The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) announced their choice for the best animated feature film of the year: Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow. This dialogue-free film, a $3.7 million Belgium/France/Latvia co-production, surpassed big-studio American movies like Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Dreamworks Animation’s The Wild Robot, despite having much smaller budgets.

 

The NYFCC, the oldest film critics group in the United States, is a reliable predictor of future Academy Award nominees, though not always winners. Over the past decade, the NYFCC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have agreed on the winner half of the time. Flow, currently in limited release in Los Angeles and New York City through Janus Films, is set to expand to more locations this weekend. It has also been submitted by Latvia as their official entry for the international feature film category at the Oscars.

 

The film premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard sidebar and was a standout at Annecy in June, winning multiple awards including the feature film jury award, audience award, Gan Foundation Award for Distribution, and best original music for a feature film. Flow is also a nominee in the animated feature category of the European Film Awards, taking place in Switzerland on Saturday.

 

The animation was a collaboration between Sacrebleu Productions (France) and Take Five (Belgium), with Zilbalodis producing through his Latvian studio, Dream Well Studio.

Person: Gints Zilbalodis, Hayao Miyazaki
Company Names: Disney-Pixar, Dreamworks Animation, Janus Films, Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five, Dream Well Studio
Titles: Flow, Inside Out 2, The Wild Robot, The Boy and the Heron

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