Adam Elliot’s oddball Aussie characteristic Memoir of a Snail has received the Cristal award for greatest characteristic movie on the 2024 Annecy Movie Competition, the world’s main worldwide animation fest.
The darkish dramedy, a couple of lonely, snail-obsessed hoarder — voiced by Succession star Sarah Snook — recounting her life story to one in every of her beloved gastropods, is Elliot’s first characteristic since 2009’s Mary and Max, which additionally received the highest honor at Annecy. A powerful group of Australian A-listers, together with Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana and Nick Cave present supporting voice work. IFC Movies picked up North American rights to Memoir of a Snail forward of the competition.
Circulation, a drama from Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis (Away), which follows a cat that survives a world-destroying deluge on a ship with a set of different animals, received this yr’s jury award and viewers prize, voted on by Annecy attendees. It additionally took residence a particular award for greatest music for the rating by Rihards Zalupe and Gints Zilbalodis. Totto-chan: The Little Lady on the Window, Shinnosuke Yakuwa’s animated adaptation of the memoir by Japanese tv star Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, took Annecy’s Paul Grimault honor.
Isabel Herguera’s Sultana’s Dream, which had its world premiere in competitors on the San Sebastian Movie Competition final yr, received the Grand Prix honor in Annecy’s Contrechamp part, with the jury award going to Residing Giant, the stop-action characteristic movie debut from Czech director Kristina Dufková.
Amongst Annecy’s particular awards, the Festivals Connexion award for greatest VR manufacturing went to Emperor from Marion Burger and Ilan Cohen. The work, which had its world premiere at Venice Immersive final yr, explores Burger’s makes an attempt to grasp her father, affected by aphasia, as he begins to lose his colleges of speech and language comprehension. One other Venice Immersive spotlight, Ethan Shaftel’s Gargoyle Doyle, received the Cristal prize for greatest VR work at this yr’s competition.
The Metropolis of Annecy award went to Italian director Margherita Giusti for her brief The Meatseller, which follows a younger Nigerian lady on a harrowing journey to Italy as she pursues her dream of following in her mom’s footsteps and changing into a meat vendor.
The awards, handed out in Annecy Saturday evening, closed the 2024 French competition after every week that confirmed its place because the main occasion on the worldwide animation calendar. Highlights of this yr’s competition included the world premiere of Despicable Me 4; sneak peeks on the upcoming Wallace and Gromit movie and Andy Serkis’ Lord of the Rings Anime film The Warfare of the Rohirrim; and Disney unveiling new footage and the lead character’s opening track from Moana 2.
See the total checklist of 2024 Annecy Competition award winners beneath.
Characteristic Movies
Cristal for a Characteristic Movie
Memoir of a Snail
Adam Elliot
Australia
Arenamedia
Jury Award
Circulation
Gints Zilbalodis
Latvia, Belgium, France
Dream Properly Studio, Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions
Paul Grimault Award
Totto-Chan: The Little Lady on the Window
Shinnosuke Yakuwa
Japan
Shin-Ei Animation Co., Ltd.
Characteristic Movies – Contrechamp
Contrechamp Grand Prix
Sultana’s Dream
Isabel Herguera
Spain, Germany
Abano Produccións S.L., El Gatoverde Producciones, Sultana Movies, Uniko, Fabian&Fred GmbH
Contrechamp Jury Award
Residing Giant
Kristina Dufková
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France
Barletta Productions, Novinski, Novanima
Viewers Awards
Characteristic Movie
Circulation
Gints Zilbalodis
Latvia, Belgium, France
Dream Properly Studio, Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions
TV Movie
The Drifting Guitar
Sophie Roze
France, Switzerland
JPL Movies, Nadasdy Movie
TV and Commissioned Movies
Cristal for a Commissioned Movie
Pictoplasma “Opener 2023”
Will Anderson
United Kingdom
Jury Award for a Commissioned Movie
TED-Ed “How Did South African Apartheid Occur, and How Did It Lastly Finish?”
Aya Marzouk
USA, South Africa, Egypt
TED-Ed
Cristal for a TV Manufacturing
The Drifting Guitar
Sophie Roze
France, Switzerland
JPL Movies, Nadasdy Movie
Jury Award for a TV Sequence
My Life in Versailles “Versailles Ghost”
Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, Nathaniel H’Limi
France, Luxembourg
Movies Grand Huit, Melusine Productions / Studio 352, Movie Fund Luxembourg
Jury Award for a TV Particular
Lola and the Noisy Piano
Augusto Zanovello
France, Poland, Switzerland
Komadoli Studio, Folimage, Momakin, Nadasdy Movie
Commencement Movies
Lotte Reiniger Award
Maatitel
Govinda Sao
India
NID – Nationwide Institute of Design, GOIA
Jury Award
Pubert Jimbob
Quirijn Dees
Belgium
KASK & Conservatorium / College of Arts Gent
Cristal for a Commencement Movie
Carrotica
Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Germany
Filmuniversitaet Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Characteristic Movies
Gan Basis Award for Distribution
Circulation
Gints Zilbalodis
Latvia, Belgium, France
UFO Distribution
VR Works
Cristal for the Greatest VR Work
Gargoyle Doyle
Ethan Shaftel
USA, Austria, Argentina
Detona Cultura, Easyaction Ltd, Amilux Movie
Brief Movies
Cristal for a Brief Movie
Percebes
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
Portugal, France
BAP – Animation Studio, Ikki Movies
Off-Limits Award
Glass Home
Boris Labbé
France
Viewers Award
Hurikán
Jan Saska
Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Final Movies, Maur Movie, Laïdak Movies, Artichoke, Aeon Manufacturing
Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Movie
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Mario Radev
United Kingdom
Alexeïeff – Parker Award
Lovely Males
Nicolas Keppens
Belgium, France, Netherlands
Animal Tank, Miyu Productions, Ka-Ching Cartoons
Jury Award
The Automobile That Got here Again from the Sea
Jadwiga Kowalska
Switzerland
Particular Prizes
Greatest Authentic Music Award for a Characteristic Movie
Circulation
Rihards Zalupe, Gints Zilbalodis
Latvia, Belgium, France
Dream Properly Studio, Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions
France TV Award for a Brief Movie
The Automobile That Got here Again from the Sea
Jadwiga Kowalska
Switzerland
Greatest Authentic Music Award for a Brief Movie
Joko
Aliaksandr Yasinski
Poland, Germany, Czech Republic
Animoon, Las Sztuki Basis, Clay Traces, Maur Movie
CANAL+ Junior Jury Award
Noodles au Naturel
Matteo Salanave Piazza
France
La Poudrière
Younger Viewers Award
Howdy Summer time
Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová
Slovakia, Czech Republic, France
Studio Bororo, Maur Movie, Final Movies, Vivement Lundi !
André Martin Award for a French Brief Movie
Butterfly
Florence Miailhe
France
Sacrebleu Productions, XBO Movies
Festivals Connexion Award
Lovely Males
Nicolas Keppens
Belgium, France, Netherlands
Animal Tank, Miyu Productions, Ka-Ching Cartoons
Festivals Connexion VR Award
Emperor
Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen
France, Germany
Reynard Movies, France Télévisions, Atlas V
Metropolis of Annecy Award
The Meatseller
Margherita Giusti
Italy
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