Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) with me on this very obtuse and strange road." He also won the Choice Movie Villain award at the Teen Choice Awards; and at Spike TV's 2008 Scream Awards (filmed on October 18, 2008, and aired three days later), the film won two awards: Best Horror Movie, and Best Actor in a Horror Movie or TV Show (Depp). It was listed as number 490 on "Empire"s 500 Greatest films of all time. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" was released on DVD in the United States on April 1, 2008, and the UK on May 19. A Blu-ray
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Stephen Sondheim believes that "Sweeney Todd" is a story of revenge and how it consumes a vengeful person. He has asserted, "…what the show is really about is obsession." Unlike most previous representations of the story, the musical avoids a simplistic view of devilish crimes. Instead, the characters’ “emotional and psychological depths” are examined, so that Sweeney Todd is understood as a victim as well as a perpetrator in the ‘great black pit’ of humanity. Sondheim's score is one of his most complex, with orchestrations by his long-time collaborator Jonathan