Annecy 2022: Award Winners in Full
As the paper airplanes are swept away and the sound of popping dissolves into memory, the return of a fully in person Annecy will be remembered fondly as another record breaking triumph. There were 13,248 badgeholders (an 8% increase compared to 2019, their record year), coming from 106 countries, who got together for a week dedicated to animation film. Directors, producers, distributers, students, composers, and more.
Closing the Festival was the awards ceremony which awarded categories of Feature films, Short films, TV and commissioned films, Graduation films and VR works.
Feature films
Cristal for a Feature Film
Le Petit Nicolas – Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux ?
Directed by: Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre
Le Petit Nicolas – Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux ?
Jury Award
Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens (No Dogs or Italians Allowed)
Directed by: Alain Ughetto
Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens
Jury Distinction
My Love Affair with Marriage
Directed by: Signe Baumane
My Love Affair with Marriage
Jury Distinction
Saules aveugles, femme endormie (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman)
Directed by: Pierre Foldes
Saules aveugles, femme endormie
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens (No Dogs or Italians Allowed)
Directed by: Alain Ughetto
Contrechamp Award
Ikuta no Kita (Dozens of Norths)
Directed by: Koji Yamamura
Ikuta no Kita
Contrechamp Jury Distinction
Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On
Directed by: Jun-pyo Hong
Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On
Short films
Cristal for a Short Film
Amok
Directed by: Balázs Turai
Amok
Jury Award
Steakhouse
Directed by: Spela Cadez
Steakhouse
Jury Distinction
“For its beautifully crafted animation and its great physical experience”
Anxious Body
Directed by: Yoriko Mizushiri
Anxious Body
“Jean-Luc Xiberras” Award for a First Film
The Record
Directed by: Jonathan Laskar
The Record
“Off-Limits” Award
Intersect
Directed by: Dirk Koy
Intersect
TV and commissioned films
Cristal for a TV Production
My Year of Dicks
Directed by: Sara Gunnarsdottir
My Year of Dicks
Jury Award for a TV Series
Dos pajaritos
Directed by: Alejo Schettini, Alfredo Soderguit
Dos pajaritos
Jury Award for a TV Special
The House
Directed by: Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth Van Bahr, Paloma Baeza
The House
Cristal for a Commissioned Film
Save Ralph
Directed by Spencer Susser
Save Ralph
Jury Award for a Commissioned Film
Aline
Directed by Wes Anderson
Aline
Graduation films
Cristal for a Graduation Film
Persona
Directed by: Sujin Moon
Persona
Jury Award
A Dog Under a Bridge
Directed by: Rehoo Tang
A Dog Under a Bridge
Jury Distinction
Maman, il a quoi le chien ? (Mom, What’s up with the Dog?)
Directed by: Lola Lefevre
Maman, il a quoi le chien?
VR works
Cristal for the Best VR Work
Glimpse
Directed by: Benjamin Cleary, Michael O’Connor
Glimpse
Jury Distinction
Goliath: Playing With Reality
Directed by: Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla
Goliath: Playing With Reality
Jury
The 2022 Feature films Jury consisted of Tomm Moore (Cartoon Saloon), Charlotte De La Gournerie (Sun Creative Studio) and Frederic Myor (Cinémathèque Suisse) The Contrechamp feature films Jury were Felix Dufour-Laperriere (Embuscade Films), yonfan (Far Sun Film Co Ltd) and Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen (Bivrost Film). Heading up the Short films jury were Jean Labadie (La Pacte), Adriaan Lokman (Lokman Space) and Saskia Von Virag (Virage Film). The Off Limits, Graduation Films and Shorts Jury was covered by Ron Dyens (Sacreblue Productions), Olivier Calvert (Sound Designer) and Maria Anestopoulou (Animasyros International Animation Festival). The TV and commissioned Films Jury contained Laurence Herszberg (Festival Series Mania Lille Hauts-De-France), Michael Frei (Playables) and Cesar Cabral (Coala Filmes). And donning headsets to juror the VR works were Ramsey Naito (Paramount Animation & Nickelodeon Animation), Rita Mbanga (Sunrise Animation Studios) and Chris Nee (Laughing Wild/Netflix)
Annecy Festival’s 47th edition returns from 12th to 17th June 2023 and will feature a celebration of Mexican Animation.