The FilmLight Colour Awards unveiled their 2025 winners at a dedicated ceremony during EnergaCamerimage in Poland, opened by jury president Bradford Young with guest of honor Park Chan-wook sending remarks via video.
Máté Ternyik won the top theatrical prize for his work on The Brutalist, leading a feature competition that included grades by Damien Vandercruyssen on Mickey 17, Adam Glasman on Nosferatu, Kostas Theodosiou on Sinners and Gareth Spensley on The Phoenician Scheme.
In the episodic category, Peter Doyle took the award for grading Alfonso Cuaron’s AppleTV thriller Disclaimer. The section also featured colourists Jean-Clement Soret for Andor, Tom Poole for Severance and Damien Vandercruyssen for The Studio.
Dante Pasquinelli received the music video prize for Bad Bunny’s “NUEVAYoL,” ahead of shortlisted works by Valerio Liberatore, Jake White and Sam Howells.
Additional winners included Franziska Heinemann for the commercial Bluff Bounce, “Prologue”; Connor Bailey for Good Shot in the Spotlight category; and Marina Starke for Converse x Daily Paper, “Homecoming”, which topped the Emerging Talent section.
Check out the full list of winners below.
Theatrical Feature
• The Brutalist — graded by Máté Ternyik (Winner)
• Mickey 17 — Damien Vandercruyssen
• Nosferatu — Adam Glasman
• Sinners — Kostas Theodosiou
• The Phoenician Scheme — Gareth Spensley
TV Series / Episodic
• Disclaimer (season 1) — Peter Doyle (Winner)
• Andor — Jean-Clement Soret
• Severance — Tom Poole
• The Studio — Damien Vandercruyssen
Commercial
• Bluff Bounce, “Prologue” — Franziska Heinemann (Winner)
• Gucci: We Will Always Have London — Tim Masick
• KFC: Obsession — Mark Gethin
• Office Magazine: Michael Shannon… — Dylan Hageman
Music Video
• Bad Bunny, NUEVAYoL — Dante Pasquinelli (Winner)
• Damiano David, Next Summer — Valerio Liberatore
• Maggie Rogers, In the Living Room — Jake White
• Wren Evans, CỨU LẤY ÂM NHẠC — Sam Howells
Spotlight
• Good Shot — Connor Bailey (Winner)
• Duchoň — Ondřej Štibingr
• La Hija Cóndor — Leo Fallas
• NAWI: Dear Future Me — Marina Starke
Emerging Talent
• Converse x Daily Paper, “Homecoming” — Marina Starke (Winner)
• Bluff Bounce, “Prologue” — Franziska Heinemann
• S Bahn: A Century In Motion — Imri Agmon
• Timberland: 50 Years of Hip-Hop — Connor Bailey