Now simply weeks away from the ninety fifth Academy Awards, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio has received its largest award but. Saturday evening, the stop-motion function received the function prize at the fiftieth Annie Awards, the highest award at essentially the most outstanding awards gala for animated filmmakers. Coincidentally sufficient, del Toro himself accepted the award simply moments after he accepted one other at the PGA Awards, the place he received a prize for a similar movie.
“Can I say this? I wanted the f-cking Annie so much. It’s the most gorgeous thing in the world!” del Toro stated in his acceptance speech “What I can say is about Pinocchio is that it was done by artists, and the animators were treated like cast and not technicians.”
The movie can be nominated for Best Animated Features at the Oscars on March twelfth. There, it would tackle Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Sea Beast, and Turning Red. Most insiders would counsel Pinocchio’s Annies win all however ensures an Oscars victory as effectively, although some now say A24’s Marcel may very well be gaining floor given it is Best Indie Feature at the identical awards ceremony Saturday.
Pinocchio has been receiving rave critiques from anybody who’s seen it, together with Doctor Strange helmer Scott Derrickson.
“Just saw @RealGDT’s Pinocchio. Visually astonishing, dense with beautifully complex ideas about moral goodness, and an emotional ending that is truly sublime,” Derrickson tweeted final October. “Guillermo’s PINOCCHIO is a masterpiece. Beautiful, surreal, brilliant. The last 5 minutes wrecked me. A wonderful meditation on love, mortality, and, as is common in Guillermo’s work, being loved for who you are. Will be paired annually with FANTASTIC MR. FOX. A true delight,” Derrickson’s longtime collaborator and author, C. Robert Cargill, added.
Pinocchio is del Toro’s first animated function and stars Ewan McGregor as Sebastian J. Cricket, the cricket who lives in Pinocchio’s picket coronary heart and serves because the movie’s storyteller. Del Toro groups with the Jim Henson Company and ShadowMachine on the stop-motion animation tackle Carlo Collodi’s novel, which follows a puppet boy who involves life. With McGregor, the voice forged additionally consists of David Bradley as Geppetto, Gregory Mann as Pinocchio, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, and Burn Gorman, with Christoph Waltz and Tilda Swinton.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is now streaming on Netflix.
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