‘Soul’ Wins Animated Feature & Original Score At 2021 Oscars

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterFor 55 years, “Ultraman” has been one of Japan’s A-list superheroes — defending the planet from alien kaiju and inspiring all manner of global pop culture, from the “Power Rangers” to Paul Rudd’s “Ant-Man” suit.

Bong Joon Ho has never been a filmmaker that has shied away from working in genre filmmaking. He’s made features about a train in a post-apocalyptic future, a giant super pig, and a literal amphibious monster.

EXCLUSIVE: The Thinklab Media and Kapers Animation have revealed first images from “Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow”, the animated noir-ish family thriller now in production in Spain for expected completion in Summer 2022.  Director is Julio Soto Gúrpide (Deep) with a screenplay by Rocco  Pucillo who won the 2013 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for it.

LOS ANGELES -- After his film “Another Round” won the best international feature Oscar, director Thomas Vinterberg wiped away tears while dedicating part of his acceptance speech to his late daughter who died a couple years ago.“We ended up making this movie for her, as her monument,” a tearful Vinterberg said from the stage at Union Station in Los Angeles on Sunday night.Vinterberg said his daughter, Ida, died in a highway accident four days into the project.

Sunday's Academy Awards saw some of the top names in film collect awards on Hollywood's biggest night. Despite the ceremony looking slightly different than previous years, musicians left their own mark.

's illustrious journey down the road ended on the Oscars stage, with Chloé Zhao's drama winning Best Picture during Sunday's 93rd Academy Awards.Taking the stage with team — including the real-life nomads cast in the film — Zhao paid thanks to «all the people we met on the road, thank you for teaching us the power of resilience and hope and reminding us what true kindness looks like.»The win makes Oscars history, as becomes only the second ever Best Picture winner directed by a woman.

after the Best Picture award for the first time since 1972 — when Charlie Chaplin received a special honorary award at the very end of the show.

A disappointing ending. Despite being a shoo-in to win the best actor honor at the 2021 Oscars, the late Chadwick Boseman lost to The Father‘s Anthony Hopkins on Sunday, April 25.

's illustrious journey down the road ended on the Oscars stage, with director Chloé Zhao's drama winning Best Picture during Sunday's 93rd Academy Awards.Taking the stage with team — including the real-life nomads cast in the film — Zhao said, «We thank all the hearts and hands that came together to make this movie… All the people we met on the road, thank you for teaching us the power of resilience and hope and reminding us what true kindness looks like.»The win makes Oscars history, as becomes

Jon Burlingame In one of the only upsets of the evening, “Fight for You,” H.E.R.’s end-title theme for “Judas and the Black Messiah,” won the best song Academy Award Sunday night.The 23-year-old singer-songwriter was clearly shocked by the win but thanked her parents, noting, “those days of listening to Sly and the Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye — they really paid off!”The soul-flavored song by the singer and her co-writers, D’Mile and Tiara Thomas, featured under the end titles

Well, the fait accompli of the season has finally come to fruition. After looking like the Oscar frontrunner since September of last year, Searchlight Pictures‘ “Nomadland” won Best Picture at the 93rd annual Academy Awards.

“Nomadland” and now, Chloé Zhao’s film has scored Oscar gold.“We thank all of the hearts and hands that come together to make this movie,” Zhao, 39, said Sunday from LA’s Union Station.She also thanks “all the people we met on the road” … “for reminding us what true kindness looks like.”Predicted to be the favorite of the night, “Nomadland” beat out eight other films for the evening’s top honors.

LOS ANGELES -- Pixar’s “Soul” has won the Oscar for best animated feature.Pixar has now won the award 11 times in the 20 years since the category was established.The film stars the voices of Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey.“Soul” follows an aspiring musician and middle-school band teacher who loses his life — but attempts to escape the afterlife during his quest to help an infant soul.———For complete coverage of this year’s Oscars, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards

Emerald Fennell is now an Oscar winner!

Spider-Man's Zendaya, Minari's Steven Yeun and American Horror Story star Angela Bassett have joined the "ensemble cast" of presenters for the 2021 Oscars. This year's ceremony will take place this Sunday (April 25), with coronavirus pandemic regulations still in place.

Nomadland won best feature at the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards on Thursday. "We are so honored to be recognized with our tribe," said producer Mollye Asher, acknowledging the community of Film Independent.