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DIRECTION 2026

Grand Prix

Title: The Shirt Off Your Back

Entrant Company: Good Oil

Production Company: Good Oil

Director: David Robinson-Smith

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Grand Prix

Client: SHIPS LTD.

Title: CRAFTMAN.SHIPS

Entrant Company: HAKUHODO Gravity Inc.

Production Company: HAKUHODO CABIN Inc.

Agency: HAKUHODO Gravity Inc.

Director: ATSUSHI MAKINO

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Waka Kotahi | New Zealand Transport Agency

Title: Booze Maths

Entrant Company: The Sweetshop

Production Company: The Sweetshop

Agency: McCann New Zealand

Director: Max Barden

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

DIRECTION | 61 TO 120 SECONDS

Client: Spark New Zealand

Title: It's Better With Spark

Entrant Company: The Sweetshop

Production Company: The Sweetshop

Agency: Colenso BBDO

Director: Damien Shatford

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

DIRECTION | OVER 120 SECONDS

Client: Go MonGolia

Title: Go Mongolia

Entrant Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Production Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Agency: Edelman

Director: Patrick Fileti

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

NEW TALENT IN COMMERCIALS

Client: LYKA

Title: The Brutal Pick-Up

Entrant Company: DIVISION

Production Company: DIVISION

Agency: OUTSIDE IN

Director: Harry Welsh

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

SHORT FILM

Title: The Shirt Off Your Back

Entrant Company: Good Oil

Production Company: Good Oil

Director: David Robinson-Smith

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: TOMOAKI BABA

Title: PRIME |feat. BIGYUKI & JK Kim

Entrant Company: Spoon Inc.

Production Company: Spoon Inc.

Director: Director+Animator:Hoji Tsuchiya

PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Client: Go MonGolia

Title: Go Mongolia

Entrant Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Production Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Agency: Edelman

Director: Patrick Fileti

PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Client: New Zealand Transport Authority Waka Kotahi

Title: Speed Demons

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: McCann NZ

Director: Michael Hili

PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

CASTING

Client: Westpac

Title: Double You

Entrant Company: Scoundrel

Production Company: Scoundrel

Agency: The Tuesday Club

Director: Michael Spiccia

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

VFX

Client: Telstra

Title: Drumroll

Entrant Company: BlockheadVFX

Production Company: EXIT Films, Ruffian LLC, Merman

Agency: +61

Director: Martin Krejci

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

EDITING

Client: My Muscle Chef

Title: Life Keeps Coming

Entrant Company: Photoplay

Production Company: Photoplay

Agency: Thinkerbell

Director: Michael Gupta

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

ANIMATION

Client: SHIPS LTD.

Title: CRAFTMAN.SHIPS

Entrant Company: HAKUHODO Gravity Inc.

Production Company: HAKUHODO CABIN Inc.

Agency: HAKUHODO Gravity Inc.

Director: ATSUSHI MAKINO

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

AI PRODUCTION

Client: ULTIMA

Title: ULTIMA BRAND MOVIE

Entrant Company: Pyramid Film Inc.

Production Company: Pyramid Film Inc / Pyramid AI

Agency: Hakuhodo DY ONE Inc.

Director: YUUUKI

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

SOUND DESIGN

Client: Umi Nori

Title: Umi Nori Collection VII

Entrant Company: Rumble Studios

Production Company: DIVISION

Agency: Umi Nori

Director: Harry Welsh

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

USE OF MUSIC

Client: GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA

Title: GO MONGOLIA

Entrant Company: made by ikigai

Production Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Agency: Edelman Singapore

Director: Patrick Fileti

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Winner

USE OF MUSIC

Client: DiDi

Title: Yes, I DiDi

Entrant Company: Electric Sheep Music

Production Company: Hooves

Agency: Hooves

Director: Jim Hosking

IDEAS 2026

Winner

FILM

Client: Bankwest

Title: Just Enough Bank

Entrant Company: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Production Company: 3&7

Agency: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Director: Steve Ayson

IDEAS 2026

Winner

LIVE EXPERIENCE & ACTIVATION

Client: Apple

Title: Ponku on Pro

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab Seoul

Production Company: -

Agency: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab Seoul

Director: -

IDEAS 2026

Winner

BRANDED COMEDY

Client: Telstra

Title: Villains

Entrant Company: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Production Company: Smuggler

Agency: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Director: Randy Krallman

IDEAS 2026

Winner

SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL IMPACT

Client: 36 Months

Title: 36 Months

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: FINCH

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: New Zealand Transport Authority Waka Kotahi

Title: Backseat Whisperer

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: McCann NZ

Director: Michael Hili

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Uber

Title: Can't Do That If You're Driving

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: Special Group

Director: Christopher Riggert

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Puma

Title: Go Wild India

Entrant Company: 100 Feet Films

Production Company: 100 Feet Films

Agency: Puma

Director: Staj Soften

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Whānau Ora

Title: The Māori Roll Call

Entrant Company: Supernormal

Production Company: Supernormal

Agency: Motion Sickness

Director: Reagen Butler

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 61 TO 120 SECONDS

Client: Balter

Title: Beers Do Come True

Entrant Company: Scoundrel

Production Company: Scoundrel

Agency: A Time in Place

Director: Ariel Martin

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 61 TO 120 SECONDS

Client: Westpac

Title: Double You

Entrant Company: Scoundrel

Production Company: Scoundrel

Agency: The Tuesday Club

Director: Michael Spiccia

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | OVER 120 SECONDS

Client: Apple

Title: 'HVL’ - 360° Album Trailer'

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Production Company: Antiantiart and Incite*

Agency: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Director: Phương Vũ (Antiantiart)

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | OVER 120 SECONDS

Client: Tourism Australia

Title: Tourism Australia - Come and say G'day

Entrant Company: Exit Films

Production Company: Exit Films

Agency: Droga5

Director: Stefan Hunt / Mark Molloy

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

NEW TALENT IN COMMERCIALS

Client: Krafton India (Shyam Kumar)

Title: BGMI x Royal Enfield

Entrant Company: Hammerhead

Production Company: Hammerhead

Agency: Hammerhead

Director: Vinod Ravie

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

FASHION & LUXURY

Client: Hublot

Title: Jung Kook - Global Brand Ambassador

Entrant Company: kidzfrmnowhere

Production Company: Phantasm

Agency: kidzfrmnowhere

Director: YUANN

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

FASHION & LUXURY

Client: Armani Beauty x to Be Magazine

Title: The Audition

Entrant Company: to Be magazine

Production Company: to Be magazine

Agency: to Be magazine

Director: Riley Hart

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

SHORT FILM

Title: Boy on Fire

Entrant Company: Blue Soup Productions

Production Company: Blue Soup Productions

Director: Alies Sluiter

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

SHORT FILM

Title: EGGS

Entrant Company: DIVISION

Production Company: DIVISION

Director: Zac Wiesel

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: aespa (Client: Apple)

Title: "Dirty Work" Shot on iPhone 16 Pro

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab Seoul

Production Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab Seoul (Advertising Agency)

Director: -

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: Dom Dolla

Title: Addicted to Bass

Entrant Company: Valve Studio

Production Company: Valve Studio, Cool Studio

Director: Kyle Caulfield, Charles Buxton-Leslie

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: izna

Title: Mamma Mia

Entrant Company: kidzfrmnowhere

Production Company: AEDIASTUDIO / kidzfrmnowhere

Director: YUANN

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: Genesis Owusu

Title: Stampede

Entrant Company: Ourness

Production Company: Phenomena

Director: Isaac Brown

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Client: Goldwin

Title: Goldwin 75TH ANNIVERSARY

Entrant Company: haku.inc

Production Company: CEKAI

Director: Kazuhiko Hiramaki

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Client: Samsung

Title: Same Same

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: McCann NZ

Director: Stephen Carroll

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Client: Sapporo

Title: So, Pour A Sapporo

Entrant Company: Collider

Production Company: Collider

Agency: Sunday Gravy

Director: Dylan Duclos

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Client: Apple

Title: 'HVL’ - 360° Album Trailer'

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Production Company: Antiantiart and Incite*

Agency: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Director: Phương Vũ (Antiantiart)

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Client: Telstra

Title: Second Life Sounds

Entrant Company: Revolver

Production Company: Revolver

Agency: +61 with Bear Meets Eagle on Fire

Director: Performance Film Director: Matt Devine, Design Film Director: Scott Stirling

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Client: Airwallex

Title: The Future of Finance

Entrant Company: Photoplay

Production Company: Photoplay

Agency: Special Australia

Director: Gustav Bondeson

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

CASTING

Client: Go MonGolia

Title: Go Mongolia

Entrant Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Production Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Agency: Edelman

Director: Patrick Fileti

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

CASTING

Client: Coopers

Title: Reserved for Mates

Entrant Company: Revolver

Production Company: Revolver

Agency: Sunday Gravy

Director: Matt Devine

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

LOW BUDGET

Client: Animal Welfare

Title: A Rescue Doesn’t Judge

Entrant Company: Scoundrel

Production Company: Scoundrel

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi

Director: Lucy Knox

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

LOW BUDGET

Client: Krafton

Title: Ride Beyond Limits

Entrant Company: Hammerhead

Production Company: Hammerhead

Agency: Krafton

Director: Vinod Ravi

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

CAMPAIGN

Client: Nike

Title: Nike CHBL 2025

Entrant Company: Hamlet

Production Company: Hamlet

Agency: WIEDEN+KENNEDY Shanghai

Director: Folkert Verdoorn

PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

CAMPAIGN

Client: New Zealand Transport Authority Waka Kotahi

Title: Speed Demons

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: McCann NZ

Director: Michael Hili

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

VFX

Client: Apple

Title: 'HVL’ - 360° Album Trailer'

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Production Company: Antiantiart and Incite*

Agency: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Director: Phương Vũ (Antiantiart)

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

VFX

Client: Telstra

Title: Scamaggedon

Entrant Company: BlockheadVFX

Production Company: Smuggler

Agency: Bear Meets Eagle on Fire & +61

Director: Randy Krallman

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

EDITING

Client: Picklebet

Title: Get Your Pickle On

Entrant Company: ARC

Production Company: The Sweetshop

Agency: Kerfuffle

Director: Jesse James McElroy

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

EDITING

Client: Apple

Title: Lessons

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab APAC (India)

Production Company: Earlyman Film

Agency: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab APAC (India)

Director: Ayappa

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

ANIMATION

Client: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION

Title: GIST|Take Back What Matters — So We Don’t Melt Away

Entrant Company: Spoon inc.

Production Company: Spoon inc.

Agency: DENTSU INC.

Director: Masahito Kobayashi

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

AI PRODUCTION

Client: Tuborg

Title: You Don't Have To

Entrant Company: Fin Design + Effects Asia

Production Company: Quad China

Agency: Ogilvy Hong Kong / Shanghai

Director: Terence Neale

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

SOUND DESIGN

Client: Hyundai E&C

Title: Here, You compose Life

Entrant Company: Paulus

Production Company: Paulus

Agency: Paulus

Director: Yohan Jang

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

SOUND DESIGN

Client: Telstra

Title: Wherever We Go Again

Entrant Company: Rumble Studios

Production Company: Riff Raff

Agency: Bear Meets Eagle on Fire

Director: Smith & Foulkes

POST-PRODUCTION 2026

Finalist

USE OF MUSIC

Client: Picklebet

Title: Get Your Pickle On

Entrant Company: The Sweetshop

Production Company: The Sweetshop

Agency: Kerfuffle

Director: Jesse James McElroy

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

FILM

Client: Telstra

Title: Satellite Messaging

Entrant Company: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Production Company: Passion Animation

Agency: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Director: Catherine Prowse

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

FILM

Client: SBS Australia

Title: The Ad That Can Only Be Seen On SBS

Entrant Company: The Sweetshop

Production Company: The Sweetshop

Agency: Droga5

Director: Damien Shatford

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

FILM

Client: Telstra

Title: Villains

Entrant Company: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Production Company: Smuggler

Agency: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire

Director: Randy Krallman

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

LIVE EXPERIENCE & ACTIVATION

Client: Zespri International Japan

Title: THE MISSING VERSE: COMPLETING THE BENTO SYMPHONY

Entrant Company: DENTSU INC.

Production Company: AOI Pro. Inc.

Agency: DENTSU INC.

Director: Sezan Iseda

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

DIGITAL EXPERIENCE & ACTIVATION

Client: Apple

Title: 'HVL’ - 360° Album Trailer'

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Production Company: Antiantiart and Incite*

Agency: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Director: Phương Vũ (Antiantiart)

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

BRANDED COMEDY

Client: KFC

Title: M ssing Piece

Entrant Company: Carbon Films

Production Company: TaProd

Agency: Bananas & Publicis Thailand

Director: Bruno Bossi

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL IMPACT

Client: Paper Angels

Title: Paper Angels

Entrant Company: Entropico, Sebastian Hill-Esbrand, Gravy Films

Production Company: Entropico, Sebastian Hill-Esbrand, Gravy Films

Agency: DTC

Director: Sebastian Hill-Esbrand

IDEAS 2026

Finalist

SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL IMPACT

Client: Telstra

Title: Second Life Sounds

Entrant Company: Revolver

Production Company: Revolver

Agency: +61 with Bear Meets Eagle on Fire

Director: Performance Film Director: Matt Devine, Design Film Director: Scott Stirling

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