McCann New York received an unprecedented five Grand Clio Awards for its work with State Street Global Advisors on the commissioned “Fearless Girl” during last night’s (9/27) awards ceremony in New York. The bronze sculpture, created by Kristen Visbal, stares down the “Charging Bull” on Wall Street, and gained international attention for building awareness of gender equality. “Fearless Girl” took Grand honors for Branded Content, Public Relations, Events/Experiential, Out of Home and Innovation during a special presentation.
Cecily Strong, Saturday Night Live cast member, hosted the evening.
Additional 2017 Grand Clio Winners are:
- Direct: 180LA for Boost Mobile with “Boost Your Voice”
- Digital/Mobile: DAVID for Burger King with “Google Home of The Whooper”
- Print: DAVID for Burger King with “Burning Stores”
- The Power of Imagery: Grey Germany for Terre des Femmes FGM with “Open Your Eyes”
- Brand Design: Leo Burnett, Toronto for IKEA Canada with “IKEA: Cook This Page”
- Product Design: McCann Worldgroup India for Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan with “The Immunity Charm”
- Branded Entertainment: Pereira & O’Dell for Netscout with “Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World”
- Film: The Martin Agency for Donate Life with “The World’s Biggest Asshole”
- Integrated Campaign: Überground GmbH for LIDL with “#SANTACLARA Christmasfilm”
“Of the Year” honors were presented to those that collected the most statue points across all mediums for 2017. The honorees are:
- Advertiser of the Year: State Street Global Advisors
- Agency of the Year: McCann New York
- Agency Network of the Year: BBDO Worldwide
Special kudos
David Lubars, chief creative officer of BBDO Worldwide and chairman of BBDO North America, accepted the 2017 Clio Lifetime Achievement Award from Greg Hahn, CCO of BBDO New York.
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street, received the first-ever Clio Global Impact Award, which honors an individual or organization who has produced groundbreaking work addressing the world’s most important social and humanitarian issues. Sherrie Westin, EVP for global impact and philanthropy at Sesame Workshop, accepted the award on behalf of the organization from Keith Reinhard, a former Clio Lifetime Achievement recipient and long-time Sesame Workshop board member.
Michelle Lee, editor-in-chief of Allure introduced the Clio Fashion & Beauty portion of the evening. Model and singer-songwriter Karen Elson was on hand to present Grace Coddington, Vogue America’s creative director-at-large, with the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Clio Fashion & Beauty, which honors creative excellence in the business of style.
The 2017 Clio Music Honorary award recipient was Kasseem Dean (Swizz Beatz), an internationally acclaimed Grammy-Award winning music producer and global entrepreneur. Music executive Sylvia Rhone presented Swizz Beats with his award at the ceremony.
Clio Music also included performances by Marian Hill and Iron & Wine, both of which appeared on the 2017 Billboard and Clio Music Charts powered by Shazam. Nathan Morris and Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men made a surprise appearance at the beginning of the ceremony to spoof their recent GEICO spot with Strong.
For a list of 2017 Grand, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners, click here.
Full Lineup Set For AFI Fest; Official Selections Span 44 Countries, Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 23-27. Rounding out the slate of already announced titles are such highlights as September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man in America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski v. Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969). A total of 158 films are set to screen at the 38th edition of AFI Fest.
Of the official selections, 48% are directed by women and non-binary filmmakers and 26% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers.
Additional festival highlights include documentaries Architecton directed by Victor Kossakovsky; Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie directed by David Bushell; Devo directed by Chris Smith about the legendary new wave provocateurs; Gaucho Gaucho directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw; Group Therapy directed by Neil Berkeley with Emmy® winner Neil Patrick Harris and Tig Notaro; No Other Land directed by a Palestinian-Israeli team comprised of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal; Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry; and Separated directed by Errol Morris. Notable narrative titles include Black Dog (Gou Zen) directed by Guan Hu; Bonjour Tristesse directed by Durga Chew-Bose with Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny; Caught By The Tides directed by Jia Zhangke; Hard Truths directed by Mike Leigh with... Read More