Guillermo Del Toro becomes first person to win Best Picture, Director and Animated Feature Oscars

He won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for Pinocchio
Guillermo Del Toro
Guillermo Del Toro

The 95th Academy Awards took place and it ended with Everything Everywhere All At Once bagging 7 awards including Best Picture and Best Actress. While The WhaleAll Quiet At The Western Front, and Top Gun: Maverick won more than an award, RRR's Naatu Naatu and The Elephant Whisperers brought pride to India by bagging the Oscars in their respective categories. 

Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro won Best Animated Feature for Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio at the 95th Academy Awards. He created history at the Oscars by becoming the first person to have ever won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Animated feature Oscars. 

Previously, Del Toro won the Academy for Best Director and Best Picture for his work on The Shape of Water (2017). The film starred Sally Hawkins, a mute woman who falls in love with an anthropomorphic amphibian creature. 

Pinocchio revolves around Geppettor who builds a wooden puppet, to represent the child he loses during the war. The figure is given life by the Wood Sprite. Geppetto is given a new life himself when he gets the opportunity to raise a kid who is very different to the one that came before him.

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