It’s awards season, and for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the stop-motion movie received away with a number of awards unfold throughout two occasions. On Saturday evening, the Producers Guild of America and the animation-focused Annie Awards each had their respective ceremonies, and del Toro and Mark Gustafson’s acclaimed film got here house with some good, shiny awards.
Final evening, the PGAs awarded Pinocchio with the award for Excellent Producer of Animated Theatrical Movement Photos. It was the primary award of the evening, and after profitable it, del Toro went over to the Annie ceremony to each current an award (for Finest Restricted Sequence) and rack up some wins. Together with Finest Characteristic and Finest Route, the movie took awards for Finest Music, Finest Manufacturing Design, and Finest Character Animation. Upon accepting the Finest Route award, del Toro was quoted by Deadline as saying, “I needed the f*king Annie a lot. It’s essentially the most attractive goddamn trophy on this planet!”
With quite a few wins on the Annie Awards, it might be that Pinocchio will take house Finest Animated Movie on the Oscars in a number of weeks. As Deadline notes in its write-up, a lot of the Annie’s winners for Finest Characteristic went on to win the animated movie Oscar. Final 12 months was a notable upset in that regard, since The Mitchells v. the Machines received on the Annies, however Encanto took the Oscar. We’ll discover out when the Oscars airs on March 12.
Annie-wise, different notable award winners embrace Marcel the Shell with the Footwear On for Jenny Slate’s voice work and Finest Indie; Avatar: The Method of Water for Finest VFX and Character Animation (Reside Motion). For the total checklist of Annie winners, click on here. Likewise, here’s the checklist of PGA winners.
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