‘Brave Cat’ Wins First-Ever Annecy Presents Audience Award – Full Special Prizes List

The Annecy Festival presented its Special Prizes on Friday afternoon, with Oscar-winning Chilean director Gabriel Osorio’s Brave Cat becoming the first recipient of the inaugural Annecy Presents Audience Award. The ceremony also honored achievements in music, youth programming, immersive works, and short films, while introducing several other new awards to this year’s festival.

New honors were also presented to Uka-uka (ARTE Award for a European Short Film), The 12 Inch Pianist (Warner Bros. Animation Award for a Graduation Film), and Eclosión (Midnight Shorts Award).

Other winners included God Is Shy, which received the SACEM Award for Best Original Soundtrack in a Short Film, Piccolo Piccolo, winner of the CANAL+ Junior Jury Award, and The Violinist, which claimed the SACEM Award for Best Original Soundtrack in a Feature Film.

Annecy 2026 Special Prize Winners

SACEM Award for Best Original Soundtrack in a Short Film

God Is Shy, Jocelyn Charles (Remembers/France)

SACEM Award for Best Original Soundtrack in a Feature Film

The Violinist, Ervin Han, Raúl García (Throne Inc., Robot Playground Media, TV ON Producciones, Altri Occhi/Singapore, Spain, Italy)

Annecy Presents Audience Award (new)

Brave Cat, Gabriel Osorio (Punkrobot/Chile)

CANAL+ Junior Jury Award

Piccolo Piccolo, Marta Gennari (Gebeka Films, Folimage, Reginald de Guillebon, Nadasdy Film/France, Switzerland)

Young Audience Award

Into the Forest, Antonin Niclass (Milos-Films SA/Switzerland)

André Martin Award for a French Short Film

Hold It Together, Fan Sissoko (Compass Films, Komawé, Artémis Productions – Artébis Entertainment/Iceland, France, Belgium)

ARTE Award for a European Short Film (new)

Uka-uka, Henri Veermäe (Grafik/Estonia)

Festivals Connexion Award for an Immersive Work

Voooooo—Peeeeee—, Hyeunjoo Woo, Jiyun Park (Ubac Studio/South Korea)

Vimeo Staff Pick Award for a Short Film

Creation, Béla Klingl (Béla Klingl/Hungary)

Warner Bros. Animation Award for a Graduation Film (new)

The 12 Inch Pianist, Lucas Ansel (Rhode Island School of Design/U.S.A.)

Midnight Shorts Award (new)

Eclosión, Luis Morillo (Luis Morillo, Edwin Gautreau Santana, Claudio Lluberes, Miguel Cabañas, Jaime Cano, Daysi Cruz/Dominican Republic, Spain)

City of Annecy Award

Because Today Is Saturday, Alice Eça Guimarães (Animais AVPL, La Clairière Ouest, Studio Kimchi, Os Filmes do Pinguim/Portugal, France, Spain)

Previously Announced: Titmouse WTF Award (new)

You Are Not Part of the Cake, Ting-Jui Chen (Royal College of Art/Taiwan, United Kingdom)

Titmouse WTF Jury Distinction (new)

I Have a, Rory Waudby-Tolley (Rory Waudby-Tolley/United Kingdom)