Demon Slayer Loses Finest Animated Film Award in Main Golden Globe Snub

To name Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Film: Infinity Fort successful could be the understatement of the century. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle launched in 2025 to rave opinions, incomes an unbelievable 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, whereas turning into an prompt field workplace hit, grossing $791,214,565 to develop into the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time. The film’s spectacular animation, artwork course, and stellar combat choreography have earned Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort loads of award buzz, with each anime followers and basic moviegoers.

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Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort was nominated for a Golden Globe for ‘Finest Movement Image – Animated’ as a part of the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, which aired on January 11, 2026. In a shocking upset, nevertheless, Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort misplaced its solely Golden Globe nomination to Netflix‘s sleeper-hit film of 2025, KPop Demon Hunters. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle was solely the fifth anime film in historical past to be nominated for a Golden Globe, and would have been the second anime after Studio Ghibli’s 2023 movie, The Boy and the Heron, to win had KPop Demon Hunters not crushed it.

Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort Formally Loses ‘Finest Movement Image – Animated’ Golden Globe Award to Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters

In a large shock to anime followers worldwide, Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort was soundly crushed by KPop Demon Hunters on the 83rd Golden Globe Awards. To be honest, Demon Slayer was all the time the darkish horse within the race. KPop Demon Hunters has been nominated for over 100 awards for the reason that film’s June 2025 launch, having already gained 79 of these as of 2026’s Golden Globe Awards. KPop Demon Hunters‘ widespread recognition & accessibility on Netflix has additionally immediately contributed to the rise of South Korean media and popular culture internationally – known as the ‘Korean Wave’.

That stated, Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort does boast the upper Rotten Tomatoes rating, beating out KPop Demon Hunters‘ 93% Tomatometer by 5 factors and will be argued to be simply as well-liked worldwide, contemplating Demon Slayer is at present the most important ongoing anime franchise on the earth. Throw in Infinity Fort‘s stunning animation and artwork course, and Demon Slayer successful was a really actual risk. Sadly, even Demon Slayer wasn’t large enough to take down KPop Demon Hunters.

Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort’s Oscar Nomination is Something However Assured

Oscar Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards might be introduced on January 22, 2026, and whereas KPop Demon Hunters‘ nomination is all however locked in, issues aren’t trying pretty much as good for Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort. Regardless of being the highest-grossing Japanese movie ever made, there is not any assure Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Film: Infinity Fort will make the lower. The Oscars are notably stingy on the subject of awarding anime motion pictures, not to mention nominating them, primarily sticking to Studio Ghibli’s filmography above all else.

Not serving to issues is that Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort is actively competing with Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, which is already getting extra Oscar buzz on account of the movie’s wonderful animation, course, music, and storytelling. Given how usually the Academy Awards snub anime movies, it is doable Demon Slayer might be lower from the nomination record in favor of the Academy giving Chainsaw Man 2025’s resident anime nomination. In a greatest case situation, each Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man are nominated, however this simply stiffens the competitors for the previous.

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Because the Academy now requires all voters to observe each film nominated, Demon Slayer is at a selected drawback. KPop Demon Hunters is a very standalone movie, and whereas Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc is technically a sequel to Chainsaw Man Season 1, the story is self-contained sufficient the place audiences can benefit from the story & animation with out essentially having seen the collection. That is now the case for Infinity Fort, which serves because the fruits of your complete Demon Slayer anime and is just the primary within the franchise’s finale film trilogy.

It will be a miracle if Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort can get an Oscar nomination this yr, not to mention safe the win.