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| Nikita Diakur's Ugly is OIAF's top winner |
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) has announced the winners for its 2017 edition of the festival. Germany's Nikita Diakur won the festival's top honour, the Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short Animation, for Ugly. This breathtaking film offers a deconstructed palette of pinks and blues to find beauty in a dystopian world. As the winner of the Grand Prize, Ugly is now eligible for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Other winners included growing critical darling Amanda Strong for Four Faces of the Moon, which nabbed the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation. Yours truly also participated on the new media jury, which awarded the Media Prize to Matthew Rankin's The Tesla World Light, an imaginative trip into the subconscious that ingeniously animates the power of illumination. It was a delight to be on the jury along with Ramin Khanjani and Di Golding and dive into all the excellent animated shorts that OIAF had to offer. It was not an easy choice!
The full list of winners is as follows:
Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short Animation
Ugly - Nikita Diakur
Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature
Yoruwa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome (Night is Short, Walk on Girl) - Masaaki Yuasa
Honourable Mention
Torrey Pines, Clyde Peterson (USA)
CATEGORY AWARDS
Cartoon Network Award for Best Narrative Short Animation
Kötü Kiz (Wicked Girl) - Ayce Kartal
Award for Best Non-Narrative Animation
Any Road - Boris Labbe
Award for Best Student Animation
End of Recording - Lukas Conway, Stefan Jaroszonek & Olivier Sommelet
Award for Best Commissioned Animation
Mark Lotterman 'Happy' - Alice Saey
Award for Best Animated Film or Series for Young Audiences –
Preschool
The Little Bird and the Caterpillar - Lena von Döhren
Award for Best Animated Film or Series for Young Audiences –
Ages 6-12
Mountain of Sagaana - Christopher Auchter
CRAFT AWARDS
Award for Best Script
Manivald - Chintis Lundgren
Award for Best Design
Spectacle of the Real - Buck Design, Orion Tait, Thomas Schmid & Daniel Oeffinger
Award for Best Animation Technique
The Tesla World Light - Matthew Rankin
Award for Best Sound
Airport - Michaela Müller
OTHER AWARDS
Public Prize
Decorado - Alberto Vazquez
Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation
Four Faces of the Moon - Amanda Strong
Award for Canadian Student Animation Film
End of Recording - Lukas Conway, Stefan Jaroszonek & Olivier Sommelet
Honourable Mentions
The Lost Soul, Marie-Josée Doutre
Quarters, Airin Budiman
Media Prize
The Tesla World Light - Matthew Rankin
