Little Nicolas – Happy as can be, a Franco-Luxembourgish co-production by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre, received the Grand Cristal for feature film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which ended on Saturday.
One year ago, To run away won Best Crystal, en route to three Oscar nominations, including one for Animated Feature. In 2019, I lost my body also won the Cristal d’Annecy for a feature film before earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. (Little Nicholas director Massoubre edited I lost my body.)
Little Nicholas follows a mischievous boy named Nicholas and is based on a series of illustrated children’s books created by René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempe.
The list of winners follows, and the special prizes awarded on Friday can be found here.
CRYSTAL FOR A FEATURE FILM: Little Nicolas – Happy as can be Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre Producers: On Classics, Aton Soumache, Cédric Pilot, Bidibul Productions, Lilian Eche, Christel Henon
FEATURE FILMS JURY AWARD: Forbidden to dogs and Italians Alain Ughetto
DISTINCTIVE JURY – FEATURE FILMS: Blind willow, sleeping woman Pierre Foldes
DISTINCTIVE JURY – FEATURE FILMS: My love affair with marriage Sign Baumane
GAN FOUNDATION AWARD FOR DISTRIBUTION: Forbidden to dogs and Italians Alain Ughetto
COUNTERCHAMP PRICE: Ikuta no Kita Koji Yamamura
COUNTERCHAMP JURY DISTINCTION: Chun Tae-il: a living flame Jun-pyo Hong
CRYSTAL FOR A SHORT FILM: Amok Balazs Turai
JURY PRIZE – SHORT FILM: Steak house Spela Cadez
JURY’S DISTINCTION-SPECIAL DISTINCTION FOR ANIMATION: anxious bodyYoriko Mizushiri
JEAN-LUC XIBERRAS AWARD FOR A FIRST FILM: The record Jonathan Lascar
“OUT OF LIMITS” PRICE: To cut Dirk Koy
CRYSTAL FOR A TV PRODUCTION: My year of dicks Sara Gunnarsdottir
JURY PRIZE FOR A TV SERIES: Dos pajaritos Alejo Schettini, Alfredo Soderguit
JURY PRIZE FOR A TV SPECIAL: The House Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, Paloma Baeza
CRYSTAL FOR A FILM ORDER: Save Ralph Spencer Süsser
JURY PRIZE FOR A COMMISSIONED FILM: A line Wes Anderson
CRYSTAL FOR A DIPLOMA FILM: Character Sujin Moon
JURY AWARD – DIPLOMA FILMS Mom, what’s up with the dog? Lola Lefevre
JURY PRIZE – DIPLOMA FILMS A dog under a bridge Rehoo Tang
CRYSTAL FOR BEST VR WORK: Insight Benjamin Cleary, Michael O’Connor
JURY AWARD-VR WORK Goliath: playing with reality Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla