Los Angeles [US], January 5 (ANI): Netflix’s animated movie KPop Demon Hunters kicked off the 2026 awards season with two main wins on the Critics Choice Awards, securing honours for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter.
The movie gained Best Song for Golden, with songwriter EJAE, who additionally served because the singing voice of lead character Rumi, accepting the award alongside co-writer Mark Sonnenblick. Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the opposite singing voices behind the fictional Okay-pop woman group Huntrix, joined them on stage.
‘When penning this track, I discovered myself residing vicariously via my character Rumi,’ EJAE mentioned whereas accepting the award. ‘The track wanted to be an expression of hope — to persuade herself that she may attain for her desires,’ as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter.
Directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans accepted the award for Best Animated Feature together with members of the voice and singing solid.
KPop Demon Hunters, a collaboration between Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation, follows the adventures of Huntrix, a Okay-pop woman group that secretly battles monsters from the underworld, as per the outlet.
The movie has emerged as Netflix’s hottest title to this point. Its soundtrack spent a number of weeks within the prime 10 of the Billboard 200 chart, whereas Golden reached the highest spot on Billboard’s Hot 100, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter.
The thirty first Critics Choice Awards held at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. (ANI)