The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent example being the successful and ...

Emotional without succumbing fully to darkness, Flow is a masterful example of what animation can do when viewed from a different perspective. Following an award season fraught with debate ...

LOS ANGELES — The independent film "Flow" won the best animated feature film at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, securing the first Academy Award for Latvia and its Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis.

For example, "Flow" could only be done as an animated film, he said, because of all the animals, water movements and camera choreography used. "Animation can be anything," he said. "You can make ...

LOS ANGELES — “Flow,″ a wordless cat parable, won the Oscar for animated feature at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards. The win gives Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis his first Academy Award.

A mesmerising, wondrous example of animation’s potential; a thoughtful allegory about ecocide and death; and an adorable ode to four-legged (and two-legged) friends. No ebbs here: Flow is the ...

‘Alpha’ Review This year saw the most recent and successful example to date with Oscar-winning animated film Flow. Produced by independent animation company Dream Well Studio, and distributed ...