Spider-Noir earned 11 Emmy nominations this year, the most for any Prime Video show. But that didn’t stop the studio from canceling it one day before the start of Creative Arts Emmys weekend.
The superhero series was created in a deal between Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, and starred Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly, a grizzled version of Spider-Man. Prime Video and MGM+ offered fans the choice to watch it in either black-and-white or full color, a television first.
Spider-Noir was a critical hit for its first (and only) season, earning a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 72 on Metacritic. Fans also seemed to love it, as its RT “Popcornmeter” score was 90% and it acquired 2.6 billion viewing minutes.
Its 11 Emmy nominations are in the following categories:
- Best Cinematography
- Best Music Composition
- Best Music & Lyrics (“The Devil You Know”)
- Best Production Design
- Best Prosthetic Makeup
- Best Sound Editing
- Best Sound Mixing
- Best Stunt Coordination
- Best Stunt Performance
- Best Title Design
- Best Visual Effects
Showrunner Oren Uziel told Gold Derby earlier this year, “When Nic and I first started talking, we were feeling each other out in terms of our cinematic references. Both us realized that we had a deep love of film noir in addition to our love of Spider-Man. There wasn’t a reference I could make that he wouldn’t immediately understand.”
At the same time Spider-Noir was canceled, the feature film Spider-Man: Brand New Day, starring Tom Holland as Spidey, was inching closer to earning $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office.
Spider-Noir now joins several other Emmy-nominated show this year that have been canceled, including Wonder Man, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Palm Royale, Gen V, Poker Face, and Ponies.
In recent years, programs like Étoile, The Idol, Lovecraft Country, and Pushing Daisies all won Emmys, with Courtney B. Vance and Kristin Chenoweth taking home acting prizes for their respective performances in Lovecraft and Daisies.
Notably, Spider-Noir‘s cancelation was well after Emmy voting took place, so it won’t have any effect on which envelopes are opened this weekend. The Creative Arts ceremonies will be held Sept. 5–6 at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles.
