Category Archives: awards

GUMBALL WINS ANNIE AWARD

Last weekend in LA, “The Amazing World of Gumball”, nominated in four categories, took home a prestigious Annie Award as ” Best Animated Television Production”. Congratulations to Ben Bocquelet, Mic Graves (pictured* above with the amazing Logan Grove, voice of Gumball) and the entire Gumball crew. We’re proud and happy to be allowed to contribute!

(*Thx to Jamie Kezlarian Bolio for the photo.)

CONGRATULATIONS TO STUDIO AKA & MAGIC LIGHT PICTURES!

Fantastic news: “A Morning Stroll” directed by Grant Orchard and produced by Sue Goffe at studio aka, and “Chico & Rita” produced by our friends Martin Pope and Michael Rose at Magic Light Pictures are amongst those nominated for an Academy Award this year! Two beautiful films made by people we like very much. Congratulations from all of soi and all the best for February 26th! (FYI: here‘s a must-read piece Grant wrote about the making of his films…)

GUMBALL WINS A BAFTA.

Above you see the amazing Ben Bocquelet, Joanna Beresford and Mic Graves proudly accepting their BAFTA for “The Amazing World of Gumball” this last weekend. All here at Soi congratulate the three and their wonderful team for their herculian efforts and all their success! Thanks for letting us contribute the wonders you’ve concocted, studio soi applaudes you.

“PRINCESS PAINTING” IS GOING PLACES

Our shortfilm “Princess’ Painting”, directed by Klaus Morschheuser and Johannes Weiland, is being shown from West to East and is getting wonderful feedback: In Ottawa it was awarded as the Best Short Animation Made for Children, at the Chicago Film Fest it received the 1st Prize for an animated Television Production and at the famous Krok festival the film was awared “For creation of a story with nonintrusive morale”. Congratulation to the filmmakers and a hearty Thank You to all three juries!

CARTOON D’OR 2011


The “Little Boy and the Beast”, directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschötter, has been awarded as Best European Animated Short in Sopot, Poland on September 15th. We feel very honored. Many, many thanks to the jury! To be in a group with Verena Fels’ “Mobile”, Damian Nenow’s “Paths of Hate”, André Bergs’ “Pivot”, David O’Reilly’s “The External World” and finally Jakob Schuh’s and Max Lang’s film “The Gruffalo” is really special.

OH CANADAA

This month “The Gruffalo” won three more awards, all of them in Canada. At the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Shortfilm Festival, the film was given the TELUS Audience Choice Award.  At  the Toronto International Film Festival for Children and Youth “The Gruffalo” was awarded twice: Audiences declared it  Best Short Film and the film also won a Jury Award, again for Best Shortfilm. Thank you very much, Canada!

​THE AMAZING WORLD OF ANNECY: AWARDS FOR “A MORNING STROLL” “GUMBALL” AND “PRINCESS’ PAINTING”

Great news from France: “A Morning Stroll” by our friends at studio aka (directed by lovely Grant Orchard) won the JUNIOR JURY AWARD for a shortfilm, Ben Bocquelet’s “The Amazing World of Gumball” was awarded with the CRYSTAL for BEST TV PRODUCTION for the episode “The Quest” and Studio Soi’s “Das Bild der Prinzessin” was crowned as BEST TV SPECIAL! Congratulations to the teams of all three projects!

For everyone in Germany: “Das Bild der Prinzessin” will premiere this weekend on KI.KA. Watch the film as part of the children’s series Siebenstein at 11:35 a.m. on Sunday, June 19th!

GOLDENER SPATZ

“Princess Painting” and the “Gruffalo” were very well received at the “Goldener Spatz” German Children’s Film and Media Festival in Erfurt and Gera. At the closing ceremony last Friday this lead to a special “award for innovation” for Studio Soi. Klaus Morschheuser and Jakob Schuh proudly accepted the award and felt very honored by the jury’s words:

http://www.goldenerspatz.de/fileadmin/dokumente/festival/preistraeger_2011/Innovation.pdf

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

We’re delighted to hear that “The Little Boy and the Beast” has been awarded as Best Animated Short Film at the New York International Children’s Film Festival. The NYICFF states as its mission “to promote intelligent, passionate, provocative cinematic works for ages 3–18 and to help define a more compelling film for kids.” We’re very happy  to have been been a part of this. Thanks to the audience and the jury!

Also the film won the German Emil Award for outstanding TV programmes for children and got the special jury commendation at the Heart of Gold Gold Festival, Australia.

Upcoming events that will screen the film are:

Dresden Filmfestival (Germany, April, 12th to 16th)

Aspen Shortfest (USA, April, 10th to 15th)

Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival (Canada,  April, 5th to 17)

Citrus-Cel-Animation (USA, April, 8th to 10th)

Anirmau (Spain, April, 26th to 30th)

HAT TRICK FOR THE BEAST!!!

We take our hat off to salute “The Little Boy and the Beast” for winning three times at festivals in November: The short was given the Audience Awards at Bradford as well as at the kuki 3rd International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth in Berlin, and it was awarded as Best Short Film at the Festival Internacional de Animación Expotoons in Argentinia. In December, the Beast was awarded as the Best Animation Film at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg. Yippee!