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.

'Flow,' a wordless cat parable, has won the Oscar for animated feature at the 97th Academy Awards. Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis used Blender, a free, open-source graphics software tool using ...