Oscars 2021: Soul Wins Best Animated Movie ✖ The 93rd Academy Awards took place tonight and after a year that saw delays and new challenges due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood came together to celebrate the best in film for the previous year, including animated film. This year, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, and Wolfwalkers. This year marks the first time two Pixar films have been nominated in this category in the same year. Soul follows Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a middle-school band teacher who finally gets his "big break" with a gig playing at the best jazz club in town only to have a tragic accident that sends him to The Great Before -- a place beyond the realm of the living where new souls get their personalities, interests, and quirks in preparation to come to Earth. Joe ends up pairing up with the soul 22 (Tina Fey) who doesn't understand the appeal of the human experience and Joe ends up trying to show 22 what's great about life while learning the answers to some of life's most important questions in the process.