Guillermo del Toro won for Best Animated Film at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards

the mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro took the award to best animated film with pinocchio at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards. At the 28th awards ceremony, held at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, the filmmaker was honored with his most recent production.

On top of the podium, the native of Jalisco asked that they not play the music, since he offered —seriously— a reflection on animation. “Anima is to give a soul to something that does not have it; it’s a great way to encapsulate,” she said.

Del Toro highlighted that the project —”fortunately”— was rejected by all the studios, in addition to the fact that it took more than 15 years to complete, since it began in 2004. “Animation is an excellent way to achieve great goals; animation is not just for kidsIt is a means of speaking, a way of arriving with patience”.

He also pointed out that a new story was made from another that is very old: pinocchio. “It’s an old and timeless movie that we made new,” said the multi-award-winning director.

Finally, the filmmaker 58 years He stressed that there has never been a generation of animators so prepared to achieve this type of project. Also, he took the opportunity to dedicate the award to whom he called his brother for 33 years, James Cameron.

It was a few days ago that Del Toro also won the award for best animated film in the eightieth installment of the Golden Globeswhich is shaping up to take the statuette at the Academy Awards to be held on Sunday, March 12.

“In this life, the more you give, the more you receive. We are pleased to announce that Guillermo del Toro’s #PinocchioMovie is the Best Animated Feature!”, was shared through the film’s Twitter account.

Del Toro defeated Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, by Dean Fleischer Camp, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, of Joel Crawford, Grid, of Domee Shi and Wendell & Wild, of Henry Selick, Jordan Peele; same productions that he defeated at the Golden Globes.

“It’s been a great year for cinema of all sizes. A year of great changes, of ambitious films and intimate films, and therefore it has been a great year for animation because animation is cinema”, expressed Guillermo upon receiving his second Golden Globe.

With respect to pinocchioentertainment and children’s audiences, Guillermo del Toro He replied that it is not a children’s film. The film is set in Fascist Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini in the first half of the 20th century, dealing with themes of death, war and human loss.

“Life, death, parenthood, disobedience, freedom, you know. And when I presented it to all the studios, ‘would they say it’s for kids?’ And I said no, but children can see it if their parents talk to them. If they want a children’s movie, that’s a different kind of movie,” Del Toro told JoBlo.

“Some of the great art, in my opinion, comes from animation. And it’s a medium, not a genre. And it’s something that needs and demands respect to participate in the conversation in its rightful place.”

For his part, Guillermo is one of the most important Mexicans in the film industry worldwide. In 2018 he won the most important statuette of the guild with “The shape of water”; which earned him the third Latino director to be awarded.

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