Animated Documentary “Flee” Makes History With 3 Oscar Nominations

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

In the most effective animated characteristic 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 characteristic. And in the most effective worldwide characteristic movie class, “Flee” is nominated alongside “Drive My Automobile,” “The Hand of God,” “Lunana: A Yak within the Classroom,” and “The Worst Particular person within the World.”

Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, “Flee” tells the story of 36-year-old educational Amin Nawabi and his extraordinary escape from Afghanistan as a toddler refugee. The movie first premiered on the 2021 Sundance Movie Competition, 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 Competition’s award for greatest documentary. Will “Flee” take residence the gold once more? Discover out when the Academy Awards go down on March 27.