You win some, you lose some. Christopher Miller, the writer of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is taking his loss in stride after his movie was not selected in the Animated Feature Film category at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10.
On X (formerly known as Twitter), Miller shared his reaction to Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron winning an Oscar for Animated Feature Film over the Spider-Man sequel.
“Well, if you’re gonna lose, might as well lose to the GOAT,” Miller wrote on the social media site. Other nominated movies in that category included Pixar’s Elemental, Nimona, and Robot Dreams.
The GOAT, short for greatest of all time that Miller is referencing is Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, who picked up his second Oscar after previously winning with Spirited Away.
Miyazaki also has a plethora of other awards as the director of animated classics like Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, and Castle in the Sky. He’s arguably one of the most celebrated storytellers ever in animation movie history.
Miller has been a winner at the Oscars previously. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won the animated film category at the 91st Academy Awards in 2019, beating Incredibles 2, among others. For more, check out GameSpot’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse review and all of the 2024 Oscar winners.
