All three of them elevate every project they take on, and they are certainly raising our game.

Kemp’s work is incisive and ambitious and funny - with a writer’s wisdom and a director’s heart - he just knows what matters in every scene.

Justin is a maverick filmmaker who relentlessly pursues visual innovation and surprise but always in support of the emotional storytelling. “We are huge fans of Joaquim’s work - he makes his characters so heartfelt and unique, and he can tell an emotional story with an action sequence the way a musical does through a song. “We are so lucky to have Joaquim, Justin and Kemp on the ‘Spider-Verse’ team,” Lord and Miller said in a statement. It was Sony’s first movie to win the Oscar for best animated feature, and many consider it to be the best Spider-Man movie ever made. To achieve an aesthetic that evoked a comic book come to life, Sony Animation effectively re-engineered its computer animation systems, and the film’s box office success - earning $373.5 million worldwide - proved that animated films aimed at adult audiences could be major hits. It was the first Spider-Man movie to focus on the story of Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), whose parents are Black and Latino, rather than Peter Parker (Jake Johnson). The first “Spider-Verse” - directed by Bob Persichetti, Ramsey and Rodney Rothman from a script by Lord and Rothman - was a groundbreaking film in multiple dimensions. Powers also wrote on the first season for the CBS All Access series “Star Trek: Discovery.” “Soul” has already won Producers Guild, Golden Globe, Annie, Critics’ Choice and NAACP Image awards for best animated feature. He’s also the co-director of Pixar Animation Studios’ current Oscar nominated feature “Soul,” making Powers the first Black filmmaker to reach director or co-director status at Pixar. Powers is currently nominated for the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the civil rights drama “One Night in Miami,” which Powers adapted from his play by the same name. Dos Santos’ previous credits include Nickelodeon’s “The Legend of Korra” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” DreamWorks Animation’s “Voltron: Legendary Defender,” Warner Bros.’ “Justice League Unlimited” and “Teen Titans.” Thompson’s work as the production designer for the first “Spider-Verse” film won an Annie Award, and he was also the production designer on Sony Animation’s “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.” Dos Santos and Thompson are both Sony Pictures Animation veterans making their featuring directing debuts with the “Spider-Verse” sequel.

Into the spider verse