Variety reports that both CORALINE and MARY AND MAX shared the top honors at this year’s Annecy Animated Film Festival. It was interesting to see two stop motion films, but very dissimilar in style tie for Best Feature.
“These two films aren’t straight family fare, and have a very strong identity,” said Serge Bromberg, Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival’s artistic director. “In their own way, they are auteur films.”
Other films to get recognized were BRENDAN AND THE SECRET OF KELLS, directed by Nora Twomey and Tomm Moore for the Audience Award, LOG JAM by Studio Baestarts for Best TV Production, and LOST AND FOUND by Philip Hunt and Studio Aka for Best TV Special. Here is a list of all the winners:
FEATURE FILMS:
ANNECY CRYSTAL – FEATURE
“Coraline,” (Henry Selick, U.S.) and “Mary and Max,” (Adam Elliot, Australia)AUDIENCE AWARD
“Brendan and the Secret of Kells,” (Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey, Belgium-France-Ireland)TV PRODUCTIONS:
ANNECY CRYSTAL – TV PRODUCTION
“Log Jam,” (Alexey Alexeev, Hungary)SPECIAL AWARD, TV SERIES
“Jour de bain,” (Pierre Coffin, Marco Allard, France)TV SPECIAL
“Lost and Found,” (Philip Hunt, U.K.)SHORT FILMS
ANNECY CRYSTAL
“Slaves,” (Hanna Heilborn, David Aronowitsch, Sweden)SPECIAL JURY AWARD
“Runaway,” (Cordell Barker, Canada)FIRST FILM
“The Man in the Blue Gordini,” (Jean-Christophe Lie, France)SPECIAL MENTION
“Please Say Something,” (David O’Reilly, Germany-Ireland)SACEM AWARD, ORIGINAL MUSIC
“Chick,” Michal Socha, Poland)AUDIENCE AWARD
“Western Spaghetti,” (PES, U.S.)EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC OR INDUSTRIAL FILM AWARD
“How to Destroy the World ‘Rubbish,’” (Pete Bishop, U.K.)ADVERTISING OR PROMOTIONAL FILM AWARD
BBC iPlayer, “Penguins,” (Darren Walsh, Vince Squibb, U.K.)MUSIC VIDEO AWARD
Flogging Molly, “Float,” (Karni & Saul, U.K.)GRADUATION FILMS:
BEST GRADUATION FILM:
“For Sock’s Sake,” (Carlo Vogele, Gobelins, France)SPECIAL JURY AWARD
“EX – E.T.” (Benoit Bargeton, Yannick Lasfas, REmy Froment, Nicolas Gracia, ESMA, France)SPECIAL MENTION
“The Soliloquist,” (Kuang Pei Ma, Taiwan National University of the Arts, Taiwan)OTHER PRIZES:
JUNIOR JURY AWARD , SHORT FILM
“The Man in the Blue Gordini”JUNIOR JURY AWARD, GRADUATION FILM
“Shrug,” (Alina Constantin, Volda Univrersity College, ESAAT, Norway-France)UNICEF AWARD
“Slaves”FIPRESCI AWARD
“The Employment,” (Santiago Grasso, Argentina)CANAL PLUS SHORT FILM AWARD
“Madagascar, carnet de voyage,” (Bastien Dubois, France)
