While last week
Soul picked up the Academy Award for Best Feature Animation in Los Angeles, this weekend the film s prequel
22 vs Earth has allowed fans to learn a little more about how 22 became such an Earthaphobe.
The short film reunites Kevin Nolting (
Soul s lead editor) with Tina Fey s earth-hating 22. For good measure, the film also takes a light-hearted stab at solving the mystery of the meaning of life in the process.
The short
is Nolting s directorial debut. For him, 2
2 vs Earth was a simple case of being in the right place at the right time. “Traditionally these shorts go to the head of story on the film because the editor is usually still working on the movie when these things are made,” Nolting explains.
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This year s Oscars left it late to bring any genuine surprises to the table. Until, that is, Anthony Hopkins picked up the evening s final award: Best Actor for his role in
The Father.
There s no disputing that the British actor delivered an incredible performance as the titular patriarch in the film, which also picked up Best Adapted Screenplay.
Expectations were so high for the late Chadwick Boseman to pick up a posthumous award for his role in
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom,
that Hopkins had not only declined to attend the ceremony at Los Angeles s Union Station, he didn t even make it to the Covid-necessitated “international hub” at London s British Film Institute.