It is always a pleasure to see a film Taht IndieWire has been defended from the beginning of Triumph at OscarAnd now the little cat that could have done just that. “Flow” have won Oscar For best animated feature, to become the first indie movie to ever win in this category. Sideshow and Janus Films are released by filmmakers Gints Zilbalodis Have enchanted almost everyone who has seen it, and we liked it since it premiered in the UN some consideration for Cannes in May 2024 and said in a critic choice “A” review that it was “one of the most pioneering animated films about nature since” Bambi. ”
Indieview eventually chose “flow” as The best animated film of the year – the highest -ranked animated film on our Best films of the year – And We have talked to the director about his process and broke the news that it is into Criterion Collection Later this year. In addition to winning the best animated function at Oscars, it got an Oscar nomination for best international function, the only second time an animated film has achieved this distinction. The first was the 2021’s “Fly.”
“Flow,” completely wordless, follows a cat as he navigates in a world that is suddenly without humans. A great flood washing across the country, and the cat must learn to work with a dog, a Lemur, a capybara and a secretary to survive in a boat. This is the type of film that, given that it is dialogue -free, can affect literally any countries where it is displayed and can fascinate children as well as adults. The character animation is of a truly superlative quality reminiscent of the Disney animators in the 1940s who used to study animals far in learning how to draw them.
But it cannot be stated enough: this is the first indie movie to win the best animated function. Even Aardman’s “Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit”, which won Oscar in 2006, was associated with Dreamworks. Studio Ghibli, who won the category with “Spirited Away” and “The Boy and Heron”, is also a full studio – compared to Zilbalodis who hires newly trained who specialized in animation to make the whole “flow” for under 3.5 million euros and then find distribution after the fact of sideshow and Janus -movie. The movie had such a narrow budget, Zilbalodis told IndieWire on the Globes Red Carpet that it has no deleted scenes – Everything he and his team animated are in the film. There was no room or budget for foreign effort.
“Flow” immediately followed up its Cannes premiere by winning four Awards at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, then by winning the best animated film at New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards, National Board of Review and Golden Gloles, and then best independent animated film at the Annie Awards and best international film in the movie Independent Spirit Spirit.
