Timothy Walter 

"Tim" Burton
(born August 25, 1958) is an American film
director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known
for his dark, gothic, macabre, and quirky horror and fantasy
films such as the horror comedy
fantasy Beetlejuice (1988), the romantic dark
fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990), the musical fantasy-
thriller The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), the
comedy-drama biopic Ed Wood (1994), the fantasy adventure Sleepy Hollow (1999),
the animated fantasy Corpse Bride (2005), the musical horror film Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), the horror comedy Dark Shadows (2012) and the
animated horror comedy Frankenweenie (2012). He is also known for blockbusters such
as the adventure comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), the superhero
films Batman (1989) and its first sequel Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of
the Apes (2001), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(2005)
and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010), which garnered a worldwide gross of
over $1 billion worldwide, being Burton's most successful film to date.

Burton has worked repeatedly with Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of
Burton since their first film together. He has also worked with musician Danny Elfman,
who has composed scores for all but two of the films Burton has directed.
Actress Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's former domestic partner, has appeared in
many of his films. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death
of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings,
sketches and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, which was released in 2009.
WORKS:

The Gashlycrumb Tinies: A Very Gorey Alphabet Book

It’s no secret I have

a massive soft spot for alphabet. In
1963, prolific mid-century illustrator
and author Edward
Gorey published an alphabet book
so grimly antithetical to the very
premise of the genre — making
children feel comfortable and
inspiring them to learn — that it
took the macabre humor genre to
a new level. “A is for Amy who fell
down the stairs,”The
Gashlycrumb Tinies begins. “B is
for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown
out of a sleigh…”
Part Tim Burton long before there was Burton, part Edgar Allan Poe long after Poe, the
book exudes Gorey’s signature adult picture book mastery, not merely adorned by the
gorgeously dark crosshatched illustrations but narratively driven by them.
Corpse Bride
Often referred to as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, is a
2005 British-American stop-motion-animated musical film
directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a
screenplay by John August, Pamela Pettler, and Caroline
Thompson based on characters created by Burton
and Carlos Grangel. The plot is set in a fictional Victorian
era village in Europe. Johnny Depp led a cast as the
voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voiced
Emily, the title character. Corpse Bride is the third stop-
motion feature film produced by Burton and the first
directed by him (the previous two films, The Nightmare
Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, were
directed by Henry Selick). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was
distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft, who
died during production.

The film was nominated for the 78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, but lost
to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which also starred Bonham Carter. It
was shot with Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital SLRs, rather than the 35mm film cameras used
for Burton's previous stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories  
Is a 1997 poetry book written and illustrated
by film director Tim Burton. The poems,
which are full of black humor, tell stories of
hybrid kids, spontaneous transformers, and
women who have babies to win over men.

Some characters of the book would later

appear in the Flash series Stainboy,
created, directed and written by Tim Burton.
According to American comics artist and
publisher Stephen R. Bissette, the title poem
"The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" was
originally conceived as a project for
Bissette's comics anthology Taboo and was
actually written by horror novelist Michael
McDowell, who had previously worked with
Burton on the screenplays
for Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before
Christmas. McDowell is thanked in the
acknowledgements at the end of the book,
but is not credited for writing the poem.
Frankenweenie
Si Victor Frankenstein ay isang batang mahilig sa
agham sa kanilang paaralan, ngunit siya ay
nagkaroon ng isang mabuting kaibigan, ang
kanyang aso, si Sparky. Ngunit pagkatapos ang
trahedya ng pagkamatay ng kanyang aso, siya ay
nalumbay. Ngunit, ang kanyang gurong pang-
agham ay nagbibigay sa kanya ng isang ideya na
kung paano mabuhay muli ang kanyang alaga.
Ang eksperimento ay matagumpay, at maayos na
ang lahat, hanggang sa ginusto ng kapwa mag-
aaral ni Victor nakawin ang kanyang natuklasan
sa kung papaano buhayin muli ang patay, at
gamitin ito para sa kanilang kagustuhan lamang.