Find out which animations are nominated for an Oscar and where you can watch the plots before the ceremony in March
The Academy of Feature Film Arts and Science (AMPAS) finally announced the animations nominated for the long-awaited Oscar 2025, the main award in world cinema. After two postponements due to environmental incidents in Los Angeles, this Thursday, the 23rd, the best animated productions of the previous year were revealed.
With this in mind, RECREIO prepared a list of where viewers can find all the films in the animation category recommended to watch. Check it out!
Flow
The prestigious animation, “Flow”, which won the Golden Globe for ‘Best Animation’, is directed by the Latvian director, Gints Zilbalodis. The non-verbal plot follows the journey of a lonely cat who, after having his home destroyed by a huge flood, finds refuge on a boat inhabited by several species, including a dog, a heron, a capybara and a lemur. Together, they navigate mystical landscapes, facing challenges and dangers as they learn to overcome their differences and adapt to a changed world.
The film, which was nominated at the main world cinema awards such as the Golden Globe, Critics Choice Awards and, now, the Oscar arrives in Brazilian cinemas from January 30th distributed by Mares/Alpha Filmes.
Inside Out 2
Being the sequel to the 2016 film, “Inside Out 2” follows Riley through one of the most important stages of life, adolescence. After lighting the candles on her birthday cake to celebrate her 13th birthday, as she now deals with the onset of puberty, the revelation that her two best friends are changing schools, the desire to join the team hockey and making new friends — and, of course, the arrival of new and more complex emotions (Anxiety, Envy and Shame) that will mess up your brain’s control room.
With direction from Kelsey Mann, the two successful films can be found in the Disney+ streaming catalog.
Memoirs of a Snail
Coming from Australia, “Memoirs of a Snail”, told through the Claymation technique, a branch of Stop Motion that works with modeling clay characters, has the following synopsis: “Grace Pudel is a lonely girl who collects ornamental snails and has a She had an enormous love for books. At a very young age, Grace was separated from her twin brother, the pyrophagist Gilbert, and from then on, she entered a continuous spiral of anxiety and anguish. Despite these countless difficulties, the girl returned. finds inspiration and hope when he begins a lasting friendship with an eccentric elderly woman named Pinky, full of courage and the desire to live.”
Directed, produced and directed by Adam Elliot, the animation still is not available on any streaming platform.
Wallace & Gromit — Revenge
The plot of ‘Wallace & Gromit – Revenge’ follows “Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents an ‘intelligent’ gnome that appears to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a A vengeful figure from the past may be plotting things, it’s up to Gromit to fight sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!”
The animation is already available in the Netflix catalog!
Wild Robot
“Wild Robot” is directed by Chris Sanders to accompany a ROZZUM robot from unit 7134 that, after a shipwreck, ends up on an island inhabited only by animals — which see it as an enemy being, sometimes trying to eliminate it. In the hostile territory, ROZ, as she will be called, ends up learning to create relationships and understand the animals that live there, even becoming the maternal figure of an orphan goose who will learn from her and a fox called Astuto how to live.
The adaptation of the book by the same name Peter Brownit is available on the Prime Video streaming platform, Apple TV, Google Play and also on YouTube.
The 2025 Oscars will take place on March 2nd, Carnival Sunday, at the Dolby Theater, in Hollywood, United States, at 9pm (Brasília time). The awards ceremony will be broadcast on the TNT channel and the Max streaming platform.
Source: Recreio
