Alley of Nightmares Oscar nominee Guillermo del Toro has to choose from the Film Academy, which recently decided to pre-record eight categories for the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Producer Design, Editing, Makeup and Hairstyle, Original Music, Sound, Short Documentary film, animated short films and live short films.
The two-time Oscar winner expressed his feelings last night as he accepted the Hollywood Critics Association Film Achievement Award, saying that if there was ever a year for such a change, it wasn’t.
“The nominees we have here, most of those we have here tonight, [worked] against very, very difficult chances [to get here]and we don’t [films] alone, ”he said after his frequent collaborator, Doug Jones, presented him with the award. “We do them together and the people who did them with us did it, risking everything in a pandemic, appearing, making the day, somewhat miraculous.
“I have to say that if a year has been the year to think about it, it’s not the year not to hear their names live at the Oscars. This is the year when you have to sing it and sing it out loud, “Del Toro continued. “We shouldn’t do it this year; we should never do that, but not this year… And we have to say that… 2021 was a great year for movies. ”
At the Oscars, which take place at the Dolby Theater on March 27, Alley of Nightmares will fight for best film, cinematography, production design and costume design. Academy President David Rubin announced the decision to renew this year’s ceremony with eight pre-recorded categories edited in the final show on February 22 and saw that it met with immediate reaction from groups including American Cinema Editors and Set Decorators of America.
Del Toro’s speech at the fifth annual HCA Film Awards can be seen in full above.