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Blender-Made Film Flow Wins Golden Globe For Best Animated Picture

Now showing in theaters and available for streaming.

If you've been keeping up with industry news in 2024, you've probably come across Flow, an animated film by Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis. Made entirely with Blender, the film tells the story of a cat fighting for survival during a massive flood set in a surreal, dreamlike world, all without a single word of dialogue.

The Golden Globes, the first major awards ceremony of 2025, kicked off the awards season with a memorable night of milestones, and Flow winning Best Animated Picture marked a serious triumph for indie animation. This can be seen not only as a step forward for the democratization of animation, as the film was created using Blender, a free, open-source software popular among independent animators, showing that significant success in the field is, at least in theory, accessible to all creators, not just those within the studio system, but also as part of the broader trend of major awards ceremonies becoming more inclusive of independent and international works.

With the Best Animated Feature Oscar race now ahead, Flow's unexpected Golden Globe win over two Disney films, the new Wallace & Gromit and The Wild Robot, may shift some perspectives and alter the predictions for the category. If you haven't seen Flow yet, now is the perfect time to catch up, as it's currently available for streaming on digital platforms and some theaters:

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