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Oscars 2021: Pixar's Soul wins Best Animated Feature award
Updated On: 26 April, 2021 07:48 AM IST | Washington | ANI
Soul centered around a jazz musician who`s trying to reunite his accidentally separated soul and body.
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Dana Murray (L) and Pete Docter, winners of the award for animated feature film for "Soul," pose in the press room at the Oscars on April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. Pic/AFP
The 2021 Oscar for the `Best Animated Feature Film` was taken home by Pixar`s `Soul`, becoming the only film ever to win that award without playing in the US movie theatres. Last October, with the COVID pandemic having closed most of the nation`s cinemas, Disney announced that it would release `Soul` as a Christmas release exclusively on its streaming service Disney+. The movie centered around a jazz musician who`s trying to reunite his accidentally separated soul and body.
This marked the first time a full-length Pixar feature had been released for home viewing without first playing in movie theaters. Before its win at the Oscars, `Soul` had already made history on other fronts. It was the first Pixar feature to have a Black protagonist, voiced by Jamie Foxx, the first with a predominantly Black cast and the first with a Black co-director, Kemp Powers.
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