Selick speaks on a panel during South by Southwest 2009.
Born
(1952-11-30) November 30, 1952 (age 71)
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S.
Education
Rutgers University Syracuse University California Institute of the Arts
Occupations
Filmmaker
stop motion animator
Years active
1975–present
Charles Henry Selick Jr. (/ˈsɛlɪk/; born November 30, 1952) is an American filmmaker and clay animator, best known for directing the stop-motion animated films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Monkeybone (2001), Coraline (2009), and Wendell & Wild (2022). Selick is also known for his collaborations with the late voice actor and artist Joe Ranft.
Charles HenrySelick Jr. (/ˈsɛlɪk/; born November 30, 1952) is an American filmmaker and clay animator, best known for directing the stop-motion animated...
Pixar thought was better, and that concept became Inside Out. In 2010, HenrySelick formed a joint venture with Pixar called Cinderbiter Productions, which...
1996 (with Smith being a conceptual designer) which was directed by HenrySelick, and a musical in 2010. The plot centres on a young English orphan boy...
1993 American stop-motion animated musical fantasy film directed by HenrySelick in his feature directorial debut and produced and conceived by Tim Burton...
animated short produced in 2005 by Laika. It was written and directed by HenrySelick and features a score by They Might Be Giants. It is the first film, and...
directed by HenrySelick, written by Sam Hamm, produced by Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe, and executive produced by Chris Columbus, Selick, and Hamm...
reported that HenrySelick was developing Wendell & Wild, a stop motion animated horror comedy film based on an unpublished book by Selick and Clay McLeod...
Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by HenrySelick under the same name. Coraline Jones moves into a new apartment with her...
Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for HenrySelick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for...
a joint venture between Walt Disney Feature Animation and directors HenrySelick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop motion animation and...
Taylor (December 15, 2004). "Hydronicus Inverticus: An Interview with HenrySelick". Animation World Network. Retrieved March 1, 2015. Neumaier, Joe (June...
January 4, 2015. The relationship between Disney's company Miramax and HenrySelick also became strained, as plans for another feature called Toots and the...
movies by other directors including Brian Levant (Jingle All the Way), HenrySelick (Monkeybone), Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)...
films released after his death. HenrySelick called him "the story giant of our generation." In honor of Ranft, in Selick's animated film production Coraline...
originally meant to be a children's book in rhyme. The film was directed by HenrySelick and written by Caroline Thompson, based on Burton's original story, world...
As of June 2019, the film has not had further development updates. HenrySelick, who called The Ocean at the End of the Lane "Neil Gaiman's best book"...
20th Century Fox (the suits) hadn't fired the director, a true artist, HenrySelick [half] the way through filming", and called his dismissal a "profoundly...
action and films that are completely animated, such those of Nick Park, HenrySelick, Ivo Caprino, Ladislav Starevich (and his own fairy tale shorts), which...
de España. 26 April 2021. Murray, Noel (October 28, 2023). "Review: HenrySelick and Jordan Peele collaborate for rewarding and offbeat 'Wendell & Wild'"...
in the same style. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), directed by HenrySelick and produced by Tim Burton, was one of the more widely released stop-motion...