Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
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Directed by	Guillermo del Toro Mark Gustafson
Screenplay by	Guillermo del Toro Patrick McHale
Story by	Guillermo del Toro Matthew Robbins
Based on	The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Illustrations by Gris Grimly
Produced by	Guillermo del Toro Lisa Henson Gary Ungar Alex Bulkley Corey Campodonico
Starring	Ewan McGregor David Bradley Gregory Mann Burn Gorman Ron Perlman John Turturro Finn Wolfhard Cate Blanchett Tim Blake Nelson Christoph Waltz Tilda Swinton
Cinematography	Frank Passingham
Edited by	Ken Schretzmann Holly Klein
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Production company	Netflix Animation Double Dare You ShadowMachine Tencent Pictures The Jim Henson Company Taller del Chucho
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	October 15, 2022 (2022-10-15) (BFI) November 9, 2022 (2022-11-09) (United States) December 9, 2022 (2022-12-09) (Netflix)
Running time	117 minutes
Language	English
Country	United States China Mexico
Budget	$35 million
Box office	$108,967

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (or simply Pinocchio) is a 2022 stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, with a screenplay by del Toro and Patrick McHale from a story by del Toro and Matthew Robbins. Loosely based on the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and strongly influenced by Gris Grimly's illustrations for a 2002 edition of the book, it reimagines the story of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet who comes to life as the son of his carver Geppetto. It is "a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father's expectations, learning the true meaning of life", set in Fascist Italy during the interwar period and World War II. The film stars the voices of Gregory Mann and David Bradley as the title character and Geppetto respectively, alongside Ewan McGregor, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, and Tilda Swinton.

A longtime passion project for del Toro, who considers that no other character ever "had as deep of a personal connection to [him]" as Pinocchio, the film was originally announced in 2008 aiming for a 2013 or 2014 release. However, it went into development hell. In January 2017, McHale, creator of Over the Garden Wall, was announced to co-write the screenplay, but production was suspended in November 2017 as no studios were willing to provide financing. It was revived the following year after being acquired by Netflix. The film is dedicated to the memories of del Toro's parents.

Pinocchio premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 15, 2022. It was released in select theaters on November 9, 2022, and began streaming on Netflix on December 9. The film received critical acclaim for its animation, visuals, music, story, emotional weight and voice acting. It received many accolades, including winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and three nominations at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Animated Feature Film. del Toro is the first Latino to win the Golden Globe category, and Pinocchio is the first film for a streaming service to win at both ceremonies, as well as the second stop-motion animated film after Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Plot

Resin sculpture of Pinocchio, along with a tiny sculpture of Sebastian J. Cricket on his right hand, used in Guillermo del Toro's film. Images from the exhibition of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Esplanade of the Cineteca Nacional de México, Mexico City, Mexico

In Italy during World War II, in a fit of drunken rage twenty years after losing his son Carlo to an aerial bombardment, the carpenter Geppetto cuts down a pine tree and uses it to create a wooden boy. The Wood Sprite brings the puppet to life, christening him Pinocchio, and assigns Sebastian J. Cricket to guide him as his conscience, promising Sebastian a wish in exchange.

Geppetto wakes up to a living Pinocchio, but becomes terrified and fed up with his antics, resulting in the village Podestà ordering Geppetto to send Pinocchio to school. On his way, Pinocchio is intercepted by showman Count Volpe and his monkey Spazzatura, who bring Pinocchio to their circus. Geppetto arrives to take Pinocchio back, resulting in a confrontation between him and Volpe that ends with Pinocchio being fatally hit by the Podestà's truck. In the afterlife, he meets the Wood Sprite's sister Death who explains to Pinocchio he is immortal and revives him when an hourglass empties. Death cautions that the more he dies, the more time he will spend in the afterlife.

After returning to the mortal realm, Pinocchio decides to earn money for Geppetto by performing in the circus as well as to avoid being conscripted into the army by the Podestà. In an attempt to reinstate himself as the circus star, a jealous Spazzatura reveals to Pinocchio that Volpe is conning him out of the money he falsely promised to send to his father. Hearing this, Volpe viciously beats Spazzatura, upsetting Pinocchio. In order to sabotage Volpe, Pinocchio performs a song ridiculing Benito Mussolini while he is in attendance. Mussolini has Pinocchio executed and the circus burned. Once revived, Pinocchio finds himself being taken by the Podestà to a boot camp, where other boys are trained to fight in the war.

Pinocchio befriends the Podestà's son, Candlewick, who is afraid of disappointing his father. After a training game between two teams led by Pinocchio and Candlewick ends in a tie, the Podestà orders Candlewick to shoot Pinocchio. Candlewick refuses and stands up to his father. The training camp is then bombed by Allied aircraft, killing the Podestà, while Candlewick and the other boys flee. Pinocchio is captured by Volpe, who tries to burn him to death as revenge for ruining his career. Spazzatura saves Pinocchio, resulting in Volpe falling off a seaside cliff to his death alongside Pinocchio and Spazzatura during a struggle with the monkey.

Lost at sea, Pinocchio and Spazzatura are swallowed by a giant dogfish. Inside the monster's belly, Pinocchio and Spazzatura find Geppetto and Sebastian, who were also swallowed during their search for Pinocchio. Thanks to an idea by Sebastian, Pinocchio lies to make his nose grow into a large branch, thus forming a bridge leading out of the monster's blowhole. Making their escape as the monster attempts to eat them again, Pinocchio sacrifices himself by detonating a naval mine inside the monster, killing them both. Upon meeting Death again, Pinocchio demands to be sent back early to save Geppetto from drowning. Death warns him that doing so will make him mortal, but Pinocchio breaks the hourglass to return and ends up drowning while saving his father. The Wood Sprite reappears to a mourning Geppetto and Sebastian uses his wish to make her revive Pinocchio.

Pinocchio returns home with his father, Sebastian and Spazzatura to live together as a family. Outliving all of his loved ones, Pinocchio decides to travel the world.

Voice cast

• Gregory Mann as:
  • Pinocchio, an exuberant and rowdy living wooden puppet.
  • Carlo, Geppetto's deceased son who was killed in a bombing raid. He is named after Carlo Collodi, author of the original book.
• Ewan McGregor as Sebastian J. Cricket, a traveling cricket and the narrator of the story, who lives inside Pinocchio as his guide and conscience.
• David Bradley as Master Geppetto, Pinocchio's father, a heartbroken Italian woodcarver grieving his deceased son Carlo.
• Christoph Waltz as Count Volpe, a conniving and cruel former aristocrat-turned-puppet master, con artist, and ringmaster living in destitution. His name means "fox" in Italian and he is a combination of the Fox, Mangiafuoco, and the Ringmaster from the original Pinocchio story.
• Tilda Swinton as:
  • The Wood Sprite, a wise magical fairy who gives Pinocchio life. Her appearance is a humanoid with eight wings that have eyes on them and a feathered snake-like tail.
  • Death, the Wood Sprite's sister who oversees the afterlife. Her appearance is a Chimera with the face of a human, the horns of a cape buffalo with eyes on them, the lower horns of a Jacob sheep, the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle with eyes on them, and a two-headed snake-like tail.
• Cate Blanchett as Spazzatura, Count Volpe's mistreated monkey assistant. His name means "trash" or "garbage" in Italian and he is the film's counterpart of the Cat from the original Pinocchio story. Spazzatura can only speak through the puppets he operates.
• Ron Perlman as the Podestà, a strict fascist government official who turns Pinocchio into a soldier after seeing his revival. He is the film's counterpart of the Coachman from the original story.
• Finn Wolfhard as Candlewick, the Podestà's son who bullies Pinocchio before befriending him.
• Burn Gorman as the Priest, a Roman Catholic priest at Geppetto's village who's also his former client.
• John Turturro as the Dottore, a doctor at Geppetto's village who examines Pinocchio after his first death.
• Tim Blake Nelson as the Black Rabbits, a flock of black rabbits with skeletal bodies who work for Death. They are based on the Undertaker Rabbits from the original story.
• Tom Kenny as:
  • Benito Mussolini, the leader of Fascist Italy.
  • Benito Mussolini's right-hand man
  • A sea captain with a hook for a hand and a peg leg who explains to Geppetto and Sebastian about the Dogfish.

Production

Development

Guillermo del Toro conceived initial ideas for his own Pinocchio adaptation in 2003 and has been working on the film since 2008

In 2008, Guillermo del Toro announced that his next project, a darker adaptation of the Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, was in development. He has called Pinocchio his "passion project", stating: "No art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation, and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to me as Pinocchio", and "I've wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember". When he was a child, del Toro saw and liked Walt Disney's 1940 animated film adaptation in Guadalajara, Mexico, partially because he felt it was like a "horror movie" in its own way due to a few intense moments it included. Since his teen years, he had longed to make his own version of the story. In 2003, del Toro discovered Gris Grimly's illustrations for the 2002 edition of Carlo Collodi's book, portraying Pinocchio as a puppet with a long, pointed nose and spindly limbs, with gestures that del Toro felt captured the energy of an unruly but otherwise goodhearted puppet. He concluded that Grimly's illustrations reflected the setting he had in mind for his own, more somber version of Collodi's tale.

On February 17, 2011, it was announced that Grimly and Mark Gustafson would co-direct a stop-motion animated Pinocchio film written by del Toro and his long-time collaborator Matthew Robbins, and that it would be visually based by Grimly's designs. Del Toro would produce the film along with The Jim Henson Company and Pathé. Grimly devised Pinocchio's look for the film, depicting him as unfinished wood. Though Grimly was initially set to direct the film and del Toro was set to produce it, on May 17, 2012, del Toro took over as director. He then teamed up with Gustafson, a stop-motion veteran who had experience in similar stop-motion features like Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), to assist him in achieving his ambitious vision for the project. In February 2012, del Toro released some concept art of Pinocchio, Geppetto, the Talking Cricket, Mangiafuoco, and the Fox and the Cat. On July 30, 2012, it was announced that the film would be produced and animated by ShadowMachine. It was originally scheduled to be released in 2013 or 2014, but went into development hell, with no further information forthcoming about it for years.

On January 23, 2017, Over the Garden Wall (2014) creator Patrick McHale was announced to co-write the script with del Toro. On August 31, 2017, del Toro told IndieWire at the 74th Venice International Film Festival that the film would need a budget increase of $35 million or it would be cancelled. On November 8, 2017, he reported that the project was not happening because no studios were willing to finance it. At one point, Matthew Robbins considered making a 2D-animated version of the film with French artist Joann Sfar to bring the costs down, but del Toro decided that it had to be stop-motion, even if the higher budget made it harder to get it greenlit. On October 22, 2018, it was announced that the film had been revived, with Netflix acquiring it, and Pathé no longer involved.

Almost all the years of development were spent by del Toro and Gustafson defining the designs for the principal characters, basing them on either Grimsly's designs or letting del Toro's frequent collaborator Guy Davis, who joined the project as co-production designer with The Boxtrolls (2014) and Isle of Dogs (2018) art director Curt Enderle, to design them. They then gave the animation models to England's Mackinnon & Saunders stop-motion puppet firm, which is considered by del Toro to be the "best in the world", and they fabricated the designs of Pinocchio, Gepetto, Sebastian J. Cricket, Count Volpe, and Spazzatura the Monkey. The antagonist Count Volpe is a combination of Mangiafuoco and the Fox from the original story. Mangiafuoco was originally supposed to appear in the movie as an antagonist, but he was removed halfway through production as del Toro disliked the character and thought he was a cliché; as a character model had already been made for Mangiafuoco, to not waste the model, Mangiafuoco's original design was used as a background character for Volpe's circus as a strongman. The Cat, who was shown in a concept art, was replaced by Spazzatura, while the Land of Toys was replaced with an Italian kids training camp.

Writing

Template:Quote box Guillermo del Toro was intrigued by similarities between Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Both tell of a childlike figure, brought to life and thrown into the world by a father figure who expects him to discover, on his own, the qualities that make us human, such as love and the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong. These themes reminded del Toro of his childhood. Frankenstein partly inspired del Toro to give his Pinocchio a gothic direction, but the film was still crafted to be family friendly. He sought to make connections across generations, and convey compassion, a value del Toro feels is essential for children faced with the tremendous complexity of today's world.

In del Toro's Pinocchio, the wood used to construct the puppet is carved from a tree that grows over the grave of Carlo, Gepetto's son. Pinocchio's arrival provides his grief-blinded father another opportunity for fatherhood. However, Pinocchio is rowdy, exuberant, and wild, in contrast to the well-behaved and docile Carlo. The characterization of Sebastian J. Cricket, the talking cricket, is also changed. Sebastian somewhat ponderously takes on the role of Pinocchio's conscience. His self-importance annoys Pinocchio, causing him to escape Sebastian's supervision. The cricket comes to see that Pinocchio must discover certain things for himself, such as love, humility, and how to behave. As in the original book, Sebastian is "killed" a number of times over the duration of the film, but always comes back in order to fulfill his character arc. Del Toro did not wish to overly rely upon magical creatures in the film. Desiring more realism, he reworked the Fox into a human, naming him Count Volpe and getting him replacing Mangiafuoco as an homage to, and an amalgamation of both characters, and eliminated the Cat and the Land of Toys. In the donkey subplot, the Coachman is replaced by the Podestà, a fascist official who, realizing that Pinocchio cannot be killed, strives to recruit him into Italy's military. Candlewick is changed into a bully who eventually redeems himself.

Most versions of the story take place in a fairy tale environment. Del Toro's film resituates the story in Fascist Italy between World War I and World War II, during the rise of Benito Mussolini. Pinocchio thus awakens in a society of people who behave like obedient puppets. By contrast, Pinocchio is independent and irrepressible. He cannot bring himself to abide by the rules or submit to authority figures, even when he encounters Mussolini himself, and then the spirit of Death, in limbo. Gustafson was drawn to this characterization of Pinocchio, newly born, arriving in the world fresh and unaware of consequences. Over the course of the narrative, Pinocchio awakens to his latent humanity, and in the end chooses to become mortal in order to save the life of Gepetto. Del Toro chose to move away the original book's apparent agenda, which seemed to seek to repress the spirits of children. It seemed to encourage blind obedience, to parents and other authority figures. He saw the development of Pinocchio's autonomy as a virtue. Del Toro's film is oriented around self discovery and moral agency. Del Toro's sought to explore aspects of father-son relationships, such as Gepetto's initial inability to accept Pinocchio as his own being, more than just Carlo's replacement. Gepetto struggles with guilt about the disruptiveness of the "freakish monster" that the town rejects initially. Some themes of this work may seen in previous works such as The Devil's Backbone (2001), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and The Shape of Water (2017). These three films also explore the humanity of those, like Pinocchio, who are perceived as different.

Most previous renditions of this story feature the necessity of physical transmutation from wooden puppet to flesh and blood. Del Toro explicitly rejects this concept, that Pinocchio must physically change in order to be loved by his father and find happiness. The film asserts that the essence of humanity lies in the feelings of interiority and the expressions of exteriority, especially as behavior. Pinocchio is therefore unconcerned with whether or not he turns into a "real boy". The basis of the transformation is instead Geppetto's journey to accepting and loving Pinocchio for who he is. In the end, he loves him as fiercely as he did Carlo. This reminded del Toro of his relationship with his father Federico.

Casting

Several of the actors, such as Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Ron Perlman, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz and Tilda Swinton, were cast in diverse roles, either as characters from the original story such as the Talking Cricket and Geppetto or new characters such as the Podestà, Spazzatura and Count Volpe.

In assembling the film's voice cast, del Toro and Gustafson selected multiple Academy Award winners and gifted performers with past creative ties with the former. Daniel Radcliffe, Tom Waits and Christopher Walken were originally considered to star in the film. Waits was reportedly considered to voice Geppetto and del Toro was reported by /Film to be floating up casting Walken as the Fox, though he was also considering Donald Sutherland for that part. Radcliffe would later instead remain as executive producer of the film. Early on during the film's development, del Toro first approached John Hurt, with whom he had worked on Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), to voice Gepetto, but Hurt eventually died in 2017 long before any recordings for the film could begin.

On January 31, 2020, it was announced Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor, Christoph Waltz and David Bradley had joined the cast of the film. Bradley was chiefly cast due to his previous collaborations with del Toro on the television series The Strain and Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia. He considered his role as Geppetto to be a "real emotion rollercoaster" of a part, feeling it to resemble more King Lear than the Pinocchio story he had heard as a child. Perlman was originally cast to voice Mangiafuoco, but once del Toro decided to remove the character in favor of Count Volpe, Perlman was recast as the Podestà while Waltz was cast as Volpe, who del Toro regards as the film's closest character to the Devil, a more over-the-top character than the Fox and the Cat and a comically evil man who seems like taken out from the cartoonish and fantastical tone of the original book.

On August 19, 2020, Gregory Mann, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Finn Wolfhard, John Turturro and Burn Gorman were added to the cast. For Pinocchio, del Toro sought a child actor who sounded like an ordinary boy instead of a cute one, which led him to cast Mann for his phenomenal vocal range that made him sound like a natural child, yet one absolutely emotional. Mann's vocal performance provided a "silly and sunny" personality for the titular character who longs to learn about the world and meet everyone, but given how he was created with the wood of the tree next to Carlo's grave, his roots are somewhat sad. Wolfhard, who is not particularly fond of voice acting due to feeling himself not as proficient as professional voice actors, was nevertheless relaxed enough for being able to record some of his lines as Candlewick together with Mann, as he felt that he performs voice-over better with people around instead of alone in a recording booth, crediting del Toro and Gustafson for allowing him that. Blanchett approached del Toro about joining the film as they worked together on Nightmare Alley (2021); he told her that all roles had already been cast minus that of Spazzatura the Monkey, which Blanchett gladly accepted as long as she could work with del Toro again. She also suggested that the monkey was her spirit animal as del Toro prepared to commence production of Pinocchio to ensure her casting. Blanchett recorded her voice-over shot-by-shot instead of making different emotion sounds to be edited later on like it is usually done in other productions.

Filming

Filming commenced at the Portland, Oregon offices of ShadowMachine by January 31, 2020. Production continued through early summer 2022, with some select sequences being handled by del Toro's own Centro Internacional de Animación (CIA) local studio, settled on Guadalajara, Mexico since 2019 to foster local talent from Mexico. All sets, props and character costumes were crafted to the same historical and realistic standards del Toro's live-action work has often contained, hence the production's decision to not overly stylize buildings through methods like stylizing them in a curvy, stretched and leaning way, leading to a mix of stop-motion and live-action styles that support the film's themes. Animators were also encouraged to achieve naturalistic performances from the puppets by making them "commit mistakes" like itching, sneezing or looking away if embarrassed or scared in order to shoot the characters thinking and listening, traits not usually shot in animation. For Count Volpe's carnival, Davis and Enderle drew from the reference material library collected for del Toro's previous film Nightmare Alley, which prominently starred a 1930s carnival and in which Davis had previously worked as a concept artist, even though that film's carnival was one settled in the American Midwest rather than in Europe, so despite the great overlap between American and European carnivals, the filmmakers developed looks for both carnivals that were similarly downtrodden and threadbare. Some Nightmare Alley early shots featuring Bradley Cooper's Stanton Carlisle arriving at the carnival inspired the sequence that establishes Volpe's carnival. The afterlife sequences and the end credits scene were animated by studio El Taller de Chucho in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Visual effects

The film's production quality was formed through the ornate detail of the sets and characters with their own textures in order to reinterpret Collodi's work in a way that differed from the Disney animated version. Del Toro told Vanity Fair: "I have been very vocal about my admiration and my great, great love for Disney all my life, but that is an impulse that actually makes me move away from that version. I think it is a pinnacle of Disney animation. It’s done in the most beautiful, hand-drawn 2D animation". He saw as "beautiful" the idea of using puppets to create a movie about a puppet, while pushing the boundaries of stop-motion as much as possible to create a "heartfelt" movie any audience could watch. Moving Picture Company worked on the visual effects, with Bot VFX and Mist VFX.

Music

Main article: Pinocchio (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)

On January 8, 2020, Alexandre Desplat started composing the film's score and original songs. It is Desplat's and del Toro's second collaboration, after The Shape of Water. Roeban Katz was the lyricist. On August 23, 2012, Nick Cave was attached to compose the score, but he was replaced by Desplat eight years later.

Release

In November 2018, Netflix set the film's release date for 2021. In January 2021, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos revealed that the release could be moved to 2022 or later, with Netflix's notion of releasing six animated films a year. In December 2021, del Toro stated it will be released in the last quarter of 2022. In January and July 2022, with the release of the film's first teaser, it was announced for a December release. Over its first seven days of digital release, the film logged over 10.91 million hours viewed worldwide.

Pinocchio premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 15, 2022. It debuted in the United States at the 2022 AFI Fest on November 5, 2022. It was released in select cinemas on November 9, 2022, and began streaming on Netflix on December 9, 2022. One of the theatres scheduled to show the film on November 11, 2022, was the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, Ontario.

In the case of Mexico, the director's country, Cinemex movie theater chain —one of the largest exhibitors suspended the screenings that were scheduled, causing protests by del Toro, who wants most of the people in his country to see the film. In response, on November 25, the filmmaker made a call on his Twitter account to show the film in independent theaters throughout the country, and some thirty independent theaters and clubs joined the call to show the film, including the country's Cineteca Nacional, where an exhibition of the figures used in the film was also set up in its central courtyard. On December 18 it was announced that on December 30 a massive screening will be held in Mexico City's main square, the Zócalo. The event was attended by 1.400 people.

From December 4, 2022, through January 4, 2023, the film played at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in the Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center. This coincided with a multi-floor exhibition at the MoMa called "Guillermo Del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio", which runs through April 15, 2023 and showcases various aspects of the film's inspiration and production.

Reception

Critical response

Based on 97 professional critic reviews, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 8.2% of those reviews were positive, with an average rating of 274/10. On the website, the critics' consensus reads, "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio delivers fully on its title – which is to say it's a visually stunning adaptation that embraces its source material's darkness." Using a weighted average calculator, Metacritic assigned the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Accolades

With the win of Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Pinocchio was the first animated film for a streaming service under the animation studio Netflix Animation, who have also compete with three previous nominations for the same category, as well as seventh non-Disney/Pixar film to win and first non-Disney/Pixar film since Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the second stop-motion animated film after Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and the Adventures of Pinocchio's second adaptation to win any category from Academy Awards after Disney's Pinocchio.

Additionally, del Toro was the first filmmaker to win Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Animated Feature for different films, for his work of The Shape of Water and Pinocchio, respectively.

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
Hollywood Music in Media Awards	November 16, 2022	Best Original Score in an Animated Film	Alexandre Desplat	Won
		Best Original Song in an Animated Film	Alexandre Desplat, Roeben Katz, and Guillermo del Toro ("Ciao Papa")	Won
		Music Themed Film, Biopic or Musical	Pinocchio	Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	December 11, 2022	Best Animated Film		Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards	December 12, 2022	Best Animated Feature		Won
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Patrick McHale and Guillermo del Toro	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
		Best Voice Performance	Gregory Mann	Nominated
			Ewan McGregor	Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	December 14, 2022	Best Adapted Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale	Nominated
		Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Won
		Best Original Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
Utah Film Critics Association	December 17, 2022	Best Animated Feature	Pinocchio	Runner-up
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards	December 18, 2022	Best Adapted Screenplay	Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins	Nominated
		Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Nominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association	December 19, 2022	Best Picture		8th place
		Best Animated Film		Won
		Best Musical Score	Alexandre Desplat	Won
Florida Film Critics Circle	December 22, 2022	Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, Gris Grimly, Patrick McHale	Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists	January 5, 2023	Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Won
San Diego Film Critics Society	January 6, 2023	Best Adapted Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, Gris Grimly, Patrick McHale	Runner-up
		Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Won
		Best Visual Effects		Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association	January 8, 2023	Best Animated Film		Runner-up
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle	January 9, 2023	Best Animated Feature		Won
		Best Original Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
Austin Film Critics Association	January 10, 2023	Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale	Nominated
		Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance	Ewan McGregor	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards	January 10, 2023	Best Animated Feature Film	Pinocchio	Won
		Best Original Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
		Best Original Song	Alexandre Desplat, Roeben Katz, and Guillermo del Toro ("Ciao Papa")	Nominated
Georgia Film Critics Association	January 13, 2023	Best Adapted Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, Gris Grimly, Patrick McHale	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
		Best Original Song	Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro ("Ciao Papa")	Nominated
		Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Won
Critics' Choice Movie Awards	January 15, 2023	Best Animated Feature		Won
		Best Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
		Best Song	"Ciao Papa"	Nominated
Seattle Film Critics Society	January 17, 2023	Best Animated Feature	Pinocchio	Nominated
Online Film Critics Society	January 23, 2023	Best Animated Feature		Won
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, Matthew Robbins	Nominated
Visual Effects Society Awards	February 15, 2023	Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature	Aaron Weintraub, Jeffrey Schaper, Cameron Carson, Emma Gorbey	Won
		Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature	Charles Greenfield, Peter Saunders, Shani Lang-Rinderspacher, Noel Estevez-Baker (Geppetto)	Nominated
			Oliver Beale, Richard Pickersgill, Brian Leif Hansen, Kim Slate (Pinocchio)	Won
		Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature	Warren Lawtey, Anjum Sakharkar, Javier Gonzalez Alonso, Quinn Carvalho (In the Stomach of a Sea Monster)	Won
		Emerging Technology Award	Richard Pickersgill, Glen Southern, Peter Saunders, Brian Leif Hansen (3D Printed Metal Armature)	Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society	February 18, 2023	Best Picture	Pinocchio	Nominated
		Best Animated Feature		Won
		Best Original Score	Alexandre Desplat	Won
		Best Original Song	"Ciao Papa"	Nominated
Art Directors Guild Awards	February 18, 2023	Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film	Guy Davis, Curt Enderle	Won
British Academy Film Awards	February 19, 2023	Best Animated Film	Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley	Won
		Best Original Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
		Best Production Design	Curt Enderle, Guy Davis	Nominated
International Film Music Critics Association Awards	February 23, 2023	Best Original Score for an Animated Film	Alexandre Desplat	Won
Hollywood Critics Association Awards	February 24, 2023	Best Animated Film	Pinocchio	Won
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale	Nominated
		Best Voice or Motion-Capture Performance	Ewan McGregor	Nominated
Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Awards	February 24, 2023	Best Score	Alexandre Desplat	Nominated
		Best Visual Effects	Aaron Weintraub, Brian Leif Hansen, Georgina Hayns, and Ian Mackinnon	Nominated
Minnesota Film Critics Alliance	February 25, 2023	Best Animated Feature	Pinocchio	Runner-up
Producers Guild of America Awards	February 25, 2023	Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures	Guillermo Del Toro, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley	Won
Annie Awards	February 25, 2023	Best Animated Feature	Pinocchio	Won
		Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production	Aaron Weintraub, Warren Lawtey, Alireza Malmiri, Baptiste Malbranque, Mikhail Donchenko	Nominated
		Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production	Tucker Barrie	Won
		Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production	Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson	Won
		Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in an Animated Feature Production	Ken Schretzmann, Holly Klein, Emily Chiu, Hamilton Barrett	Nominated
		Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production	Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale	Won
		Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production	Curt Enderle, Guy Davis	Won
		Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production	Gregory Mann	Nominated
			David Bradley	Nominated
Golden Reel Awards	February 26, 2023	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation	Scott Martin Gershin, Masanobu "Tomi" Tomita, Andrew Vernon, Dan Gamache, Dan O'Connell, John Cucci	Won
		Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Feature Motion Picture	Lewis Morison, Eric Caudieux, Chris Barret	Nominated
Satellite Awards	March 3, 2023	Best Motion Picture – Animated or Mixed Media	Pinocchio	Nominated
Cinema Audio Society Awards	March 4, 2023	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Animated	Jon Taylor, Frank Montaño, Peter Cobbin, Tavish Grade	Won
USC Scripter Awards	March 4, 2023	Best Adapted Screenplay – Film	Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins	Nominated
American Cinema Editors Awards	March 5, 2023	Best Edited Animated Feature Film	Ken Schretzmann, Holly Klein	Won
Academy Awards	March 12, 2023	Best Animated Feature Film	Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley	Won

External links

• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio on Netflix
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio at IMDb
• Official screenplay

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v - e - dAwards for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

v - e - dAcademy Award for Best Animated Feature 2000s Shrek – Aron Warner (2001) • Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002) • Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton (2003) • The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004) • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005) • Happy Feet – George Miller (2006) • Ratatouille – Brad Bird (2007) • WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) • Up – Pete Docter (2009) 2010s Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010) • Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011) • Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2012) • Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho (2013) • Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli (2014) • Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (2015) • Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer (2016) • Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson (2017) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2018) • Toy Story 4 – Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera, and Mark Nielsen (2019) 2020s Soul – Pete Docter and Dana Murray (2020) Template:Annie Award for Best Animated Feature Template:BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film Template:Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film Template:Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature Template:Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film Template:Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film Template:Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film Template:Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film Template:Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture Template:San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film Template:San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature Template:Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature