Updated: February 8: The Oscar nominations are out and Disney dominated with “Encanto” and “Raya and the Last Dragon,” and Pixar’s “Luca.” This marks the first time that Disney has had two in contention since 2016 and the first time it’s had three since 2012.
The other two slots were taken by Sony/Netflix’s “The Mitchells vs.
The Machines,” and the acclaimed documentary “Flee” (Neon/Participant), which also scored noms in the doc and international categories.Golden Globe-winning “Encanto” certainly has the momentum, also scoring Oscar nominations for original score by Germaine Franco (a female first for animated features at Disney) and original song (“Dos Oruguitas”) by the very hot Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Led by Oscar-winning “Zootopia” co-directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush, and co-director Charise Castro Smith (“The Haunting of Hill House”), the musical fantasy about a Colombian family with special powers leans exquisitely on magical realism.
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