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Hanging the favorite poster is not usually a good strategy. It is an unnecessary added pressure and there is a danger of making a fool of not making good forecasts. Sergio Pablos , the Spanish director who on Sunday will opt for Oscar as best animated film for Klaus , knows this and that is why he prefers to point to Toy Story 4 "as the likely winner." At the same time he is aware that there is enough room to give the bell. The one that comes from sweeping the Annie with 7 awards and making history in the Bafta is yours, and not Pixar's .
The novel director, creator of the Despicable Me franchise and former animator of Disney and 20th Century Fox , does not hide his illusion. "There is a possibility and that is something we could not expect," he admits in front of a group of Spanish journalists at Netflix offices in Los Angeles . "What gives us a great advantage are those awards, the Annie and the Bafta, which have made us surely have the guarantee that the members (of the Academy ) at least bother to see it and that it is a fair vote ".
Pablos believes it will be an interesting and tight struggle. "The curious thing about this year is that there is no clear favorite. There are five films and all of them have a real chance of winning," with more diversity than usual by styles, techniques and nationalities. Compete a Spanish tape, Klaus , a French, Where is my body? -also with the Netflix seal- an American stop motion , Mr. Link, the lost origin and two of great studios, How to train your dragon 3 and Toy Story 4 .
It will also be a confrontation between independent productions and studio film. His emerged from the production company he set up in Madrid after his eight years in Los Angeles and he encountered a lot of refusals before seeing the light. Including those of Netflix. They told him twice, no, they didn't make animated films, just series. And the third time was the charm just because they were looking for Christmas movies. "That's how we sneaked it in."
Netflix's first animation length
Not only that. It became the first Netflix original animated feature film, "on the spearhead of a monster that comes behind with a lot of risky project that they are not testing in other studios." A house and a formula to which he applauds for his courage. "If it weren't for Netflix, this movie wouldn't even exist." Neither yours nor Rome , by Alfonso Cuarón , nor El Irish , by Martin Scorsese , adds.
Pablos acknowledges being a film romantic who fell in love with the trade going to theaters like everyone else. He states that he understands "perfectly" the position of filmmakers such as Chris Nolan , Steven Spielberg or Scorsese himself, defenders of the traditional system, but believes that streaming is a new way and "as a filmmaker I am" has to support it.
He is convinced that it is a matter of time that the best Oscar film "be a streaming tape" and that, had it not been for that new system, it would have been impossible for more than 30 million people to have seen their work in the first four weeks. More than the Oscar, his real prize is the response of the public.
Sunday, for the moment, does not have a speech prepared. "If I memorize it, it sounds like a can," he says relaxed. You probably have to improvise again, as in the Bafta.
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