Oscar -presenting ceremony / day will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday

Since the World premiere at the Cannes Festival in May 2024 Stream Becoming an unprecedented phenomenon that has not yet been in Latvian cinema history.

The US Film Academy Awards have traditionally been held in California, Los Angeles, the venue since 2001 has been Dolby Theaterlocated in the center of culture Ovation Hollywood. The ceremony begins on Sunday afternoon at 4 pm, Latvian time it is ten hours later – 2.00 on the night of March 3. The official broadcast of the ceremony in the Baltic States will be provided by a channel Filmzone, which in Latvia is available on streaming platforms Tet TV+, LMT smart TV and Go3.

The US Film Academy Awards will attend films in person Stream Director Gints Zilbalodis, producer Matīss Kaža and the film artists' team, including Latvian Minister of Culture Agnese Lace and Dita Rietuma, Head of the National Film Center, and media accreditation has been granted to the Latvian Public Media/LTV team.

Latvia's official application for the US Film Academy Award in the category Best Foreign Film / International Feature Film It was nominated for the 16th time, regularly Latvian film has been announced since 2010. This is the first time that the Latvian film entered the 85 World Film Competition first in the « Short List » (Stream The best foreign film category was the only animated film in a powerful 15 film competition dominated by feature films), and then also Oscar Prize nominee in the top five – along with Ginta Zilbaloža Stream Also films from Brazil, Denmark, Germany and France. It should be noted that this Oscar The prize category is a proven evidence of the saying « Note in the World of Latvia » – the names of the nominated foreign films in this category are added only to the country from which the film is submitted, not the names of the authors.

Oscar Prize in the category The best full -length animated movie Previously the short list was not announced, but in different worlds and especially in the US media intensively Oscar Prediction lists in which Stream appeared more and more often; The rapidly growing number of international awards and nominations also promised a positive result. In the category The best full -length animated movie Latvian Tire Competitors are Hollywood Ground Projects Brain Games 2/Inside Out 2 and Robot in his open/The Wild Robot, Australian Memoir of a snail and British legendary studies Aardman Animations film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

All nominations Oscar Award: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2025

Oscar The awards ceremony is a gorgeous conclusion to the World Cinema Industry Prize season in which the Latvian film Stream has earned amazing success. Starting with the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film was selected for the competition and Certain Regard, Ginta Zilbaloža Stream Has launched an incredibly successful way to world film festivals and has so far received more than 70 international awards on almost all continents.

First surprise Tire The festival career featured four prizes in the world's most prestigious animation Film Festival in June 2024, and since then, the Latvian film has won many peaks. The most important of these is the European Film Academy Award for Best Full -length Animation Film, US Film Industry Gold globe/Golden Globe, two awards Annie AwardsThe International Animation Association in Hollywood, more than 10 different US film critics associations; Nominations for several prestigious prizes, such as the BAFTA (British Film Academy Awards), are also important worldwide, where Stream was nominated in two categories.

Important to note that movies Stream Success in festivals and various professional awards are also accompanied by surprisingly commercial success around the world, which is shown by the records of viewers and cash register revenue in different countries. Immediately after the world premiere screening in cans Straume/Flow Distribution rights in America were purchased by an experienced distributor association Sideshow and Janus filmand Stream Soon became the most successful film in the catalog of this association. Currently, the Latvian film is screened or is scheduled to be in cinemas in 45 countries soon. The most spectacular triumph Stream He experienced Mexican cinemas, where more than a million viewers visited the film in the first two weeks of screening.

Films Stream The success of the box office has also been described by the edition of the film industry VarietyEmphasizing that the film's record -breaking budget is one of the smallest in the animation industry competition for many years – only € 3.5 million (the film is made as a co -production of Latvia, France and Belgium). In Europe a movie Stream with the European Foundation Ce media Support is distributed by a French company Charades.

Of course, in Latvia, director Gints Zilbaloža and producer Matisse Kaža's film Stream There is an unprecedented phenomenon – since the national premiere, which took place in August 2024, the film has been in the cinema for 26 weeks in the repertoire and at the head of the most visited film. In Latvia, the number of viewers of the film has exceeded 320,000 in cinemas, thus ahead of any film shown in Latvia in the last 30 years, and the popularity of the film is manifested in different ways – for example, in January, over 15,600 people visited the Latvian National Museum of Art to view the exhibited at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Golden globe prize; In mid -February, the film received the Latvian Social Media Award kilogram of culture by viewers' vote, but since the beginning of February the protagonist of the film, the dark -skinned cat, sits on the letters in Riga at the Freedom Monument in the capital of Latvia.

Director Ginta Zilbaloža Stream The National Film Awards were also received Great Kristaps The rating of seven nominations and six awards – the best animation film, the best scenario, animation directing, sound directing and the work of the composer, and the film also received the Great Kristaps Viewers' Award.

The film Straume has also brought international success to the Latvian government's evaluation and support for both the film's authors team and the Latvian film industry as a whole – studio Dream Well For prizes Gold globe The Cabinet of Ministers award was awarded 300 000 EUR, the international marketing of Latvia was awarded 150 000 EUR, another EUR 1 000 000 was awarded to the film industry as additional funding for the new animated film project competition in 2025. Evaluating the overall potential of the Latvian film industry, limited by the relatively small funding of the industry, has also supported the NCC and the Ministry of Culture's initiative for EUR 120,000 in the European Fund's Eurimage Series Co -production program.

Film Stream Designed as a co -production of three countries in collaboration with studies Dream Well Studio (Latvia), Sacrebleu Productions (France) and Take Five (Belgium). The film is financially supported by the National Film Center, the State Culture Capital Foundation, Eurimages, the French National Film Center, television Arte and Canal+regional funds and support programs in France and Belgium.