{"id":348501,"date":"2026-03-16T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348501\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:33:07","slug":"golden-from-kpop-demon-hunters-wins-at-oscars-speech-interrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348501\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Golden’ From ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Wins at Oscars, Speech Interrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d from KPop Demon Hunters took home the prize for best original song at Sunday\u2019s (March 15) 2026 Oscars<\/a> following a triumphant performance from the singing voices of HUNTR\/X, but EJAE and company\u2019s heartfelt speech ended up being cut short when one of her collaborators was prematurely played off.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy winning best original song at the 98th Oscars<\/a>, \u201cGolden\u201d set several records, becoming the first K-pop song to win an Oscar; the first song with more than four writers to win an Oscar; and the first best song winner where all of the writers won\u2019t receive an individual trophy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d has seven credited writers \u2013 EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu-Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park. Previously, no song with more than four writers had won in this category.<\/p>\n

\n\tEJAE \u2014 who is also one of three singing voices of the film\u2019s central girl group HUNTR\/X, alongside AUDREY NUNA and REI AMI \u2014 spoke first for the group of songwriters on Sunday night, emphasizing the song\u2019s message of \u201cresilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThank you so much to the Academy for this insane award,\u201d EJAE began. \u201cGrowing up, people made fun of me for liking K-pop, but now everyone\u2019s singing our song and all the Korean lyrics. I\u2019m so proud. And I realized, the song, this award is not about success; it\u2019s about resilience. And I\u2019m just so grateful to our team, and just want to thank my mom, my dad, my brother, my fiance, my manager, of course, for always staying with me. And I also want to thank, of course, the resilient cast of KPop Demon Hunters. Thank you so much to [directors] Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans and our producer, Michelle Wang. Thank you so much for the film. Thank you to Netflix. Thank you Sony Animation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEJAE wrapped her speech by naming many of the collaborators onstage behind her, but when one of her co-writers \u2014 Yu-Han Lee, also known as Yuhan \u2014 jumped in to add his thank-you\u2019s, the music loudly kicked in and drowned out what he was saying, as the Oscars abruptly went to commercial break.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Motion Picture Academy has a strict rule that it will award no more than four statuettes in this category. If a song has five or more co-writers, as is the case with \u201cGolden,\u201d the writers must sign an agreement that, should they win, they will share one statuette. They will all forever be known as Oscar winners; they just won\u2019t each have a shiny trophy to show for it.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the rule, verbatim, from the rulebook for the 98th Oscars<\/a>. \u201cNo more than two statuettes will normally be given in the Original Song category. A third statuette may be awarded when there are three essentially equal writers of a song. The Music Branch Executive Committee has the right, in what it alone determines to be a very rare and extraordinary circumstance, to award a fourth statuette. In cases where five or more credited songwriters function as collaborators, a single statuette may be awarded to the group. Each songwriter must agree to the single \u201cgroup statuette\u201d option by signing and returning a Group Award form prior to the submission deadline. Final determination of the awardable songwriters in the group will be made by the Music Branch Executive Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d had already made K-pop awards<\/a> show history. On Feb. 1, it became the first K-pop song to win a Grammy when it won best song written for visual media. \u201cGolden\u201d also won best original song at the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s other Oscar nominees for best original song were: \u201cDear Me\u201d from Diane Warren: Relentless; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren; \u201cI Lied to You\u201d from Sinners; Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson; \u201cSweet Dreams of Joy\u201d from Viva Verdi!; Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike and \u201cTrain Dreams\u201d from Train Dreams; Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to original song, KPop Demon Hunters also won the Oscar for best animated feature film on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are two other Oscar records \u201cGolden\u201d set:<\/p>\n

\n\tLongest-running No. 1 hit to win an Oscar for best original song in more than 20 years<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGolden\u201d is only the third song that spent eight or more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 to win an Oscar. The first two were \u201cYou Light Up My Life\u201d from the film of the same name (Debby Boone\u2019s cover version spent 10 weeks on top in 1977) and \u201cLose Yourself\u201d from 8 Mile (Eminem\u2019s original version spent 12 weeks on top in 2002-03).<\/p>\n

\n\tMoreover, \u201cGolden\u201d is the first song that had already hit No. 1 to win an Oscar since \u201cLose Yourself.\u201d Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper\u2019s \u201cShallow\u201d had climbed as high as No. 5 before the Oscar telecast in 2019. It zoomed to No. 1 (for one week) after it won and after the two stars memorably performed the song on the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tSix of the seven writers are the first South Koreans to win in this category<\/p>\n

\n\tEJAE, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park were all born in South Korea. (The other co-writer, Mark Sonnenblick, was born in the U.S.) Karen O, who was born in South Korea, was nominated 12 years ago for co-writing \u201cThe Moon Song\u201d from Her, but the award went to \u201cLet It Go\u201d from Frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGolden\u201d from KPop Demon Hunters took home the prize for best original song at Sunday\u2019s (March 15) 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6971,93,4608,61,60,278,633,2625,4609],"class_list":["post-348501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-kpop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-oscars","tag-tv-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}