He achieved the statuette just one year after his film ‘The Alley of Lost Souls’ received a nomination
The film ‘Pinocchio’, by Mexican Guillermo del Torowon the Oscar for best animated feature film tonight at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood.
“Animation is cinema, animation is not a cadet and animation is ready to take the next step, we are ready for it. Help us keep the conversation lively,” the filmmaker pointed out after receiving the award from the actors Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.
The Mexican thanked Netflix for his supportplatform of the tape, and dedicated the award to his wife, his children and his late parents.
‘Pinocchio’ is one of the most personal projects of the Mexican and it took him half of his career as a filmmaker to make because of the craftsmanship it took to make a stop-motion animated film.
And it is also bringing him a lot of joy, because before going up to receive the third golden statuette of his career, Del Toro was the winner with this film in the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards, the Annie Awards and the BAFTAs, among others.
The Mexican returned to the Oscars just one year after his film ‘Alley of Lost Souls’ received a nomination for best film, although since 2018 -with ‘The Shape of Water’-, the director had not taken a new Oscar into his hands.
Del Toro beat Domee Shi’s ‘Red’ tapes, ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, ‘The Sea Monster’ by Chris Williams, and ‘Marcel The Shell With The Shoes on’, by Dean Fleischer Camp.
‘Pinocchio’, a co-production between the United States, Mexico and France, was also Directed by Mark Gustafson and is based on the classic tale by Carlo Collodibut it was set in the context of World War II (1939-1945).
On the tape Del Toro does an ode to disobedience and the narrative navigates between the duality of life and death.