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The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy Halloween-Christmas film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory.
The Nightmare Before Christmas may also refer to:
A collector's edition The Nightmare Before Christmas-themed Jenga game was issued with orange, purple and black blocks with Jack Skellington heads on them. The set comes in a coffin-shaped box instead of the normal rectangular box.[63]
This process is used for many productions, for example, the most common types of puppets are clay puppets, as used in "The California Raisins", "Wallace and Gromit" and "Shaun the Sheep" by Aardman, and figures made of various rubbers, cloths and plastic resins, such as "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach". Sometimes even objects are used, such as with the films of Jan Švankmajer.
With the nomination of "Kubo and the Two Strings" in 2016, two animated films are nominated for Best Visual Effects (The first being "The Nightmare Before Christmas" in 1993).
The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Burton in 1982 while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation. With the success of Vincent in the same year, Burton began to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute television special to no avail. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, he made a development deal with Walt Disney Studios. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco; Disney released the film through Touchstone Pictures because the studio believed the film would be "too dark and scary for kids".[4]
The film was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Nightmare won the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film, while Elfman won Best Music. Selick and the animators were also nominated for their work. Elfman was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Most recently, the film ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' "Top 25 Best Christmas Movies" list.[56]
"Waltz with Bashir" (2008) is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it did not receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature). "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) and "Kubo and the Two Strings" (2016) are the only two animated films to ever be nominated for Best Visual Effects.
The owners of the franchise have undertaken an extensive marketing campaign of these characters across many media. In addition to the "Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland" featuring "Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" characters," Jack Skellington, Sally, Pajama Jack, and the mayor have been made into Bendies figures, while Jack and Sally even appear in fine art. Moreover, Sally has been made into an action figure and a Halloween costume. The Mayor has been made into a Bendies figure. Jack is also the titular character in the short story ""Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas": Jack's story."
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called it a restoration of "originality and daring to the Halloween genre. This dazzling mix of fun and fright also explodes the notion that animation is kid stuff. … It's 74 minutes of timeless movie magic."[47] James Berardinelli stated "The Nightmare Before Christmas has something to offer just about everyone. For the kids, it's a fantasy celebrating two holidays. For the adults, it's an opportunity to experience some light entertainment while marveling at how adept Hollywood has become at these techniques. There are songs, laughs, and a little romance. In short, The Nightmare Before Christmas does what it intends to: entertain."[48] Desson Thomson of The Washington Post enjoyed stylistic features in common with Oscar Wilde, German Expressionism, the Brothers Grimm and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.[49]
The events of the game take place before those of the movie, "The Nightmare Before Christmas". The story tells of Jack's first encounter with his , Oogie Boogie, and how he claimed the title of "The Pumpkin King".
For Walt Disney Records' September 2008 release of "Nightmare Revisited", Lee sang a remake of "Sally's Song". The album contains new material and covers of songs from the original "Nightmare Before Christmas" soundtrack. Lee performed live renditions of "Sally's Song" during the October 17 "Nightmare Before Christmas" re-release premiere in Hollywood, and for an October 13 appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".
As writer Tim Burton's upbringing in Burbank, California was associated with the feeling of solitude, the filmmaker was largely fascinated by holidays during his childhood. "Anytime there was Christmas or Halloween, […] it was great. It gave you some sort of texture all of a sudden that wasn't there before", Burton would later recall.[7] After completing his short film Vincent in 1982,[7] Burton, who was then employed at Walt Disney Feature Animation, wrote a three-page poem titled The Nightmare Before Christmas, drawing inspiration from television specials of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas.[8] Burton intended to adapt the poem into a television special with the narration spoken by his favorite actor, Vincent Price,[9] but also considered other options such as a children's book.[10] He created concept art and storyboards for the project in collaboration with Rick Heinrichs, who also sculpted character models;[11][12] Burton later showed his and Heinrichs' works-in-progress to Henry Selick, also a Disney animator at the time.[13] After the success of Vincent in 1982, Disney started to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute holiday television special.[11] However, the project's development eventually stalled, as its tone seemed "too weird" to the company.[14] As Disney was unable to "offer his nocturnal loners enough scope", Burton was fired from the studio in 1984,[9] and went on to direct the commercially successful films, Beetlejuice and Batman.[14]
Other projects Paul Berry worked on included "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (animator), "James and the Giant Peach" (animation supervisor) and "Monkeybone" (supervising animator). 
The game so far has a score of 69.43% from GameRankings and 71 out of 100 from Metacritic. IGN gave it a score of 6.5 out of 10, saying, ""Nightmare Before Christmas" might not be all that amazing visually, and audio-wise it's the absolute pits. But it does give kids a solid "Nightmare Before Christmas"-based adventure, even if it lacks that special 'zing' that the unique license could have afforded."
The 22nd Annie Awards were given by the International Animated Film Association to honor outstanding achievements in animation in 1993-1994. "The Lion King" won the most number of awards with three, including Best Animated Feature. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" followed with two. "The Simpsons" won its third consecutive award for Best Animated Television Program.
This article lists characters seen in the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and two video games: "" and "".
The filmmakers constructed 230 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having "around eight hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion. Sally's mouth movements "were animated through the replacement method. During the animation process...only Sally's face 'mask' was removed in order to preserve the order of her long red hair. Sally had ten types of faces, each made with a series of eleven expressions (e.g. eyes open and closed, and various facial poses) and synchronised mouth movements."
Nightmare Revisited is a cover album of songs and score from the 1993 Disney animated film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". It was released on September 30, 2008 by Walt Disney Records to commemorate the film's 15th anniversary of its theatrical release. In addition to the album's eighteen covers are two re-recordings by original composer Danny Elfman, of the "Opening" and "Closing" tracks. One song featured on the album, Marilyn Manson's "This Is Halloween", was previously released nearly two years earlier, on the 2006 reissue of the film's original soundtrack which, featuring five covers of songs from the film, acted as a precursor to "Nightmare Revisited". The album also features Korn — in their last collaboration before their hiatus — covering "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" which is also their first recording to feature Ray Luzier on drums. Enhanced content on the disc features the trailer of "The Nightmare Before Christmas", as well.
In "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge", the Mayor is seen in the opening cut scene congratulating Jack on another "horrible" Halloween. He is later seen in the level "Mayor's Madhouse" where Jack rescues him from a cage hanging from the roof of his house. While Jack goes to Christmas Town, the Mayor frees the other holiday leaders.
The Nightmare Before Christmas was reissued as a Walt Disney Pictures release in 2006.[4]
Quixotic Games also developed The Nightmare Before Christmas Party Game that was released in 2007 by NECA.[62]
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 film produced by Tim Burton.
The computer-animated film "Chicken Little" was followed by a re-release of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" on October 20, 2006. "Nightmare", a 1993 stop-motion film, was originally shot in 2D on 35mm-film with the 3D version generated by Industrial Light and Magic from this source using computer technology.
The film initially received positive reviews from critics; it has since gone on to receive widespread critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 95%, based on 88 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The site's consensus reads, "The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stunningly original and visually delightful work of stop-motion animation."[44] On Metacritic the film has a score of 82 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[45]
The Nightmare Before Christmas is the fifteenth soundtrack album by American composer Danny Elfman. It was released on October 12, 1993, by Walt Disney Records to promote the 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Composed by Danny Elfman, the soundtrack was nominated for the 1993 Golden Globe for Best Original Score. The album peaked at #64 on the US "Billboard" 200. For the film's 2006 re-release in Disney Digital 3-D, a special edition of the soundtrack was released, a bonus disc which contained covers of five of the film's songs by Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Marilyn Manson, Fiona Apple and She Wants Revenge. Four original demo tracks (six on the Best Buy exclusive) by Elfman were also included.