2022 Oscars: 6 Awards They Got Right (And 6 Awards They Royally Screwed Up)

Beat: Flee, Luca, The Mitchells Vs. The Machines and Raya and the Last Dragon.

The Best Animated Feature Oscar is such a boringly predictable category these days. There are exceptions, such as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse winning over Incredibles 2 in 2019, but the Oscar nearly always goes to whatever Disney or Pixar made that year regardless of whether or not it was deserved.

Did Encanto deserve the win? Definitely not, for it wasn't the best animated film of the year. Hell, it wasn't the best Disney film of the year - Raya and the Last Dragon is arguably better.

Encanto might've been one of the most culturally important and memed movies of last year, but it wasn't necessarily all that. Yes, the characters were hilarious, Lin Manuel-Miranda's songs were brilliant and the animation was gorgeous, but it really feels like all that razzle dazzle was trying - without necessarily succeeding - to cover up the fact that the film's story is pretty bloody terrible.

Lacking stakes, villains, thematic coherence or much in the way of any actual action, Encanto is a film where barely anything actually happens and therefore, it winning Best Animated Feature rings incredibly hollow.

Really, this should've gone to either Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's terrific The Mitchells Vs. The Machines or the stunning animated doc Flee - those are far better films than Encanto could ever dream of being.