Soul also breached difficult conversations about depression and anxiety, as well as the freeing power of music and musical composition.
As long as the Best Animated Feature category exists, no animated feature will ever win Best Picture at the Oscars.
But it’s animated, so it never really had a shot at the category in which it belongs, did it?
The Academy basically considers that category to be “enough,” as evidenced by Disney Pixar’s Soul not even getting into the Best Picture race, which is a crime.