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14 cyber lion nominations for wieden + kennedy at cannes

Wieden + Kennedy has scored 14 cyber lion shortlist nominations in the 2011 Cannes Festival.

Lions

Some lions, recently.

I think I have the W+K total correct at 14 cyber lion shortlist nominations in the 2011 Cannes Festival.

According to the Cannes website, the W+K nominations are:

W+K Portland – Nike Better World, Old Spice (x4), EA Duty Calls = 6

W+K Tokyo – Nike Run fwd; Nike WTF = 2

W+K Amsterdam – Nike WTF = 1

W+K London – Nokia N8, Honda Jazz, Nokia Own Voice (x2), Nokia Dot = 5

Total = 14

Here's the little film that explains the Nokia 'Own Voice' application, a collaboration with Glue Isobar and Starcut, which has had two of those nominations:

And there are also a couple of other things in which we had a hand…

Nokia N8 'Dot' for best sound design (entered by Wave Studios)

Nokia N8 'Dot' for animation (entered by Aardman animation)

Nike Grid for game (entered by AKQA)

 

big night for Wieden + Kennedy at D&AD awards

Pencil
A D&AD black pencil, last night. This is a rare sighting of the semi-mythical, totemic object sought by creatives worldwide but only rarely glimpsed, much less grasped.

Wieden + Kennedy's Old Spice campaign was the big winner at this year's D&AD Awards, picking up two Black Pencils out of the six awarded. W+K's The Man Your Man Could Smell Like campaign picked up five pencils and a total of nine awards in all, its Black Pencils coming in the TV Commercial Campaign Category and the TV Commercials 21-40 Seconds category. D&AD President Simon Sankarayya said in this week's Campaign, "After creating one of most well-received spots for some time, the 'Response' campaign was a 'digital' extension that was, in my eyes, pretty much perfect." (But not perfect enough to get a black pencil in digital!)

These wins continue an award-winning run for the campaign which has also won the top awards at Cannes, One Show, the NY Art Directors Club and many more over the past year.

This posting (above) alone now registering over 33 million views on YouTube.

Wait, there's more.

Our Write the Future campaign for Nike also picked up four pencils: for TV Commercials over 120 seconds, Integrated, Direction for Film Advertising and Editing in Film Advertising.

Stu freddie eric

W+K's Freddie, Stu and Eric lark about with their WTF pencils.

Stu freddie

Stu and Freddie looking a bit shellshocked and wondering where they're going to find a big enough pencil case. Congrats, lads.

Here it is one more time…

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