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KPop Demon Hunters Wins London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans' animated film KPop Demon Hunters won Animated Film of the Year at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards on Sunday.
The award has been announced on the same day that the film's song "Golden" has won the best song for visual media at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. It is the first K-Pop sing to have ever won a Grammy.
Sony Pictures Animation's KPop Demon Hunters film premiered on Netflix in June 2025. The film became the first Netflix film to top the U.S. weekend box office after the KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along Event opened in 1,700 theaters with US$19.2 million at the end of August. That same week, it became Netflix's most streamed film of all time globally with 236,000,000 views (edging out Red Notice's 230,900,000). Also that week, four songs from the film's soundtrack ranked in the top 10 of the weekly Billboard Hot 100 songs chart simultaneously in the United States — a feat no other soundtrack has ever accomplished.
The animated feature has appeared in Netflix's Top 10 for English-language films for 15 consecutive weeks.
The film has become the first title on the Netflix platform to surpass 300 million views, according to Netflix's official site Tudum.
Source: Deadline (Erik Pedersen)
