K-Pop Demon Hunters Completes Award Season Run By Winning Oscars for Best Animated Film and Song
I would have been surprised if K-Pop Demon Hunters did not win these categories because no other movie has had the cultural impact as this movie and its music has had over the past year:
Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” capped its awards run Sunday (U.S. time) by taking Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.
The sensational hit clinched a victory in Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song with “Golden” from its original soundtrack during the 98th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
The dual Oscar wins follow earlier successes at the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards in January, where the animated film swept the same categories. Last month, “Golden” also made history at the Grammy Awards as the first work in the K-pop genre to win Best Song Written for Visual Media.
As the movie’s theme song “Golden” played, co-director Maggie Kang took the stage to accept the Best Animated Feature award in a red dress, alongside co-director Chris Appelhans and producer Michelle L.M. Wong, her voice breaking with emotion.
“For those of you who look like me, I’m so sorry that it took us so long to see us in a movie like this,” said Kang, a Korean Canadian filmmaker. “But it is here, and that means that the next generation don’t have to go longing. This is for Korea and for Koreans everywhere.”
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