On Monday, December 9, CBS News announced nominees for the "Golden Globes", which is assumed to be a reliable prediction of "Oscar" nominations. “Flow” by Gints Zilbalodis has been nominated as one of the six best “Best Animated Motion Picture" and is the first Latvian film to ever earn a "Golden Globes" nomination.
The Golden Globes awards are given by foreign press journalists accredited in Hollywood. When evaluating 2024 films from around the world, more than 300 journalists from about 80 countries took part in the vote. This year, nominations for the Golden Globes are announced for the 82nd time, the awards will be presented on January 5.
The competitors of the film Flow / Straume in the category Best Animated Motion Picture are Hollywood big-budget projects - Inside Out 2, The Wild Robot and Moana 2, the Australian film Memoir of a Snail and the film of the British legendary studio Aardman Animations - Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
List of all Golden Globes nominees:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2025-golden-globes-nominees-full-list/
It has already been reported that on Saturday, December 7, Flow received the European Film Academy Award as the European Best Animated Film of the Year. On Sunday, Awards list of the film was topped by two more accolades – both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Boston Society of Film Critics for best animated film. Earlier in the week, Flow received the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle award as the best animated film of the year. Also, this week, the film was nominated for the U.S.'s prestigious worldwide independent film awards at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in the Best International Film category and won the National Board of Review award as the best animated film of the year. Stream has also been nominated for the prestigious European Parliament's LUX Audience Award, which is open to the vote of viewers across Europe and involves the screening of five nominated films in cinemas in European countries.
The range of awards is also complemented by recognition from the world's best-known newspapers – film was placed in the top ten best films of the year by Time magazine, calling it a "nameless miracle from Latvia", the film is also mentioned in the lists of the most important films of the year made by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. The Associated Press calls the film "the best animated film of the year." Along with a wide-ranging screening in U.S. cinemas from December 6, this weekend film has also earned dazzling reviews in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and other major U.S. newspapers.
The following important dates for the “Flow” competition in the U.S. Academy Awards are December 17, when the "short lists/shortlists" of Oscar nominees will be announced, the list of Oscar nominees will be announced on January 17, and the U.S. Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for March 2. These dates are worth remembering, as film is now increasingly appearing on the Oscar predictions lists compiled by various professional publications as one of the reliable contenders for nominations and even an award.
Film is financially supported by the National Film Centre of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Foundation, Eurimages, the French National Film Centre, television Arte and Canal+, as well as various regional funds and support programmes in France and Belgium. The film was created as a co-production of three countries - Dream Well Studio (Latvia), Sacrebleu Productions (France) and Take Five (Belgium).