This research aims to analyze the translation methods used in translating Encanto (2021) movie subtitles from English to Indonesian and the dominant translation method used in translating Encanto (2021) the movie subtitles. This research used descriptive qualitative method.
This research used translation method theory of Newmark, which divides translation methods into eight: word-for-word translation, literal translation, faithful translation, semantic translation, adaptive translation, free translation, idiomatic translation, and communicative translation.
The research data is in the form of Encanto (2021) movie subtitles consisting of 740 data. The results show that there are three translation methods used in translating the subtitles of Encanto, namely literal translation, free translation, and faithful translation. Free translation has 359 data (48.5%), literal translation has 359 data (48.4%), and faithful translation has 23 data (3.1%). The main finding was that free translation is the most dominant translation method used in translating the Encanto (2021) movie subtitle. To adapt the subtitles to the cultural and linguistic context of the target audience, free translation used to avoid confusion or ambiguity caused by idioms, utterance or terms from the movie subtitle.
Keywords: translation method, language, movie, subtitle, encanto