Spider-Noir won five Creative Arts Emmys a week after Prime Video cancelled it

Talk about mixed signals. Spider-Noir, Amazon Prime Video's 1930s superhero series with Nicolas Cage in his first TV lead, has managed to rack up five Emmy wins—barely a week after the streaming service gave it the boot. If you're wondering how a show can be both the pride of an awards night and deemed disposable by its own network, you're not alone.

Spider-Noir scored more Creative Arts Emmy awards this year than any other Prime Video series.

Emmys After the Axe

The irony was impossible to ignore on the night: Spider-Noir bagged a hefty set of trophies for its work—stunt coordination (comedy), sound editing (hour-long comedy/drama), opening title design, special visual effects for a single episode, and series cinematography. That's a fairly big haul for a superhero noir riff that's just had its life cut short.

Backstage, the show's own supervising stunt coordinator Freddy Bouciegues and fellow coordinator Hugh Aodh O'Brien were asked about the elephant in the room: What does it feel like to celebrate a canceled show, and is there any hope for a reversal? Bouciegues kept things light:

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Asked if he wanted Prime Video to reconsider 'Spider-Noir', Bouciegues cracked, 'Tell me who to call, I'll ask them.'

For context, Spider-Noir cast Cage as Ben Reilly—a hard-up PI haunted by his past, operating as New York's lone superhero in a moody, jazz-soaked 1930s setting. This was supposed to launch a whole Marvel-sourced corner for Sony and Amazon (remember, these are "Sony Marvel" characters, not Disney/MCU-verse). Big budget, big talent, and a clear plan for more seasons—at least on paper.

Fans Left Fuming

If Amazon and MGM+ expected the cancellation to go quietly, they misjudged the mood. Spider-Noir fans have camped out on X (the hellsite formerly known as Twitter) making their anger extremely public. Common threads: the show's ratings were apparently solid, plenty were up for a second round, and yet the rug got pulled. Sample comments: one user called it 'a massive budget but it was pulling in viewers and there was tons of demand for a 2nd Season.' Another bluntly called the decision 'an absolute mistake.' Yet another frustrated user posted a meme about how 'shows that are good and get high praise: canceled.'

• Multiple fans lumped Spider-Noir in with other Marvel casualties on streaming, bemoaning that 'wonder man, blade and now spider noir' were all axed in short order.
• Others insisted it was 'one of Amazon's best' and called scrapping it 'canceling one of the best comic book shows after just one season.'

The upshot: a Marvel series gets a stack of Emmys just days after its own studio mothballs it, and even the Emmy winners themselves seem unsure how to react. Mixed messages, indeed.

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