It’s awards season, and for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the stop-motion film acquired 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 movie got here house with some good, shiny awards.
Final evening, the PGAs awarded Pinocchio with the award for Excellent Producer of Animated Theatrical Movement Footage. It was the primary award of the evening, and after successful it, del Toro went over to the Annie ceremony to each current an award (for Finest Restricted Collection) and rack up some wins. Together with Finest Characteristic and Finest Course, the movie took awards for Finest Music, Finest Manufacturing Design, and Finest Character Animation. Upon accepting the Finest Course 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 the earth!”
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 couple of weeks. As Deadline notes in its write-up, many of the Annie’s winners for Finest Characteristic went on to win the animated movie Oscar. Final yr 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 embody Marcel the Shell with the Sneakers On for Jenny Slate’s voice work and Finest Indie; Avatar: The Means of Water for Finest VFX and Character Animation (Dwell Motion). For the complete listing of Annie winners, click on right here. Likewise, right here’s the listing of PGA winners.
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