VENICE, Italy (AP) — Tim Burton is getting a career Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
To mark the occasion, the festival was screening a 3-D version of The Nightmare Before Christmas, the animated movie and gothic tale based on a story by Burton that has acquired a cult following.
The award was being presented Wednesday by Johnny Depp, who has starred in several Burton movies, including Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood, a black-and-white biopic on B-movie director Edward D. Wood Jr.
"Hopefully it just inspires me to keep going," Burton told reporters in Venice, speaking of the award.
The 49-year-old Burton is best known for his quirky stories and the gothic atmosphere of his pictures, which also include Batman,Beetle Juice,Big Fish,Mars Attacks! and a remake of Planet of the Apes.
He said it was hard to pick a favorite.
"I feel strangely close to all of them, they all have a certain place in your heart," he said.
5 comments:
Uhhhhh...is that a picture of Burton or Robert Smith? It really looks like Robert Smith.
Hee hee hee...
WOO-HOO!
I LOVE YOU ROBERT!!!
ps - JPX, when are you going to that show? I was only slightly kidding about wanting a t-shirt...
I don't like that picture. It ruined the notion that he sleeps in a coffin for me.
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