Director Pete Docter and producer Dana Murray accepted the Best Animated Feature award, with Docter thanking “music teachers and art teachers everywhere” for doing the real-life work of
Soul protagonist Joe (Jamie Foxx). “This film started as a love letter to jazz, but we had no idea how much jazz would teach us about life,” Docter said. “…I wish we could follow the wish of jazz musicians: that, wherever we are, whatever we have, we could turn it into something beautiful.”
Nominated in three categories,
Soul ended up winning in two, also earning the Oscar for Best Original Score (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste). Clad in an atypical attire of bow-tied tuxedoes, Reznor and Ross quietly backdropped Batiste as he accepted
All 41 movies nominated for an Oscar this year, ranked
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The best movies to watch with family, from Up and Black Panther to Wizard of Oz Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
It’s difficult to choose the 10 best family movies, and not just because there are so many good ones to choose from.
Although that’s part of it. Also hard is defining “family movie.” In some cases it’s easy. “The Little Mermaid” is suitable for the whole family, for instance. Nothing untoward. Great movie. That kind of thing.
But what about something a little more challenging? What about unhappy endings? Bambi’s mother dies! (Oh. Spoiler alert. Sorry.) Then again, this is coming from the person who showed his son “The Shining” when he was in the third grade. Keep that in mind.
TV tonight: our highlights for Thursday 25th March
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