Insight: Adult Animation’s Trojan Horse “Flee” Gets Three Oscar Nominations For 2022 Academy Awards

We don’t even consider Flee the best animated film of 2021, but if it wins, it’s the biggest leap for our industry in quite some time. Routinely Disney wins year in and year out at the Academy Awards, and in all likely hood will win the Best Animated Feature given that the company has three entrants, but Flee could still make some noise by not only winning for Best Animated Feature Film, but other categories as well. That’s because Flee was also nominated for an Oscar for both Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary. If the film can snag either of those two awards, it might even be more important than the best animated film, a category that, in it of itself, defines animation as a genre and not an industry.

For those that don’t know, Flee is a 2021 animated docudrama film directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. It follows the story of a man named Amin Nawabi, who shares his hidden past for the first time, of fleeing his country. Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau serve as executive producers and narrate the English language adaptation of the film for which you can see our review for here. 

The 94th annual Academy Awards premieres on March 27 (ABC, 8 p.m. EDT/5 PDT).