'KPop Demon Hunters' makes Oscars history with 2 Academy Award wins
"Kpop Demon Hunters" is ending awards season on top
"Kpop Demon Hunters" is ending awards season on top.
The Netflix film, which follows two fictional K-pop bands, HUNTR/X and Saja Boys, took home Oscars for best animated feature and best song on Sunday.
Co-director and writer Maggie Kang and producer Michelle Wong became the first people of South Korean descent to ever win in the animated feature category. They accepted the award with co-director Chris Appelhans.
Yu Han Lee, Joong Gyu Kwak, Ejae, Jeong Hoon Seo, Mark Sonnenblick at the the 98th Oscars Awards.Frank Micelotta / Disney via Getty Images"Golden" also became the first Kpop song to win an Oscar.
"To all the fans who got us here and for all of those who look like me, sorry that it took us so long to see us in a movie like this. But it is here, and that means that the next generations don't have to go longing," Kang said in her acceptance speech about making a movie in which other Korean people could see themselves in. "This is for Korea and for Koreans everywhere."
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