The winners of the 44th annual AWARD Awards have been announced. 59 Gold, 101 Silver and 187 Bronze pencils were awarded across 26 different campaigns.
The Grand Award was won by CHEP Network for Flipvertising for Samsung. It also won 5 Gold Pencils.
Special New Zealand topped the Gold winners Gold, with 7 Gold pencils across two campaigns, The Last Performance for Partners Life and Summer Never Sleeps for Kathmandu.
Special is Agency Network of the Year, with 11 Golds across its agencies. This award recognises agency network brands instead of only holding companies, so it can be awarded to anyone that has multiple city offices.
Bear Meets Eagle on Fire is Agency of the Year.
Scoundrel is Production Company of the Year.
The Gold pencil tally is:
- Special New Zealand, 7
- CHEP Network, 5
- FINCH, TBWA\Australia, Special Australia, Scoundrel, 4 each
- Bear Meets Eagle on Fire, Thinkerbell, Howatson+Company, The Sweetshop, The Monkeys, Revolver, VMLY&R, 3 each
- HERO and Rumble Studios, 2 each
- BMF, Cheil PengTai Beijing, Colenso BBDO, Dentsu Creative, Ogilvy Group Thailand, R/GA Australia, 1 each.
“The AWARD Awards really is the greatest creative show in our region and every year we see creativity that punches well above its weight,”stated AWARD chair Cam Blackley. “A big congratulations to all those that picked up gold today and a massive shout out to everyone who won a silver or bronze during our virtual announcements. I’d like to thank our jury president David Kolbusz, all the jury chairs and our team of judges who devote a huge amount of time freely to the significant task of handing out the industry’s most coveted creative metal.”
View all 44th AWARD Awards Gold, Silver and Bronze winners here. View all the Special Award winners here.
