“KPop Demon Hunters” is one step closer to another golden moment: The Oscars. The Netflix phenomenon is among 35 films features eligible for the animated feature film category at the 98th Academy Awards.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released on Friday lists of all the films eligible for animated, documentary and international feature prizes at next year’s Oscars.
Though “KPop Demon Hunters” made its name on Netflix, it also received a qualifying theatrical run in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in June, which satisfied the film academy’s requirements for Oscar consideration. Its UK theatrical run was not enough to qualify for the BAFTAs, however.
Other animated titles that qualified for the Oscars animated feature category were Neon’s “Arco,” Disney’s “Elio” and “Zootopia 2,” GKids’ “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain,” Netflix’s “In Your Dreams” and Crunchyroll/Sony’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” and “Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc.” Notably, the Chinese blockbuster “Ne Zha 2” was not among the 35 titles listed.
“KPop Demon Hunters,” which Netflix has said is its most watched film of all time, has amassed more than 541 million hours viewed worldwide. It’s the highest charting soundtrack of 2025 with eight of its songs landing on the Billboard Hot 100. It also made a splash in theaters in August where it was estimated to have made around $18 million (which would have topped the charts if Netflix released theatrical earnings) and got a subsequent release over Halloween weekend. Netflix won their first animated feature Oscar in 2022 for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.”
There are also 201 documentaries and 86 international features eligible, including “Sentimental Value” (Norway), “Sirât” (Spain), “The Secret Agent” (Brazil), “It Was Just an Accident” (France), “The Voice of Hind Rajab” (Tunisia) and “My Father’s Shadow” (United Kingdom). “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a co-production between the AP and PBS Frontline, is eligible in both categories. Both documentary and international titles will be winnowed to a 10-film shortlist that will be revealed on Dec. 16.
“KPop Demon Hunters” fans will have to wait for nomination morning on Jan. 22 to hear whether or not they made the cut for animated feature. It’s largely expected to be a player in the original song category as well, where “Golden” is among the songs being submitted.
The 98th Oscars will air live on ABC on March 15 at 7 p.m. ET.
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ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE ANIMATED FEATURE FILM CATEGORY
“All Operators Are Currently Unavailable”
“Arco”
“The Bad Guys 2”
“Black Butterflies”
“Boys Go to Jupiter”
“Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc”
“ChaO”
“Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing”
“David”
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle”
“Dog Man”
“Dog of God”
“Dragon Heart – Adventures Beyond This World”
“Elio”
“Endless Cookie”
“Fixed”
“Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie”
“In Your Dreams”
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“The Legend of Hei 2”
“Light of the World”
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
“Lost in Starlight”
“A Magnificent Life”
“Mahavatar Narsimha”
“Night of the Zoopocalypse”
“Olivia & las Nubes”
“100 Meters”
“Out of the Nest”
“Scarlet”
“Slide”
“The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants”
“Stitch Head”
“The Twits”
“Zootopia 2”
ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM CATEGORY
“Abby’s List, A Dogumentary”
“Ada – My Mother the Architect”
“Afternoons of Solitude”
“The Age of Disclosure”
“Ai Weiwei’s Turandot”
“The Alabama Solution”
“All God’s Children”
“The Altar Boy, the Priest and the Gardener”
“Always”
“Amakki”
“American Sons”
“Among Neighbors”
“animal.”
“Antidote”
“Apocalypse in the Tropics”
“Architecton”
“Are We Good?”
“Art for Everybody”
“Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse”
“The Art Whisperer”
“Artfully United”
“Assembly”
“BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young”
“Becoming Led Zeppelin”
“Being Eddie”
“Below the Clouds”
“Benita”
“Between the Mountain and the Sky”
“Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell’s Swimsuit Issue”
“Billy Idol Should Be Dead”
“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions”
“Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny”
“Bodyguard of Lies”
“Brothers after War”
“Can’t Look Away: The Case against Social Media”
“Caterpillar”
“Champions of the Golden Valley”
“Checkpoint Zoo”
“Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie”
“Child of Dust”
“Chronicles of Disney”
“Coexistence, My Ass!”
“Come See Me in the Good Light”
“Complicated”
“Cover-Up”
“Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution”
“Cutting through Rocks”
“Dalit Subbaiah”
“The Dating Game”
“Deaf President Now!”
“Democracy Noir”
“Diane Warren: Relentless”
“Dog Warriors”
“Drop Dead City”
“The Duel We Missed”
“El Canto de las Manos”
“Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire”
“The Encampments”
“Endless Cookie”
“Europe’s New Faces”
“Facing War”
“Fatherless No More”
“Fiume o Morte!”
“Folktales”
“Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea”
“For the Living”
“14 Short Films about Opera”
“From Island to Island”
“Ghost Boy”
“Girl Climber”
“Go to the People”
“Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus
“Grand Theft Hamlet”
“Heaven. Poste Restente”
“Heightened Scrutiny”
“Holding Liat”
“I Know Catherine, the Log Lady”
“I, Poppy”
“I Was Born This Way”
“If You Tell Anyone”
“I’m Not Everything I Want to Be”
“I’m Only Blind”
“Imago”
“In Limbo”
“In Waves and War”
“In Whose Name?”
“Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989”
“It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”
“Janis Ian: Breaking Silence”
“The King of Color”
“The Last Class”
“The Last Holocaust Secret”
“The Last Philadelphia”
“The Last Twins”
“Li Cham (I Died)”
“The Librarians”
“Life After”
“Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery – The Untold Story”
“Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story”
“Love+War”
“Mahamantra – The Great Chant”
“The Man Who Saves the World?”
“A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole”
“Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore”
“Meanwhile”
“Men of War”
“Mighty Indeed”
“Mr. Nobody against Putin”
“Mistress Dispeller”
“Monk in Pieces”
“My Armenian Phantoms”
“My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay”
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow”
“Natchez”
“The New Yorker at 100”
“Night in West Texas”
“1985: Heroes among Ruins – The Triumph of the People”
“Norita”
“Of Mud and Blood”
“One to One: John and Yoko”
“Orwell 2+2=5”
“Our Time Will Come”
“Out of Plain Sight”
“Paint Me a Road Out of Here”
“Paparazzi”
“The Parish of Bishop John”
“Pavements”
“The Perfect Neighbor”
“The Pool”
“Predators”
“Prime Minister”
“The Prince of Nanawa”
“Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”
“Rebel with a Clause”
“Remaining Native”
“Riefenstahl”
“Rise Up! 14 Short Films about Alliance for Positive Change”
“River of Grass”
“The Road between Us: The Ultimate Rescue”
“The Rose: Come Back to Me”
“Row of Life”
“Sanatorium”
“A Savage Art”
“Schindler Space Architect”
“Secret Mall Apartment”
“Seeds”
“Selena y Los Dinos”
“Sensory Overload”
“76 Days Adrift”
“Shari & Lamb Chop”
“The Shepherd and the Bear”
“Shoot the People”
“Shuffle”
“The Six Billion Dollar Man”
“67 Bombs to Enid”
“Slumlord Millionaire
“Songs from the Hole”
“Soul of a Nation”
“Speak.”
“Stans”
“Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere”
“Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost”
“Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter”
“Story of My Village”
“Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror”
“The Stringer”
“Suburban Fury”
“Sudan, Remember Us”
“Supercar Saints”
“Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted”
“The Tale of Silyan”
“Thank You Very Much”
“There Was, There Was Not”
“Third Act”
“This Ordinary Thing”
“Through the Fire (The Eaton Fire: The Aftermath)”
“Torn: The Israel -Palestine Poster War on New York City Streets”
“Trade Secret”
“Trains”
“Twin Towers: Legacy”
“2000 Meters to Andriivka”
“Unbanked”
“UnBroken”
“Under the Flags, the Sun”
“Unseen Innocence”
“Viktor”
“Viva Verdi!”
“WTO/99”
“Walk with Me”
“Walls – Akinni Inuk”
“We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe”
“Welded Together”
“The White House Effect”
“Who in the Hell Is Regina Jones?”
“Wisdom of Happiness”
“The Wolves Always Come at Night”
“Worth the Fight”
“Writing Hawa”
“Yalla Parkour”
“Yanuni”
“Zodiac Killer Project”
ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM CATEGORY (Listed in alphabetical order by country or region)
Albania, “Luna Park”
Argentina, “Belén”
Armenia, “My Armenian Phantoms”
Australia, “The Wolves Always Come at Night”
Austria, “Peacock”
Azerbaijan, “Taghiyev: Oil”
Bangladesh, “A House Named Shahana”
Belgium, “Young Mothers”
Bhutan, “I, the Song”
Bolivia, “The Southern House”
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny”
Brazil, “The Secret Agent”
Bulgaria, “Tarika”
Canada, “The Things You Kill”
Chile, “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo”
China, “Dead to Rights”
Colombia, “A Poet”
Costa Rica, “The Altar Boy, the Priest and the Gardener”
Croatia, “Fiume o Morte!”
Czech Republic, “I’m Not Everything I Want to Be”
Denmark, “Mr. Nobody against Putin”
Dominican Republic, “Pepe”
Ecuador, “Chuzalongo”
Egypt, “Happy Birthday”
Estonia, “Rolling Papers”
Finland, “100 Liters of Gold”
France, “It Was Just an Accident”
Georgia, “Panopticon”
Germany, “Sound of Falling”
Greece, “Arcadia”
Greenland, “Walls – Akinni Inuk”
Haiti, “Kidnapping Inc.”
Hong Kong, “The Last Dance”
Hungary, “Orphan”
Iceland, “The Love That Remains”
India, “Homebound”
Indonesia, “Sore: A Wife from the Future”
Iran, “Cause of Death: Unknown”
Iraq, “The President’s Cake”
Ireland, “Sanatorium”
Israel, “The Sea”
Italy, “Familia”
Japan, “Kokuho”
Jordan, “All That’s Left of You”
Kyrgyzstan, “Black Red Yellow”
Latvia, “Dog of God”
Lebanon, “A Sad and Beautiful World”
Lithuania, “The Southern Chronicles”
Luxembourg, “Breathing Underwater”
Madagascar, “Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story”
Malaysia, “Pavane for an Infant”
Mexico, “We Shall Not Be Moved”
Mongolia, “Silent City Driver”
Montenegro, “The Tower of Strength”
Morocco, “Calle Malaga”
Nepal, “Anjila”
Netherlands, “Reedland”
North Macedonia, “The Tale of Silyan”
Norway, “Sentimental Value”
Palestine, “Palestine 36”
Panama, “Beloved Tropic”
Paraguay, “Under the Flags, the Sun”
Peru, “Kinra”
Philippines, “Magellan”
Poland, “Franz”
Portugal, “Banzo”
Romania, “Traffic”
Saudi Arabia, “Hijra”
Serbia, “Sun Never Again”
Singapore, “Stranger Eyes”
Slovakia, “Father”
Slovenia, “Little Trouble Girls”
South Africa, “The Heart Is a Muscle”
South Korea, “No Other Choice”
Spain, “Sirât”
Sweden, “Eagles of the Republic”
Switzerland, “Late Shift”
Taiwan, “Left-Handed Girl”
Tunisia, “The Voice of Hind Rajab”
Turkey, “One of Those Days When Hemme Dies”
Uganda, “Kimote”
Ukraine, “2000 Meters to Andriivka”
United Kingdom, “My Father’s Shadow”
Uruguay, “Don’t You Let Me Go”
Venezuela, “Alí Primera”
Vietnam, “Red Rain
