Disney’s ‘Encanto’ wins best animated feature at 2022 Oscars; Lin-Manuel Miranda misses out on EGOT

“Encanto” was additionally nominated for rating and authentic tune for its transferring ballad “Dos Oruguitas.” These awards went to Hanz Zimmer for “Dune,” and Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for the title monitor in “No Time to Die,” respectively.

“Encanto” tells the story of a household from Colombia named the Madrigals who obtain magical items of their city that shares its identify with the animated musical. The character Mirabel, voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, units out to save lots of her household’s magic.

The movie gained the animated characteristic Academy Award for Walt Disney Animation Studios on Sunday night time. Not counting movies from its Pixar subsidiary, Disney has gained the animation Oscar 4 instances because it was first handed out in 2002.

Disney beforehand gained the award for 2013’s “Frozen,” 2014’s “Massive Hero 6” and 2016’s “Zootopia.”

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, who scored eight authentic songs for “Encanto,” would have joined the elite “EGOT” membership of winners of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony if “Dos Oruguitas” had gained. The tune was tapped because the Oscar submission from “Encanto” earlier than one other Miranda-penned tune from the film, “We Do not Speak About Bruno,” turned a runaway hit.

This was Miranda’s second Academy Award nomination in the very best authentic tune class; he was beforehand nominated for “How Far I am going to Go” from “Moana” in 2017. Miranda missed Sunday’s ceremony after his spouse examined constructive for COVID-19.

Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra carried out “Dos Oruguitas” on the Oscars stage. The tune’s identify interprets as “Two Caterpillars” and performed within the background throughout a flashback exhibiting the traumatic origins of the Madrigal household’s powers.

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Whereas “Encanto’s” story is charming and its songs catchy, Miranda alluded that its actual energy comes from illustration, giving underrepresented Latino kids a second to be seen and heard. This energy was exemplified within the story of Kenzo Brooks, a 2-year-old Black boy who noticed “Encanto’s” Afro-Latino character Antonio Madrigal and thought it was himself on the display.

“I have been getting ready all my life for this second as a result of I needed to assist create characters that youngsters would see themselves in. I needed to write down songs that depicted these home events that I grew up in. And also you’re at all times sort of writing in your interior little one,” he advised On The Pink Carpet.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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