{"id":221053,"date":"2026-01-05T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/221053\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:01:08","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-wins-two-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/221053\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 Wins Two Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kpop-demon-hunters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kpop-demon-hunters_1\" data-tag=\"kpop-demon-hunters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> kicked off 2026 just as \u201cGolden\u201d as 2025 was for the film, nabbing two wins at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lists\/critics-choice-awards-2026-winners-list-full\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 2026 Critics Choice Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film from Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation took home the award for best song and best animated feature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEJAE, the singing voice for main character Rumi and a songwriter on several of the film\u2019s songs, and her co-writer on \u201cGolden\u201d Mark Sonnenblick accepted the best original song award. Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami \u2014 the other singing voices of KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 fictional K-pop girl group, Huntrix \u2014 joined the pair on stage. Directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans brought the voice and singing cast out to accept the animated feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_awards_1\" data-tag=\"awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">awards<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWhen writing this song, I found myself living vicariously through my character Rumi. Her life and journey in the movie felt deeply familiar to me,\u201d EJAE told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/gallery\/critics-choice-awards-stars-arrivals-looks-red-carpet-photos-1236463745\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the crowd<\/a> when accepting best song. \u201cThe song needed to be an expression of hope to convince herself that she could write and reach for her dreams. In many ways, it did the same for me, but most importantly for it to be giving hope so many people around the world is truly the greatest honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKPop Demon Hunters has become Netflix\u2019s most popular title ever. The project chronicles the adventures of Huntrix, a K-pop girl group made up of three members who also just happen to fight monsters from the underworld. In addition to topping the Netflix charts, its soundtrack spent several weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart. \u201cGolden\u201d also hit No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter\u00a0first broke the news in August that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/kpop-demon-hunters-sony-netflix-sequel-talks-1236353972\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sequel film is in talks<\/a>\u00a0at Netflix and Sony Animation, and it was <a data-id=\"1236419342\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/kpop-demon-hunters-2-deals-finalized-release-1236419342\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">later confirmed<\/a> that the directors and studio had confirmed their deals with the streamer for the next installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters kicked off 2026 just as \u201cGolden\u201d as 2025 was for the film, nabbing two wins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1096,111351,120980,100196,146,85,46,1729,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-221053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-critics-choice","10":"tag-critics-choice-2026","11":"tag-critics-choice-awards","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","16":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}