Info in Movie News | The 97th Academy Awards was an occasion where a huge surprise came in the Best Animation Feature category. The independent animated film Flow became a winner taking the Oscar home, leaving strong contenders behind like Inside Out 2 (Disney), The Wild Robot (DreamWorks), etc. as well as Memoir of a Snail and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
This victory is a notable achievement for Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis, who lifted his film from festival screenings to the highest level of cinematic award. Before the Oscars, Flow had already grabbed the Golden Globe and Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards, indicating its outstanding reputation.
A Moving Story Told Without Dialogue
Flow is a medium that is the brainchild of the determination of the author3 It's entirely its own thing and it is picturized through the medium of the sight of the whole world coming together on the basis of silence and aiming at delivering a powerful experience to the audience in the post-apocalyptic world. The story is about the cat character that is the main animal who is searching for the idea of friendship in the environment of the world destroyed by the flood and it meets other animals such as a dog, a lemur, and a capybara.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film has been described as "a profoundly cinematic experience that stirs intense feelings." The fact that there were no dialogues exposed the whole story and it aroused the viewers' interest in a deeper relationship with the characters which were moving in the sequence of events.
A Victory That Opens New Doors
Flow was a success that was entirely made and then after that, made the history maker of Latvia as the first winner of this Oscar of the film tide alone. The film also demonstrated that excellent animation is not exclusively for the big budget films through managing to stay within the modest budget of $3.7 million.
At the awards ceremony in question, Zilbalodis spoke his mind: "We are all in the same boat, so we have to find a way to deal with that."
Later, Zilbalodis enjoyed the company of an ordinary world—he went to In-N-Out and had a hamburger along with his Oscar. This was the life-like picture of his film the film director mentioned it was what he wanted the film to be.
Flow's victory in the award show is a big step for indie animation, which is getting more and more interest from the world film art field. This makes other filmmakers think outside the box and come up with something different and interesting.
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