Soul
, a dreamlike fable from Pixar studios on the meaning of life, won the Oscar for best animated film on Sunday April 25.
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The film chronicles the tribulations between the life and death of Joe Gardner, a modest New York music teacher who wants to become a jazzman with the biggest stars. “
This film started out as a love letter to jazz, but we had no idea how much jazz would teach us about life. That we can't control everything that happens to us, but that we can, like a jazz musician, turn everything that happens to us into something valuable and beautiful, ”
said its director, Pete Docter.