The winners of this year’s Annecy International Animation Festival were announced today (Saturday, June 20th) online. The program, which was held online this year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, will continue throughout the end of the month at Annecy.org. Among the top winners this year were Rémi Chayé’s lush and colorful 2D-animated feature Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary and Theodore Ushev’s acclaimed short The Physics of Sorrow, which was also a big prize winner at Ottawa last year. Among the winners on the TV side were Picolo Productions’ Shooom’s Odyssey, Amazon/Torante/Submarine’s Undone and Lupus Films special The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Here is the complete list of the 2020 winners:
FEATURE FILMS
Crystal for a Feature Film
Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary
Rémi Chayé
(France, Denmark; Maybe Movies, Norlum)
Jury Award
The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks
Audrey Khrzhanovsky
(Russia, School-Studio Shar)
Jury Distinction
Kill It and Leave This Town
Mariusz Wilczynski
(Poland; Bomobnierka, Extreme Options, Iam-Adam Mickiewicz Institute, EC1 Lodz City of Culture, Letko, DI Factory, Gigant Films, Polish Film Institute)
Contrechamp Award
My Favorite War
IlzeBurkovskaJocobsen
(Latvia/Norway: Bivrost film & TV, Ego Media)
Contrechamp Jury Distinction
The Shaman Sorceress
Jae-huunAhn
(South Korea, Meditation with a Pencil)
SHORT FILMS
Cristal for a Short Film
The Physics of Sorrow
Theodore Ushev
(Canada, National Film Board of Canada)
Jury Award
Homeless Home
Alberto Vazques
France, Spain; Autour de Minuit, UnikoEstudioCreativo
Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film
The Town
Yifan Bao
China, ARC Anime Studio
Jury Distinction
Freeze Frame
SoetkinVerstegen
Belgium, Akademie Schloss Solitude
Jury Distintion
Genius Loci
Adrien Merigeau
(France, Kazak Productions, Folimage)
Off-Limits Award
Serial Parallels
Max Hattler
(Germany, Hong Kong: Relentless Melt)
TV AND COMMISSIONED FILMS
Cristal for a TV Production
Shooom’s Odyssey
Julien Bisaro
(Belgium, France: Picolo Pictures)
Jury Award for TV Series
Undone
Hisko Hulsing
(U.S.; Amazon Prime Video, Torante Productions, Submarine)
Jury Award for a TV Special
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Robin Shaw (U.K., Lupus Films)
COMMISSIONED FILMS
Cristal for a Commissioned Film
Lucky Chops “Traveler”
Daniel Almagor, Raman Djafari
Germany, Studio Vogel
Jury Award
Greenpeace “Turtle Journey”
Gavin Strange
(U.K. Aardman Animations)
GRADUATION FILMS
Cristal for a Graduation Film
Naked
Kirill Khachaturov
(Russia, Moscow School of New Cinema)
Jury Award
Pile
Toby Auberg
(U.K., Royal College of Art)
Jury Distinction
Sura
Hae-Ji Jeong
(South Korea, Korean National University of Arts, Knuadis K’Arts)
VR WORKS
Cristal for the Best VR Work
Minimum Mass
Raqi Syed, Areito Echevarria
(France, New Zealand; Like Amber, Floreal Films)
Jury Special Distinction
Battlescar – Punk Was Invented by Girls
Martin Allais, Nicolas Casavecchia
(USA, France; Atlas, Albyon, 1st Ave. Machine, Ryot, Arte France)
You can watch the awards ceremony here.
You can also watch many of the award-winning projects on the Annecy Festival website through June 30th at online.annecy.org.
