‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Your Greatest Animated Function Oscar Winner

All awards season, one animated movie dominated all of them. Others have come. Others have tried. However, in the long run, KPop Demon Hunters was all the time going to rule supreme. And it accomplished that run Sunday evening with the Oscar for Greatest Animated Function.

Netflix’s most popular movie of all time beat a stellar listing of competitors to take the award, together with Disney’s Zootopia 2, Pixar’s Elio, Neon’s Arco, and France’s Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. All of that are incredible, however there was no stopping the cultural juggernaut that was KPop Demon Hunters. Particularly because it had already received the equal award on the Golden Globes, the Critics’ Selection Awards, the Annie Awards, and extra. Based on Wikipedia, the movie received 130 of its 187 nominations throughout all award our bodies even earlier than Sunday’s Oscars.

However a few of that additionally included the music “Golden,” which was itself an enormous hit and is anticipated to win the Oscar for Greatest Authentic Tune as nicely. The award hasn’t occurred but, however when it does, we’ll replace this publish with the ultimate outcome.

Few movies, animated or not, have had the sort of yr KPop Demon Hunters had. After a rather quiet debut on Netflix, the movie slowly however steadily constructed up its viewers, culminating in it taking excessive spot because the streamer’s hottest film ever. In truth, now, months later, it’s nonetheless commonly one of many prime 10 most-streamed movies on the location. It additionally loved a really, very profitable run in theaters, the place it was the primary film within the nation on the field workplace, regardless of additionally being out there on Netflix. Then, after all, there was all of the merch, all of the accolades, and now, all of the speak in regards to the franchise persevering with. Which it will.

However the Oscars are the place legacies are solidified, and that’s definitely what simply occurred for KPop Demon Hunters.

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