Nightmare Before Christmas director says it was a 'little unfair' Tim Burton got all the recognition

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The director of The Nightmare Before Christmas has said that it was unfair that Tim Burton got all the recognition for the groundbreaking 1993 film.

Henry Selick sat down for an interview with the AV Club on Halloween as he said it was a bit disingenuous to market the film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas when he directed it.No doubt Disney wanted Tim's name on the project following successes with Batman, Batman Returns, and Edward Scissorhands.

This is Halloween: The director of The Nightmare Before Christmas has said that it was unfair that Tim Burton got all the recognition for the groundbreaking 1993 film Taking a stand: Henry Selick (pictured in Savannah Georgia last month) sat down for an interview with the AV Club on Halloween as he said it was a bit disingenuous to market the film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas when he directed itBut Henry, 69, thought the last-minute decision to market that way was a bit dishonest as he explained: 'No, that was a little unfair because it wasn't called Tim Burton's Nightmare until three weeks before the film came out.

And I would have been fine with that, if that's what I signed up for. 'But Tim was in L.A. making two features while I directed that film, and I mean, Tim is a genius—or he certainly was in his most creative years.