Guillermo del Toro calls out The Academy for not airing eight craft categories live at 94th Oscars

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Guillermo del Toro didn't pull any punches while discussing the latest controversy swirling around the 94th Oscars.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last week that eight craft categories would be filmed an hour before the live Oscar telecast and 'seamlessly' edited into the live broadcast.The move has had its fair share of detractors, one of them being two-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, who spoke out about the decision while receiving Filmmaking Achievement Award at the Hollywood Critics Association Awards on Monday.

Guillermo speaks:Guillermo del Toro didn't pull any punches while discussing the latest controversy swirling around the 94th Oscars Edited:The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last week that eight craft categories would be filmed an hour before the live Oscar telecast and 'seamlessly' edited into the live broadcastThe 57-year-old filmmaker was presented the award by his longtime collaborator Doug Jones, when he spoke about the collaborative nature of filmmaking.'Most of the movies that were done here were done against many many difficult odds,' del Toro began. '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,' the director continued.

Doug and Guillermo:The 57-year-old filmmaker was presented the award by his longtime collaborator Doug Jones, when he spoke about the collaborative nature of filmmaking'If any year was the year to think about, this was not the year not to hear their names live at the Oscars.