Annecy Awards: Little Nicholas, Feature Winning My Year of Dicks, TV Series

“Little Nicholas – Happy As Can Be” won the Cristal Award for Best Film at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival for Best Film in a 20th Applause jury which also saw Wes Anderson win the Jury Prize for Best Film Commissioned.

Annecy’s biggest winner this year, though, was the festival itself, animation in general, and when it came to film awards, France in particular.

Directed by Benjamin Massubry and Amandine Fridon, First Winner Annecy is the classic French animated film in technical and industrial terms: 2D, based on a verbatim source – writer René Goscinny and illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempy comic strip, featuring a large IP Gallic: young Nicolas, schoolboy The ideal of France, which meets here with its two makers, Goscinny and Simbe.

Produced by Aton Somach, one of the dominant figures on France’s animation scene and producer of “The Little Prince,” France’s biggest film export in 2015, “Little Nicholas” may sound great at times, but, family fare, it has a more modern pace. The focus is on entertainment more than 2D art cinema.

Some have surprised “Little Nicholas” crystals. “Unicorn Wars”, “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” and “Nayola” from Portugal’s José Miguel Ribeiro were all talked about during the week as the top performers in the competition.

As the awards rolled in, artistically ambitious “Blind Willow”—a feature that blends rotoscoping, 2D and 3D, and freely blends short stories from Haruki Murakami—had to settle on a jury mention.

Loved by fans of the stop-and-go action in Annecy, “No Dogs or Italians Allowed” – directed by Frenchman Alain Ughetto and based on the troubles of his grandfather, an Italian immigrant – won the festival’s Jury Prize and the GAN Foundation Prize.

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Folliscope – Les Films de Tambo

The farce of Signe Baumane’s gender role, “My Love Affair with Marriage,” about a woman who suffers her whole life under the pressures of gender conformity, earned mention for the famous jury award.

From June 13-18, the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival issued 13,248 accreditations, including MIFA market badges, an 8% increase over total attendance in 2019, an all-time high.

Annecy director Mickaël Marin declared during Annecy’s closing ceremony that such a record attendance “simply reflects how important animated film is to the world: a major art form and an industry with remarkable agility that is constantly evolving”.

In town to present “Pinocchio” for Netflix and satiate his love for animation, Guillermo del Toro has already announced that Mexico will be Annecy’s guest country in 2023. Jorge Gutiérrez, creator of “Maya and the Three,” Will design the 2023 Festival poster. “Mexican animation is little known and deserves to be the focus of a great national overview,” said Annecy Artistic Director Marcel Jean.

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2022 ANNECY INTL. Animation Festival Official Awards

Feature Films

Jane Distribution Foundation Award

“No dogs or Italians allowed”, (Alain Ogito, France, Italy, Switzerland)

Jury notice

“My Love Affair with Marriage” (Signe Baumane, Latvia, USA, Luxembourg)

Jury notice

“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,” (Pierre Foldes, France, Luxembourg, Canada,

Holland)

Jury Prize

“No dogs or Italians allowed”, (Alain Ogito, France, Italy, Switzerland)

Crystal for a special movie

“Little Nicholas – As Happy As Possible” (Amandine Fridon, Benjamin Masuper, France, Luxembourg)

CONTRECHAMP

CONTRECHAMP Arbitral Tribunal

“Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Live On” (Jun-pyo Hong, South Korea)

CONTRECHAMP AWARD

“Ikuta no Kita” (Koji Yamamura, Japan, France)

short films

First Film Award

“The Record” (Jonathan Laskar, Switzerland)

Jury notice

“The Anxious Body” (Yuriko Mizushiri, France, Japan)

Jury Prize

“Steakhouse” (Spela Cadez, Slovenia, Germany, France)

Crystal for a short film

“Amok” (Balázs Turai, Hungary, Romania)

graduation movies

Jury notice

“Mom, what’s up with the dog?” (Lola Lefevre, France)

Jury Prize

“Dog Under a Bridge” (Rehoo Tang, China)

Crystal for the graduation movie

“Persona,” (Sojin Moon, South Korea)

short films

Animation “Out of Borders”

“Out of Borders” Award

“Intersect” (Dirk Coy, Switzerland)

VR works

Jury notice

Goliath: Playing with Reality (Barry Jane Murphy, May Abdallah, UK, France)

Crystal for best virtual reality work

“Glimpse” (Benjamin Cleary, Michael O’Connor, France, Ireland, UK)

TV and movies

TV Movies

Jury Prize for TV Special

“The House” (Emma de Suef, Mark James Rawels, Nikki Lindroth von Baher, Paloma Baeza, UK, US)

Jury Prize for a TV Series

“Two Little Birds” (Alejo Chitini, Alfredo Soderguet, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay)

Crystal for TV production

“My Year of Dicks,” (Sarah Gunnarsdottir, US)

commissioned films

Jury Prize for a Film

“Aline” (Wes Anderson, France)

Crystal to get commissioned film

“Save Ralph”, (Spencer Sauser, UK)



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