{"id":221447,"date":"2026-03-16T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221447\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:28:09","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-struck-gold-winning-animated-feature-at-2026-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221447\/","title":{"rendered":"‘KPop Demon Hunters’ struck gold, winning animated feature at 2026 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d <\/a>struck gold \u2014 again.<\/p>\n

The movie took home an Oscar for animated feature at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday. The movie\u2019s smash hit, \u201cGolden,\u201d is up for original song later in the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those of you who look like me, I\u2019m so sorry that it took so long to see us in a movie like this, but it is here. That means the next generations don\u2019t have to go longing,\u201d said Maggie Kang, the film\u2019s co-writer and co-director. \u201cThis is for Korea and Koreans everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, who provide the singing voices in the film, were in tears in the audience as the award was announced. They will take the stage Sunday to perform \u201cGolden,\u201d one of only two live performances from the original song category. The performance will incorporate traditional Korean instrumentalists and dance.<\/p>\n

The movie is not new to breaking records. After premiering on Netflix in June, it became the streaming giant\u2019s most watched movie<\/a>, with more than 480 million views as of January.<\/p>\n

The Oscar win caps off a successful awards season for the movie. \u201cGolden\u201d became the first K-pop song to take home a Grammy<\/a>, winning for song written for visual media. It also snagged a Golden Globe for original song and the movie won for animated motion picture. The film also earned a Producers Guild Award<\/a> for outstanding animated theatrical motion picture.<\/p>\n

The movie, which follows fictional girl group Huntr\/x as it battles evil with its punchy K-pop beats, became a cultural phenomenon, dominating streaming charts. \u201cGolden\u201d topped the Billboard Hot 100 for more than eight consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n

The Huntr\/x singing trio performed the breakout hit, \u201cGolden,\u201d for the first time<\/a> on TV on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d in October. Ami previously told The Times<\/a> that performing at the Oscars or Grammys is \u201cprobably one of the highest accolades and achievements you can accomplish as an artist, songwriter and producer. Those are all things we have on our bucket list.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d struck gold \u2014 again. The movie took home an Oscar for animated feature at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[101215,1472,5592,1924,17650,14675,101212,77336,48,52,51,23377,47,50,49,48442,4287,48465,48049,101213,101214],"class_list":["post-221447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-co-writer","tag-dance","tag-feature","tag-film","tag-gold","tag-golden","tag-good-original-song","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-live-performance","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-motion-picture","tag-movie","tag-oscar","tag-oscars","tag-rei-ami","tag-traditional-korean-instrumentalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}