Soul is continuing to make big strides!
The Disney/Pixar animated film won two Academy Awards on Sunday night (April 25), making history for streaming service Disney+.
If you remember, Soul premiered on Disney+, and it’s wins at the annual awards show are the first ever Oscars for the streamer!
The movie, which also makes history with Jamie Foxx as the first African-American lead in a Pixar film, picked up two trophies – Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score. It also won both of these awards at the 2021 Golden Globes.
If you missed it, this is the 11th Best Animated Feature for Pixar, and the 14th for Disney overall. It’s also the third Best Animated Feature win for director Pete Docter. Get more details here!
Jon Batiste was among the winners for the Best Original Score award, along with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. His win is only the second time a Black composer has won an Original Score Oscar. The first was Herbie Hancock for 1986′s Round Midnight, another film centered around Jazz music.
Congratulations once again to the entire cast and crew of Soul!!
Disney/Pixar’s Soul has picked up the Best Animated Feature Film award at the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday (April 25)!
The hit animated film, which debuted on Disney+ on Christmas Day 2020, beat out another Disney/Pixar film, Onward, as well as Netflix’s Over The Moon and Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon and Apple TV’s Wolfwalkers.
Director and co-writer Pete Docter and executive producer Dana Murray accepted the award during the ceremony. Check out photos of them on the red carpet!
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Misha Collins popped up during the 2021 Academy Awards telecast and fans were quite surprised!
The 46-year-old Supernatural actor was in attendance as a guest of the Sound of Metal director Darius Marder.
Misha and Darius have been longtime friends. Sound of Metal is nominated for multiple awards at the show, including Best Picture.
Back in March, Misha shared his congrats to his pal after the Oscar nominations were announced.
“I’m proud of my dear friend from 7th grade, @dariusmarder, this morning. The film that he wrote and directed, Sound of Metal, just got nominated in six categories for the Oscars. Send him a little love,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Zendaya long hair blows in the wind while hitting the red carpet at the 2021 Academy Awards held at Union Station on Sunday (April 25) in Los Angeles.
The 24-year-old is in attendance as she is set to present an award during the telecast, airing on ABC.
Shortly before hitting the red carpet, Zendaya‘s stylist Law Roach shared a BTS video of her, where you can see her matching yellow face mask and heels. Check it out below!
A few days before, Zendaya stepped out for her first red carpet in over a year at the ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Awards, where she was one of the honorees.
This is the actress’ third time attending the Oscars. If you missed them, check out photos from her past appearances!
FYI: Zendaya is wearing a Valentino Haute Couture dress and Jimmy Choo shoes. She accessorized with rings, a necklace and earrings from Bulgari, which features over 183 carats of diamonds!
Kemp Powers and Pete Docter make their red carpet appearance at the 2021 Academy Awards held at Union Station on Sunday (April 25) in Los Angeles.
Pete, who hit the carpet with one of the film’s producer Dana Leigh Murray, serves as director and Kemp is co-director for the Disney/Pixar animated feature Soul, which is up for multiple Oscars. They wrote the screenplay as well, along with Mike Jones.
Also in attendance were Jon Baptiste, Trent Reznor (with wife Mariqueen Maandig) and Atticus Ross, who are nominated for Best Original Score for their work on the movie.
Kemp is nominated separately for another movie, One Night In Miami, for Best Adapted Screenplay. Soul is also up for Best Sound and Best Animated Feature Film.
Pete is no stranger to the Oscars. He’s been nominated multiple times over the years, for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Screenplay for Toy Story, Wall-E, Monster’s Inc, Up and Inside Out, as well as Best Animated Short Film for Mike’s New Car. Pete has won twice – Best Animated Feature for Up and for Inside Out.
In case you missed it, the first look at a new Soul prequel animated short was just released!
FYI: Jon is wearing Dior Men. Trent and Atticus are wearing Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello.
Alan Kim strikes a cool pose while hitting the red carpet at the 2021 Academy Awards held at Union Station on Sunday (April 25) in Los Angeles.
The nine-year-old Minari star was joined the film’s producer Christina Oh.
While Alan didn’t receive a nomination for his performance, his co-stars Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-jung are up for awards. The movie is also nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Director for Lee Isaac Chung.
Before stepping out at his first ever Oscars, in support of his first movie, the young actor did a super normal thing – he had to walk his dog!
“It’s time for the Oscars, but first I have to walk Cream. Now it’s off to the show! Thank @theacademy and @thombrowne,” he captioned a series of super cute photos on Instagram. Check out the post here!
FYI: Alan is dressed in Thom Browne.
Ariana DeBose dons an orange gown while walking the carpet at the 2021 Academy Awards held at Union Station on Sunday evening (April 25) in Los Angeles.
The 30-year-old actress is in attendance at the award show to host a red carpet pre-show for ABC.
During the telecast, Ariana‘s upcoming new musical movie, West Side Story, will be debuting it’s first trailer!
Get all the info on the upcoming remake here, including which character she will be playing.
You may remember Ariana from one of her previous musical movies, The Prom, which debuted on Netflix last December, as well as the recorded version of the hit Broadway show Hamilton on Disney+.
She was also recently cast in an upcoming space thriller, titled ISS. Get the scoop here!
FYI: Ariana is wearing an Atelier Versace Haute Couture dress, Stuart Weitzman shoes, and Harry Winston jewelry.
