The Emile Awards returned this year, recognizing outstanding achievement in European animation. The 2024 honors for feature film and short film craft were presented in the Apollon Theater in Ermoupoli on the Greek island of Syros for the first time, opening the 17th edition of the Animasyros festival.
FEATURE FILM CATEGORIES
Best Writing Award:
My Love Affair with Marriage (Luxemburg, United States, Latvia) – director Signe Baumane, produced by Roberts Vinovskis, Sturgis Warner, Raoul Nadalet and Signe Baumane
Best Soundtrack Award:
Mars Express by Jérémie Périn (France), director Jérémie Périn, produced by Didier Creste
Soundtrack: Fred Avril & Philippe Monthaye
Best Backgrounds and Character Design in Feature:
Unicorn Wars (Spain, France, United Kingdom) – director Alberto Vázquez, produced by Ivan Minambres, Chelo Loureiro, Nicolas Schmerkin
Best Animation in Feature:
Chicken for Linda! (France, Italy) – directors Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach, produced by Marc Irmer, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron
Best of the Best Feature Award:
Chicken for Linda! by Sébastien Laudenbach & Chiara Malta
The nominees in all feature film categories were:
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- Chicken for Linda!
- Mars Express
- My Grandfather’s Demons
- My Love Affair with Marriage
- Nayola
- Rosa and the Stone Troll
- Tender Metalheads
- Unicorn Wars
SHORT FILM CATEGORIES
Best Backgrounds and Characters in Short Film Award:
Eeva (Estonia, Croatia) – directors Lucija Mrzljak & Morten Tšinakov, produced by Draško Ivezić and Kalev Tamm
Best Sound Design and Music in Short Film Award:
The Family Portrait (Croatia, France, Serbia) – director Lea Vidaković, produced by Draško Ivezić
Best Animation in Short Film Award:
Electra (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia) – director Daria Kashcheeva, produced by Zuzana Krivkova Martin Vandas, Tomáš Šimon, Olivier Catherin, Richard Van Den Boom, Juraj Krasnohorsky
Best Innovative Short Film Award:
A Kind of Testament (France) – director Stephen Vuillemin
Best of the Best Short Film Award:
27 (France, Hungary) – director Flóra Anna Buda, produced by Emmanuel-Alan Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Péter Benjámin Lukács and Gábor Osváth
See the full list of 2024 Emile Awards nominees here.
