Claim: Winona Ryder is an actress in the film Beetlejuice.
Evidence: As Lydia Deetz , a goth teenager in Tim Burton 's Beetlejuice -LRB- 1988 -RRB- , she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition.
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Tim Burton , produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros..
The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple -LRB- Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis -RRB- who become ghosts haunting their former home , and an obnoxious , devious ghost named Betelgeuse -LRB- pronounced `` Beetlejuice '' , portrayed by Michael Keaton -RRB- from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants -LRB- Catherine O'Hara , Jeffrey Jones , and Winona Ryder -RRB- permanently.
It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and three Saturn Awards : Best Horror Film , Best Makeup and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Sidney , her final award before her death in 1999.
The film spawned an animated television series that Burton produced and a planned unproduced sequel , Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.