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Cartoon d’Or 2009

Irish director David O’Reilly won the 2009 Cartoon d’Or Award for his innovative short film "Please Say Something". The Award Ceremony took place on 24th September in Stavanger (Norway) during the annual co-production event Cartoon Forum.

The other nominees were: "Aston’s Stones" by Uzi & Lotta Geffenblad (Sweden), "Madagascar, carnet de voyage" by Bastien Dubois (France), "Party Animals" by Merwan Chabane (France) and "Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death" by Nick Park (UK).

The 5 finalists were selected by the jury composed of directors Serge Elissalde (France), Tomm Moore (Ireland) and Kari Juusonen (Finland), among 29 short films that were singled out at one of our partner festivals.

The 5 finalists

The other films that competed for the nomination

• A Meio da Noite, Fernando Saraiva, Portugal
• A Tear is Needed, Kristina Dufková, Czech Republic
• Big Buck Bunny, Sacha Goedegebure, The Netherlands
• Chick, Michal Socha, Poland
• Chokoctopus, Pablo Llorens Serrano, Spain
• Eat Shit and Die, Anders Morgenthaler, Denmark
• Inherent Obligations, Rao Heidmets, Estonia
• Joyets, Magdalena Osinska, Poland
• La Vita Nuova, Christophe Gautry & Arnaud Demuynck, France / Belgium
• Milovan Circus, Gerlando Infuso, Belgium
• Muto, Blu, Italy
• My Grandmother Beijing, Mats Grorud, Norway
• Office Noise, T. Søttrup, M. Johansen, K. Madsen & L. Enemark, Denmark
• Onde quer que vás, lá estarás, Sara Barbas, Portugal
• Orgesticulanismus, Mathieu Labaye, Belgium
• Our Wonderful Nature, Tomer Eshed, Germany
• Slaves, Hanna Heilborn & David Aronowitsch, Sweden
• The Happy Duckling, Gili Dolev, Scotland / UK
• The man in the Blue Gordini, Jean-Christophe Lie, France
• The Weatherman, Will Becher, UK
• The Werepig, Sam Orti Marti, Spain
• This is JO3, Rory Lowe a Tom Shrapnel, Scotland
• This Way Up, A. Smith & A. Foulkes, UK
• Varmints, Mark Craste, United Kingdom