BAFTA Wins for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
The EE BAFTA Film Awards, an annual celebration of the UK and international film industry, took place last night. Hosted by Richard E. Grant and Alison Hammond, the event was broadcast on BBC One & BBC iPlayer in the UK and around the world, and yielded some not-especially-surprising wins for its animation categories.
Taking home the award for Animated Film was Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley), a triumphant stop-motion retelling of the classic Carlo Collodi tale infused with superb storytelling and incredible visuals, thanks in no small part to the talents of Mackinnon and Saunders, ShadowMachine and Taller del Chucho. The film beat out stiff competition from its fellow nominees Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleisher Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey), Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Joel Crawford, Mark Swift) and Turning Red (Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins).
Read our interviews with key talents from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – directors Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson as well as Puppet Supervisor Georgina Hayns and Production Designer Guy Davis.
The winner for British Short Animation was The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, Cara Speller, Hannah Minghella), an adaptation of the enormously successful children’s book of the same name by Bad Robot and Apple Studios that aired over the 2022 holiday season. Also nominated were Big Squid Ink’s Middle Watch (John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden, Giles Healy) and Your Mountain is Waiting (Hannah Jacobs, Zoe Muslim, Harriet Gillian) from Passion Pictures.
Learn more about The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse in our interview with directors Charlie Mackesy and Peter Baynton and producer Cara Speller.
In the related category of Special Visual Effects, the award went to Avatar: The Way of Water (Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon), Also nominated were All Quiet on the Western Front (Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller, Frank Petzold), The Batman (Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Dominic Tuohy), Everything Everywhere All At Once (Jeff Desom, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck, Zak Stoltz) and Top Gun: Maverick (Seth Hill, Scott R Fisher, Bryan Litson, Ryan Tudhope).
See the full list of winners and nominees at bafta.org