The Oscars are fairly famous for cutting off speeches when they go too long and that happened tonight – for a historic win.
The musicians and songwriters behind Golden in the hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters won big for best original song – the first time a K-pop song was honoured by the Academy.
But during their speech, they were cut off, so backstage, they got to share more of their thoughts you didn’t hear on TV, including thanking their families, singers Audry Nuna and Rei Ami, IDO members and Teddy Park for this “incredible honour”.
Golden songwriter Mark Sonnenblick, who didn’t get to speak at all during the ceremony, happily took the microphone and thanked his husband and everybody who worked on the movie, especially the animators.
“It was a real collaboration across the board. It’s a movie where part of the movie is about looking at someone that you have been taught to hate and to fear and starting to trust them, maybe even love them. And that’s part of what the movie is about.
He adds: “It’s not ‘I’m going up up up.’ It’s, ‘we’re going up up up. And that’s part of the reason that we’re on stage right now.”
Also backstage, film-maker director Maggie Kang doubled down on her remarks during her acceptance speech at the ceremony, saying she’s “just so proud of Korean film and movies about Korea”.
“It just feels like we have both trophies, and I just feel immensely proud. And really, to be honest, I didn’t want to disappoint Korea.”