ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: ANIMATED FEATURE FILM - GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO

By Oscars® and Academy Awards® and Olivia Marshall

First Published 14/03/2023

Location: LA

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Animated Feature Film
"GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO"
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley 

MARK GUSTAFSON:  Wow.  Thank you.  It's  it's so good to know that  that this art form that we love so much, stop motion is very much alive and well.  
I want to thank Shadow Machine and the crew up in Portland.  I want to thank the Henson Company and Lisa Henson.  I want to thank my beautiful wife and Sebastian as well, and this man who was really the genesis of everything, including my drinking problem.

GUILLERMO DEL TORO:  Animation is cinema.  Animation is not a genre, and animation is ready to be taken to the next step.  Please, help us keep animation in the conversation.  I would like to thank Netflix for sustaining this faith in us to make this movie.

And I want to dedicate this to the love of my life, my wife, Kim, my kids, my mom and pop.  They're not here anymore, but they are here with me, and I'm your son, and I love you.  Thank you.