'Flow' Gets the Golden Globe for Best Animation Feature
The cat and its friends seem unstoppable in Gints Zilbalodi's animation feature 'Flow'. After grabbing the award for Best Animation Feature (and the Jury award at the 2024 Annecy Festival), the second animation feature by the Latvian director, a co-production of Dream Well (Latvia), Sacrebleu Productions (France), and Take Five (Belgium), went on to conquer the Golden Globes.
In its first victory in the US terrain, 'Flow' won both Pixar (Inside Out 2), DreamWorks (The Wild Robot), Disney (Moana 2) and Aardman (Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl), and got the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. The fellow indie 'Memoirs of a Snail' by Adam Elliott was also nominated.
This is the first time a European animation feature gets the Golden Globe since the inception of the category in 2006; and it is only the second fully non-US film (after last year's Miyazaki win for 'The Boy and the Heron', and excluding Guillermo Del Toro's US/Mexico 'Pinocchio' co-production) to get the award.
Zilbalodis noted the passion needed to make this small-budget film; he also noted the need for collaboration inherent in the film -and also need in our contemporary world.
Watch the Golden Globes acceptance video
Next step for the 'Flow' team: the 2025 Academy Award nominations (17 January 2025).
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