Claim: Corpse Bride had Helena Bonham Carter in it.

Corpse Bride is a 2005 British-American stop-motion-animated musical fantasy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August , Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel . The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe . Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor , while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily , the titular bride . Corpse Bride is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him -LRB- the previous two films , The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach , were directed by Henry Selick -RRB- . This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros. . Pictures . It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft , who died during production .   The film was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for the 78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature , but lost to Wallace & Gromit : The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , which also starred Bonham Carter . It was shot with Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital SLRs , rather than the 35mm film cameras used for Burton 's previous stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas -LRB- 1993 -RRB- .