Jun 18, 2022

-Little Nicholas," "Dozens of North," "Amok" and "My Year of Dicks" won top prizes at the 2022 Annecy Film Festival.

Annecy joined the French animation film festival this year with a record 13,248 visitors (8% more than the 2019 record).

During Saturday night's delightful closing ceremony, festival legend Guillermo del Toro delighted attendees with a video announcement that Mexico would be proud to be Annecy in 2023. Part of the audience's enthusiasm for this news must have been due to the possibility of the filmmaker himself coming to the festival next year. It was also announced that Jorge Gutierrez, creator of "Maya and the Three," "Book of Life," and "El Tigre" and a fan of Annecy, will design the 2023 festival poster.

Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last month, "Little Nicholas - Happy as Can Be" won the Annecy Crystal Award for Best Feature Film, and was recognized at the festival by Benjamin Masuble, editor of I Lost My Body and Directed by Amandine Fredon, animator of "A Cat in Paris," the film is an adaptation of the popular children's book series by René Goscinny, in a "Chinese ink animation" style inspired by the look and feel of the original illustrations of the books by Jean-Jacques Sampe. The film is animated in a "Chinese ink animation" style inspired by the look and feel of the original picture books by Jean-Jacques Sampe.

The Jury Prize for Best Feature Film and the Gan Foundation Prize for Distribution went to "No Dogs or Italians Allowed" by filmmaker Alain Uguette ("Jasmine").

This year's feature competition lineup was one of the best we have seen at Annecy, or any other animation festival, and the jury seemed to agree, with Signe Beaumane's My Love for Marriage and Pierre Fordes' Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" were awarded further special prizes.

In the contrarian lineup, Koji Yamamura's "Dozens of North" won the top prize.

Annecy's short film lineup was similarly packed, but Barash Turai's "Amok," a frenetic, neon-lit dream of a film, won the Cristal Award. The film qualified for the Academy Awards.

In the Television competition, Sara Gunnarsdottir's "My Year of Dicks" took top honors.

Below is the list of winners of this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival:

Crystal Award (Feature Film)

Little Nicolas - Happy as Can Be - Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Masbul (France/Luxembourg)

Jury Prize

No Dogs, No Italians - Alain Uguette (France/Italy/Switzerland)

Special Jury Prize

My Love for Marriage - Signe Baumane (Latvia/USA)

My Love for Marriage - Signe Baumane (Latvia / USA)

My Love for Marriage - Signe Baumane (Latvia / USA / Luxembourg

Special Jury Prize

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Pierre Fordes (France / Luxembourg / Canada / Netherlands)

Gan Distribution Foundation Prize

Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens - Alain Uguette (France / Italy / Switzerland)

Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens - Alain Uguette (France/Italy/Switzerland)

Prix Contrechamp

How Many Dozens of North - Koji Yamamura, Japan/France

Contrechamp Jury Special Prize

Jung Tae-il: The Flame that Keeps on Living - Hong Jun-pyo, South Korea

Crystal Short Film Competition

"Amok" - Balázs Turay, Hungary / Romania

Jury Prize

"Steak House" - Spela Kadesz ( (Slovenia/Germany/France)

"Off Limits" Award

"Intersect" - Dirk Koi (Switzerland)

Special Jury Prize

"The Record" - Jonathan Rascal (Switzerland)

Special Jury Prize

"The Record" - Jonathan Rascal (Switzerland)

"The Record" - Jonathan Rascal, 61]

Special Jury Prize

Anxious Body - Yoriko Mizuhiri (France/Japan)

Crystal Prize (Graduation work)

Persona - Sujin Moon (Korea)

Jury Prize

Dog Under the Bridge - Lehu Tan (China)

Special Jury Prize

Persona - Sujin Moon (Korea)

Special Jury Prize

Dog Under the Bridge - Lehu Tan (China)

Special Prize China

Special Jury Prize

"Mama, what happened to the dog" - Laura Lefevre (France)

Crystal Prize for Best Television Work

"My Year of Dicks" - Sarah Gunnarsdottir (USA)

Jury Prize (TV Special)

The House - Emma de Sweeff, Mark James Roels, Niki Lindros von Barr, Paloma Baeza (UK/US) 0]

Jury Prize (TV Series category)

Two Little Birds - Alejo Schettini, Alfredo Sodergit (Argentina/Colombia/Uruguay)

Crystal Award (Commissioned Film category)

Save Ralph - Spencer Sasser (UK)

Jury Prize

Aline - Wes Anderson (France)

Crystal Award (VR Productions)

Glimpse - Ben Anderson (France) [18 8]

Jury Prize

Aline - Wes Anderson (France)

Best VR Film

Glimpse - Benjamin Cleary, Michael O'Connor

Special Jury Prize

Goliath: Reality and Playing - Barry Jean Murphy, May Abdalla (UK/France)

French TV Award for Best Short Film

Amok - Baláš Turay (Hungary/Romania)

Canal + Junior Jury Prize

La Calesita - Augusto Siraci (Argentina/USA)

Prix André Martin (French Short Film)

Histoire pour 2 trompettes - Amandine Meyer (France)

Connechon Festival Award

Terra Incognita - Pernille Kjaer, Adrian Dexter, Denmark/France

YouTube Award

The Invention of Less - Noah Erni, Switzerland

City of Annecy Award

Reparations - Wilson Borja, Colombia

Pictured above: Little Nicolas - Happy as Can Be, Dozens of North, Amok, My Year of Dicks