Johnny Depp as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film "Finding Neverland" (2004). The following year he starred as Willy Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which reunited him with director Tim Burton, with whom he had not collaborated since "Sleepy Hollow". The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. "Chocolate Factory" was followed by another Burton project, stop-motion animation "Corpse Bride" (2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Depp reprised the role of
Johnny Depp person who was maybe a little too in touch with his feminine side, like a frightened little girl." Depp has generally chosen roles which he found interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office. Critics have often described Depp's characters as "iconic loners". Depp has referred to some of his less-successful films as "studio-defined failures" and "box office poison", and said that he thought the studios neither understood the films nor did a good job of marketing them. In 2003, Depp starred in the Walt Disney Pictures adventure film "", which was a major box office