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The Ray Harryhausen Awards 2024- Winners
We are delighted to announce our winning entries and notable mentions in the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2024, with the judges' comments in full available through our YouTube page. Congratulations to our winners, and many thanks to everybody who took part in this years' awards!
Best Feature Film Animation- 'The Inventor'
(Director: Jim Capobianco )
Notable Mentions-
'White Plastic Sky' (Directors: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó)
'The Amazing Maurice' (Directors: Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann)
B
Best Short Film Animation- 'A Bear Named Wojtek'
(Director: Iain Gardner )
Best Student Film Animation- 'Seaglass'
(Director: Cheryl Blake )
Notable Mentions-
'No Man's Land' (Director: Leo Wright)
'Flame' (Director: Elzbieta Muskietorz)
Best Children's Film Animation- Joint winners
'Heroic Quest' (Director: Benjamin Holmes)
&
'Sandra v/s Vivora' (Director: Lisa Holmes).
The Spirit of Harryhausen Award- 'The Primevals'
(Director: David Allen)
Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award: Bridget Appleby
Harryhausen Awards 2024- Ceremony in Auchterarder
We are delighted to announce that this year's ceremony for The Ray Harryhausen Awards will take place in collaboration with the Auchterarder Picturehouse on June 29th.
The winners and notable entries for this year's awards will be announced, alongside a conversation with local stop-motion animator Wilma Smith. This date marks Ray Harryhausen's birthday, and will be a wonderful celebration of his legacy and ongoing influence. Reserve your free ticket through the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebration-of-the-ray-harryhausen-awards-rays-104th-birthday-tickets-927151624467
Harryhausen Awards 2024- Entry Fee Reduction
We are pleased to announce a reduction in submission fees for the Harryhausen Awards 2024. Established in honour of the legendary master of stop-motion animation, we are now accepting submissions for animated films of all types within the following categories before the deadline of May 31st 2024:
⭐️ Best Feature Film Animation- £30 submission fee ⭐️
⭐️ Best Short Film Animation- £20 submission fee ⭐️
⭐️ Best Student Film Animation- £10 submission fee ⭐️
⭐️ Best Children’s Film Animation- Free entry ⭐️
⭐️ Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award ⭐️
We look forward to unveiling a redesigned Harryhausen Award trophy in the coming months. In the meantime, Visit our submissions and FilmFreeway page to enter, or email info@harryhausenawards.com for further details.
Harryhausen Awards 2024- Submissions now open!
Submissions for the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2024 are now open! See the reaction of previous winners Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson and Phil Tippett to their award trophies here.
Visit our submissions and FilmFreeway page to enter, or email info@harryhausenawards.com for further details:
https://filmfreeway.com/harryhausenawards
https://linktr.ee/harryhausenawards
We are accepting entries from the following categories:
⭐️Best Feature Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Short Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Student Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Children's Film Animation (free entry)⭐️
⭐️Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award⭐️
Films can be entered from November 10th 2023 until May 31st 2024- we look forward to seeing your submissions over the next six months!
Harryhausen Awards Winners 2023
Check out this year's Harryhausen Award winners with their well-deserved trophies! Our awards celebrate work of animators and filmmakers across the world. Stay tuned to this website and our social media accounts for updates on how to enter your film for our 2024 programme!
Harryhausen Awards- Footage from 2023 event
Take a look back at the winners of the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2023!
Marking Ray's birthday on the 29th of June, the winners of this year's awards were announced at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh. Collections Manager Connor Heaney hosted, as judges Vanessa Harryhausen, John Walsh and Steve Henderson announced our winners. We were delighted to share recorded messages from Pinocchio directors Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson, who kindly spoke about their love of Ray Harryhausen's creations.
Special thanks to Ben Page for filming the Awards event.
Check out our submissions page for information on how to enter your film into our 2024 awards.
The Ray Harryhausen Awards 2023- Winners
We are delighted to announce our winning entries and notable mentions in the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2023. Video content featuring judges' comments will be released soon. Congratulations to our winners, and many thanks to everybody who took part in this years' awards!
Best Feature Film Animation- Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
(Directors- Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson)
B
Best Short Film Animation- 'Puppet Story'
(Director Park Sehong)
Notable Mention- Out of Character, Nicollo Gioia
Best Student Film Animation- 'Provisions'
(Director Kheyal Roy-Meighoo)
Notable Mention- Campfire Stories (Director Edmond Deraedt)
Best Children's Film Animation- 'The Speech of Txai Surui'
(Directors- Students of the Multimedia Workshop of Escola Parque)
Notable Mention- Area 51 (Director Gianna King)
The Spirit of Harryhausen Award- Epic Tails (Tat Productions)
Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award: Janet Stevens
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Harryhausen Awards 2023- June 29th
Cameo Cinema Edinburgh
Ray Harryhausen's iconic 'Jason and the Argonauts' turns 60 years old this
month. In celebration, The Ray Harryhausen Awards winners ceremony 2023 will take place at the historic Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh on June 29th, followed by a 2K screening of his 1963 classic.
https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00012695/harryhausen-awards-jason-and-the-argonauts
We will be presenting awards for:
⭐️Best Feature Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Short Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Student Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Children's Film Animation (free entry)⭐️
⭐️Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award⭐️
The date also marks Ray Harryhausen's birthday, and promises to be a wonderful celebration of his legacy and ongoing influence on contemporary animators. See you there!
Harryhausen Awards 2023- DEADLINE EXTENDED
You can now submit your film for the Harryhausen Awards before the new closing date of May 31st!
Check out our submissions page to enter, or email info@harryhausenawards.com for further details.
We will be accepting entries from the following categories:
⭐️Best Feature Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Short Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Student Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Children's Film Animation (free entry)⭐️
⭐️Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award⭐️
New logo for Ray Harryhausen Awards
We are delighted to unveil a new logo for The Ray Harryhausen Awards . An incredible design by Lars Seiffert- check out more of his work through his website: https://www.grafik-in-bewegung.de
Submissions for the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2023 are open until April 30th! Check out our submissions page to enter, or email info@harryhausenawards.com for further details.
We will be accepting entries from the following categories:
⭐️Best Feature Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Short Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Student Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Children's Film Animation (free entry)⭐️
⭐️Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award⭐️
The Ray Harryhausen Awards at Cameo Cinema
We are delighted to announce that the second edition of the Ray Harryhausen Awards will be hosted at the historic Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh on
June 29th 2023.
Remember to submit your films before April 30th! Check out our submissions page to enter, or email info@harryhausenawards.com for further details.
We will be accepting entries from the following categories:
⭐️Best Feature Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Short Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Student Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Children's Film Animation (free entry)⭐️
⭐️Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award⭐️
The Ray Harryhausen Awards 2023
Submissions for the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2023 are now open- check out our submissions page to enter, or email info@harryhausenawards.com for further details.
We will be accepting entries from the following categories:
⭐️Best Feature Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Short Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Student Film Animation⭐️
⭐️Best Children's Film Animation (free entry)⭐️
⭐️Harryhausen Hall of Fame Award⭐️
Films can be entered from January 9th until April 30th 2023- we look forward to seeing your submissions throughout the first months of the new year!
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Harryhausen Award Winners 2022
We are delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Ray Harryhausen Awards!
Find out which entries were sucessful in each category in the premiere of our awards announcement video. Thank you to everybody who entered The Ray Harryhausen Awards 2022, and congratulations again to our winners!
To find out more about the awards, and keep up to date with entry information for 2023, check out our official website and social media channels