'KPop: Demon Hunters' stays 'Golden' with two Oscar nominations

With 2 Oscar nominations, the awards support of animated Netflix smash “KPop Demon Hunters” mightiness look a small much aureate soon.

Having garnered nods for animated diagnostic and archetypal song, the movie and its breakthrough musicians look to asseverate Korean-diaspora popular euphony and animation’s spot not conscionable arsenic a commercialized and captious improvement globally, but arsenic a imperishable fixture wrong the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Hollywood.

“Golden,” the main taxable from the fictional set Huntr/x performed by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI, spent 8 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, arsenic the witty and effervescent movie astir rival K-pop bands with supernatural powers became an inescapable summertime blockbuster.

It’s the archetypal clip a K-pop opus has been nominated successful the category, with songwriters EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24 and Teddy vying to marque past for the genre. “When I was a small miss I worked tirelessly for 10 years to fulfill 1 dream, to go a K-pop idol, and I was rejected and disappointed that my dependable wasn’t bully capable and truthful I leaned connected songs and euphony to get done it, truthful present I’m present arsenic a vocalist and a songwriter,” EJAE said during her acceptance code astatine the Golden Globes. “It’s a imagination travel existent to beryllium portion of a opus that’s helping different girls and different boys and everyone of each ages to get done their hardships, to judge themselves.”

In animated feature, the film, directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, volition look its toughest contention successful the captious and commercialized deed “Zootopia 2,” portion besides up against “Arco,” “Elio” and “Little Amélie oregon the Character of Rain.”

For archetypal song, “I Lied To You” from “Sinners” (nominated for a grounds 16 awards) volition apt beryllium its stiffest competitor, with “Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless,” “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!” and “Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams” besides successful contention.

The movie has immoderate momentum going into the ceremony, with honors for animated diagnostic and archetypal opus astatine some the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes.

South Korea’s astir salient Oscar accomplishment came successful 2019, erstwhile manager Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” won for champion picture, director, archetypal screenplay (with Han Jin-won) and planetary diagnostic film. The pursuing year, Youn Yuh-jung became the archetypal Korean histrion to triumph a supporting Oscar, for “Minari.”