Oscars 2024: Shameik Moore—While the 96th Academy Award celebrated the victory of cinematic gems, the rest who were beaten out by the triumphant ones had a hard time digesting the fact. Something similar happened with Shameik Moore, who voiced Miles Morales in “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse.” The film was nominated in the Best Animated Feature Film category at the Oscars. Despite deserving the award, it didn’t win against Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy & The Heron.” Looking at the film bagging the Oscar trophy, Moore got fueled up and voiced his displeasure with the results.
Shameik Moore couldn’t keep calm after losing against Hayao Miyazaki’s film at the Oscars
Being nominated for Oscars is a great deal in itself, but the actual race is always for the trophy. This year, the biggest award night witnessed the victory of the best. Among the winners was Japanese filmmaker and animator Hayao Miyazaki, who won the Oscar for “The Boy & The Heron” in the Best Animated Feature Film category. Chosen by the Academy voters, the audience celebrated Miyazaki’s win. However, one of the actors from a rival nominated film wasn’t thrilled about the win.
Actor Shameik Moore, who brought to life the titular character Miles Morales in “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse,” felt disappointed by the loss. To express his dismay, he took to social media and posted “robbed” on Twitter, followed by a more detailed response.
“Respect to the winners. It’s true, I’m definitely a sore loser, but we didn’t lose, ‘Spider-Verse’ has impacted A LOT of lives, we may not have been acknowledged tonight but life goes on, and BEYOND…yeah, get ready.”
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While sportsmanship is necessary, an individual’s natural emotions, such as frustrations over loss, can’t be denied.
Moore’s sour reaction can be understood as most awards pundits expected “Spider-Verse” to win the prize. Moreover, the prequel to the film “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” had previously won an award in 2019. So, the award expectations for the sequel obviously got elevated. Hence, it is justified to feel agitated by the loss after having high hopes.
While Moore showed discontent with the Academy results, producer and co-writer of Spider-Verse 2 Christopher Miller congratulated Miyazaki on his win. He posted on his X (formerly Twitter), “Well, if you’re gonna lose, might as well lose to the GOAT.” He referred to Miyazaki as the “greatest of all time.”
Miyazaki’s victory isn’t the first time that the Japanese filmmaker has received an Oscar trophy. He previously won the award for “Spirited Away” in 2003, along with nominations for “Howl’s Moving Castle” and “The Wind Rises.”
