The Oscar winner for best short animated film, FATHER AND DAUGHTER, has won the coveted grand prize at the International Festival of Animated Film at Annecy. In an elaborate and festive closing ceremony held on Saturday, June 9, 2001, the awards were handed out by the festivals artistic director, Serge Bromberg.
The Short and Feature Fiction Films jury, made up of Ron Diamond, USA, Florence Miailhe, France, John Dilworth, USA, Françoise Reymond, France and Oscar Grillo, Argentina has awarded:
"Annecy 2001" Grand Prix For Best Animated Short Film
FATHER AND DAUGHTER
Michaël Dudok de Wit
The Netherlands, Great Britain
The Special Jury Award
THE BOY WHO SAW THE ICEBERG
Paul Driessen
Canada
The "Jean-Luc Xiberras" Award For A First Film
PRIVET IS KISLOVODSKA / HELLO FROM KISLOVODSK
Dmitriy Geller
Russia
HASTA LOS HUESOS / DOWN TO THE BONE
René Castillo
Mexico
Special Distinction
INTOLERANCE
Phil Mulloy
Great Britain
STRANGE INVADERS
Cordell Barker
Canada
"Annecy 2001" Grand Prix For Best Animated Feature
MUTANT ALIENS
Bill Plympton
USA
The Jury for TV and Commissioned Films, made up of Estelle Hughes, Great Britain,María Verónica Ramírez, Argentina and Börge Ring, Denmark has awarded:
"Annecy 2001" Grand Prix For Best TV Animation Programme
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE "LE GÂTEAU" / PANIC IN THE VILLAGE "THE CAKE"
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Belgium
Award For Best TV Series
THE BIG KNIGHTS "KNIGHTS IN DISTRESS"
Mark Baker, Neville Astley
Great Britain
Distinction For A TV Series
PECOLA "DETECTIVE PECOLA"
Mike Fallows, Dan Wakabayashi, Makoto Iwasaki, Atsushi Miyake
Japan, Canada
Award For The Best TV Special
THE LAST POLAR BEARS
Alan Simpson
Great Britain
Award For A Pilot Series Or TV Special
PINOCCHIO
Enzo d'Aló
Italy
Advertising Film Award
NESTEA "CLOSED"
Dave Borthwick
Great Britain
Award For The Best Animated Sequence
I WALK THE EARTH
Tim Hope
Great Britain
The School and Graduation Films jury, made up of Shelley Page, Great Britain, Michel Ocelot, France and Pentcho Kountchev, Bulgaria has awarded:
Award For Best School Or Graduation Film
GÉRALDINE
Arthur de Pins
France
Special Jury Award
AP 2000 Loïc Bail, Aurélien Delpoux, Sébastien Ebzant, Benjamin Lauwick
France
Special Distinction
COMICS TRIP
Christophe Barnouin, Nathalie Bonnin, Luc Degardin
France
The "Annecy 2001 / Canal J" junior jury for short films, made up of Lucie Martel-Hebrad, Chloé Lamarche, Arthur Viotto and Antoine Iahns, has awarded:
Short Film Award
HASTA LOS HUESOS / DOWN TO THE BONE
René Castillo
Mexico
The "Annecy 2001 / Canal J" junior jury for school and graduation films, made up of Jessica Gesto, Yamuna Paulet, Audrey Gelard and Alys Bareau Le Du,has awarded:
School Or Graduation Film Award
AP 2000
Loïc Bail, Aurélien Delpoux, Sébastien Ebzant, Benjamin Lauwick
France
The FIPRESCI jury, made up of Larissa Malykova, Tsvika Oren and Luk Menten, has awarded:
The FIPRESCI Award
For the innovative form of storytelling, involving the audience in a little boy's inner world
THE BOY WHO SAW THE ICEBERG
Paul Driessen
Canada
FIPRESCI Special Distinction
For its enjoyable and true expression of Mexican tradition regarding death
HASTA LOS HUESOS / DOWN TO THE BONE
René Castillo
Mexico
Audience Award
FATHER AND DAUGHTER
Michaël Dudok de Wit
The Netherlands, Great Britain
Unicef Award
THE TYRANT AND THE CHILD
Jiri Barta
Great Britain, Czech Republic
Mike Gribble Award
MOYA ZHIZN / IT'S MY LIFE
Natalia Berezovaya
Russia
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
