“LES BÊTES” WINS 2 AWARDS AT ANNECY!
“LES BÊTES"
A film by Michael Granberry
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“Les Bêtes” wins the Jury Award for Best Short Film and the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at Annecy Festival 2025!
During the week of June 8-14, “Les Bêtes” was the winner of two awards at the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival: The Jury Award for Best Short Film (our second Oscar-qualifying award) and the Vimeo Staff Pic
This has enabled “Les Bêtes” to be seen by tens of thousands of new viewers since it went live on Vimeo.com on June 16 th. The Annecy Festival holds the distinction of being the world’s oldest and largest animation festival, receiving this year alone over 3,900 submissions of which only 35 were selected to compete in the Official Selection. Of those 35, only one, “Les Bêtes” was from the United St
With over 18,000 attendees, including luminaries from the animation world from around the globe, “Les Bêtes” made a lot of new friends and wonderful, creative connections.
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“LES BÊTES" List of awards
WINNER: JURY AWARD, BEST SHORT FILM – Annecy International Animation Film
Festival 2025
WINNER: ANNECY VIMEO STAFF PICK AWARD – Annecy International Animation
Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED SHORT – American Documentary and Animation Film Festival 2025 (Oscar-Qualifying)
WINNER: SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR – Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Boston Science Fiction Film Festival 2025
WINNER: HYPATIA AWARD, SILVER – Alexandria International Short Film Festival 2025
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD – Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival 2025
WINNER: JURY AWARD, BRONZE – Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival
2025
WINNER: BEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST SHORT – The Bonebat Comedy of Horrors Show 2025
WINNER: BEST MUSIC – Love Your Shorts Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST SCENE – Love Your Shorts Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION, SILVER – Hillsboro Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED SHORT – Atomacon Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST SPECIAL FX – Warped Witch Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED FILM – Bay of Bood International Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST USE OF A LIMITED BUDGET IN A FILM – The Cyprus Horror Society 2025
WINNER: BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – The Cyprus Horror Society 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION HORROR – The Cyprus Horror Society 2025
WINNER: AUDIENCE CHOICE, ANIMATED SHORT – Minneapolis St. Paul International Film
Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST SHORT, ANIMATED – Midwest Weird Fest 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED FILM – Pumpkin Fantasy Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST SHORT, ANIMATED – Nevermore Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST FILM – Night Terrors Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST SCORE – Paris Strange Film Festival 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Paris Strange Film Festival 2025
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD – Mutoscope 2025
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION SHORT – Phenomena Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – A Night of Misfit Films 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION DIRECTOR – Hidden Universes: IFF Melbourne 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Hidden Universes: IFF Melbourne 2024
WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION – The Vision Feast Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST FANTASY ANIMATED SHORT FILM – Momoxca International Fantastic Film
Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST WEIRD SHORT FILM – Caronte International Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM – Caronte International Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM – Caronte International Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Ethereal Horror Fest 2024
WINNER: BEST PRACTICAL EFFECTS – Whistle to the Maples Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST FANTASY FILM – Oregon Short Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST SCARY ANIMATION – Oh Scares Film Festival Los Angeles 2024
WINNER: BEST CREATURE – It’s Alive! Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: THE WTF AWARD – Island of Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST SCORE – Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD – Super Shorts Halloween 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION OR USE OF VFX – Yeh! Nah! Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Milan Indie Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED FILM – Los Angeles International Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: SPECIAL JURY MENTION, BEST ANIMATED SHORT – Tohorror Fantastic Film Fest 2024
WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR, ANIMATION HORROR – London Horror Film Awards 2024
WINNER: SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR DESIGN – Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED SHORT – Austin Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: SOUNDTRACK AUDIO AWARD – Animaze Montreal International Animation Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST DARK FANTASY FILM – Oregon Screams Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED FILM – Oregon Screams Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Disappear Here Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST MUSIC SCORE – Magic of Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST MICROBUDGET FILM – Magic of Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED FILM – Solaris Film Festival 2024
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD, SHORT – Scumdance Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED FILM – Scumdance Film Festival 2024
WINNER: SICKEST SHORT FILM – Sudbury Indie Creature Kon 2024
WINNER: BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – Eerie Horror Fest 2024
WINNER: AMAZING STOP MOTION SHORT – Amazing Fantasy Fest 2024
WINNER: BEST SHORT FANTASY – Port of Fear Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST FILM – Animadeba 2024
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD – Pompeywood Genre Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS – Pompeywood Genre Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR – Pompeywood Genre Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST FANTASY/SCI FI – Pompeywood Genre Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Black Cat Picture Show 2024
WINNER: BEST STOP MOTION SHORT, SILVER – Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and
Technology 2024
WINNER: BEST PORTLAND ANIMATION – Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology 2024
WINNER: BEST FILM – Lil’ Spooky Fest 2024
WINNER: BEST FANTASY SHORT – Nightmares Film Festival 2024
WINNER: GRAND JURY AWARD – Visioni Notturne Film Festival 2024
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD, BRONZE – Fantasia International Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – The Thing in the Basement Horror Fest 2024
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD – Screaming Room Film Festival 2024
WINNER: JACK-O-LANTERN AWARD – Screaming Room Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Tokyo Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST GENRE FILM – LA Underground Film Forum 2024
WINNER: BEST UNDERGROUND SHORT FILM – LA Underground Film Forum 2024
WINNER: BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE – LA Underground Film Forum 2024
WINNER: BEST PICTURE – LA Underground Film Forum 2024
WINNER: COOLEST PRACTICAL EFFECT – B Beside the Seaside Film Festival 2024
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD-BEST HORROR FILM – MisCon International Short Film Festival
2024
WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD-BEST HORROR FILM – MisCon International Short Film Festival
2024
WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR– Hallucinea Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATION – Hallucinea Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST INDIE ANIMATION, SHORT – Rolling Ideas Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST STOP MOTION – The Art of Making Movies Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST FANTASY SHORT – Underground Indie Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST FANTASY FILM – Phantasmagoria Independent Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM – Phantasmagoria Independent Film Festival 2024
WINNER: JUDY LAWRENCE MEMORIAL AWARD – FantaSci Short Film Festival 2024
WINNER: WILLIAM SHATNER INDIE AUTEUR AWARD – FantaSci Short Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST STOP MOTION - FantaSci Short Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM – Caligari International Horror Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM – Paracinema Underground Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST OF THE FESTIVAL – Jersey Devil Fable Film Festival 2024
WINNER: BEST STOP MOTION - Animation Studio Festival 2024