The Big Picture: Tim Burton Career & Biographical Notes: Attended California Institute of the Arts Uncredited animator on the 1981 Disney film The Fox and the Hound First live-action short, Frankenweenie, caught the eye of Paul Reubens and led to Burton directing Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Is a total humbug with regards to Halloween

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Tim Burton Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• Batman
• Batman Returns
• Beetlejuice
• Ed Wood
• Edward Scissorhands
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Sleepy Hollow
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• That's Not My Movie (Directors Edition)
• Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Alice in Wonderland	3/5/10	N/A
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	12/21/07	R			45.10	Info
The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D	10/20/06	PG			5.98	Info
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride	9/16/05	PG	5	0.39	53.34	Info
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	7/15/05	PG	3770	56.18	206.46	Info
Big Fish	12/10/03	PG-13	6	0.21	66.26	Info
Planet of the Apes	7/27/01	PG	3500	68.53	180.01	Info

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Awards:

2007
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• Win: Best Director, National Board of Review
• Runner-up: Best Director, Dallas Fort Worth Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association

2003
Big Fish

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association

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