The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (also known as The Annecy Animation Festival and Annecy Animation Festival), known as the "Oscar of Animation", ended on June 15, local time. French director Jérémy Clapin's "J'ai perdu mon corps" won the crystal prize in the feature film category, the festival's highest award. It is worth mentioning that the film is the first animated feature film by Jehmi Clappan, telling the story of a broken hand looking for his own body, which was earlier appeared at this year's Cannes Film Festival, won the Critics' Week Award, and was immediately bought by Netflix.
Poster of "I Lost My Body"
This year, a total of ten works, including Whitesnake: Origins, competed for the Crystal Award. In the end, "I Lost My Body" not only took away the grand prize, but also won the Most Popular Audience Award and the Children's Jury Award. The Spanish animated film Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas, which is currently being screened at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, won the equivalent of the second-place jury prize. Also screening at the Shanghai International Film Festival and hard to find a ticket, the new work "If I Can Ride the Waves with You" was not favored by the jury. In 2017, his work "Song of Dew That Announces the Dawn" won the Crystal Award.
Stills from The Labyrinth of the Turtle, the God of Buñuel
In addition, Jean-François Laguionie, a French animation director born in 1939, won this year's Lifetime Achievement Award. He won the Annecy Animation Film Festival grand prix as early as 1965 for the short film La Demoiselle et le violoncelliste , and in 1978 la Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame ( La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame) ( La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame ) . However, because he has made fewer animated feature films, he is generally well-known in the field of commercial films, and the most familiar work for Chinese audiences is "Le tableau" (2011), which has more than 6,000 reviews and a high score of 8.4 on Douban.
In addition to "White Snake: Origins", the 2018 Chinese animated feature film "Heroes of Gastronomic Adventure" was also shortlisted for this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival's newly created "Anti-Shot" competition, but the award was ultimately won by Latvia's "Away".
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival was born in 1960 and has been held annually since 1997, making it the world's first animated film festival. In its 59-year history, only Hong Kong animator Yuan Jiantao directed and adapted from the comic of the same name by Hong Kong cartoonist Tse Lee Man Mak Ka Bi and his wife, "The Story of Mai Du", won a feature film crystal award in 2003.