"Flow" won an Academy Award for best animation film last night. Beating out other great studio efforts, expensive big big studio films.
In accepting the award, the makers thanked Blender. Blender is the software the film was created on.
Blender is free. Blender is another free and open software project.
You can use it. Make a film, win an Oscar. They did. You don't even have to thank Blender, but it sure was nice to hear it on the Oscars Stage, winning.
@kevinrns Do not forget that the team behind the animation didn't use the high quality rendering engine (Cycles) since they didn't have access to a render farm. Instead they used the new, almost real-time engine which is not that high quality, but extremely fast.
IOW, the whole movie is rendered on a single workstation!
This makes the award 10x more important and Blender 10x more awesome, if you ask me.