Charles Henry Selick (born November 30, 1952) is an American stop motion director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the stop-motion animation movies "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), "James and the Giant Peach" (1996), "Coraline" (2009), and his upcoming stop-motion movie "Wendell and Wild" (2021) with Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key.