The competition was considerable and included major studios such as Pixar and Dreamworks Animation with their ‘Red’ and ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ respectively, the celebrated ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ and the latest work by Masaaki Yuasa released under the title of ‘Inu-Oh’; but justice has finally been done and the wonderful ‘Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro’ has ended up winning the Golden Globe for best animated film.
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This, in addition to allowing us to once again see the Mexican filmmaker lift the statuette five years after his triumph as best director for his work on ‘The Shape of Water’, has made Netflix a the first streaming platform to win the Golden Globe in the animation category already del Toro in the first Latino filmmaker to raise it alone – the co-directors are not usually counted.
In this way, the streaming giant is one step closer to winning the long-awaited Oscar after having played for three consecutive years with ‘Where is my body?’, ‘Klaus’, ‘Beyond the moon’ and ‘The Mitchells against the machines’; and it is that only four Globe winners have failed in their Oscar race —’Cars’, ‘The Adventures of Tintin’, ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ and ‘Mr. Link: The lost origin’—.
with this award Guillermo del Toro once again vindicates himself as one of the best and most special active filmmakersand in his acceptance speechas fantastic as usual, has not hesitated to claim animation as “cinema” and in underlining its true nature: “Animation is not a genre for children, it is a medium”. Great.