Stop-motion animator and director Henry Selick has had a pretty momentous past few months with two of his biggest movies, Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas, reaching major milestones.

Tim Burton and Henry Selcik's 1993 stop-motion animated ... I know ‘Nightmare’ at its heart is a Christmas movie." In Selick's opinion, because everything in the plot revolves around Christmas ...

Henry Selick (born November 30, 1952) is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.