03-03-2025

Flow Wins Best Animated Feature Film at 97th Academy Awards

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    Flow by Gints Zilbalodis Flow by Gints Zilbalodis image courtesy Dream Well Studio

    LOS ANGELES: Gints Zilbalodis' Flow made history for Latvia by winning the award in the Best Animated Feature Film category at the Academy Awards, announced on 2 March 2025.

    The film was also nominated in the in the Best International Feature Film category.

    Also, the Polish coproduction A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg won in the Best Supporting Actor category (Kieran Culkin). The film was shot in Poland and it was produced by Topic StudiosFruit Tree, Rego Park and Extreme Emotions, and supported by the Polish Film Institute and the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission.

    Flow / Straume is a coproduction between Latvia, France and Belgium, produced by Dream Well Studio, coproduced by Sacrebleu Productions and Take Five, and supported by the National Film Centre of Latvia, the French CNC, Eurimages, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone, the Belgian Tax Shelter, and the French regional funds.

    The Brutalist by Brady Corbet, which was shot in Hungary with Proton Cinema providing services, and used the Hungarian Film Incentive, won the awards for Best Performance Actor in a Leading Role (Adrien Brody), Best Cinematography (Lol Crawley), and Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Daniel Blumberg).

    Dune: Part Two by Denis Villleneuve, which was shot in Hungary with the help of ORIGO Studios, received Oscars for Best Sound (Gareth John, Ron Bartlett), and Best Achievement in Visual Effects (Paul Lambert, Rhys Salcombe)

    Polish cinematographer Michał Dymek lensed both A Real Pain and The Girl with the Needle / Pigen med nålen (Denmark, Poland, Sweden) by Magnus von Horn, which was nominated in the International Feature Film category.

    The Girl with the Needle was produced by Nordisk Film and Creative Alliance, and coproduced by Lava Films, Nordisk Film Production Sverige, Film i Väst, EC1 Łódź and Dolnośląskie Centrum Filmowe.

    Click HERE to see all the winners.