Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, the first awarded tonight, at the 95th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards in the United States.
Dean Fleischer Camp’s “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado’s “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” Chris Williams’ “The Sea Beast,” Domee Shi’s “Strangely Red” were the other nominees . .
The first Oscar of the night goes to @pinochomovie for Best Animated Feature #Oscar95 pic.twitter.com/KxO3OSiWlH
– The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 13, 2023
This is the third Oscar for Guillermo del Toro after, in 2018, he received the awards for Best Director and Best Picture, from the Hollywood Academy, for “The Shape of Water”.
“Pinocchio”, inspired by the classic by Carlo Collodi, was also distinguished at the Annie Awards for Animated Film, and at the BAFTAs, from the British Academy of Cinema, among more than 60 awards won, since its premiere in December of the year past. with the ‘seal’ of Netflix.
The Oscars celebrate their 95th edition tonight at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, in a ceremony in which “Ice Merchants”, by Portuguese director João Gonzalez, is also nominated for Best Animated Short Film.
“Ice Merchants” is the first Portuguese film nominated for an Oscar.
In this edition of the Oscars, “Everything at the same time everywhere”, an independent production by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, leads the race, with 11 nominations, bringing together those for Best Picture and Direction, as well as the representation categories.
Also nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture are “The Spirits of Inisherin” (Martin McDonagh), “The Fablemans” (Steven Spielberg), “Tár” (Todd Field), “All New West” (Edward Berger), “Top Gun : Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski), “Elvis” (Baz Luhrmann), “Avatar: The Waterway” (James Cameron), “The Woman’s Voice” (Sarah Polley) and “Triangle of Sadness” (Ruben Ostlund ).
For the Oscar for Best Director, Martin McDonagh, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Steven Spielberg, Todd Field and Ruben Ostlund compete.
The ceremony is hosted by host Jimmy Kimmel.
The Oscars will be attended by, among others, Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Ariana DeBose, Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain, and there will also be performances by Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Lenny Kravitz.
Source: TSF
