{"id":8507,"date":"2021-04-26T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2021-04-26T21:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:41:31","slug":"pete-docter-breaks-record-with-most-best-animated-feature-oscar-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/pete-docter-breaks-record-with-most-best-animated-feature-oscar-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Docter Breaks Record With Most Best Animated Feature Oscar Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Soul <\/em>took the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars last night! And Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor, and Jon Batiste won Best Original Score for composing its jazzy-ethereal soundtrack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s always a serious discussion to be had around Pixar&#8217;s Oscar wins, but it&#8217;s impossible to argue that <em>Soul <\/em>hasn&#8217;t been a record-breaking film in a huge number of ways. <em>Soul<\/em> is now the first film to win Best Animated Feature without releasing in US theatres. It&#8217;s also the first Pixar film with a black protagonist, the first Pixar film to be completed while staff were working from home, and &#8211; it&#8217;s set a new record for Pete Docter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pete Docter, who also directed the Best-Animated-Feature-winning movies <em>Up <\/em>and <em>Inside Out<\/em>, is now the record holder for the director with the most Best Animated Feature wins &#8211; three! (<em>Monsters Inc. <\/em>lost to <em>Shrek <\/em>which we still have mixed feelings about).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>My wish for all of us tonight, is that we could follow the example of jazz musicians. That wherever we are, whatever we have: we turn it into something beautiful.<\/p><cite>Pete Docter (representing himself, co-director Kemp Powers, and producer Dana Murray at the Academy Awards ceremony last night)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/upcomingpixar\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pete-Dana-Oscars.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upcomingpixar.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pete-Dana-Oscars.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/upcomingpixar.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pete-Dana-Oscars-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/upcomingpixar.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pete-Dana-Oscars-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to the <em>Soul <\/em>crew, and congratulations to the <em>Onward <\/em>and <em>Burrow <\/em>crew whose films were also nominated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Soul took the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars last night! 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