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Henry Selick

American filmmaker (born 1952)

1.14body-of-work score · ranked #782 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
November 30, 1952 · Glen Ridge
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, screenwriter, film producer, animator
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Henry Selick
thomascrenshaw (Thomas Crenshaw) · CC BY-SA 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Nightmare Before Christmas

    1993 · United States · musical, fantasy, comedy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1994 #5 · National Film Registry (inducted 2023) · Empire 500 (2008) #327

    0.793 citations
  2. 2
    Coraline

    2009 · United States · horror, fantasy, thriller

    Film Comment year-end poll 2009 #19 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.342 citations

Complete filmography

All 7 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.