Image: The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation

Established in honour of the legendary master of stop-motion animation, the Harryhausen Awards 2024 are now accepting submissions for animated films of all types within the following categories before the deadline of May 31st 2024.

• Best Feature Film Animation
• Best Short Film Animation
• Best Student Film Animation
• Best Children’s Film Animation
• Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award

Ray Harryhausen’s influence on cinema past and present is truly titanic. I devised these awards in Ray’s name to recognise new standards of excellence in the growing field of animation.

–John Walsh, Filmmaker & Trustee

Dad always recognised the strong educational aspect of his work. I hope that these awards will encourage a new generation of animators to be inspired and follow their own dreams.

–Vanessa Harryhausen, Ray’s daughter and Trustee

The winner for each category will be awarded with one Harryhausen Award engraved with the name of their winning category, their name and the name of their entry A further ‘nomination certificate’ shall be awarded to all participants who were considered for a prize by the Judges.

Previous Harryhausen Award winners

Image: The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation

Thank you for this incredibly moving award, perhaps the most significant in terms of carrying the name of the god of animation and stop-motion. For me, this is a life changing award.

–Guillermo del Toro, Winner ‘Best Feature Film Animation’ 2023

Image: The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation

Thank you for this prestigious award for the Ray Harryhausen Hall of Fame- this really means a great deal to me. Ray inspired a generation…

-Phil Tippett, Harryhausen Hall of Fame 2022

For rules, fees and how to submit visit FilmFreeway

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In the 93rd episode of the Skwigly podcast we catch up with Lauren Orme, Festival Director of the Cardiff Animation Festival, founder of Cardiff Animation Nights and co-founder/Creative Director at Picl Animation. Lauren has also recently finished her short film Creepy Pasta Salad with Winding Snake Productions that screens next week at Bristol’s Encounters festival, having premiered earlier this year at EIFF.

The film, which tells the story of “a werewolf with an anxiety disorder, a ghost with low self-confidence and a lonely witch” muddling through their everyday lives was produced by Amy Morris and features the voice talents of Adam Buxton, Richard Harrington, Eve Myles and Ruth Maddoc. Encounters festivalgoers can catch the film in the competition programme Herstory on Thursday September 26th at noon.

We also speak with David Hutchinson of Wildbrain, to discuss navigating the often-overwhelming world of online animation having recently created the YouTube series Boy & Dragon that recently launched last month.

Finally we’re joined by Connor Heaney & John Walsh of The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation to discuss the various upcoming Harryhausen 100 events in honour of Ray Harryhausen’s centenary and John’s book Harryhausen: The Lost Movies, as well as showcasing some exclusive audio of the late, great Mr. Harryhausen himself.

Stream this episode below or direct download here:

You can also hear more from the Creepy Pasta Salad team in our 2019 Encounters Festival filmmaker Q&As with Lauren, technical director Dani Abram and composer Phil Brookes:

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