Matthew Miller
Jun 22, 2014

Cannes awards: Titanium Grand Prix for Dentsu's 'Sound of Honda'

CANNES - Dentsu Tokyo's haunting tribute to F1 driver Aryton Senna won the festival's prestigious Titanium Grand Prix, but Clemenger BBDO Wellington was the only other Asia-Pacific agency to strike Gold during the final awards ceremony of the 2014 festival.

Grand Prix winner honours a Grand Prix winner
Grand Prix winner honours a Grand Prix winner

See all of Campaign Asia-Pacific's Cannes coverage here, and visit Campaign@Cannes for round-the-clock festival coverage by our entire international team

WPP was named Holding Company of the Year for the fourth consecutive year, while Ogilvy & Mather claimed the title Network of the Year for the third year in a row.

The region came up empty in the Innovation category despite five shortlisted entries, and besides Dentsu Tokyo's Titanium Grand Prix won nothing else in the Titanium & Integrated Awards.

The news was even worse in Branded Content & Entertainment, where work from the region was shut out of the Gold level (the jury awarded no Grand Prix), and only six out of the 66 total Lions (9 per cent) went to Asia-Pacific agencies.

Other than Dentsu, which also won Gold in Film, Clemenger BBDO Wellington was the region's only other big winner. The agency won three Gold Lions for work on behalf of the New Zealand Transport Agency: two in Film Craft for the hilarious but discomfiting 'Blazed', in which three kids mimic the adults who drive them around after smoking marijuana, and one in Film for 'Mistakes', which stopped time to dramatise the dangers of excessive speed. The Film Craft category did not yield a Grand Prix winner.

For the record, Asia-Pacific work won 13 per cent of the total awards in Film and 11 per cent in Film Craft.

Tables showing all of the APAC winners from Branded Content & Entertainment, Film and Film Craft follow. Note: Duplicate entries in the tables indicate wins in different entry categories. Please see the official Cannes winner page for global winners and details.

Branded Content & Entertainment

Title  Advertiser Entrant / Contributing Company Country
Silver      
SOUND OF HONDA / AYRTON SENNA 1989 HONDA MOTOR CO. DENTSU Tokyo JAPAN
MAKE EVERY YARD COUNT NIKE JWT INDIA Mumbai INDIA
I TOUCH MYSELF CANCER COUNCIL JWT Sydney / SOAP CREATIVE Sydney AUSTRALIA
MAKE EVERY YARD COUNT NIKE JWT INDIA Mumbai INDIA
Bronze      
THE KAN KHAJURA STATION UNILEVER INDIA LOWE AND PARTNERS WORLDWIDE Mumbai / OZONTEL Hyderabad INDIA
RICE-CODE INAKADATE VILLAGE HAKUHODO Tokyo JAPAN

 

Film

Title Advertiser Product Entrant / Agency Country Production Company
Gold          
MISTAKES NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY SPEED CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington NEW ZEALAND FINCH Sydney
SOUND OF HONDA / AYRTON SENNA 1989 HONDA MOTOR CO. INTERNAVI DENTSU Tokyo JAPAN DENTSU CREATIVE X Tokyo
Silver         REVOLVER/WILL O'ROURKE Sydney
PREGNANCY / VET / BREAKDOWN NIMBLE SMART LITTLE LOANS PROXIMITY BRISBANE / COLENSO BBDO Auckland AUSTRALIA THE SWEET SHOP Melbourne
Bronze          
CAT LADY MURRAY GOULBURN CO OPERATIVE LTD DEVONDALE LONG LIFE MILK DDB GROUP MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA PRODIGY Sydney
THE TEACHER MURRAY GOULBURN CO OPERATIVE LTD DEVONDALE SMOOTHIES DDB GROUP MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA EXIT FILMS Melbourne, VIC
THE DAY I VISITED MY SON - A TRUE STORY UNILEVER COMFORT OGILVY & MATHER SINGAPORE SINGAPORE COLLIDER Sydney
MAKE EVERY YARD COUNT NIKE NIKE CRICKET JWT INDIA Bangalore INDIA 1ST DECEMBER FILMS Bangalore
CLOSER LINE PLUS CORPORATION LINE McCANN WORLDGROUP Bangkok THAILAND SUNSHINE ETC Bangkok
LIFE IS NOT A MARATHON. RECRUIT HOLDINGS RECRUIT POINTS DENTSU Tokyo JAPAN PADDLE Tokyo
BE THE ARTIST LION BEER DDB GROUP NEW ZEALAND Auckland NEW ZEALAND THE SWEETSHOP Auckland
HUMAN TRAFFIC SIGNS SHANGHAI GENERAL MOTORS BUICK LOWE CHINA Shanghai CHINA A NEW LIFE FILMS Shanghai / LOCUS Seoul
I TOUCH MYSELF CANCER COUNCIL BREAST CANCER JWT Sydney AUSTRALIA COLLIDER Sydney / STUDIOS 301 Alexandria
LIVE ON MALAYSIAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION ORGAN DONATION DRIVE TBWA\KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA STUDIO 31 Petaling Jaya / MUNCHING MONSTERS Petaling Jaya / CANANG STUDIO Petaling Jaya

 

Film Craft

Title Advertiser Product Entrant / Agency Country Production Company
Gold          
BLAZED NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY DRUG DRIVING CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington NEW ZEALAND CURIOUS FILM Auckland
BLAZED NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY DRUG DRIVING CURIOUS FILM Auckland / CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington NEW ZEALAND CURIOUS FILM Auckland
Silver          
BLAZED NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY DRUG DRIVING CURIOUS FILM Auckland / CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington NEW ZEALAND CURIOUS FILM Auckland
MISTAKES NEW ZEALAND TRAFFIC AUTHORITY SPEED FINCH Sydney / CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington AUSTRALIA FINCH Sydney
MAKE EVERY YARD COUNT NIKE NIKE CRICKET JWT INDIA Bangalore INDIA 1ST DECEMBER FILMS Bangalore
Bronze          
COMETS DIAGEO AUSTRALIA SMIRNOFF DOUBLE BLACK EXIT FILMS Melbourne, VIC / LEO BURNETT SYDNEY AUSTRALIA EXIT FILMS Melbourne, VIC
MISTAKES NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY SPEED CLEMENGER BBDO Wellington NEW ZEALAND FINCH Sydney

 

Source:
Campaign Asia

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