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Tim Burton

Tim Burton’s early film career was fueled by almost unbelievable good luck, but it is his talent and originality that have kept him at the top of the Hollywood tree. Burton began drawing at an early age, going on to attend the California Institute of the Arts, studying animation after being awarded a fellowship from Disney, for whom he went on to work. Although he found that the mainstream Disney films he worked on, like 1981’s “The Fox and the Hound,” were far removed from his own sensibility, Disney let him have the freedom to work on his own personal projects, including the six-minute, animated, black-and-white Gothic Vincent Price tribute “Vincent” and the 27-minute, live-action “Frankenweenie.” Paul Reubens saw Burton’s work and decided that he, still only in his mid-twenties, would be the ideal person to direct his feature debut, “Pee-wee's Big Adventure,” released in 1985. An enormous box-office hit, it led to the supernatural comedy “Beetlejuice,” which in turn led to Burton being entrusted with the reins on the hugely expensive “Batman” in 1989. Although his least personal film, it was one of the most successful films of all time and gave him unprecedented power in Hollywood. In 1990, Burton created “Edward Scissorhands,” another hit that saw him at the peak of his... Next

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