And the Award Goes To...

Okay, I know I said that my next blogs would be focusing on particular films that Tim has been involved with, but I decided that I wanted to do a little information about all of Tim Burton's awards (both ones that he has won, and ones he has been nominated for) because even being nominated is a honor. All of this information is taken off on imdb.com and I'm just putting it here so you all can know the achievements of my favorite director, Tim Burton. So here we go, the first list is his nominations in chronological order followed by his wins:

Nominated
1990 - Best Director - Saturn Award - Beetlejuice
1993 - Best Director - Saturn Award - Batman Returns
1995 - Best Feature Film - Golden Palm Award - Ed Wood
1996 - Best Foreign Film - Silver Condor Award - Ed Wood
1997 - Best Director - Saturn Award - Mars Attacks!
1997 - Best Animated Motion Picture - Golden Satellite Award - James and the Giant Peach
2000 - Best Director - Saturn Award - Sleepy Hollow
2000 - Best Director of a Foreign Film - Silver Ribbon Award - Sleepy Hollow
2001 - Best Internet Video Premier - Video Premier Award - The World of Stainboy
2004 - Best Director - CFCA Award - Big Fish
2004 - Best Director - BAFTA Award - Big Fish
2004 - Best Director - Critics Choice Award - Big Fish
2004 - Best Foreign Film - David Award - Big Fish
2005 - Best Foreign Film - Silver Condor Award - Big Fish
2006 - Best Animated Feature Film - Academy Award - Corpse Bride
2006 - Best Foreign Feature Film - Amanda Award - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2006 - Best Directing in an Animated Film - Annie Award - Corpse Bride
2006 - Best Foreign Film - Silver Condor Award - Corpse Bride
2006 - Best Director of a Foreign Film - Silver Ribbon Award - Corpse Bride
2006 - Animated Motion Picture - Animated Motion Picture Award - Corpse Bride
2008 - Best Director - Saturn Award - Sweeny Todd
2008 - Best Director - Critics Choice Award - Sweeny Todd
2008 - Best Director - Golden Globe Award - Sweeny Todd

Won
1984 - Audience Award - Vincent
1992 - Best Foreign Film - Sant Jordi Award - Edward Scissorhands
2005 - Best Animated Film - Future Film Festival Digital Award - Corpse Bride
2006 - Best Animated Film - BAA Award - Corpse Bride
2007 - Best Director - NBR Award - Sweeny Todd

As you can see, this man has a lot of accomplishments under his belt with more to come I am sure. Stay tuned to my next blogs that will take in depth looks at Burton's films; what he's done and what he's working on.

Starting Out

Timothy William Burton was born on August 25, 1958 in Burbank, CA and according to all his biographies was one of the last people who would become a well known face in the movie industry. Growing up, Tim was very quiet, introverted, and didn't really stand out in the world around him, but all that was about to change after high school. Tim decided to attend the California Institute of the Arts and in his second year after being given a fellowship by Disney, Tim joined the Disney Animation team. Once he graduated he instantly went to work for Disney and his first project was none other than Disney's The Fox and the Hound. Tim Burton quickly realized animation was not what he wanted to do so Disney decided to give him free reign (sort of) to think of his own ideas and to make him a character designer for the movie The Black Cauldron. Even still Tim, didn't really like the animation and so be began coming up with his own ideas...ideas such as Vincent and Frankenweenie. After those two animated films, Tim eventually gave up the animation phase of his career except for The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride and started his real career being a director in great films that I'm sure everyone has seen at least once in their life; the same films I will be discussing in the next blogs.