After a tense Oscar race in the Best Animated Feature category, Flow pulled ahead for the win at Sunday night’s ceremony. With their win, Flow beat out Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wild Robot.

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

Also in the Best Animation Oscar category were 'Inside Out 2,' 'Memoir of a Snail,' 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' and 'The Wild Robot'

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.

Gints Zilbalodis’s Latvian film Flow —- which won the Oscar for best animated film some hours back at the 97th Academy Awards — manages to hold your attention through its 85-minute runtime without a single dialogue.

The independent animated film 'Flow' by Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, marking Latvia's first Academy Award. Rendered using Blender, the film stood out against bigger studio movies.

In a big win that underscored the growing prominence of indepedent animation, Gints Zibalodis’ “Flow,” the moving dialog-free tale of a solitary cat’s journey as it learns to survive after a great flood – that was made with open-source software Blender for just $3.