Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 507th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a filmmaker

unlike any other.

With directing credits dating back some 40 years, including 1985's P.W. Big Adventure,

1988's Beetlejuice, 1989's Batman, 1990's Edward Scissorhands, 1994's Ed Wood, 2003's

Big Fish, 2005's Corpse Bride, 2007's Sweeney Todd, 2012's Frankenweeney, 2014's Big

Eyes, and most recently, in 2022, half of the eight episodes that comprise the first

season of Netflix's giant hit drama series Wednesday, for which he is personally nominated

for two Emmys, best directing for a comedy series, and as one of the show's executive producers,

best comedy series.

The New York Times has called him a visionary artist, noting, quote, he is developed a singular

if not easily pinned down sensibility.

His style is strongly visual, darkly comic, and morbidly fixated, but it is rooted just

as much in his affection for monsters and misfits, which in his movies often turn out to be

the same thing.

He all but invented the vocabulary of the modern superhero movie, brought new vitality

to stop-motion animation, and has come to be associated for better or worse with anything

that is ghoulish or ghastly without being inaccessible.

He may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema, close quote.

His most frequent collaborator, Johnny Depp, who he has directed in 19 films, said that

he is, quote, a filmmaker I admire, but he's much, much more than that.

Not embarrassing him, he's a true artist, which is something I wasn't sure was possible

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