This award season, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse keeps winning big. Sony’s highly anticipated animated follow-up is said to have taken home seven trophies at the 51st Annie trophies, including Best Feature, where it defeated Nimona, The Boy and the Heron, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. The film received the highest number of awards of any nominated picture this year for its other features category honours, which included Best FX, Best Character Design, Best Direction, Best Music, Best Production Design, and Best Editorial. Nimona and the previously mentioned The Boy and the Heron tied for second place in the movie category with two prizes apiece, while Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai won six awards in total, including Best Writing and Best FX. Aside from the Annie Awards, Across the Spider-Verse recently won awards from several other organisations, including the African-American Film Critics Association, Saturn Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Critics’ Choice Awards. It is presently competing against Robot Dreams and Pixar’s Elemental, as well as Nimona and The Boy and the Heron, for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a title that Across the Spider-Verse’s predecessor, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, won in 2019. Though Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer biography is still the most nominated picture in thirteen categories, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, another Marvel film, was also nominated for Best Visual Effects.
Even though Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was well praised, its three directors—Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson—spoke recently about how Hollywood should respect animators and their films in the same manner that it does live-action blockbusters. Thompson said, “This includes allowing animators to become members of Hollywood’s several guilds, as it should have been from the start. It’s not, for a variety of intricate reasons, but eventually the WGA, DGA, and studios have to concede that. Furthermore, by not having WGA and DGA representation, they are putting up a barrier to entry for filmmakers who would want to work in this genre but won’t.” The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of last year originally delayed the development of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third Spider-Verse movie. However, Dos Santos stated last month that “We’re in production, we’re working on it, and we’ll see what happens.” It is progressing. Through the use of the movie’s multiverse portal technology, Peter Parker or Miles Morales met Delilah, a lady based on a cut villain from Across the Spider-Verse, as part of a vague tie-in spider-bot collecting side objective in Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. In addition, Yuri Lowenthal made a brief appearance as Spider-Man from Insomniac in the Spider-Society segment in Across the Spider-Verse.
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