“Encanto” won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Feature

London, March 13 (EFE). Disney’s “Encanto,” an animated musical about a strange family from Colombia, won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Feature Sunday at the 75th Academy Awards. British cinema.

At the ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the film won the only category in which it was nominated, “Escape”, “Luca” and “Mitchell Against the Machines”.

Producer Yvette Merino and screenwriter Jared Bush took the stage to receive the award from Daisy Edgar Jones and Sebastian San.

Merino said of the movie inspired by the movie, “Thank you BAFTA for this, it’s been a dream to make a movie like this since I was young. To bring together in the story people with different personalities and different skin tones. Their voices are heard.” Through the work Gabriel García Márquez “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.

“Encanto” will arrive at the upcoming Academy Awards on March 28, with three nominations: Best Animated Feature, Best Original Song and Best Original Score. EFE

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