Haverhill Native Nominated For Academy Award For 'Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio'

By Paul Burton, CBS Boston

March 10, 2023

HAVERHILL - Haverhill native Parker Merrick says he's living his childhood dream. The 30-year-old has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the work he did on "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio."

"I am pretty excited. It's very humbling. And it's never a guarantee how big of a deal it's going to be, but when I signed on for a Guillermo del Toro film, who has won Best Picture back in 2017, it was pretty wild," Merrick said.

Merrick is a stop-motion animator. His job is to take the puppets and move them frame-by-frame to create a single shot. "There are 24 frames in a second, so I'll move a puppet 12 times and take a picture every time I do it. And then we stream those together and that's one second of the film, of animation," he said.

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