Yorgos Lanthimos Bugoniathat of Marc Munden Lord of the Flies and that of Hasan Hadi The President’s Cake had been among the many winners of the 2026 FilmLight Shade Awards, introduced Saturday on the ToruńCamerimage movie competition in Poland.
Bugoniareviewed by Greg Fisher of Firm 3, gained the theatrical function award. Lanthimos’ darkly comedic sci-fi thriller stars Emma Stone as a robust pharmaceutical govt kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists satisfied she is an alien plotting to destroy Earth.
Aidan Farrell of The Farm Submit Manufacturing gained the TV Sequence/Episode class for Lord of the FliesMunden’s tv adaptation of William Golding’s novel a few group of schoolchildren stranded on an uninhabited island whose makes an attempt to determine order descend into savagery.
The Highlight and Documentary prize was awarded to The President’s Cakefamous by Andu Radu of Abator. Hadi’s function movie, set in Nineteen Nineties Iraq below Saddam Hussein, follows a younger woman tasked with baking a cake to have fun the dictator’s birthday, a mission that reveals the difficulties of life below his regime.
The sixth annual awards acknowledge excellence in colour grading in 5 classes: theatrical function, tv collection/episodic, highlight and documentary, business and rising expertise. Winners obtained a particular colour model of Camerimage’s Golden Frog trophy, created in recognition of the contribution of colorists to the artwork of cinema.
Within the Industrial class, Nadia Khairat Gómez gained the award for the North Face marketing campaign Problem Straightforwardwhereas Imri Agmon gained the Rising Expertise award for trend movie Kidsuper SS26 The boy who jumped on the moon.
The awards had been introduced as a part of TorunCamerimage, the world’s largest competition devoted to cinematic artwork. Competition founder and director Marek Żydowicz mentioned the awards acknowledge the artistic collaboration between colorists, cinematographers and administrators to form the visible language of a movie.
“Colorists assist them obtain this aim, working with cinematographers and administrators to create emotional depth within the movie’s pictures, stability their colours, and improve colour and tonal accents in particular person photographs,” Żydowicz mentioned.
Winners of the FilmLight Shade Awards 2026
Theatrical function movie: Bugonia — Greg Fisher (Firm 3)
TV collection/episode: Lord of the Flies — Aidan Farrell (The Farm post-production)
Highlight and documentary: The President’s Cake — Andu Radu (Slaughterhouse)
Industrial: North face, Problem Straightforward — Nadia Khairat Gomez
Rising abilities: Kidsuper SS26, The boy who jumped on the moon — Imri Agmon (SEC Studio)