The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy musical film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday, with some dastardly and comical consequences. 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, and Glenn Shadix.
The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982, while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation. With the success of Vincent in the same year, Walt Disney Studios began to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute television special. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, he made a development deal with Disney. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco. Disney released the film through the Touchstone Pictures banner because the studio believed the film would be "too dark, and scary for kids."
The film was met with both critical and financial success, grossing over $75 million during its initial run. The film has since been reissued by Walt Disney Pictures and re-released annually in the Disney Digital 3-D format from 2006 until 2009, making it the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3D.
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Jack Skellington | Danny Elfman | Sergio Zaldívar | Masachika Ichimura | Nelson MachadoFilho | Marcelo Coutinho | Alexander Goebel | Olivier Constantin | Renato Zero | Wojciech Paszkowski | Csík CsabaKrisztián | José Posada | AntonioMiguel FernándezRamos | Pedro Bargado | Kim Seungjun | ||
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Sally | Catherine O'Hara | Gabriela Vega | Doi Yūko | Marli Bortoletto | Sylvia Salustti | Nina Hagen | Dorothée Jemma | Laura Boccanera | Joanna Węgrzynowska | Magdolna Kiss Virág | Berta Cortés | Ángela González | Ana Cloe | Eun YeongSeon | ||
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Dr. Finklestein | William Hickey | Arturo Mercado | Yûji Mitsuya | Eleu Salvador | Waldir Fiori | Fred Maire | Bernard Tiphaine | Francesco Vairano | Mieczysław Morański | Harsányi Gábor | Domenech Farell | Simón Ramírez | Rui Quintas | Gi Yeong-do | ||
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Mayor of HalloweenTown | Glenn Shadix | Maynardo Zavala | Tôru Ôhira | Fábio Moura | Guilherme Briggs | Michael Gahr | Daniel Beretta | Giorgio Lopez | Zbigniew Konopka | Besenczi Árpád | Ramon Puig | Juan Miguel Cuesta | José Nobre | Park Sang-il | ||
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Lock | Paul Reubens | Raúl Aldana | Shintarô Sonooka | Tatá Guarnieri | Cláudio Galvan | Niko Macoulis | Michel Costa | Fabio Alessandrini | Tomasz Steciuk | Hamvas Dániel | Aurora García | Emilio García | André Raimundo | Lee Jang-Won | ||
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Shock | Catherine O'Hara | Natalia Sosa | Doi Yūko | Angélica Santos | Miriam Ficher | Katrin Fröhlich | Céline Monsarrat | Monica Ward | Beata Wyrąbkiewicz | Mánya Zsófia | Teresa Soler | Lucía Ortega | Sofia Cruz | Eun YeongSeon | ||
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Barrel | Danny Elfman | Habib Antonio | Shigeo Matsuzawa | Fábio Villalonga | Manolo Rey | Crock Krumbiegel | Bertrand Liebert | Francesco CarusoCardelli | Jacek Wolszczak | Botond Előd | Mònica Padrós | Iván Jara | Tiago Retrê | Yoon Se-woong | ||
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Oogie Boogie | Ken Page | Rubén Cerda | Sebastián Llapur | Atomu Kobayashi | Antônio Moreno | Maurício Berger | Ron Williams | Richard Darbois | Ennio Coltorti | Krzysztof Kołbasiuk | Kárpáti Tibor | Enric Serra Frediani | Jesús Castejón | Pedro Pernas | Kim Jin-Tae | |
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Santa Claus | Edward Ivory | José Lavat | Tomoaki Nagae | Borges de Barros | Orlando Drummond | Manfred Lichtenfeld | Henri Poirier | Silvio Spaccesi | Andrzej Chudy | János Papp | Félix Benito | Julio Núñez | Paulo B. | Yu Kang-Jin | ||
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Behemoth | Randy Crenshaw | Carlos Segundo | Kiyoyuki Yanada | Michel Elias | ||||||||||||
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Big Witch | Susan McBride | Nancy MacKenzie | ||||||||||||||
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Clown with the Tear Away Face | Danny Elfman | Mario Filio | Hideyuki Umezu | Manolo Rey | ||||||||||||
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Corpse Dad | Randy Crenshaw | |||||||||||||||
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Corpse Kid | Debi Durst | Maggie Vera | ||||||||||||||
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Corpse Mom | Debi Durst | |||||||||||||||
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Devil | Greg Proops | |||||||||||||||
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Harlequin Demon | Greg Proops | Ricardo Silva | Michel Elias | |||||||||||||
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Small Witch | Debi Durst | Márcia Morelli | Sandra Schwittau | |||||||||||||
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Man Under the Bed | Kerry Katz | Nancy MacKenzie | ||||||||||||||
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Man Under the Stairs | Kerry Katz | |||||||||||||||
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Mr. Hyde | Randy Crenshaw | Mario Filio | Anderson Coutinho | Fernando Mendonça | ||||||||||||
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Mr. Hyde #2 | Ricardo Silva | Anderson Coutinho | Fernando Mendonça | |||||||||||||
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Mr. Hyde #3 | Maggie Vera | Anderson Coutinho | Fernando Mendonça | |||||||||||||
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Mummy | Sherwood Ball | Ricardo Silva | ||||||||||||||
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Sax Player | Greg Proops | Ricardo Hill | Michael Rüth | Michel Elias | ||||||||||||
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Undersea Gal | Carmen Twillie | Gaby Cárdenas | ||||||||||||||
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WitheredWing Demon | Rommy Mendoza | |||||||||||||||
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Wolfman | Glenn Walters | Masahiro Anzai | Pietro Mário | Manfred Erdmann | Henry Djanik | |||||||||||
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Vampire #1 | Sherwood Ball | Mario Filio | Isaac Schneider | JeanClaude Donda | ||||||||||||
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Vampire #2 | Carlos Seidl | Márcio Simões | Michel Elias | |||||||||||||
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Vampire #3 | Mario Hoyos | |||||||||||||||
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Vampire #4 | ||||||||||||||||
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Accordian Player | L. Peter Callender | Thomas Rau | ||||||||||||||
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Bass Player | Carlos Segundo | Michael Rüth | ||||||||||||||
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Igor | Joe Ranft | Ricardo Hill | Michael Rüth | |||||||||||||
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Police Officer | David Randolph | Carlos Segundo | ||||||||||||||
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Titles | Patrick Stewart | CarlosSegundo | José Lavat | Tomoaki Nagae | Orlando Drummond | Manfred Lichtenfeld | Henri Poirier | Julio Núñez | ||||||||
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Jack Skellington | Danny Elfman | Sergio Zaldívar | Masachika Ichimura | Nelson MachadoFilho | Marcelo Coutinho | Alexander Goebel | Olivier Constantin | Renato Zero | Wojciech Paszkowski | Danny Elfman | Tony Cruz | Pedro Bargado | Nam GyeongJu | |||
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Sally | Catherine O'Hara | Gabriela Vega | Doi Yūko | Elisa Villon | Paula'Nanná' Tribuzy | Sylvia Salustti | Nina Hagen | Dorothée Jemma | Marjorie Biondo | Joanna Węgrzynowska | Catherine O'Hara | María Caneda | Ana Cloe | Lee Hye-Gyeong | ||
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Mayor of HalloweenTown | Glenn Shadix | Maynardo Zavala | Fábio Moura | Guilherme Briggs | Michael Gahr | Zbigniew Konopka | Glenn Shadix | Javier Pontón | José Nobre | Lee Hui-Jeong | ||||||
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Lock | Paul Reubens | Raúl Aldana | Shintarô Sonooka | Orlando Viggiani | Cláudio Galvan | Niko Macoulis | Michel Costa | Ernesto Brancucci | Tomasz Steciuk | Paul Reubens | Emilio García | André Raimundo | Lee Jang-Won | |||
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Shock | Catherine O'Hara | Natalia Sosa | Doi Yūko | Leda Figueiro | Juliana Franco | Katrin Fröhlich | Karine Costa | Monica Ward | Beata Wyrąbkiewicz | Catherine O'Hara | Lucía Ortega | Sofia Cruz | Eun YeongSeon | |||
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Barrel | Danny Elfman | Habib Antonio | Shigeo Matsuzawa | Sérgio Rufino | Deco Fiori | Crock Krumbiegel | Bertrand Liebert | Ernesto Brancucci | Jacek Wolszczak | Danny Elfman | Iván Jara | Tiago Retrê | Yoon Se-woong | |||
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Oogie Boogie | Ken Page | Rubén Cerda | Sebastián Llapur | Atomu Kobayashi | Edson Montenegro | Maurício Luíz | Maurício Berger | Ron Williams | Richard Darbois | Andy Surdi | Krzysztof Kołbasiuk | Ken Page | Jesús Castejón | Pedro Pernas | Kim Jin-Tae | |
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Big Witch | Susan McBride | Maggie Vera | ||||||||||||||
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Corpse Dad | Kerry Katz | |||||||||||||||
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Mr. Hyde #3 | Gaby Cárdenas | |||||||||||||||
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ManUnder the Stairs | Carmen Twillie | |||||||||||||||
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WitheredWing Demon | Yamil Atala | |||||||||||||||
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Vampire #1 | Sherwood Ball | Raúl Carballeda | Isaac Schneider | JeanClaude Donda | ||||||||||||