The Mexicans Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron stood out from the winners of the Oscars 2023, after on the evening of March 12, 2023 they recorded their names in the history of cinema.
It’s been a long time since Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón worked together on ‘La hora marcada’ in the 1980s and their film careers took off, since then the two have made it big in Hollywood and won Oscars.
Now at the 2023 Oscars ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California, the Latinos Del Toro and Cuarón with their nominations and awards have reached a record few in Hollywood have achieved.
Guillermo del Toro wins at the Oscars 2023 and breaks a record
As many expected, award-winning Mexican director Guillermo del Toro was the winner in the Best Animated Feature category with his Netflix film Pinocchio.
And as if that wasn’t enough, with this award Del Toro became the first director in history to win Oscars for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Animated Feature.
While this is not the first record the horror-fantasy director has achieved at an awards ceremony, it has also been revealed that with the long standing ovation ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ received at Cannes in 2006, he broke a record.
With a total of 22 minutes of applause, the film’s presentation became the longest standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival in its history.
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Alfonso Cuaron broke the record at the Oscars 2023: he beat Walt Disney
For his part, Alfonso Cuarón has now been out of the limelight, but that didn’t stop him from making his mark on the industry at this award, breaking a record with his role as a producer.
Cuarón has previously been nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography.
He only needed to enter one more category to surpass the mark of Walt Disney and George Clooney, who have also competed in six different categories. And he did it with his nomination for Best Short Film with ‘Le Pupille’.
Although the film didn’t take home the statuette, the Mexican director entered the Oscars history books as the second person to compete in seven different categories.
The first to compete in seven different categories at the Oscars was the British Kenneth Branagh, when he reached this record last year with the film “Belfast” (2021).
Alfonso Cuaron served as a producer on “Le Pupille,” which is on Disney+, so if he had won, he would have kept the golden statue.
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