Tim Burton Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement The American director Tim Burton Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of 64. Venice International Film Festival (August 29 to September 8, 2007). Once again the award is a tribute to American filmmakers of the most courageous, visionary and innovative, able to move and fascinate the most diverse and broadest audience, poised on the ridge between art and industry. The Golden Lion Tim Burton has been proposed by Festival Director Marco Muller, and approved by the Board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Davide Croff. In 2006 the award was given to David Lynch.
The award will be presented to the director Wednesday, September 5, during a special "Tim Burton Day" (with a series of surprise) at the next Venice, in the Great Hall of the Palazzo del Cinema.
In the past, Tim Burton chose the Venice Film Festival to present his two masterpieces of animation, The Nightmare Before Christmas (in international premiere at the 1994 Festival) and Corpse Bride (world premiere at the 2005 Festival).
Through 12 feature films in 23 year, Tim Burton has shown an amazing versatility without sacrificing the thematic and stylistic unity of his work. Burton's movies veer from the melancholy, often within a single frame, and his fantasy-scapes to combine Gothic horror and oddball comedy. Although he works in and around Hollywood, his films often fall outside the paradigm of contemporary American cinema. Through the box-office success and artistic achievements of Batman, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Burton's excellent work is defined by a unique and personal, which makes him one of contemporary cinema's true visionaries. Burton is currently working screen adaptation of the award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim, a co-production between Warner Bros. Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen and Christopher Lee .
The director of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Muller said: "Tim Burton is a genius of cinema, the most imaginative child of the new age of art. It has a unique talent for emotional depth impregnation of the stories he tells. He can build high visionary dreamscapes (which appeal to the eternal child in us) nor without losing aesthetic integrity, nor - much less - its natural proximity to people outside the norm. More insolently pop than most new directors today, and less eager for approval than most of the old masters, there is a successful American director who possesses a sense of cinema's most ruthless and extreme. "
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