“Flee” Makes History With Its 3 Oscar Nominations

After successful the grand jury prize on the 2021 Sundance Movie Pageant, “Flee” is as soon as once more receiving essential acclaim. On Feb. 8, the Danish animated movie made historical past with its three Oscar nominations for greatest animated function, greatest documentary function, and greatest worldwide function movie, making it the primary movie to ever receieve nods in all three classes.

In one of the best animated function class, “Flee” is up in opposition to “Encanto,” “Luca,” “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” and “Raya and the Final Dragon.” In the meantime, “Ascension,” “Attica, “Summer season of Soul,” and Writing With Fireplace” are additionally up for greatest documentary function. And in one of the best worldwide function movie class, “Flee” is nominated alongside “Drive My Automotive,” “The Hand of God,” “Lunana: A Yak within the Classroom,” and “The Worst Individual within the World.”

Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, “Flee” tells the story of 36-year-old tutorial Amin Nawabi and his extraordinary escape from Afghanistan as a baby refugee. The movie first premiered on the 2021 Sundance Movie Pageant, and since then, it is received a handful of different awards, together with a British Impartial Movie Award, a Gotham Impartial Movie Award, and the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Pageant’s award for greatest documentary. Will “Flee” take residence the gold once more? Discover out when the Academy Awards go down on March 27.