Golden Globes 2019: 8 Ups & 7 Downs

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8. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Beats Incredibles 2

Golden Globes 2019 Phil Lord Chris Miller
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Though Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was by far the best-reviewed animated film of 2018, it was reasonable to expect the Globes to skew more conventional and give the Best Animated Film award to Incredibles 2, because Pixar.

In a pleasant surprise, the HFPA were apparently as bowled over by its ground-breaking animation and gleefully creative narrative as everybody else, awarding it the gong over its more straight-laced superhero rival.

Naturally this has renewed discussion over whether or not Into the Spider-Verse could win over the Academy's far larger voting contingent, which has outright snubbed boundary-pushing animated films in the past (The Lego Movie, anyone?).

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