![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/charlie-mackesy-i-was-hiding-in-the-toilet-before-i-won-my-oscar/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/130445862_413753-1.jpg&description=Image source, Salon Charlie Ltd Image caption, Mackesy keeps all of his fan mail and regularly interacts with his Instagram fans Fifteen minutes before won an Oscar earlier this year, he found himself hiding in a toilet. Worried about the cameras and the crowd, he scrawled on a napkin and posted a photo of it to his 1.8 million Instagram followers. "I didn't think I could even go on stage. I was quite daunted by it. Sometimes I don't even like to look at the statue, I've just got it at home wrapped in a t-shirt. It hasn't sunk in and I don't think it ever will," he says. The author and illustrator won the award for best animated short film for The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, which was adapted from his hugely successful book of the same name. Image source, Image caption, shared this image with his 1.8 million Instagram followers just before he won an Oscar Speaking to an audience of hundreds at Latitude Festival, not far from his home in Suffolk, Mackesy admits he was scared the film might not work. He was worried about letting down his countless fans who regularly write to him explaining how much the book means to them. Image caption, Mackesy says he never could have imagined his illustrations would be the basis for an Oscar-winning film "I wanted it to feel like the characters had walked off the page. I would lie in bed staring at the ceiling and I started to see the characters moving across it," he says. The 60-year-old worked from a barn in Suffolk, collaborating with 130 animators during 3,000 hours of Zoom calls across two years to create the film, in which every frame was hand drawn. Image source, REUTERS/Carlos Barria Image caption, He thanked the "brave and kind" people who "tolerated him for two years" during his Oscars speech The 35-minute film, starring Idris Elba and Tom Hollander, was shown on BBC One on Christmas Day last year and went on to win a BAFTA for best British short animation alongside the Oscar. But Mackesy insists he takes more pl){kind=link}
Fifteen minutes before Charlie Mackesy won an Oscar earlier this year, he found himself hiding in a toilet.
Worried about the cameras and the crowd, he scrawled on a napkin and posted a photo of it to his 1.8 million Instagram followers.
“I didn’t think I could even go on stage. I was quite daunted by it. Sometimes I don’t even like to look at the statue, I’ve just got it at home wrapped in a t-shirt. It hasn’t sunk in and I don’t think it ever will,” he says.
The author and illustrator won the award for best animated short film for The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, which was adapted from his hugely successful book of the same name.
Speaking to an audience of hundreds at Latitude Festival, not far from his home in Suffolk, Mackesy admits he was scared the film might not work.