Open Source Wins An Oscar

A movie called “Flow” has won the Oscar for the best animated feature
film. What’s interesting about it is it was created by a small,
independent company, using Blender 3D open-source software. For those
familiar only with proprietary DCC tools, Blender is just about the
only app remaining that covers all the major stages of the production
line in a single, integrated workflow.

<https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/>
<https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/>

This is not the first time Blender has won a major award. In 2019, it
was given the Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement, or “Annie”,
by the professional animation industry
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBHwaIzCrI>.

And “I Lost My Body” won the Nespresso Grand Prize at Cannes that same year.
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9806192/trivia>