confirmed by

Christopher Meledandri, but the project was scrapped on July 17th, 2013. On July 19, 2010, he was announced as the director of the upcoming film adaptation of Monsterpocalypse.

In 2012, Shane Acker confirmed that Burton will work with Valve to create his next animated feature film, Deep. Like 9, the film will take place in a post-apocalyptic world (although set in a different universe). Deep will be another darker animated film, as Shane Acker has expressed his interest in creating more PG-13 animated films.

As of Summer 2012, following the release of both Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, it was reported that screenwriter and novelist Seth Grahame-Smith is working alongside Tim Burton on a potential Beetlejuice sequel. Actor Michael Keaton has also expressed interest in

reprising his role as the title character.

Tim Burton is also set to direct an adaptation of Ransom Riggs' book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and produce a sequel to Alice in Wonderland subtitledThrough the Looking Glass, which will mark his ninth collaboration with Depp and their first where Burton

doesn't direct. They will be released on March 4, 2016 and May 27, 2016 respectively.

Refused ProjectsOn January 19, 2010, it was announced that after Dark Shadows, Burton's next project would be Maleficent, a Wicked-like film that showed the origin and the past of Sleeping Beauty's antagonist Maleficent. In an interview with Fandango published February 23, 2010, however, he denied he was directing any upcoming Sleeping Beauty film. However, on November 23, 2010, in an interview with MTV, Burton confirmed that he was indeed putting together

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a script for Maleficent. It was announced in The Hollywood Reporter on May 16, 2011 that Burton was no longer attached to Maleficent.

Frequent Collaborators

Burton often casts certain actors in multiple directing projects. This includes Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Danny DeVito, Conchata Ferrell, Albert Finney, Carmen Filpi,Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Jan Hooks, Rance Howard, Jeffrey Jones, O-Lan Jones, Michael Keaton, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Lisa Marie, Catherine O'Hara, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Vincent Price, Missi Pyle, Paul Reubens, Alan Rickman, Deep Roy, Winona Ryder, Diane Salinger, Glenn Shadix, Martin Short, Timothy Spall,Sylvia Sidney, Christopher Walken, Frank Welker, and Paul Whitehouse.

Burton also often works with certain crew members in multiple directing projects. This includes composer Danny Elfman, screenwriters Caroline Thompson, John August, andSeth Grahame-Smith, producers Denise Di Novi, Allison Abbate, and Richard D. Zanuck, costume designer Colleen Atwood, production designers Bo Welch, Alex McDowell, andRick Heinrichs, cinematographers Philippe Rousselot and Dariusz Wolski, and editor/executive producer Chris Lebenzon.

Burton has worked with fellow producer/director Timur Bekmambetov and producer Jim Lemley on 9 and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, for which Bekmambetov also served as director.

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Alice in Wonderland In Burton's version, the story is set 13 years after the original Lewis Carroll tales. Mia Wasikowska, who featured in the HBO series In Treatment and Defiance, was cast as Alice. The original start date was May 2008. Torpoint and Plymouth were

the locations used for filming from September 1 – October 14, and the film remains set in the Victorian era. During this time, filming took place in Antony House in Torpoint. 250 local extras were chosen in early August. Other production work took place in London. The film was originally to be released in 2009, but was pushed to March 5, 2010. Johnny Depp plays the Mad Hatter, while Matt Lucas, star of Little Britain, is bothTweedledee and Tweedledum; Helena Bonham Carter portrays the Red Queen; Stephen Fry is the Cheshire Cat; Anne Hathaway stars as the The White Queen; Alan Rickman voices Absolem the Caterpillar, Michael Sheen voices McTwisp the White Rabbit and Crispin Glover's head and voice were added onto a CGI body to play the Knave of Hearts.

Tim Burton appeared at the 2009 Comic-Con in San Diego, California, to promote both 9 and Alice in Wonderland. When asked about the filmmaking process by an attendee, he mentioned his "imaginary friend" who helps him out, prompting Johnny Depp to walk on stage to the applause of the audience. The film won two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design

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