The 1994 biographical film about filmmaker Ed Wood starring Johnny Depp is Ed Wood. Directed by Tim Burton, the film follows Wood during the period when he made his best-known movies and developed a close professional relationship with horror star Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau.
The screenplay was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who based their research largely on Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy. Burton chose to film the movie in black and white, matching the look of Wood's low-budget productions and emphasizing the story's affection for 1950s Hollywood filmmaking.
Johnny Depp plays Wood as an endlessly optimistic creator whose confidence exceeds his technical ability. The film is sometimes confused with Burton's other projects, including Sleepy Hollow, or with later films about famously troubled productions such as The Disaster Artist. Ed Wood was not a major box-office success, but it became a critical favorite and won Oscars for Landau's supporting performance and Rick Baker's makeup.