ATLANTA — Everyone's favorite neighborhood webslinger is now an Oscar winner - "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" has won the best animated feature Academy Award.
It is the first animated Marvel superhero film to win an Oscar.
The ground-breaking and mind-bending film about multiple spider-heroes from multiple universes gives Sony Pictures its first Oscar for animated feature, a category that has been dominated by Disney for its 18-year existence.
Lithonia's Shameik Moore's starred as the lead character in the film.
In the "classic Spider-Man mold", Miles Morales must juggle his high school life with his status as a superhero, as he is introduced to the "SPIDER-VERSE" where there can be more than just one Spider-Man. It's an absolutely gorgeous film, infuses a visual style that takes full advantage of colorful imagery that reflects Miles's fondness for graffiti and comic books.
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The film showcases diversity not just through the actors, but highlights the life and culture of an Afro-Latino kid from Brooklyn and reflects positive imagery of a super hero of color.
Although Miles Morales is a fictional character he represents the Afro-Latino community and all things fly from both cultures - from stomping through the BK in his A1’s (Nike's Air Force 1's), to tagging the A train while listening to some dope tracks, perhaps by Post Malone’ Post Malone’s, Swae Lee - Sunflower ("Sunflower" is the first single from the official soundtrack album Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse).
The unique film, delivers some new versions of the favorite webslinger that haven't been seen before.
Thanks to director Peter Ramsey, you can cross off the list the “first African-American to direct an animated film” - in 2012 he directed the blockbuster hit, Rise of the Guardians, grossing more than $90 million. As an African-American kid from the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles, it could have easily been a dream deferred. Instead he spreads his visual wings and brings his upbringing and culture to big screen, where kids from all backgrounds have an opportunity to see themselves on screen as a superhero.
The film stars Moore, as Morales, alongside Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry and Liev Schreiber.
FUN FACT: The character was affectionately created in 2011 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, with Bendis and Marvel then-editor-in-chief Axel Alonso, drawing inspiration from then U.S. President Barack Obama and American actor/rapper Donald Glover.