Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ was crowned at the Annie Awards with five awards

Pinocchiothe first animated film by the Mexican filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro, continues to win numerous awards for its direction and the technique used. On this occasion, he was crowned big winner of the Annie Awardswhich were again held in person in Los Angeles, USA.

The Annie Awards have a 50-year history and are known for distinguishing the best animated audiovisual works of the year, to the point of being considered “Animation Oscars”. On February 25, his number 50 at Royce Hall at the University of California, after two years of virtual confinement.

The Guadalajara director’s film, Jalisco, was nominated in nine different categoriesbeing one of the most nominated films at the Annie Awards, as The boy, the mole, the fox and the horseDirected by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy.

Of the nine nominations, Pinocchio obtained five prizesincluding Best Picture, Best Direction (Guillermo del Toro), Best Production Design (Curt Enderle and Guy Davis), Best Character Animation (Tucker Barrie) and Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz and Patrick McHale).

It was like that netflix production managed to beat other world famous animation studios, such as Pixar and Dreamworks, as well as films like The villains there Red. One of the main opponents of Pinocchio it was the mockumentary Marcel the shod shelldirected by Dean Fleischer Camp, which won three awards.

“Love makes life worthwhile,” the Pinocchio production shared on social media as it won five Annie Awards, while the famed animator Shannon Tindle order congratulations to Guillermo del Toro and his team for the work done.

These awards are in addition to the one obtained on February 24 at the Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) Film Awards, in which Pinocchio again won the “Best Animated Film” category, in which it competed with The villains there Red.

To date, Guillermo del Toro’s film has been nominated 132 times and won 55 awards in total. Among them stand out the BAFTAs, the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globe, in which, once again, it was crowned best animated film, thanks to the technique used known as stop-motion.

Pinocchio is the last feature film by Guillermo del Toro, who has directed other films such as Chronos (1992), Hellboy (2004), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) y The shape of water (2017). Besides being his first animated filmit is also the “most personal”, in the words of the Mexican filmmaker.

As its name suggests, it is based on the classic Italian tale of Charles Collodi. To give a more innocent tone to Pinocchiodel Toro was based on the work of artist and writer Ominously Graywho in 2003 published an illustrated version of the story.

This movie took over 15 years to see the light and screened in cinemas, despite the fact that its budget was 35 million dollars (equivalent to 700 million pesos). “Cucho’s Workshop”located in Guadalajara, was in charge of one of the film’s scenes and the making of the set and characters.

According to Guillermo del Toro, this film is dedicated to his motherdied in October 2022. With this project, the Mexican director had a specific objective: that animation in the cinema is not considered only for a child audience and that it is valued as another form of art.