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KPop Demon Hunters and its song “Golden” won awards in separate film and music categories at the 2026 Golden Globes, Grammys, and Oscars. The film itself won Best Motion Picture - Animated at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards and Animated Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, while “Golden” won Best Original Song - Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, Best Song Written for Visual Media at the Grammys, and the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Background
KPop Demon Hunters is an animated film associated with Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation. When reviewing the work’s awards, it is important to distinguish which body each ceremony evaluated and in which category, rather than treating the film and its soundtrack song as one achievement.
The 83rd Golden Globe Awards produced both results. KPop Demon Hunters won Best Motion Picture - Animated, while “Golden” won Best Original Song - Motion Picture. The Golden Globe results can therefore be summarized as one award for the film and one for the song.
The key is not to count awards received by the work and awards received by its soundtrack song as the same item.
Key concepts
The winning categories at the three ceremonies are divided as follows.
| Ceremony | KPop Demon Hunters | “Golden” |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Globes | Best Motion Picture - Animated | Best Original Song - Motion Picture |
| Grammys | No such fact confirmed | Best Song Written for Visual Media |
| Oscars | Animated Feature Film | Music (Original Song) |
At the Grammys, it is also necessary to confirm the scope of the winning credits for “Golden,” not just the song itself. The Grammy’s official credits list the winning songwriting team as EJAE, Park Hong Jun, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, and Mark Sonnenblick. The vocal credits explicitly identify HUNTR/X’s EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI.
In other words, EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI are presented as the vocalists who performed “Golden,” while the Grammy winning credits include them alongside several songwriting contributors. Vocal participation and the winning songwriting credits may overlap, but they are not the same concept.
What it means now
At the Oscars, KPop Demon Hunters won Animated Feature Film, while “Golden” won Music (Original Song). The Associated Press described “Golden” as the first K-pop song to win in that Oscar category.
Regarding the Grammys, the Associated Press also reported “Golden” as K-pop’s first Grammy win. However, reports also included debate over whether a song with a strong English-language pop character should be classified as K-pop. The phrase “first K-pop Grammy” should therefore be understood alongside the reporting context and the criteria used to classify the genre.
The work’s broad popularity was also discussed alongside its awards. Netflix Tudum introduced the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack as having surpassed 10 billion global streams and as the first soundtrack to place four songs in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 simultaneously. This is a different kind of achievement from the film’s awards, showing that the work and its music each had a distinct impact.
Points to verify
First, the Golden Globe and Oscar film-category wins belong to KPop Demon Hunters, while the Grammy win belongs to “Golden” in the visual-media songwriting category. Second, “Golden” did not merely receive an Oscar nomination; it won Music (Original Song). Third, when using a phrase such as “swept all three major awards,” based on the confirmed categories, check that the award recipients and categories have not been mixed together.
For a fresh check, search separately for the film title and the song title in each ceremony’s official results. When confirming the contributors to “Golden,” it is also more accurate to distinguish the vocal credits from the songwriting credits. The key points currently confirmed are the film’s win in an animation category, the song’s wins in music categories, and the scope of the first K-pop Grammy and Oscar Best Original Song records described by the Associated Press.