Blender’s built in tenderer is known to be quite good, but I’m not sure they used it on the movie.
"Yes, cycles was used for everything, though our version of cycles was modified (with stefan's embree core, and crypto-mattes which were beyond valuable for compositing). The version of blender we used was the studios own dev version (which I believe was using blender 2.78 as it's base?)"
https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-pr...