The winners of the 2012 CLIO Awards, one of the world’s most recognized awards competitions honoring excellence in advertising, design and communications, were announced this week by Prometheus Global Media. The international competition received over 11,000 submissions from countries as far-reaching as Vietnam, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Recipients of Grand, Gold, Silver and Bronze CLIO statues were named in 11 different media such as Film, Interactive and Print. The complete list of 2012 CLIO Award winners in all categories is now available at: www.clioawards.com/catalog.
Winning agencies receiving the coveted Grand CLIO Awards this year include Japan’s Projector, Tunisia’s Memac Ogilvy Label and the United States’ Creative Artists Agency in collaboration with Chipotle, in the categories of Interactive, Innovative Media and Film, respectively. The CLIO Awards will also honor BBDO New York as Agency of the Year, Ogilvy & Mather as Network of the Year, Smuggler as Production Company of the Year, Volkswagen as Advertiser of the Year and Wieden+Kennedy London with the prestigious Hall of Fame Award.
The Facebook Integrated Media Award, an award presented in partnership with Facebook to recognize innovative campaigns that incorporate the social networking site with traditional media, will be presented onstage to Leo Burnett Detroit for their work with the Troy Public Library.
Winners will be celebrated at the CLIO Awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 15th at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History.
The 53rd Annual CLIO Awards will be hosted by comedy icon Joan Rivers. Annie Leibovitz and Anthony Bourdain will be presented with Honorary CLIOs at this year’s ceremony, while Piyush Pandey, Ogilvy & Mather India Executive Chairman, will receive the 2012 CLIO Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Every year, we are amazed by the quality and quantity of entries we receive and this year was no different. CLIO juries saw an array of innovative work from all over the world. Yet, CLIO statue winners are a cut above,” said CLIO Director Karl Vontz. “In this rapidly-changing industry, CLIO Award winners are the people who are changing the way we think about creativity every day.”
Tickets to the CLIO Awards can be purchased at www.clioawards.com or by calling 212.493.4036.
Gold Winners (Film Medium) below:
Grand Clio – Single Entries
Category~Product/Service~Title~Company
Online~Chipotle~Back to the Start~Creative Artists Agency and Chipotle Los Angeles
Clio Gold Winners – Single Entries
Category~Product/Service~Title~Company
Animation~Chipotle~Back To The Start~Nexus Productions London
Animation~FedEx~Enchanted Forest~BBDO New York New York
Animation~TalkTalk~Homes Within Homes~Stink London
Animation~Twinings~Sea~Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO London
Music-Licenced~Avios~Fly~Soundtree Music London
Music-Licenced~Durex~Vinyl~Euro RSCG London London
Music-Licenced~Gears of War 3 for Xbox 360~Dust to Dust~Smuggler New York
Cinematography~Cineday~Orange Hussars~Publicis Conseil Paris
Cinematography~Converse~History Made in the Making~Smuggler New York
Cinematography~Jim Beam~Parallels~MJZ Los Angeles
Cinematography~Jordan Brand~Airborne~Smuggler New York
Cinematography~Land Rover~Accelerator~RKCR/Y&R London
Online~Harvey Nichols~Walk of Shame~DDB UK London
Online~LG OLED TV~LG Thief~Y&R Amsterdam Amsterdam
Direction~CANAL+~The Bear~BETC, MJZ Paris, Los Angeles
Direction~Jim Beam~Parallels~MJZ Los Angeles
Direction~PepsiCo Doritos~Dips Desperado~Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO London
Direction~Weetabix~Big Day~Smuggler New York
Editing~CANAL+~The Bear~BETC Paris
Editing~Jordan Brand~Airborne~Smuggler, Work New York, London
Editing~Land Rover~Accelerator~RKCR/Y&R London
Editing~Lurpak~Rainbow~Final Cut London
Editing~Orange~Hussars~Work London
Editing~Weetabix~Big Day~Smuggler New York
Music-Adapted~Chipotle~Back to the Start~Duotone Audio Group New York
Music-Adapted~Volkswagen~The Bark Side~Deutsch, Endless Noise Los Angeles, Santa Monica
Music-Original~Bundaberg Five~Bundy 5 Ain’t No Nancy Drink~Song Zu Sydney Sydney
Sound Design~Amnesty International~Projection~Wanda Productions Plaine-Saint-Denis
Sound Design~Cadbury Lunch Bar~Sweeper~Ogilvy Johannesburg Johannesburg
Sound Design~EA Battlefield~Is It Real?~Stimmung Santa Monica
Sound Design~HORNBACH Home Improvement Superstores~Symphony~HEIMAT Berlin
Sound Design~Nike~Jumprope~harvest Santa Monica
Sound Design~Nike 360 Football Boot~Control – Binaural Mix – Use Headphones~Factory London
Sound Design~Prey 2~Trailer~Smuggler New York
Visual Effects~Jameson~Fire~Method Studios Los Angeles
Television/Cinema~CANAL+~The Bear~BETC Paris
Television/Cinema~ONLUS~Hate~JWT Italia Milano
Clio Gold Winners – Campaigns
Category~Product/Service~Title~Company
Online~Dead Space 2~Your Mom Hates Dead Space 2~Draftfcb San Francisco
Television/Cinema~Google Chrome~Google Chrome: The Web Is What You Make Of It~BBH New York & Google Creative Lab New York
The complete list of 2012 CLIO Film Medium Silver and Bronze Award winners is available here. And, the complete list of 2012 CLIO Award winners in all categories is now available at: www.clioawards.com/catalog.
About The CLIO Awards
The CLIO Awards is one of the world’s most recognized awards competitions for advertising, design and communications. The CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, CLIO’s iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry’s creative accomplishments. For more information on the CLIO Awards, please visit www.clioawards.com.
About Prometheus Global Media
Prometheus Global Media engages people and marketers at the intersection of culture’s most powerful forces-music, media and entertainment. This connectivity makes Prometheus a potent catalyst in influencing popular culture. Its leading assets include: music (Billboard and its related conferences and events, including the Billboard Music Awards), entertainment (The Hollywood Reporter, ShowEast, CineAsia, and CineEurope); and advertising & marketing (Adweek, Adweek Conferences and the CLIO Awards).
