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Best Student Film

1. LA QUEUE DE LA SOURIS - Benjamin Renner - France

2. OKTAPODI - Julien Bocabeille, François Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi - France

3. MAMAN JE T'AIME - Mickael Abensur, Antoine Collet, Damien Dell'omodarme - France

 

Best Feature Film

1. DELGO - Marc F. Adler & Jasin Maurer - United States

2. PRINCESS - Anders Morgenthaler - Denmark

3. IDIOTS AND ANGELS - Bill Plympton - United States

 

Best Short for Children

1. EIN SONNIGRE TAG - Gil Alkabetz - Germany

2. THE CURSE OF SKULL ROCK- Ben Smith - United Kingdom

3. SEU LOBO - Humberto Avelar - Brazil

 

Best Brazilian Animation

1. DOSSIÊ RÊ BORDOSA - César Cabral

2. CALANGO LENGO - VIDA E MORTE SEM VER ÁGUA - Fernando Miller

3. SEU LOBO - Humberto Avelar

 

Best Short Film

1. DOSSIÊ RÊ BORDOSA - César Cabral - Brazil

2. LA QUEUE DE LA SOURIS - Benjamin Renner - France

3. PREMIER VOYAGE - Grégoire Sivan - France

 

Canal Brasil Acquisition Award

DOSSIÊ RÊ BORDOSA - César Cabral - Brazil

 

PROFESSIONAL JURY AWARDS

 

The Professional Jury is composed by 34 professionals that includes fine-artists, animators, journalists, educators filmmakers and writers from the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All the winners will receive the ANIMA MUNDI trophy.

 

Best Soundtrack

KFJG Nº 5 - Alexei Alexeev - Hungary

 

Best Script

LA MAISON EN PETITS CUBES - Kunio Kato - Japan

 

Best Art Direction

YOURS TRULY - Osbert Parker - United Kingdom

 

Best Animation

MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI - Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski - Canada

 

Best Commissioned Film

SONY BRAVIA 'PLAY-DOH' - Frank Budgen, Darren Walsh - United Kingdom

 

AUDIENCE AWARDS - SAO PAULO

 

Best Student Film

1 - OKTAPODI - Julien Bocabeille, François Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi - France

2 - BLIND SPOT - Johanna Bessiere, Cecile Dubois Herry, Simon Rouby, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Yvon Jardel - France

3 - LA QUEUE DE LA SOURIS - Benjamin Renner - France

 

Best Feature Film

1 - PRINCESS - Anders Morgenthaler - Denmark

2 - IDIOTS AND ANGELS - Bill Plympton - United States

3 - DELGO - Marc F. Adler & Jason Maurer - United States

 

Best Short for Children

1 - UM DIA DE SOL (EIN SONNIGER TAG) - Gil Alkabetz - Germany

2 - SEU LOBO - Humberto Avelar - Brazil

3 - CUCURUJAS (HUHU - POLE HOLE) - Alexei Alexeev - Hungry

 

Best Brazilian Animation

1 - DOSSIÊ RÊ BORDOSA - César Cabral

2 - SEU LOBO - Humberto Avelar

3 - O JUMENTO SANTO E A CIDADE QUE SE ACABOU ANTES DE COMEÇAR - William Paiva, Leo D.

 

Best Short Film

1 - DOSSIÊ RÊ BORDOSA - César Cabral - Brazil

2 - ISABELLE AU BOIS DORMANT - Claude Cloutier - Argentina

3 - OKTAPODI - Julien Bocabeille, François Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi - France

 

ANIMA MUNDI's Directors Special Prize

LA QUEUE DE LA SOURIS - Benjamin Renner - France

 

Award "Núcleo de Animação de Campinas" - for Best Brazilian Student Animation

O POVO ATRÁS DO MURO - Marconi Loures de Oliveira

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ACM SIGGRAPH announced on May 8, 2008 the award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival to be held in Los Angeles this summer. Nominees were chosen from hundreds of submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike. An esteemed panel of jury members reviewed each submission to compile some of the greatest works submitted this year.

 

"With nearly 30 jurors from all corners of the globe, and two separate jury meetings, this year's Computer Animation Festival jury was one of the most comprehensive in the Festival's history," stated Samuel Lord Black, Computer Animation Festival Juried Co-chair. "The varied expertise we received from our jury ensures that this year's festival is well-balanced, exciting, and a great snapshot of the industry's finest material."

 

Since 1999, the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival has been an official qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences "Best Animated Short Film" award.

 

New in 2008 is the addition of the Computer Animation Festival award presentations, where winners will be revealed during the event. This year's expanded Festival also offers attendees an array of activities over a five-day period, which includes competition and showcase screenings at Los Angeles' famed Nokia Theater.

 

Attendees interested in all aspects of animation can also participate in a variety of panels, talks, and presentations, including two full days that will focus on the world of 3D stereo cinematography. These events will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

 

Complete details on this year's Computer Animation Festival

 

The nominees for this year's Computer Animation Festival Awards are as follows:

 

Best in Show Nominees

 

Bolides

Supinfocom, France

From Supinfocom, this imaginative student film treats us to a chaotic, hilarious, wheelchair race through an old age home.

 

Carbon Footprint

Jellyfish Pictures, UK

Using computer graphics, Jellyfish Pictures drives home the point of global responsibility, presenting the decomposition of a single soda can over half a century, in a single seamless shot.

 

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

DreamWorks Animation, USA

Hilarity, peril, romance, and zoo animals; everything expected from DreamWorks Animation, this glimpse into their upcoming film provides a whole new perspective on flying with animals.

 

Oktapodi

Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi, GOBELINS l'ecole de lâ��image, France

GOBELINS' third-year students directed this animated short about two octopi in their comical escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook.

 

The Chemical Brothers "The Salmon Dance"

Framestore CFC, UK

Great music combines with hilarious animation to provide a new perspective on aquaria, as a tank filled with rapping, beatboxing, and dancing fish comes to life, featuring over 300 hand-animated fish.

 

Best Student Piece Nominees

 

893

Supinfocom, France

Once again, France's Supinfocom combines story and style in this tale of honor, tradition, and imagination.

 

Al Dente

Supinfocom, France

Combine opera, pasta, and a knife-wielding chef, and the result is another delicious animated short from this prolific school.

 

Bärenbraut

Derek Roczen - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction, Germany

This tale of disproportionate love shows how relationships can change over time. This remarkable 2D animation illustrates a complicated subject and a complex relationship using the most limited of color palettes.

 

Blind Spot

Johanna Bessiere, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cecile Dubois Herry, Yvon Jardel, Simon Rouby, GOBELINS l'ecole de l'image, France

Peripheral vision is everything in this animation about a nearsighted grandmother, a clumsy robber, and a surveillance camera that doesn't quite tell the story of what's really going on in the convenience store.

 

Mauvais Rôle

Alan Barbier, Camille Campion, Dorian Fevrier, Frederic Fourier, Frederic Lafay, Min Ma, Jean-François Macem, Emanuel Reperant, Jeremie Rousseau, Olivier Sicot, École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, France

This little tale tells the story of getting whatever you want, as long as you know what it is. Watch as a monster constantly cast in games, finds his perfect job in a game you'd never choose for him.

 

Jury Award Nominees

 

Chump and Clump

Michael Herm, Stephan Sacher, Germany

This short shows us just how distracting your friends can be ... and just how they can lead you to miss your bus. Repeatedly.

 

Mauvais Rôle

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Oktapodi (see above for description)

 

Our Wonderful Nature

Tomer Eshed, HFF Potsdam, Germany

This documentary uses time stretching, film camera work, and creative sound design to tell the story of water shrews in the wild.

 

The Plush Life

Timothy Heath, USA

This film, rendered entirely with NVIDIA's Gelato, shows us what happens when you pick at something that just shouldn't be picked at: you might just imperil your trip to work.

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