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‘Encanto’ Wins Oscar For Best Animated Feature Film At Oscars 2022

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Last night were the annual Oscar Awards.

Earlier this year, when the Oscar nominations were revealed, Disney‘s Encanto was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Score and Best Original Song for Dos Oruguitas.

Luckily, the movie won one of those, Best Animated Feature, beating out Luca, Raya and the Last Dragon, Flee and The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

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Yvett Merino, one of the movie’s producers and the first Latina to win an Oscar for an animated feature, said the following during her acceptance speech:

"I am so proud to be a part of a film that puts beautiful, diverse characters in front and centre, and that people everywhere are seeing themselves in the film."

Would you have chosen Encanto or would you have gone for a different movie? Let us know!

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