Toy Story 4is the winner!
The movie took home the Best Animated Feature award at the2020 Oscarson Sunday, beating out nomineesHow to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,Klaus,Missing LinkandI Lost My Bodyfor the top honor.
Filmmakers Mark Neilson, Josh Cooley and Jonas Rivera took the stage to accept the award.
“We are so grateful for this honor, and we just want to thank the academy for honoring our film alongside so many beautiful films,” producer Mark Neilson said.
“We take pride in making family films,” director Josh Cooley said proudly. “We hope the adventures with Woody and Buzz made growing up so much easier.”
This is the fourth Oscar win for the beloved franchise.
Previously, director John Lasseter won a Special Achievement Award for First Feature-Length Computer-Animated Film forToy Storyin 1995, whileToy Story 3nabbedthe Oscarsfor Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for Randy Newman’s “We Belong Together” in 2011.
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Toy Story 4was released nearly a decade after the third installment, which found everyone’s favorite rag-tag group of toys being passed on from longtime owner Andy to daycare student Bonnie.
Hanks, 63, revealed in May 2019 that costarTim Allen, who voices Buzz Lightyear,warned him about the movie’s emotional endingbefore he went in to record his lines.
“I had gotten some texts from Tim Allen … these texts that say, ‘Have you recorded yet? Have you been in? Have you had a session yet?'” he recalled onTheEllen DeGeneresShow.
source: people.com
