The actress was a teen when she starred in Burton’s “Beetlejuice.”
“Tim, your friendship has been such an enormous gift,” she said from the podium.
“When I met you, I was a weird kid.”
Tim Burton and Winona Ryder in 2024.Eric Charbonneau/Warner Bros. via Getty
“You affirmed my voice.
Ryder and Burton worked together on the originalBeetlejuicein 1988, when she was a teenager.
They reteamed forEdward Scissorhandsin 1990 and for 2012 animated filmFrankenweenie.
Tim Burton and Winona Ryder in a vintage photo.Barry King/WireImage
Barry King/WireImage
The actress complimented her director’s understanding of the heart.
And he gives them their dignity.
His heroes are the very outcasts that he loves.”
The two-time Oscar nomineeexplained to EWlast month that Burton had long expressed interest in revisiting theBeetlejuicestory.
“I just remember every year or two, we’d get together,” Ryder said.
