Flow' wins the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the first indie winner of this category since its inception at the 2002 ceremony where 'Shrek' won.

Flow’ Becomes First Latvian Film to Win Academy Award for Animated Feature LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Flow,″ a wordless cat parable, won the Oscar for animated feature at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards. The win gives Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis his first Academy Award.

It was a strong year for Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations, and an underdog triumphed. At the 97th annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles last night, Flow beat competition from Pixar's Inside Out 2,