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10th June 2020

D&AD Awards

Congratulations to all the teams at Framestore and our clients who have won pencils at this year's D&AD awards like WSJ for Read Yourself Better and Apple for Bounce which both won in the VFX category, with Bounce also picking up awards for Direction and Production Design.

See all winners for this year's awards here.

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4th June 2020

2020 BAFTA Nomination

Framestore is proud to be nominated for the Special, Visual and Graphic Effects BAFTA for its work on His Dark Materials.

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5th March 2020

Shots Awards

Framestore’s Los Angeles studio is proud to be nominated as a finalist for ‘VFX Company of the Year’ by Shot Awards: The Americas. The team also played a role in a number of projects nominated across Television and Online Commercial categories this year (see full list below).

Television Commercial of the Year up to and including 60 seconds:
SquareSpace ‘Dream It’

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11th February 2020

Deepfakes @ LIONSLive

William Bartlett and Mike McGee are joined by some special guests at their deepfake talk in Cannes.
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6th February 2020

VES win 2019

We are proud to share that our work on Spike Jonze’s ‘Welcome Home’ commercial for Apple has received global recognition in winning the Visual Effects Society (VES) Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Commercial.

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5th February 2020

Arrows Craft shortlist

The British Arrows has announced the shortlist for both its Arrows and Craft awards; which sees Framestore shortlisted for two awards as well as a whole raft of our projects shortlisted in several different categories.

CGI: Purdey's 'Hummingbird'

Hummingbird - the full CG Purdey's commercial produced by Framestore Pictures and directed by Murray Butler has been shortlisted for the Craft CGI Award. 

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4th February 2020

New Award Win

We are thrilled to have been awarded Best Attraction and Retention Strategy at this year's Montreal International Awards, recognizing companies that are leading the way in terms of export, attracting overseas talent and contributing to Montreal’s economy.

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2nd February 2020

Super Bowl LIV 2020

Framestore are proud to have delivered two adverts for the 2020 superbowl
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28th January 2020

Pre-Production Launch

Framestore has launched FPS - Framestore Pre-Production Services - for the global film and content production industries.
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27th January 2020

Annie Award Win

We're delighted to share the news that Framestore has won an Annie Award for Best Character Animation - TV/Media for our work on Iorek, the armoured bear, in His Dark Materials (BBC / HBO). Huge congratulations to the whole team who worked so hard to bring him to life.

The winning team:

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24th January 2020

How "His Dark Materials" Used Puppets And CGI

How puppetry and CGI came together to create realistic animals.
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22nd January 2020

Oscar Nominations

Framestore’s work in Visual Effects has been recognised in the 91st Academy Awards, gaining an Academy-Award nomination in Visual Effects for Christopher Robin. Framestore’s Chris Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones are nominated for their involvement and creative direction.

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