In one of the most unexpected twists of awards season, Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has emerged as the year’s most-honored animated feature in the first round of critics’ awards.
The film’s status as Oscar frontrunner for Best Animated Feature was confirmed over the weekend when four different critics organizations — Chicago Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online, and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle — named it as their best animated film of the year. The awards capped off a stellar week for the film in which it was also nominated for a Golden Globe and seven Annie Awards, the latter being tied for the most Annie nominations of any non-Disney production.
Cartoon Brew is tracking every year-end animation honor via our Animation Award Tracker, and Spider-Man has now picked up more honors (7) than the next two films combined — Brad Bird’s Incredibles 2 and Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, each of which have come up with three honors.