Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
CAS Awards: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘The Bear’ Among Winners
The Cinema Audio Society Awards took place on Saturday, honoring Oppenheimer, The Last of Us and The Bear with winning trophies this year. The sound mixing team behind Oppenheimer took home the award in the live-action competition, beating the teams behind Barbie, Ferrari, Killers of the Flower Moon and Maestro. Cinema Audio Society, which honors outstanding sound mixing in […]
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‘The Creator’ Tops Winners at 2024 Visual Effects Society Awards
The Creator won big at the 22nd annual Visual Effects Society Awards Wednesday night. The awards were handed out during a ceremony, hosted by actor-comedian Jay Pharoah, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The Creator took home five awards in the feature competition, including outstanding visual effects in a photoreal feature. The Last of […]
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“Our Hope Is That We Break as Much New Ground as We Did on the Last One”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’
The Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse brain trust pulled off a next-to-impossible feat. Writer-producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller had the unenviable task of following up 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, their Oscar-winning film that redefined the animated medium and well-trodden superhero genre. But against all odds, the longtime creative partners managed to shepherd a middle […]
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Among Advanced Imaging Society Award Winners
Cillian Murphy saluted the “unsung heroes” — the artists, engineers and craftspeople — who make Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Friday at the Advanced Imaging Society’s 14th Lumiere Awards. Murphy, who stars in the titular role of the Universal film, accepted the Lumiere for best live-action feature for the movie, on behalf of Nolan, Emma Thomas and […]
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‘Oppenheimer’ Leads Feature Noms of MPSE Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads the theatrical feature competition of the 71st Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, with a trio of nominations in the categories for effects/foley, dialogue/ADR and music. Close behind with two apiece are Barbie (dialogue/ADR and music), Maestro (dialogue/ADR and music), Napoleon (effects/Foley and dialogue/ADR) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (animation […]
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‘The Creator’ Leads Visual Effects Society Feature Competition With 7 Nominations
Gareth Edward’s futuristic sci-fi movieThe Creator, with visual effects work primarily completed at Industrial Light and Magic, leads the 22nd Visual Effects Society Awards feature competition with seven nominations. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, with work shared by roughly 10 VFX companies including Framestore, Weta FX and Crafty Apes, follows with six noms. […]
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‘Godzilla Minus One’ to ‘They Cloned Tyrone’: Heat Vision’s Top 10 Movies of 2023
The year began, as they usually do, with so much promise. This was, after all, supposed to be the year that DC came roaring back, with Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the long-awaited The Flash, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Marvel had its own big slate. We were to be in a […]
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Where to Stream Golden Globes-Nominated Animated Film ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Online
The latest film in the 'Spider-Man' animated saga has earned a nod for best animated motion picture and other awards.
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Will the Best Picture Race Have Two Animation Contenders?
In 2002, the Academy Awards first honored animated features with their own Oscar category — the inaugural winner was DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek. Before then, the stance on rewarding animated features was that there were too few to warrant a separate category; honorary Oscars were given to groundbreaking films like the animated/live-action hybrid Who Framed Roger […]
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‘Birds of Prey,’ ‘Transformers,’ ‘I Am Stan’ and More: Heat Vision’s Best Comics of 2023
After a brief explosion during the pandemic, the comics industry is undergoing an existential crisis. It faces tumultuous sales at local comic shops, and the creative malaise audiences felt this year in the superhero movie genre is well-reflected on the publishing side of Marvel and DC, the industry’s two biggest publishers. To say that most […]
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Oscars: ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Earns Rare VFX Shortlist Spot for an Animated Feature
Ten films representing a broad range of visual effects work made the VFX category shortlist for the 96th Academy Awards, among them Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, a rare animated feature selection. Also advancing in the VFX Oscar race are The Creator, Godzilla Minus One, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial […]
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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Creative Team to Receive Award from Denver Film Festival
The creative team from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will soon be swinging into Colorado to accept an inaugural award at the Denver Film Festival. The fest today announced a more complete lineup of events, screenings, honorees, special guests, podcasts and more for this year’s installment, scheduled for Nov. 3-12. Plucked to receive the inaugural Denver […]
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