This year’s Day Awards (partnership) has a number of categories:

Best Localized Video Game 2024

Best Translated Book 2024

Best Linguist Industry Tool 2024

Best Localized Movie 2024

Best Localized TV Show 2024.

Let’s look at the nominations in the Best Localized Movie 2024 category:

• Despicable Me 4
• Deadpool and Wolverine
• Inside Out 2
• Parallel

Despicable Me 4

The animated film Despicable Me 4 was released in 2024 by Illumination and has many international versions. It is available in dubbed format in a long list of local languages including Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Hindi, Japanese and Korean. Additionally, a subtitled format is available in Indonesian, Lao, Macedonian and Malay.

The protagonists, the Minions, also speak their own language, which is a mix of European languages including Spanish and Italian, but mostly gibberish.

The American cast lending their voices to this animated film include Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig.

Deadpool and Wolverine

Deadpool and Wolverine, released in 2024, stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in the title roles. The film has been translated and dubbed into other languages such as French and Spanish, with subtitled versions available in Latvian and Russian, for example.

A little trivia about Deadpool: in the original comics Deadpool uses a tools that allows him to speak multiple languages and more specifically German, Spanish and Japanese. Wolverine also can speak many languages according to the original comic books thanks to his extensive travels, giving him a good command of Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Chinese and Spanish, as well as the Native American languages Cheyenne and Lakota.

Inside Out 2

The animated film Inside Out 2 was released in 2024 and features the voices of famous comedic actors such as Amy Poehler, Ayo Adebiri and Tony Hale.

There are multiple international versions of the movie: some are dubbed into languages such as Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Danish, Icelandic and Japanese, while others are subtitled into Indonesian, Khmer, Lao, Macedonian and Malay.

Parallel

Parallel is an American science fiction thriller released in 2024 and it’s a remake of a 2020 Chinese film. The film stars actors Danielle Deadwyler and brothers Aldis and Edwin Hodge.

The original film, whose English title was Parallel Forest, was a low-budget fantasy film which made the news in 2021 when it was announced it would get a Hollywood remake. Parallel Forest had a scheleton cast with three main actors and a small budget equivalent to $150,000.