At the 94th Academy Awards, the film has been nominated for Best Animated Feature, while its score and track " Dos Oruguitas" contend for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, respectively. It has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the National Board of Review Award for Best Animated Film. Encanto has received several accolades, earning award nominations from various critic circles. Various reviews named magic realism and transgenerational trauma as the film's core concepts. Upon release, Encanto received critical acclaim for its characterization, music, animation, emotion, and cultural fidelity. Its soundtrack went viral and reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and UK Compilation Albums charts " We Don't Talk About Bruno" and " Surface Pressure" were two of its most successful songs, with the former topping both the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart for multiple weeks.
Although it underperformed at the box-office, grossing over $240 million worldwide against a $120–150 million budget, Encanto achieved wider commercial success when released onto Disney+ on December 24, 2021. The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 3, 2021, and was released in the United States and Canadian theatres on November 24 over a 30-day theatrical run in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. When Mirabel learns that the family is losing their magic, she sets out to find out what is happening, and save her family and their magical house. The 60th film produced by the studio, it was directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, co-directed by Charise Castro Smith, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bush, and produced by Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer, with original songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.įeaturing the voices of Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Carolina Gaitán, Diane Guerrero, and Wilmer Valderrama, the film follows a multigenerational Colombian family, the Madrigals, helmed by a matriarch whose children and grandchildren-except for Mirabel Madrigal (Beatriz)-receive magical gifts from a "miracle" that helps them serve the people in their rural community called "the Encanto". Encanto is a 2021 American computer-animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.