- Little Nicholas wins top Cristal for a feature film at Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
- Little Nicholas Co-production is based on a series of illustrated children’s books produced by Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempe.
- It had its world premiere in Cannes last month
At the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Little Nicholas – Happy as Can Be, directed by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre, won the top Cristal for a feature film.
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René Goscinny (voiced by Alain Chabat) and Jean-Jacques Sempé (voiced by Laurent Lafitte) created Nicholas, a small boy, and prankster with a happy face whose days are marked by games, fights, joking around, and learning in this co-produced French/Luxembourg film set towards the end of the 1950s in Paris. It had its world premiere in Cannes last month.
When Little Nicholas is brought into his “fathers'” workshop, the positions are reversed, and the makers tell Little Nicholas about their childhoods, jobs, and friendships.
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Flee won the top Cristal award a year ago, paving the way for three Academy Award nominations, including one for an animated feature. I Lost My Body also won Annecy’s Cristal for a feature film in 2019, before being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. I Lost My Body was edited by Little Nicholas helmer Massoubre.
