KPop Demon Hunters, the animated function directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, received the Greatest Movement Image – Animated award on the 83rd Golden Globe Awards. The movie, backed by Sony Footage Animation and launched globally on Netflix, defeated Demon Slayer: Infinity Fortress Half 1.
The movie additionally secured the Greatest Authentic Tune – Movement Image award for its music “Golden,” giving the title two main wins on the ceremony.
The movie started streaming completely on Netflix on June 20, 2025, and shortly emerged as a significant industrial success. Based on Netflix, KPop Demon Hunters turned the most-watched authentic title within the platform’s historical past, surpassing 500 million views.
A sing-along model of the movie later obtained restricted theatrical releases on Aug 23–24 and Oct 31–Nov 2. That launch marked Netflix’s widest theatrical rollout by variety of theaters and have become the primary Netflix movie to prime the U.S. field workplace.
The soundtrack matched the movie’s momentum, making historical past as the primary film soundtrack to land 4 tracks within the Billboard Scorching 100 prime 10, later incomes double-platinum certification from the RIAA in October 2025 and 5 Grammy nominations.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Fortress, however, was the one Japanese anime movie nominated within the class. Regardless of lacking out on the Golden Globe, the movie achieved record-breaking field workplace success worldwide.
The movie grossed over USD 779.5 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing movie of 2025 and the highest-grossing worldwide movie ever launched in america, surpassing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
It additionally broke a number of box-office information, together with changing into the highest-grossing Japanese movie of all time (worldwide), the highest-grossing R-rated animated movie, and the primary R-rated non-American animated movie to cross the USD 700 million mark. The movie additionally ranks because the second highest-grossing historically animated movie, behind The Lion King (1994).
Infinity Fortress is eligible for consideration within the Greatest Animated Function class on the 98th Academy Awards.
Different movies nominated within the Greatest Movement Image – Animated class embrace Zootopia 2, Elio, Arco, and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain.
On the 81st Golden Globe Awards in 2024, the class was received by Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron.
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