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.

After a tense awards-season race for Best Animated Feature, Flow pulled ahead for the win at Sunday night’s 97th Oscars. With their win, Flow beat out Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail ...