93rd Academy Awards: Pixar’s ‘Soul’ wins Best Animated Feature award

By ANI
WASHINGTON: The 2021 Oscar for the ‘Best Animated Feature Film’ was taken dwelling by Pixar’s ‘Soul’, turning into the one movie ever to win that award with out enjoying within the US film theatres.

Last October, with the COVID pandemic having closed many of the nation’s cinemas, Disney introduced that it could launch ‘Soul’ as a Christmas launch completely on its streaming service Disney+. The film centered round a jazz musician who’s making an attempt to reunite his by accident separated soul and physique.

This marked the primary time a full-length Pixar characteristic had been launched for dwelling viewing with out first enjoying in film theaters.

Before its win on the Oscars, ‘Soul’ had already made historical past on different fronts. It was the primary Pixar characteristic to have a Black protagonist, voiced by Jamie Foxx, the primary with a predominantly Black solid and the primary with a Black co-director Kemp Powers.

The film had additionally swept up Best Animated Feature awards from a number of critics teams and movie societies, together with the Golden Globes, BAFTA, the AFI, the Art Directors Guild, amongst others.

‘Soul’ directed by filmmaker Pete Docter, apart from Foxx, options the vocal abilities of Tina Fey, Phylicia Rashad, Questlove, Angela Bassett and Daveed Diggs. It additionally options authentic jazz music by Jon Batiste, and a rating composed by Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The 93rd Academy Awards are being held at each the Dolby Theatre and Union Station. The ceremony is going down two months later than initially deliberate, because of the affect left by the COVID-19 pandemic on the leisure business.

The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards have been introduced on March 15 this yr. This is just the fourth time in historical past that the Academy Awards have been postponed.

‘Mank’ leads the nominations this yr after being nominated for 10 accolades whereas ‘The Father’, ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’, ‘Minari’, ‘Nomadland’, ‘Sound of Metal’ and ‘The Trial of Chicago 7’ have been nominated in six classes.