Biography
Tim Burton is an American film director. He was born in Burbank, California, on 25 August 1958. He attended the California Institute of the Arts and began his career as an animator at Walt Disney Productions before directing his first feature, Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985).
Burton directed Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Alice in Wonderland (2010). He directed four episodes of the Netflix series Wednesday (2022) and returned to direct Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). He received the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007.
