Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pinocchio' Bags Best Animated Feature Film in Oscars 2023

Guillermo del Toro took home his third Oscar after winning the Academy Award for best animated film for "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," beating "Turning Red," "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish," and "The Sea Beast."

The Mexican filmmaker made a musical fantasy adaptation of the 1883 Italian novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi.

The animated film can be streamed on Netflix and is set in Fascist Italy during the interwar period and World War Two.

Del Toro has won Oscars in 2018 for best picture and best director for "The Shape of Water."

Aside from his animated film, Del Toro also created Netflix's "Cabinet of Curiosities," with introductions at the start of every episode.

He is known for incorporating elements of fairy-tale magic, horror motifs, and grotesque imagery, among others.

'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio'

Del Toro said that "animation is ready to be taken to the next step," calling for the said industry to be kept in the conversation.

Seattle Times reported that the animated film has a "dark look" on love and mortality between the puppet and its surrogate father, Geppetto.

Del Toro's take also includes themes of Catholicism, fascism, and the "ugliness of war."

Co-director Mark Gustafson said it was good to know that stop motion "is very much alive and well."

The voice cast for "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" includes Ewan McGregor, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton.

Gregory Mann voiced the protagonist Pinocchio.

Gustafson accepted the award and thanked Del Toro, who he claimed to be the "genesis of everything," including his drinking problem, as cited by Deadline.

"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio's" win also marks Netflix's first win in the Best Animated Feature Oscar category.

Guillermo del Toro Filmography

Guillermo del Toro has been known for his 2006 film "Pan's Labyrinth," which revolves around the story of a young girl named Ofelia, which was played by Ivana Baquero. Ofelia has an evil stepfather who is also a Francoist officer at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

It was ranked as one of the best movies of the Mexican filmmaker by Vulture, noting that the director, who is masterful in generating horrors, creates a new world that "remains grounded in the scary real one."

Another Spanish Civil War drama that Del Toro created was 2001 "Devil's Backbone," which is set in an orphanage of children who have lost their families in the fighting.

Del Toro's career debut was marked with 1993 "Cronos," which is a vampire movie. He was 28 when his first movie premiered at Cannes. It was also the first film that he collaborated with "Hellboy's" Ron Pearlman.

In 2008, Del Toro's popularity skyrocketed with the "Hellboy" franchise despite the first film failing to be a huge hit.

Other works he has been known for include Gothic horror "Crimson Peak," "Nightmare Alley," and "Pacific Rim," among many others.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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