Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” wins Best Animated Feature

The film “Pinocchio” by Guadalajara director Guillermo del Toro has just won the Golden Globes award in the category of Best Animated Film. Since its premiere, it became one of the favorites because of the technique with which it was made, the script and of course because of the direction of Guillermo del Toro and the talent of several Mexicans.

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The Mexican filmmaker set up an entire studio in Guadalajara to carry out the filming process. stop motion that characterizes this tape, which despite having had problems with distribution in movie theaters was positioned as one of the most viewed within the platform of streaming Netflix.

The “Pinocchio” tape has been placed as one of the favorites, since it was nominated in the categories of: Best Animated Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Soundtrack; Nevertheless, it only won Best Animated Feature.

“Very grateful for this and anything else, to be back with you. Animation is cinema. It is not a genre for children, it is a medium”Said Guillermo del Toro after winning the category at the Golden Globes.

“We made this film with more than 60 units and hundreds of days of work. We gave them life, beauty, and truth to talk about life, loss, and belonging. If you haven’t seen it, watch it, it’s not a children’s movie, but the children can watch it with you. Thank you very much, see you later” added at the end of his speech.

The work was written 139 years ago by the Italian Carlo Collodibut In the new adaptation of “Pinocchio” Guillermo del Toro managed to mix the dark and tender sidenot only of the story, but also of each of the characters.