"KPop Demon Hunters" has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.
"KPop Demon Hunters" has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.
Three years ago, Arden Cho was ready to walk away from acting. She'd landed her first lead role in the Netflix series "Partner Track," only to see it canceled after one season. She was heartbroken.
Her agent wouldn't let her go. "She refused to say, 'You're done.' She just kept sending me things," Cho said. "She just keep being like, 'Look, I know you're not auditioning. I know you're done, but I think you'd like this.'"
Now, Cho is juggling multiple projects after voicing the lead character Rumi in Netflix's animated summertime sensation "KPop Demon Hunters," which has become the all-time most-streamed movie on the platform - and spawned inescapable earworms "Golden" and "Soda Pop" as its soundtrack dominated pop charts.
And now it's an Oscar winner.
"This is for Korea and Koreans everywhere," said "KPop Demon Hunters" co-director Maggie Kang.
Other nominees in the category included "Arco," "Elio," "Little Amélie or the Character of Rain" and "Zootopia 2."