Annie Awards 2024: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Wins Best Film, Dominates List

annie awards 2024: spider-man: across the spider-verse wins best film, dominates list

At UCLA’s Royce Hall, the 51st Annie Awards witnessed the triumph of Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, securing Best Feature and six additional awards. With a total of seven wins, mirroring its predecessor Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, it emerges as a frontrunner for the upcoming Animated Feature Oscar.

A Legacy of Success

Since the inception of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2002, 14 out of 21 Annie Awards’ top feature winners, and seven out of the past 11, have gone on to claim the coveted Academy Award. Last year, Netflix’s Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro followed this trend, triumphing at both award shows.

Spider-Man’s Sweep

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse clinched victories in Directing, Music, Production Design, Character Design, FX, and Editing categories, solidifying its dominance at the Annies.

Other Film Winners

Gkids’ The Boy and the Heron and Netflix’s Nimona also secured two awards each. Robot Dreams from Arcadia Motion Pictures won Best Feature – Independent. These films, alongside Disney/Pixar’s Elemental, will compete for the Academy Award next month.

Notable Absences and Surprises

This year marked the absence of Disney and Pixar films from the top prize category at the Annies. Notably, Elemental went home empty-handed, along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and Toho’s anime Suzume, which were also nominated for Best Feature.

TV Category Highlights

Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai dominated the TV categories, securing six wins, including Writing, Editing, FX, Character Design, Production Design, and Best TV/Media for Mature Audiences. Disney Television Animation’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Visions were the only other titles to win multiple prizes in the small-screen categories.

Check out the full winners list:

• BEST FEATURE: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• BEST FEATURE – INDEPENDENT: Robot Dreams
• BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA: Paul Young for Star Wars: Visions
• BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE: Hayao Miyazaki for The Boy and the Heron
• BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA: Ben Juwono for Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
• BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES: Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire
• BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE: Blue Eye Samurai
• BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN: Hilda
• BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL: Ghee Happy
• BEST WRITING – FEATURE: Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor for Nimona
• BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA: Amber Noizumi for Blue Eye Samurai
• BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE: Chloë Grace Moretz (character: Nimona)
• BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA: Diamond White (character: Lunella Lafayette / Moon Girl)
• BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Editorial Team
• BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA: Yuka Shirasuna for Blue Eye Samurai
• BEST FX – FEATURE: Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari, Naoki Kato, Nicola Finizio, Edmond Boulet- Gilly for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• BEST FX – TV/MEDIA: Thomas Decaens, Karl Burtin, Laurent Bretonniere for Blue Eye Samurai
• BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE: Takeshi Honda (The Boy and the Heron)
• BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA: Alex Bard (Blue Eye Samurai)
• BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION: Fernando Herrera, Chris Hurtt, Nathan McConnel, Daniel Cabral, Chris McGaw (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3)
• BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME: Insomniac Games Animation Team (Marvel’s Spider-Man 2)
• BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE: Jesús Alonso Iglesias for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA: Jose Lopez for Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
• BEST MUSIC – FEATURE: Daniel Pemberton, Metro Boomin for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA: Markus Wormstorm, Nadia Darries, Dineo du Toit for Star Wars: Visions
• BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION: Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie
• BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE: Patrick O’Keefe, Dean Gordon for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA: Toby Wilson, James Wilson, Emil Mitev for Blue Eye Samurai
• BEST SHORT SUBJECT: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
• BEST STUDENT FILM: The Little Poet