At last night’s Academy Awards, Guillermo del Toro took home the first award of the evening for his stop-motion animation adaptation of Pinocchio. The director has been a leader in the conversation around the role of animation in Hollywood over the last year.
, prominent animators discuss how the Academy reinforces the divide between animation and live-action. “There were those in the awards broadcast who had to be snarky and pooh-poohed the notion of a ‘cartoon’ being included with ‘real movies.
’”Animators have decried Disney’s chokehold on the form and domination of the Best Animated Feature category, as well as its general exploitation for capitalistic gains and presentation of the medium as“Your only question is, ‘Am I going to get to lose to Disney this year?’” adds Craig Staggs, co-founder of indie studio Minnow Mountain. “Disney wins, and nobody pays attention to your film. And Disney was going to get the attention anyway.
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