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Guillermo Del Toro is putting The Academy on blast after they decided to cut out craft categories during the live show this month.
The 57-year-old director took a moment at the recent HCA Awards to call them out on the decision.
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While accepting the Filmmaking Achievement Award from the Hollywood Critics Association, Guillermo said that the decision to move eight categories to the hour before the live broadcast and re-edit them into the show was a wrong one.
“We don’t do [movies] alone, we do them together, and the people that made them with us, they were risking everything in a pandemic,” he said on stage. “If any year was the year to think about, this was not the year not to hear their names live at the Oscars. This is the year to say it — and say it loud.”
Guillermo added, “Many of you that have a voice and that can say it should say, ‘We should not do that’.”
“We shouldn’t do it this year. We shouldn’t do it ever, but this year we are together in this. The art is good. Every time we say something we invoke a whole reality with it, and we must say that this, 2021, was a f***ing great year for movies.”
Guillermo has been nominated at the Oscars five times, including this year for Nightmare Alley for Best Picture.
He won two trophies – Best Picture and Best Director for The Shape of Water in 2018.
Just recently, The Oscars announced another controversial change.
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