Tim Burton

Tim Burton

Director (b. 1958)
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The ThumbScore for Tim Burton (78.1%) is the average audience approval rating across 20 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Tim's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

20
Movies
78.1%
Avg ThumbScore
Fantasy
Top Genre

Audiences rate Tim Burton’s films higher than 88% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Sleepy Hollow (YouTube) 路 Big Eyes (YouTube, Fandango at Home, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) 路 Big Fish (YouTube, Tubi) 路 Mars Attacks! (Plex, Kanopy) 路 Dark Shadows (Prime Video (free)).

Frequent Collaborators

Johnny Depp (7)Helena Bonham Carter (6)Michael Keaton (5)Winona Ryder (4)Eva Green (3)

Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012), as well as the television series Wednesday (2022). Burton also directed the superhero films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Burton has often worked with actors Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp, Lisa Marie (former girlfriend), Helena Bonham Carter (his former domestic partner) and composer Danny Elfman, who scored all but three of Burton's films. Burton also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997 by British publishing house Faber and Faber, and a compilation of his drawings, sketches, and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009. A follow-up to that book, entitled The Napkin Art of Tim Burton: Things You Think About in a Bar, containing sketches made by Burton on napkins at bars and restaurants he visited, was released in 2015. His accolades include nominations for two Academy Awards and three BAFTA Awards, and wins for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Born 1958-08-25 in Burbank, California, USA.

On ThumbScore, Tim Burton appears in 20 films with an average audience score of 78.1%, most frequently in the Fantasy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Tim Burton movie, ranked by audience score

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
馃憤 84%
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
2010
馃憤 84%
Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands
1990
馃憤 84%
Batman
Batman
1989
馃憤 83%
Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride
2005
馃憤 83%
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
1988
馃憤 82%
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow
1999
馃憤 81%
Big Eyes
Big Eyes
2014
馃憤 81%
Ed Wood
Ed Wood
1994
馃憤 79%
Batman Returns
Batman Returns
1992
馃憤 78%
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
馃憤 78%
Big Fish
Big Fish
2003
馃憤 77%
Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks!
1996
馃憤 77%
Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie
2012
馃憤 76%
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024
馃憤 75%
Dumbo
Dumbo
2019
馃憤 75%
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985
馃憤 74%
Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes
2001
馃憤 73%
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows
2012
馃憤 69%
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
馃憤 68%