Prize List
ESMA ranked 8th best animation school in the world by Animation Career Review 2022.
ESMA’s films have been selected for over 200 international festivals each year. Our students’ work has been rewarded with many prizes, including the “Best Student Project” award at SIGGRAPH for the film Je suis un Caillou, the “Film of the Year – 3D animation” award by The Rookies for the film Œil pour Œil, the “Best Art Director Award” for the film La Source des Montagnes at the Animayo! festival, and many others!
You can find a part of the list of winners below.
Achoo wins 2 awards at Korterraza festival
Achoo wins the “Heineken 2nd prize”, given by the jury and the “Korterraza Txiki-El Correo Prize” given by a children’s association.
Achoo wins an award at FICA
Achoo team won first prize in the international animation category of FICA
Château de Sable wins an award at La Nuit du Court métrage
Château de Sable who has just won the “Animation Award” at The Short Film Night of the 2018 edition.
Made In France award-winning Marius D’Or
Made In France has just been awarded the Marius D’Or at the Marius du Court.
Mécanique won an award at Animayo Festival
Mécanique just won the “Best 3D Award” at Animayo festival in the Canary Islands
Oscars Nominated Short Films 2018 – Additional screening category
Achoo selected by Shorts.tv in the Additional screening category of the Oscars Nominated Short Films 2018.
Award at the Anima Festival 2018
Short Film “La boite” won the “Best short film Award”, category “Films for young people” at the Anima Festival.
2016 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival
“L’Aviatrice”, “Asteria” and “Swiff” selected at the 21th “Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival” in the “Official Competition” category
2017 Palm Springs International ShortFest
Asteria selected at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, in the “Official Selection” category
2017 Vietnam PanamAnim Festival
L’ESMA guest of honour of the 2017 Vietnam PanamAnim Festival !
Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2018
Achoo, Ice Pepper & Made In France, selected in the “Young People” category of the Festival International du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand !
2018 Cannes Film Festival
CinéFondation
Sailor’s Delight selected 2018 Cannes Film Festival – CinéFondation category, with 16 others students films
