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The cat did it. The Latvian\/French\/Belgian ‘Flow’ by Gints Zilbalodis <\/a>(producers: Mat\u012bss Ka\u017ea, Ron Dyens, and Gregory Zalcman) managed to get the Academy Award for Best Animation Feature at the 97th Academy Award.<\/p>\n This is only the second time <\/strong>in the history of the award (since 2001) that a <\/strong>European film gets the Academy Award; the first was back in 2005 when the stop-motion Aardman ‘Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ won the award (with DreamWorks as a co-production company on board). But ‘Flow’ still remains the first fully European-produced film<\/strong> to win Best Animation Feature.\u00a0 It is also the animation feature with the smallest budget (3,5 million EUR) to win the award.<\/p>\n Even though the film features animals, ‘Flow’ is a non-talking animation feature, and another first <\/strong>in the category’s history (all the previous Academy Award winners featured dialogue). The film tells the story of a cat and its friends in a boat in a post-flood, devoid-of-human environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n In his acceptance speech, Gints Zilbalodis made a plea for independent animation but also pointed out that ‘we are all on the same boat; we must overcome our differences and come together’<\/p>\n dRead Our ‘Flow’ Review<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n