Director Guillermo Del Toro, who won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature this morning with Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” said the film is a statement of animation as art and animators as artists.
“This is an art form that has been sitting commercially and industrially on children’s tables for far too long,” Guillermo Del Toro said backstage at the Oscars after winning the statuette. “It’s actually a mature, expressive, beautiful and complex art form,” said the director, who was ecstatic at the win.
using the technique stop motion and not live actionthe Netflix movie asserted itself with a story that departs from the children’s tale written by Carlo Collodi and the various adaptations that followed.
Del Toro said, in the interview room, that the Oscar is a triumph of this technique, which he considered “one of the most democratic forms of animation.”
“It was very important for me to have the opportunity to say that directing, writing, art direction and production design, everything we do in animation is analogous, as or more complex than live action“said the filmmaker.
Del Toro, who made several jokes and provided some responses in Spanish in the interview room, also said it was important that the animation be done by people “who were promised they would be treated as artists and not technicians.”
Regarding the impact of the story itself, the Mexican filmmaker said that the film has several inverse and significant aspects. “One of the big ones is that it’s not a kid learning to be a real kid, but a parent learning to be a real parent,” he said. “It is an urgent lesson in the world.”
The director added that the film also shows a need to disobey. “We are saying that disobedience is not only necessary, it is an urgent virtue in the world.”
He is “an imperfect father and an imperfect son,” he described, representing the way we can love each other with “our failures, flaws and our humanity.”
Mark Gustafson, the film’s co-director, added that this “is a film about sadness and also about hope.”
Del Toro also addressed the relevance of his victory as a Mexican filmmaker and what that means in terms of diversity.
“The arena in which Latin America can compete with the rest of the world is in creativity,” he said, considering that when you do something as a minority, you have a legion of people behind you.
Del Toro said that when he started his art, things were very different and there was “racism and a glass ceiling.” Things “are better”, but the filmmaker considered that things do not change or end with a generation.
In the other animation category, Best Short Film, the Oscar went to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”, which had JJ Abrams as one of the producers and Apple TV+ to distribute, beating the Portuguese film by Joao Gonzalez. and Bruno Caetano, “Ice Merchants”.
The 95th Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
Source: TSF
