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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.
The Sandman, also referred to as Dream, is one of the Endless, formidable entities that predate the gods and manifest throughout existence as conceptual notions given tangible form. He was confined by a mortal sorcerer for more than a century. Aware of this, the malevolent John Dee, known as Doctor Destiny, aims to seize Dream's abilities for himself, aspiring to attain a god-like status by ensnaring countless individuals in their most dreadful nightmares. Eventually, Dream manages to break free and, accompanied by his devoted sister Death, embarks on a grand quest to recover his significant artifacts - a ruby, a helm, and a bag of sand - to restore his diminished realm, The Dreaming, and thwart John Dee's ambitions while confronting numerous adversaries, including the fearsome Corinthian.
