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.

The stop-motion animation legend directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone (misunderstood at the time, but a cult favorite now), and Coraline, which came out ...

The stop-motion specialist also worked on 'James and the Giant Peach,' 'Corpse Bride' and 'Coraline,' plus ... Skellington in 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy ...

So begins the signature song from the beloved holiday classic The Nightmare Before Christmas ... animated films have been made since — like Coraline (also by Selick) and The Corpse Bride ...