"We have to execute the same level of precision, realism, but in miniature," the director said of the stop-motion process that brought his Best Picture contender and Best Animated Feature frontrunner to life.
The filmmaker shares the exclusive backstory for his original stop-motion animation project — and why he thinks his new one should be part of the Best Picture race.
"The movie is undeniably one of the most powerful things I've seen in terms of cinema," del Toro said of his friend Alejandro González Iñárritu's film.
Whether it makes you squirm or sob or contemplate the mere preciousness of existence, here is the best and not-so-best that the new anthology has to offer.
"The Empty Man" director discusses his masterful entry in Netflix's "Cabinet of Curiosities" anthology series and its creative debts to Guillermo Del Toro, "The Exorcist," and H.R. Giger.