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• Animation is not a genre.
• As one of the most acclaimed modern auteurs – and one who has announced his intention to stick with animation as his preferred medium – his acceptance speech reads like a plea directly to the academy.

Animated films at the Oscars

• By including animated films as a standalone category, the Oscars ended up segregating them: animation was treated as its own thing.
• Beauty and the Beast broke ground as the first-ever animated nominee for the Best Picture Oscar in 1992, but only two films have achieved such a feat since.
• If animated films have had difficulty breaking into the Oscars’ vision of a Best Picture, then voice talent has been outright bypassed for consideration in acting categories.
• Yet without the physical body to observe, the Oscars have ignored voice work in animated films.

Are things changing?

• This then hopefully attracts more audience eyeballs to an Oscars telecast where they are likely to have actually seen some of the nominees.
• Thematically, it reflects on the artistic value of the superhero genre, unpacking the Spider-Man lore across its many iterations.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the kind of popular cinema that the academy is currently primed to take more seriously.
• But it is still well-positioned to break through the confines of the Best Animated Feature category.

• Now, its sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” features two Latino Spider-Men in starring roles.
• Irish-Latino Spider-Man Miguel O’Hara of “Spider-Man 2099,” voiced by Oscar Isaac, is jumping into the fray.

Breaking the mold

• His powers came from a magical amulet that bestowed him with speed and martial arts expertise.
• Later iterations of White Tiger included his niece Angela del Toro and his sister, Ava Ayala.
• The first Marvel Latina superhero, also co-created by Mantlo, was Firebird – real name, Bonita Juárez – who first appeared in 1981.

Spider-Man’s web extends into Latin America

• In Latin America, Spider-Man has been a popular character since the hero first appeared in his own series, “Amazing Spider-Man,” in 1963.
• In Mexico, Spider-Man quickly became more popular than any other Marvel character, save for his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy.
• Or maybe Latin Americans love his luchador-esque costume – Peter Parker did, after all, debut his Spider-Man title and threads as a professional wrestler.

An Irish-Latino swings into the Spider-Verse

• So it was a big deal when Miguel O'Hara took on the mantle of Spider-Man in his own series, which ran for four years.
• Miguel O'Hara is the future Spider-Man of Earth-616 in the year 2099, a post-apocalyptic future run by greedy corporations.
• When O’Hara first appeared in 1992 as the main star of the “2099” series, fans embraced him, with little controversy.
• And perhaps O'Hara’s light skin made it easy for readers to forget that he was Latino in the first place.

Recasting Spider-Man as an Afro-Latino

• When Morales came on the scene, he wasn’t merely a carbon copy of Peter Parker, though.
• He was raised by his African American father – an ex-con who had turned his life around – and Puerto Rican mother in Brooklyn.
• How Morales’ race and ethnicity would play into the stories has been a point of contention.
• In December 2022, Cody Ziglar, a Black comic writer, took over as the head writer of Morales’ story.
• As Frank, the comics scholar, notes, these differences can lead to feelings of alienation.