Jan 15, 2024

Animated Feature Race Shrinks as "Spider-Verse" Tops Critics' Choice Awards

Sony Pictures Animation's "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" and Studio Ghibli's "A Boy and His Hare" continue to go toe-to-toe in the battle for feature animation supremacy.

"Across the Spider-Verse," directed by the trio of Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, won the best animated feature award at Sunday night's ceremony, and was joined by Gilbrie's "The Boy and the Heron," Pixar's Elemental, Netflix and Annapurna's Nimona, Paramount and Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Disney's Mutant Mayhem, and Disney's Wish: Mutant Mayhem.

Daniel Pemberton, composer of "Spiderverse," was nominated for best score, but the award went to Ludwig Göransson for "Oppenheimer."

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, an animated adaptation of Science Monkeys, was nominated for best score by Rude Studios' Bluey, 20th Television Animation's Bob's Burgers, Warner Bros. Animation's Harley Quinn," CBS's "Star Trek: Lower Decks," and Sony Pictures Animation's "Young Love" to win the Critics' Award for Best Animated Series of the Year. Scott Pilgrim is based on the graphic novel by Brian Lee O'Malley, who, along with Ben David Grabinski, wrote the script for the series.

Oppenheimer won the Visual Effects Award at the awards ceremony for Invisible VFX (a style often used in period and adult dramas to enhance the believability of the setting while not drawing attention to the VFX) DNEG was responsible for the film's VFX, and Christopher This was his eighth work with director Christopher Nolan.

Other nominees included the song "Peach" from "Super Mario Brothers Movie" and "This Wish," but Barbie's "I'm Just Ken" won.

Best Animated Feature

Best Animated Series

Best Visual Effects

Best Song

Best Score [21]