As an infant, she escaped Latvia with her family, just ahead of menacing Communist forces that seized control of her native land. As a fresh graduate of an Indiana university, she took her math skills ...
The win gives Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis his first Academy Award. “Flow” was made with Blender, a free, open-source graphics software tool using computer generated animation.
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.