document_title: List of National Basketball Association annual scoring leaders

question_text: who scored the most points in the nba last season

text: Key[edit]

text:
^

Denotes player who is still active in the NBA

*

Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Denotes player who won the MVP award that year

Player (X)

Denotes the number of times the player had been the scoring leader up to and including that season

G
Guard
F
Forward
C
Center

text: Scoring leaders[edit]

text:
Season

Player

Age[a]

Pos[b]

Team

Gamesplayed

Field goalsmade

3-pointfield goalsmade

Free throwsmade

Totalpoints

Points pergame

Ref

1946–47

Joe Fulks*

25

F/C

Philadelphia Warriors

60

475

—

439

1,389

23.2

[11][12]

1947–48

Max Zaslofsky[c]

22

G/F

Chicago Stags

48

373

—

261

1,007

21.0

[14][15]

1948–49

George Mikan*

24

C

Minneapolis Lakers

60

583

—

532

1,698

28.3

[16][17]

1949–50

George Mikan* (2)

25

C

Minneapolis Lakers

68

649

—

567

1,865

27.4

[17][18]

1950–51

George Mikan* (3)

26

C

Minneapolis Lakers

68

678

—

576

1,932

28.4

[17][19]

1951–52

Paul Arizin*

23

F/G

Philadelphia Warriors

66

548

—

578

1,674

25.4

[20][21]

1952–53

Neil Johnston*

23

C

Philadelphia Warriors

70

504

—

556

1,564

22.3

[22][23]

1953–54

Neil Johnston* (2)

24

C

Philadelphia Warriors

72

591

—

577

1,759

24.5

[23][24]

1954–55

Neil Johnston* (3)

25

C

Philadelphia Warriors

72

521

—

589

1,631

22.7

[23][25]

1955–56

Bob Pettit*

23

F/C

St. Louis Hawks

72

646

—

557

1,849

25.7

[26][27]

1956–57

Paul Arizin* (2)

28

F/G

Philadelphia Warriors

71

613

—

591

1,817

25.6

[21][28]

1957–58

George Yardley*

29

F/G

Detroit Pistons

72

673

—

655

2,001

27.8

[29][30]

1958–59

Bob Pettit* (2)

26

F/C

St. Louis Hawks

72

719

—

667

2,105

29.2

[27][31]

1959–60

Wilt Chamberlain*[d]

23

C

Philadelphia Warriors

72

1,065

—

577

2,707

37.6

[32][33]

1960–61

Wilt Chamberlain* (2)

24

C

Philadelphia Warriors

79

1,251

—

531

3,033

38.4

[33][34]

1961–62

Wilt Chamberlain* (3)[e]

25

C

Philadelphia Warriors

80

1,597

—

835

4,029

50.4

[33][35]

1962–63

Wilt Chamberlain* (4)

26

C

San Francisco Warriors

80

1,463

—

660

3,586

44.8

[33][36]

1963–64

Wilt Chamberlain* (5)

27

C

San Francisco Warriors

80

1,204

—

540

2,948

36.9

[33][37]

1964–65

Wilt Chamberlain* (6)

28

C

San Francisco WarriorsPhiladelphia 76ers

73

1,063

—

408

2,534

34.7

[33][38]

1965–66

Wilt Chamberlain* (7)

29

C

Philadelphia 76ers

79

1,074

—

501

2,649

33.5

[33][39]

1966–67

Rick Barry*

22

F

San Francisco Warriors

78

1,011

—

753

2,775

35.6

[40][41]

1967–68

Dave Bing*[f]

24

G

Detroit Pistons

79

835

—

472

2,142

27.1

[44][45]

1968–69

Elvin Hayes*[g]

23

F/C

San Diego Rockets

82

930

—

467

2,327

28.4

[46][47]

1969–70

Jerry West*[h]

31

G

Los Angeles Lakers

74

831

—

647

2,309

31.2

[49][50]

1970–71

Lew Alcindor*[i]

23

C

Milwaukee Bucks

82

1,063

—

470

2,596

31.7

[52][53]

1971–72

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* (2)

24

C

Milwaukee Bucks

81

1,159

—

504

2,822

34.8

[53][54]

1972–73

Nate Archibald*

24

G

Kansas City-Omaha Kings

80

1,028

—

663

2,719

34.0

[55][56]

1973–74

Bob McAdoo*

22

C/F

Buffalo Braves

74

901

—

459

2,261

30.6

[57][58]

1974–75

Bob McAdoo* (2)

23

C/F

Buffalo Braves

82

1,095

—

641

2,831

34.5

[58][59]

1975–76

Bob McAdoo* (3)

24

C/F

Buffalo Braves

78

934

—

559

2,427

31.1

[58][60]

1976–77

Pete Maravich*

29

G

New Orleans Jazz

73

886

—

501

2,273

31.1

[61][62]

1977–78

George Gervin*[j]

25

G/F

San Antonio Spurs

82

864

—

504

2,232

27.2

[68][69]

1978–79

George Gervin* (2)

26

G/F

San Antonio Spurs

80

947

—

471

2,365

29.6

[69][70]

1979–80

George Gervin* (3)

27

G/F

San Antonio Spurs

78

1,024

32

505

2,585

33.1

[69][71]

1980–81

Adrian Dantley*

24

F/G

Utah Jazz

80

909

2

632

2,452

30.7

[72][73]

1981–82

George Gervin* (4)

29

G/F

San Antonio Spurs

79

993

10

555

2,551

32.3

[69][74]

1982–83

Alex English*

29

F

Denver Nuggets

82

959

2

406

2,326

28.4

[75][76]

1983–84

Adrian Dantley* (2)

27

F/G

Utah Jazz

79

802

1

813

2,418

30.6

[73][77]

1984–85

Bernard King*[k]

28

F

New York Knicks

55

691

1

426

1,809

32.9

[79][80]

1985–86

Dominique Wilkins*[l]

26

F

Atlanta Hawks

78

888

13

577

2,366

30.3

[82][83]

1986–87

Michael Jordan*

23

G

Chicago Bulls

82

1,098

12

833

3,041

37.1

[84][85]

1987–88

Michael Jordan* (2)

24

G

Chicago Bulls

82

1,069

7

723

2,868

35.0

[85][86]

1988–89

Michael Jordan* (3)

25

G

Chicago Bulls

81

966

27

674

2,633

32.5

[85][87]

1989–90

Michael Jordan* (4)

26

G

Chicago Bulls

82

1,034

92

593

2,753

33.6

[85][88]

1990–91

Michael Jordan* (5)

27

G

Chicago Bulls

82

990

29

571

2,580

31.5

[85][89]

1991–92

Michael Jordan* (6)

28

G

Chicago Bulls

80

943

27

491

2,404

30.1

[85][90]

1992–93

Michael Jordan* (7)

29

G

Chicago Bulls

78

992

81

476

2,541

32.6

[85][91]

1993–94

David Robinson*[m]

28

C

San Antonio Spurs

80

840

10

693

2,383

29.8

[93][94]

1994–95

Shaquille O'Neal*

22

C

Orlando Magic

79

930

0

455

2,315

29.3

[95][96]

1995–96

Michael Jordan* (8)

32

G

Chicago Bulls

82

916

111

548

2,491

30.4

[85][97]

1996–97

Michael Jordan* (9)

33

G

Chicago Bulls

82

920

111

480

2,431

29.6

[85][98]

1997–98

Michael Jordan* (10) [n]

34

G

Chicago Bulls

82

881

30

565

2,357

28.7

[85][101]

1998–99[o]

Allen Iverson*[p]

23

G

Philadelphia 76ers

48

435

58

356

1,284

26.8

[104][105]

1999–00

Shaquille O'Neal* (2)

27

C

Los Angeles Lakers

79

956

0

432

2,344

29.7

[96][106]

2000–01

Allen Iverson* (2)[q]

25

G

Philadelphia 76ers

71

762

98

585

2,207

31.1

[105][108]

2001–02

Allen Iverson* (3)[r]

26

G

Philadelphia 76ers

60

665

78

475

1,883

31.4

[105][110]

2002–03

Tracy McGrady*[s]

23

G/F

Orlando Magic

75

829

173

576

2,407

32.1

[112][113]

2003–04

Tracy McGrady* (2)[t]

24

G/F

Orlando Magic

67

653

174

398

1,878

28.0

[113]

2004–05

Allen Iverson* (4)

29

G

Philadelphia 76ers

75

771

104

656

2,302

30.7

[105]

2005–06

Kobe Bryant

27

G

Los Angeles Lakers

80

978

180

696

2,832

35.4

[115]

2006–07

Kobe Bryant (2)

28

G

Los Angeles Lakers

77

813

137

667

2,430

31.6

[115]

2007–08

LeBron James^[u]

23

F

Cleveland Cavaliers

75

794

113

549

2,250

30.0

[117]

2008–09

Dwyane Wade^

27

G

Miami Heat

79

854

88

590

2,386

30.2

[118]

2009–10

Kevin Durant^[v]

21

F

Oklahoma City Thunder

82

794

128

756

2,472

30.1

[120]

2010–11

Kevin Durant^ (2)

22

F

Oklahoma City Thunder

78

711

145

594

2,161

27.7

[120]

2011–12[w]

Kevin Durant^ (3)[x]

23

F

Oklahoma City Thunder

66

643

133

431

1,850

28.0

[120]

2012–13

Carmelo Anthony^[y]

28

F

New York Knicks

67

669

157

425

1,920

28.7

[124]

2013–14

Kevin Durant^ (4)

25

F

Oklahoma City Thunder

81

849

192

703

2,593

32.0

[120]

2014–15

Russell Westbrook^[z]

26

G

Oklahoma City Thunder

67

627

86

546

1,886

28.1

[126]

2015–16

Stephen Curry^[aa]

28

G

Golden State Warriors

79

805

402

363

2,375

30.1

[128]

2016–17

Russell Westbrook^ (2)

28

G

Oklahoma City Thunder

81

824

200

710

2,558

31.6

[126]

2017–18

James Harden[ab]

28

G

Houston Rockets

72

651

265

624

2,191

30.4

[130]

text: Multiple-time leaders[edit]

text:
Ranking
Player
Team
Times leader
Years

1
Michael Jordan
Chicago Bulls
10
1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998

2
Wilt Chamberlain
Philadelphia Warriors/San Francisco Warriors (5) / Philadelphia 76ers (2)
7
1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966

3
Kevin DurantGeorge GervinAllen Iverson
Oklahoma City ThunderSan Antonio SpursPhiladelphia 76ers
4
2010, 2011, 2012, 20141978, 1979, 1980, 19821999, 2001, 2002, 2005

6
Neil JohnstonBob McAdooGeorge Mikan
Philadelphia WarriorsBuffalo BravesMinneapolis Lakers
3
1953, 1954, 19551974, 1975, 19761949, 1950, 1951

9
Kareem Abdul-JabbarPaul ArizinKobe BryantAdrian DantleyTracy McGradyShaquille O'NealBob PettitRussell Westbrook
Milwaukee BucksPhiladelphia WarriorsLos Angeles LakersUtah JazzOrlando MagicOrlando Magic (1) / Los Angeles Lakers (1)St. Louis HawksOklahoma City Thunder
2
1971, 19721952, 19572006, 20071981, 19842003, 20041995, 20001956, 19592015, 2017


document_title: Jeff Healey

question_text: who is the band that plays in roadhouse

question_tokens: who is the band that plays in roadhouse

root

text: Jeff Healey

text: Early life[edit]

text: Born in Toronto, Ontario, Healey was raised in the city's west end. He was adopted as an infant;[1] his adoptive father was a firefighter. When he was almost one year old, Healey lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes. His eyes had to be surgically removed, and he was given ocular prostheses.

tag: p

text: Early career and success[edit]

text: Healey began playing guitar when he was three, developing his unique style of playing the instrument flat on his lap. When he was 15,[2] Jeff Healey formed the band Blue Direction, a four-piece which primarily played bar-band cover tunes and featured bassist Jeremy Littler, drummer Graydon Chapman, and a schoolmate, Rob Quail on second guitar. This band played various local clubs in Toronto, including the Colonial Tavern.

text: Healey began hosting a jazz and blues show on radio station CIUT-FM where he became known for playing from his massive collection of vintage 78 rpm gramophone records.[3]

text: Shortly thereafter he was introduced to two musicians, bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen, with whom he formed a trio, The Jeff Healey Band. This band made their first public appearance at the Birds Nest, located upstairs at Chicago's Diner on Queen Street West in Toronto. They received a write-up in Toronto's NOW magazine, and soon were playing almost nightly in local clubs, such as Grossman's Tavern and the famed blues club Albert's Hall (where Jeff Healey was discovered by guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins).

text: After being signed to Arista Records in 1988, the band released the album See the Light, featuring the hit single "Angel Eyes" and the song "Hideaway", which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. While the band was recording See the Light, they were also filming (and recording for the soundtrack of) the Patrick Swayze film Road House.[4] Healey had numerous acting scenes in the movie with Swayze, as his band was the house cover band for the bar featured in the movie. In 1990, the band won the Juno Award for Canadian Entertainer of the Year. The albums Hell to Pay and Feel This gave Healey 10 charting singles in Canada between 1990 and 1994, including a cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which featured George Harrison and Jeff Lynne on backing vocals and acoustic guitar.[5]

text: Later work and life[edit]

text: By the release of the 2000 album Get Me Some, Healey began to concentrate his talent in a different musical direction closer to his heart, the appreciation for another original American music form, jazz.

text: He went on to release three CDs of music of traditional American jazz from the 1920s and 1930s. He had been sitting in with these types of bands around Toronto since the beginning of his music career. Though known primarily as a guitarist, Healey also played trumpet during live performances. His main jazz group for touring and recording being Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards.

text: Healey was an avid record collector and amassed a collection of well over 30,000 78 rpm records. Starting in 1990 he hosted a radio program of very early jazz on CIUT at the University of Toronto with Colin Bray. Later he went national on CBC Radio`s program entitled My Kind of Jazz, in which he played records from his vast vintage jazz collection. He moved the show two years later to Jazz FM - CJRT; as a part of ongoing celebrations for what would have been Healey's 50th birthday in 2016, the latter program began to air in repeats Wednesdays 9pm on jazz.fm.[6]

text: For many years, Healey toured throughout North America and Europe and performed at his club, "Healey's" on Bathurst Street in Toronto, where he played with his blues band on Thursday nights and also with his jazz group on Saturday afternoons. The club moved to a bigger location at 56 Blue Jays Way and was rechristened "Jeff Healey's Roadhouse." Though he had lent his name to the club and often played there, Jeff Healey did not own or manage the bar. (The name came from the 1989 film, Road House, in which Healey appeared.) At the time of his death, he had been planning to perform a series of shows in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands with his other band, the 'Jeff Healey Blues Band' (aka the 'Healey's House Band') in April 2008.

text: Over the years, Healey toured and sat in with many legendary performers, including The Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, BB King, ZZ Top, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton and many more. In 2006, Healey appeared on Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's CD/DVD Gillan's Inn.

text: Healey discovered and helped develop the careers of other musical artists, including Terra Hazelton and Amanda Marshall.[7]

text: In early 2009, Healey's album Mess of Blues won in The 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Album.[8]

text: In 2009, Healey was inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame.

text: In June 2011, Woodford Park in Toronto was renamed Jeff Healey Park in his honour.[9][citation needed]

text: In 2014 Healey was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In September 2016, Jeff Healey was inducted into the Mississauga Music Walk of Fame.[10] In March 2016 the posthumous album Heal My Soul was released,[11] followed by the companion album Holding On in December of the same year.[12] Both records were compiled from unreleased recordings by Roger Costa.[13] The 12 track Heal My Soul featured six covers and a number of collaborations with Marti Frederiksen, Arnold Lanni and Stevie Salas.[14] The 15 track Holding On album contains ten live tracks recorded in 1999 at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Norway and five studio tracks.[15][16]

text: Illness and death[edit]

text: On January 11, 2007, Healey underwent surgery to remove metastatic tissue from both lungs. In the previous eighteen months, he had two sarcomas removed from his legs.[17]

text: On March 2, 2008, Healey died of sarcoma cancer in his home town of Toronto at age 41.[18][19]

text: Healey's death came a month before the release of Mess of Blues, which was his first rock/blues album in eight years.[20]

text: Personal life[edit]

text: Healey married Krista Miller in 1992; they had a daughter and were divorced in 1998. He married Cristie Hall in 2003 and had a son with her.[18][21]

text: Discography[edit]

text: Jeff Healey Band[edit]

text:
Year
Album
Label and Catalog Number
CAN
AUS
[22]
UK
[23]
US
[24]
Certification

1988
See the Light
Arista AL-8553
25
33
58
22
RIAA - Platinum[25]

1990
Hell to Pay
Arista ARCD-8632
5
20
18
27
RIAA - Gold

1992
Feel This
Arista B000002VML
27
37
72
174
-

1995
Cover to Cover
Arista B00008G71N
44
80
50
-
-

2000
Get Me Some
Eagle B00004T98N
–
–
–
–
-

tag: table

text: Jeff Healey Solo & with The Jazz Wizards[edit]

text:
Year
Album
Label and Catalog Number
US

2002
Among Friends
Stony Plain B000I2KPO6
–

2004
Adventures in Jazzland
Stony Plain B000I2KPOG
–

2006
It's Tight Like That
Stony Plain B000ETRIZ2
–

2008
Mess Of Blues
Stony Plain B0016MX3F0
–

2009
Songs From The Road
Stony Plain B002F040F4
–

2010
Last Call
Stony Plain B0036WL32S
–

text: Jeff Healey solo[edit]

text:
2002: Among Friends[26]
2003: Live at Healey's (Bolder)[27]
2004: Adventures in Jazzland (Healeyophonic)[26]
2006: It's Tight Like That (Stony Plain)[28]
2008: Mess of Blues
2009: Songs From The Road (Stony Plain)
2010: Last Call (Stony Plain Records)
2016: Heal My Soul (Convexe Entertainment)[29]

tag: ul

text: Live albums[edit]

text:
1993: Live in Belgium (CD & DVD) (Eagle Vision)
2003: Live at Healey's (Bolder)[27]
2005: The Jeff Healey Band Live at Montreux 1999 (Eagle)
2011: Live at Grossman's 1994 (Eagle Rock North/Convexe)
2013: As The Years Go Passing By: Live in Germany 1989-1995-2000 (in-akustik)[30]
2013: Live From NYC (Eagle Rock)

text: Compilations[edit]

text:
1998 The Very Best of Jeff Healey (RCA)[31]
1998 The Very Best of Jeff Healey (MSI Music Distribution)[32]
1999 Master Hits (Arista)
2004 The Platinum and Gold Collection (Arista)
2008 Super Hits (Sony)
2009 Legacy, Volume 1 (Arbor)[33][34]
2013 House on Fire – Demos & Rarities (Eagle Rock North)

text: Compilation inclusions[edit]

text:
1995 "Let It Rock" (Quality Records) Ronnie Hawkins' 60th Birthday Bash, Live at Massey Hall, featuring members of The Hawks, The Band, Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Larry Gowan, & more.
1997 Hits of the 80's
2002 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2004 What's Love? A Tribute to Tina Turner (Versailles)[35]
2006 Ruf Records Anthology: 12 Years of Where Blues Crosses Over (Ruf Records)[36]
2006 Saturday Night Blues: 20 Years (CBC)[37]

text: Singles[edit]

text:
Year
Single
Peak chart positions
Album

CAN
AUS
[22]
UK
[23]
US
US Rock

1986
"Adrianna / See the Light"
—
—
—
—
—
single only

1988
"Confidence Man"
—
84
76
—
11
See the Light

1989
"Angel Eyes"
16
79
86
5
24

"See the Light"
—
—
—
—
33

"Raising Heaven / Hoochie Coochie Man" (by Patrick Swayze / The Jeff Healey Band)
—
—
—
—
29
Road House Soundtrack

"When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky"
—
—
99
—
—

1990
"I Think I Love You Too Much"
5
—
98
—
5
Hell to Pay

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
27
—
85
—
7

"Full Circle"
72
—
—
—
16

1991
"How Long Can a Man Be Strong"
8
—
—
—
34

"How Much"
32
—
—
—
—

1992
"Cruel Little Number"
17
—
—
—
2
Feel This

1993
"Heart of an Angel"
52
—
—
—
20

"Lost in Your Eyes"
15
—
—
91
—

"Leave the Light On"
60
—
—
—
—

1994
"You're Coming Home"
40
—
—
—
—

1995
"I Got a Line on You"
34
—
—
—
—
Cover To Cover

"Angel"
33
—
—
—
—

"Stuck in the Middle with You"
33
96
79
—
39

2000
"My Life Story"
—
—
—
—
—
Get Me Some

"I Tried"
—
—
—
—
—

"—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released.

text: Film, DVD[edit]

text:
1989 Road House
1999 Live at Montreux[38]
2004 See The Light (BMG)[39]
2009 Legacy, Volume 1 (Arbor)[34]
2013: As The Years Go Passing By: Live in Germany 1989-1995-2000 (in-akustik)[40]


document_title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)

question_text: who did sweeney todd meet on the ship back to london

text: Plot[edit]

text: In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by sailor Anthony Hope. Fifteen years earlier, he was falsely convicted and exiled by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after Barker's wife Lucy. Barker adopts the alias "Sweeney Todd" and returns to his old Fleet Street shop, situated above Mrs. Nellie Lovett's meat pie shop, where she sells the "worst pies in London". Lovett tells him that Turpin raped Lucy, who then poisoned herself with arsenic. The couple's daughter, Johanna, is now Turpin's ward. Todd vows revenge, and re-opens his barber shop after Mrs. Lovett, who loves him unrequitedly, presents him with his old straight razors. Anthony becomes enamored with Johanna, but is caught by Turpin and driven away by his henchman, Beadle Bamford.

text: Todd denounces faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli's hair tonic as a fraud and humiliates him in a public shaving contest judged by Bamford. A few days later, Pirelli arrives at Todd's shop, with his boy assistant Tobias Ragg. Pirelli identifies himself as Todd's former assistant, Davy Collins, and threatens to reveal Todd's secret unless Todd gives him half his earnings. Todd kills Collins, and hides his body in a trunk.

text: After receiving advice from Bamford, Turpin visits Todd for grooming, intent on marrying Johanna. Todd shaves Turpin, preparing to slit his throat; they are interrupted by Anthony, who reveals his plan to elope with Johanna before noticing Turpin. An angered Turpin renounces Todd's service and leaves. Todd swears revenge on the entire world, vowing to kill as many people as he can while he waits for another chance to kill Turpin. Mrs. Lovett gets the idea to bake Todd's victims into pies. Anthony searches for Johanna, whom Turpin has sent to an insane asylum upon discovering her plans to elope with Anthony.

text: The barbering and pie-making businesses prosper, and Mrs. Lovett takes Toby as her assistant. She tells an uninterested Todd of her plans to marry him and move to the seaside. Anthony discovers Johanna's whereabouts and, following Todd's suggestion, poses as a wigmaker's apprentice to rescue her. Todd has Toby deliver a letter to Turpin, telling him where Johanna will be brought when Anthony frees her. Toby has become wary of Todd and tells Mrs. Lovett of his suspicions, vowing to protect her.

text: Bamford arrives at the pie shop, informing Mrs. Lovett that neighbors have been complaining of the stink from her chimney. Todd distracts him with an offer of a free grooming and murders him. Mrs. Lovett informs Todd of Toby's suspicions, and the pair search for the boy, who hid in the sewers after finding human remains in Mrs Lovett's bakehouse. Meanwhile, Anthony brings Johanna, disguised as a sailor, to the shop, and has her wait there while he leaves to find a coach.

text: A beggar woman enters the shop in search of Bamford, and Johanna hides in the trunk. The woman recognizes Todd, but upon hearing Turpin coming, Todd kills her and sends her through the trapdoor in the floor. As Turpin enters, Todd explains that Johanna had repented and is coming to him, then offers a free shave in the meantime. When Turpin finally recognizes Todd as Benjamin Barker, Todd stabs him several times, cuts his throat and sends his body down a trap door to the bakehouse, killing him. Johanna comes out of her hiding place, still in disguise, and Todd prepares to kill her as well, not recognizing her as his daughter. However, hearing Mrs. Lovett scream in horror in the basement after discovering Turpin's body, Todd lets Johanna go.

text: Todd discovers that the beggar woman was his wife Lucy, whom he believed to be dead, and that Mrs. Lovett deliberately misled him so she could have him to herself. Todd pretends to forgive her and dances with her before hurling her into the bakehouse oven, then cradles Lucy's dead body in his arms. Toby appears, enraged at Mrs. Lovett's death, and Todd allows Toby to slit his throat with his own razor. Toby leaves as Todd bleeds to death over his dead wife.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Johnny Depp as Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd
Helena Bonham Carter as Nellie Lovett
Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin
Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford
Jayne Wisener as Johanna Barker
Sacha Baron Cohen as Adolfo Pirelli
Laura Michelle Kelly as Lucy Barker / Beggar Woman
Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope
Ed Sanders as Tobias Ragg

text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: Tim Burton first saw Stephen Sondheim's 1979 stage musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, as a CalArts student in London in 1980.[3] Burton recalled his experience of seeing the show, saying, "I was still a student, I didn't know if I would be making movies or working in a restaurant, I had no idea what I would be doing. I just wandered into the theatre and it just blew me away because I'd never really seen anything that had the mixture of all those elements. I actually went three nights in a row because I loved it so much."[5] Although not a fan of the musical genre,[6] Burton was struck by how cinematic the musical was, and repeatedly attended subsequent performances.[7] He described it as a silent film with music,[7] and was "dazzled both by the music and its sense of the macabre."[3] When his directing career took off in the late 1980s, Burton approached Sondheim with a view to making a cinematic adaptation, but nothing came of it. In Sondheim's words, "[Burton] went off and did other things."[7]

text: Meanwhile, director Sam Mendes had been working on a film version of the story for several years,[6] and in June 2003 Sondheim was approached to write the script.[8] Although he turned down the offer, Mendes and producer Walter F. Parkes obtained his approval to use writer John Logan instead. Logan had previously collaborated with Parkes on Gladiator, and claimed his biggest challenge in adapting the Sondheim stage play "was taking a sprawling, magnificent Broadway musical and making it cinematic, and an emotionally honest film. Onstage, you can have a chorus sing as the people of London, but I think that would be alienating in a movie."[9] Mendes left to direct the 2005 film Jarhead, and Burton leaped at taking over the direction after his project, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, fell apart due to its excessive budget.[6][10]

text: On Burton's hiring, he and Logan reworked the screenplay;[9] Logan felt they agreed over the film's tone due to "share[d] stunted childhoods watching Amicus movies".[3] Turning a three-hour stage musical into a two-hour film required some changes. Some songs were shortened, while others were completely removed.[11] Burton said, "In terms of the show, it was three hours long, but we weren't out to film the Broadway show, we were out to make a movie, so we tried to keep the pace like those old melodramas. Sondheim himself is not a real big fan of movie musicals, so he was really open to honing it down to a more pacey shape."[5] Burton and Logan also reduced the prominence of other secondary elements, such as the romance between Todd's daughter Johanna and Anthony, to allow them to focus on the triangular relationship between Todd, Mrs. Lovett, and Toby.[11][12]

text: Casting[edit]

text: DreamWorks announced Burton's appointment in August 2006, and Johnny Depp was cast as Todd.[13] Christopher Lee, Peter Bowles, Anthony Head, and five other actors were set to play the ghost narrators, but their roles were cut (Head does appear in an uncredited cameo as a gentleman who congratulates Depp after the shaving contest). According to Lee, these deletions were due to time constraints caused by a break in filming during March 2007, while Depp's daughter recovered from an illness.[14] Burton's domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter was cast in October 2006, as well as Sacha Baron Cohen.[15][16] In December 2006, Alan Rickman was cast.[17] In January 2007, Laura Michelle Kelly was cast as Lucy Barker.[18] Timothy Spall was added to the cast, and said he was urged to audition by his daughter, who wanted him to work with Depp. He recalled, "I really wanted this one – I knew Tim was directing and that Johnny Depp was going to be in it. My daughter, my youngest daughter, really wanted me to do it for that reason – Johnny Depp was in it. (She came on set to meet Depp) and he was really delightful to her, she had a great time. Then, I took her to the junket – and (Depp) greeted her like an old pal when he saw her. I've got plenty of brownie points at the moment."[19]

text: Three members of the cast had never been in a film before: Ed Sanders was cast as Toby, Jayne Wisener as Johanna, and Jamie Campbell Bower, who auditioned, and after four days got the part of Anthony said, "I think I weed myself. I was out shopping at the time and I got this call on my mobile. I was just like, 'OH MY GOD!' Honestly, I was like a little girl running around this shop like oh-my-god-oh-my-god-oh-my-god."[20]

text: Filming[edit]

text: Filming began on February 5, 2007 at Pinewood Studios, and was completed by May 11, despite a brief interruption when Depp's daughter was taken seriously ill.[21][22] Burton opted to film in London, where he had felt "very much at home" since his work on Batman in 1989.[3] Production designer Dante Ferretti created a darker, more sinister London by adapting Fleet Street and its surrounding area. Burton initially planned to use minimal sets and film in front of a green screen, but decided against it, stating that physical sets helped actors get into a musical frame of mind: "Just having people singing in front of a green screen seemed more disconnected".[7]

text: Depp created his own image of Todd. Heavy purple and brown make-up was applied around his eyes to suggest fatigue and rage, as if "he's never slept".[23] Burton said of the character Sweeney Todd, "We always saw him as a sad character, not a tragic villain or anything. He's basically a dead person when you meet him; the only thing that's keeping him going is the one single minded thing which is tragic. You don't see anything else around him."[24] Depp said of the character, "He makes Sid Vicious look like the innocent paper boy. He's beyond dark. He's already dead. He's been dead for years."[25] Depp also commented on the streak of white in Todd's hair, saying, "The idea was that he'd had this hideous trauma, from being sent away, locked away. That streak of white hair became the shock of that rage. It represented his rage over what had happened. It's certainly not the first time anyone's used it. But it's effective. It tells a story all by itself. My brother had a white spot growing up, and his son has this kind of shock of white in his hair."[26]

text: Burton insisted that the film be bloody, as he felt stage versions of the play which cut back on the bloodshed robbed it of its power. For him, "Everything is so internal with Sweeney that [the blood] is like his emotional release. It's more about catharsis than it is a literal thing."[6] Producer Richard D. Zanuck said that "[Burton] had a very clear plan that he wanted to lift that up into a surreal, almost Kill Bill kind of stylization. We had done tests and experiments with the neck slashing, with the blood popping out. I remember saying to Tim, 'My God, do we dare do this?'"[7] On set, the fake blood was colored orange to render correctly on the desaturated color film used, and crew members wore bin liners to avoid getting stained while filming.[23] This macabre tone made some studios nervous, and it was not until Warner Bros., DreamWorks and Paramount had signed up for the project that the film's $50 million budget was covered.[3] Burton said "the studio was cool about it and they accepted it because they knew what the show was. Any movie is a risk, but it is nice to be able to do something like that that doesn't fit into the musical or slasher movie categories."[27]

text: After the filming, Burton said of the cast, "All I can say is this is one of the best casts I've ever worked with. These people are not professional singers, so to do a musical like this which I think is one of the most difficult musicals, they all went for it. Every day on the set was a very, very special thing for me. Hearing all these guys sing, I don't know if I can ever have an experience like that again.""[5] Burton said of the singing, "You can't just lip synch, you'd see the throat and the breath, every take they all had to belt it out. It was very enjoyable for me to see, with music on the set everybody just moved differently. I'd seen Johnny (Depp) act in a way I'd never seen before, walking across the room or sitting in the chair, picking up a razor or making a pie, whatever. They all did it in a way that you could sense."[24]

text: Depp said of working with Baron Cohen, when asked what he was like in real life (meaning, not doing one of his trademark characters), "He's not what I expected. I didn't look at those characters and think, 'This will be the sweetest guy in the world'. He's incredibly nice. A real gentleman, kind of elegant. I was impressed with him. He's kind of today's equivalent of Peter Sellers."[28]

text: Music[edit]

text: Burton wanted to avoid the traditional approach of patches of dialogue interrupted by song, "We didn't want it to be what I'd say was a traditional musical with a lot of dialogue and then singing. That's why we cut out a lot of choruses and extras singing and dancing down the street. Each of the characters, because a lot of them are repressed and have their emotions inside, the music was a way to let them express their feelings."[24]

text: He cut the show's famous opening number, "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", explaining, "Why have a chorus singing about 'attending the tale of Sweeney Todd' when you could just go ahead and attend it?" Sondheim acknowledged that, in adapting a musical to film, the plot has to be kept moving, and was sent MP3 files of his shortened songs by Mike Higham, the film's music producer, for approval. Several other songs were also cut, and Sondheim noted that there were "many changes, additions and deletions... [though]... if you just go along with it, I think you'll have a spectacular time."[9] To create a larger, more cinematic feel, the score was re-orchestrated by the stage musical's original orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, who increased the orchestra from 27 musicians to 78.[citation needed]

text: The Deluxe Complete Edition soundtrack was released on December 18, 2007. Depp's singing was described by a New York Times reviewer as "harsh and thin, but amazingly forceful".[29] Another critic adds that, though Depp's voice "does not have much heft or power", "his ear is obviously excellent, because his pitch is dead-on accurate... Beyond his good pitch and phrasing, the expressive colorings of his singing are crucial to the portrayal. Beneath this Sweeney’s vacant, sullen exterior is a man consumed with a murderous rage that threatens to burst forth every time he slowly takes a breath and is poised to speak. Yet when he sings, his voice crackles and breaks with sadness."[30]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: The film's marketing has been criticized for not advertising it as a musical. Michael Halberstam of the Writers' Theatre said, "By de-emphasizing the score to the extent they did in the trailer, it is possible the producers were condescending to us – a tactic which cannot ultimately end in anything but tears."[31] In the UK, a number of audience members walked out of the film on realizing it was a musical, and complaints that advertisements for the film were deliberately misleading were made to both the Advertising Standards Authority and Trading Standards agency.[32][33] The studios involved opted for a low-key approach to their marketing. Producer Walter Parkes stated, "All these things that could be described as difficulties could also be the movie's greatest strengths." Warner Bros. felt it should take a similar approach to marketing as with The Departed, with little early exposure and discouraging talk of awards.[34]

text: Release[edit]

text: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street officially opened at the United States box office on December 21, 2007 in 1,249 theatres, and took $9,300,805 in its opening weekend. Worldwide releases followed during January and February 2008, with the film performing well in the United Kingdom and Japan.[2] The film grossed $52,898,073 in the United States and Canada, and $99,625,091 in other markets, accumulating a worldwide total of $152,523,164.[2] In the United States, the Marcus Theaters Corporation was not initially planning to screen the film following its premiere, because it was unable to reach a pricing agreement with Paramount.[35] However, the dispute was resolved in time for the official release.[36]

text: Critical reception[edit]

text: Although Sondheim was cautious of a cinematic adaptation of his musical, he was largely impressed by the results.[3] The film received largely positive reviews, with Depp's performance receiving critical praise — the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 86% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 221 reviews,[37] and Metacritic gave the film an average score of 83 out of 100, based on 39 reviews.[38] Sweeney Todd appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.[39]

text: Of the reviewers, Time rated it an A-minus and added, "Burton and Depp infuse the brilliant cold steel of Stephen Sondheim's score with a burning passion. Helena Bonham Carter and a superb supporting cast bring focused fury to this musical nightmare. It's bloody great." Time's Richard Corliss named the film one of its top ten movies of 2007, placing it fifth.[40] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it four stars out of four, lauding Burton's visual style.[41] In his review in Variety, Todd McCarthy called it "both sharp and fleet" and "a satisfying screen version of Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1979 theatrical musical ... things have turned out uniformly right thanks to highly focused direction by Tim Burton, expert screw-tightening by scenarist John Logan, and haunted and musically adept lead performances from Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Assembled artistic combo assures the film will reap by far the biggest audience to see a pure Sondheim musical, although just how big depends on the upscale crowd’s tolerance for buckets of blood, and the degree to which the masses stay away due to the whiff of the highbrow."[42] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B-plus in its Movie Reviews section and stated, "To stage a proper Sweeney Todd, necks must be slit, human flesh must be squished into pastries, and blood ought to spurt in fountains and rivers of death. Enter Tim Burton, who ... has tenderly art-directed soup-thick, tomato-red, fake-gore blood with the zest of a Hollywood-funded Jackson Pollock." She went on to refer to the piece as "opulent, attentive ... so finely minced a mixture of Sondheim's original melodrama and Burton's signature spicing that it's difficult to think of any other filmmaker so naturally suited for the job."[43]

text: In its DVD Reviews section, EW's Chris Nashawaty gave the film an A-minus, stating, "Depp's soaring voice makes you wonder what other tricks he's been hiding... Watching Depp's barber wield his razors... it's hard not to be reminded of Edward Scissorhands frantically shaping hedges into animal topiaries 18 years ago... and all of the twisted beauty we would've missed out on had [Burton and Depp] never met."[44] In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers awarded it 3½ out of 4 stars and added, "Sweeney Todd is a thriller-diller from start to finish: scary, monstrously funny and melodically thrilling ... [the film] is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending as it flies on the wings of Sondheim's most thunderously exciting score."[45] As with Time, the critic ranked it fifth on his list of the best movies of 2007.[46] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter said, "The blood juxtaposed to the music is highly unsettling. It runs contrary to expectations. Burton pushes this gore into his audiences' faces so as to feel the madness and the destructive fury of Sweeney's obsession. Teaming with Depp, his long-time alter ego, Burton makes Sweeney a smoldering dark pit of fury and hate that consumes itself. With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages."[47] Harry Knowles gave the film a highly positive review, calling it Burton's best film since Ed Wood, his favorite Burton film, and said it was possibly superior. He praised all of the cast and the cinematography, but noted it would probably not appeal to non-musical fans due to the dominance of music in the film.[48]

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street received four Golden Globe nominations for the January 2008 65th Golden Globe Awards, winning two. The film received the award for Best Motion Picture in the Musical or Comedy genre, and Depp for his performance as Sweeney Todd.[49] Burton was nominated for Best Director, and Helena Bonham Carter was nominated for her performance as Mrs. Lovett.[50][51] The film was included in the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures's top ten films of 2007, and Burton was presented with their award for Best Director.[52] The film was also nominated for two BAFTA awards, in the categories of Costume Design and Make Up and Hair.[53] Sweeney Todd further received three Oscar nominations at the 80th Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role for Depp; Best Achievement in Costume Design; and Best Achievement in Art Direction, which it won.[54] Depp won the award for Best Villain at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. He thanked his fans for "sticking with me on this very obtuse and strange road."[55] He also won the Choice Movie Villain award at the Teen Choice Awards;[56] 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).[57]

text: It was listed as number 490 on Empire's 500 Greatest films of all time.[58]

text:
Year
Award
Category
Nominee
Result

2007
London Film Critics' Circle Award
British Actress of the Year
Helena Bonham Carter
Nominated

2008
Academy Award
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

Best Art Direction
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
Won

Evening Standard British Film Award
Best Actress
Helena Bonham Carter
Won

American Cinema Editors
Best Edited Feature Film - Comedy or Musical
Won

British Academy Film Award
Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

Best Makeup and Hair
Ivana Primorac
Nominated

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award
Best Film
Nominated

Best Cast
Nominated

Best Actor
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Young Performer
Ed Sanders
Nominated

Best Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Golden Globe Award
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Won

Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Johnny Depp
Won

Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Helena Bonham Carter
Nominated

Best Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Italian Online Movie Award
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Helena Bonham Carter
Nominated

Best Art Direction
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
Won

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Won

Best Make-up
Ivana Primorac
Won

MTV Movie Award
Best Villain
Johnny Depp
Won

National Movie Award
Best Musical
Nominated

Best Performance (Male)
Johnny Depp
Won

Best Performance (Female)
Helena Bonham Carter
Nominated

Saturn Award
Best Horror Film
Won

Best Actor
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Actress
Helena Bonham Carter
Nominated

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Rickman
Nominated

Best Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Best Costume
Colleen Atwood
Won

Best Make-up
Peter Owen and Ivana Primorac
Nominated

Best Writing
John Logan
Nominated

Scream Award
Best Horror Actor
Johnny Depp
Won

Best Horror Actress
Helena Bonham Carter
Nominated

Best Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Teen Choice Award
Choice Movie: Villain
Johnny Depp
Won

2009
Empire Award
Best Horror
Nominated

Best Actor
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Actress
Helena Bonham Carter
Won

Best Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

text: Home media release[edit]

text: 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 was released on October 21, 2008.[59] An HD DVD release was announced for the same date, but due to the discontinuation of the format, Paramount canceled this version in preference for international distribution of the Blu-ray release.[60]

text: The DVD was released on April 1, 2008 and has thus far sold approximately 1,892,489 copies, bringing in more than $38 million in revenue.[61]