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The 2021 BET Awards nominations have just been revealed!

This year’s awards ceremony will return as a live event this summer, being held on June 27th.

Among the nominees this year include Chloe x Halle, Zendaya, Marsai Martin and Storm Reid!

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Soul is continuing to make big strides!

The Disney/Pixar animated film won two Academy Awards on Sunday night (April 25), making history for streaming service Disney+.

If you remember, Soul premiered on Disney+, and it’s wins at the annual awards show are the first ever Oscars for the streamer!

The movie, which also makes history with Jamie Foxx as the first African-American lead in a Pixar film, picked up two trophies – Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score. It also won both of these awards at the 2021 Golden Globes.

If you missed it, this is the 11th Best Animated Feature for Pixar, and the 14th for Disney overall. It’s also the third Best Animated Feature win for director Pete Docter. Get more details here!

Jon Batiste was among the winners for the Best Original Score award, along with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. His win is only the second time a Black composer has won an Original Score Oscar. The first was Herbie Hancock for 1986′s Round Midnight, another film centered around Jazz music.

Congratulations once again to the entire cast and crew of Soul!!

Disney/Pixar’s Soul has picked up the Best Animated Feature Film award at the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday (April 25)!

The hit animated film, which debuted on Disney+ on Christmas Day 2020, beat out another Disney/Pixar film, Onward, as well as Netflix’s Over The Moon and Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon and Apple TV’s Wolfwalkers.

Director and co-writer Pete Docter and executive producer Dana Murray accepted the award during the ceremony. Check out photos of them on the red carpet!

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Kemp Powers and Pete Docter make their red carpet appearance at the 2021 Academy Awards held at Union Station on Sunday (April 25) in Los Angeles.

Pete, who hit the carpet with one of the film’s producer Dana Leigh Murray, serves as director and Kemp is co-director for the Disney/Pixar animated feature Soul, which is up for multiple Oscars. They wrote the screenplay as well, along with Mike Jones.

Also in attendance were Jon Baptiste, Trent Reznor (with wife Mariqueen Maandig) and Atticus Ross, who are nominated for Best Original Score for their work on the movie.

Kemp is nominated separately for another movie, One Night In Miami, for Best Adapted Screenplay. Soul is also up for Best Sound and Best Animated Feature Film.

Pete is no stranger to the Oscars. He’s been nominated multiple times over the years, for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Screenplay for Toy Story, Wall-E, Monster’s Inc, Up and Inside Out, as well as Best Animated Short Film for Mike’s New Car. Pete has won twice – Best Animated Feature for Up and for Inside Out.

In case you missed it, the first look at a new Soul prequel animated short was just released!

FYI: Jon is wearing Dior Men. Trent and Atticus are wearing Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello.

Disney and Pixar are gearing up to release the brand new short “22 vs. Earth“!

The new short will follow soul 22 from the hit movie Soul, with Tina Fey reprising her voice role as the character, and is set before the events of the film.

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The 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards nominations have just been revealed!

The annual show will be a two night event this year, taking place on Sunday, May 16th, and Monday, May 17th, and feature 25 gender-neutral categories.

Nominees include Zendaya for Best Performance in a Movie for Malcolm & Marie, Addison Rae and Charli D’Amelio for Breakthrough Social Star and To All the Boys: Always and Forever for Best Movie.

Voting for the awards begins NOW through April 30th at vote.mtv.com!

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Marsai Martin has picked up another NAACP Image Award!

The 16-year-old actress won the Outstanding Performance By a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited Series) award on Wednesday evening (March 24), for her work on black-ish.

This is the third year in a row that she has won that particular honor, and her fourth time overall. She’s been nominated in that category six times.

“So grateful … thank you for always supporting me and my craft. So humbled. much love @naacpimageawards,” she wrote on her Instagram story.

Also winning awards that night were Jamie Foxx for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – Motion Picture for Soul, Netflix’s Family Reunion won Outstanding Children’s Program, Disney Junior’s Doc McStuffins won Outstanding Animated series and the show’s star Laya DeLeon Hayes won Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television) for voicing the title character. Soul also picked up Outstanding Animated Motion Picture. It was a big night for Disney!

Marsai is also nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for black-ish. That category will be announced this upcoming Saturday (March 27).

Check out all of this year’s nominees here!