FilmLight Colour Awards 2026: Five winners at Toruń

A suspected alien, a desert island and a presidential birthday cake walked into a grading suite. Add a mountain campaign and a trip around the moon and you have the five winners of the sixth FilmLight Colour Awards, presented on 8 November at ToruńCAMERIMAGE in Poland.

The awards recognise the colourists behind the finished images and accept work graded on any platform. We previously covered how the awards work.

The five winners

Theatrical Feature

Greg Fisher of Company 3 won for Bugonia, his second win in this category after Poor Things. Yorgos Lanthimos and cinematographer Robbie Ryan returned for this one, with eight-perf 35 mm VistaVision giving the conspiracy plenty of room to spread. Colourist on IMDb · LinkedIn

TV Series / Episodic

Aidan Farrell of The Farm Post Production won for Lord of the Flies. Director Marc Munden wanted a look that could have come out of the 1950s. The grade gets more saturated and the blacks more pronounced as the island’s social arrangements go distinctly downhill. Colourist on IMDb · LinkedIn

Spotlight & Documentary

Andu Radu of Abator won for The President’s Cake, Hasan Hadi’s Caméra d’Or-winning debut. In 1990s Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia has to find the ingredients for a presidential birthday cake amid food shortages. A simple shopping list turns into a film. Colourist on IMDb · LinkedIn

Commercial

Nadia Khairat Gómez won for The North Face’s Defy Easy. Niels Windfeldt’s spot brought thermal imaging, motion control and miniatures into the same production. The title seems to have been taken as a brief. Colourist on IMDb · LinkedIn

Emerging Talent

Imri Agmon of S EC Studio won for KidSuper’s The Boy Who Jumped the Moon. The fashion film grew out of a spring/summer collection that began with Colm Dillane writing a children’s book. Apparently, a mood board would have been a bit terrestrial. Portfolio · LinkedIn

All nominees

Theatrical Feature: Bugonia by Greg Fisher (Company 3) (winner). Dead Man’s Wire by Daniel de Vue (Trafik). Growth of the Soil by Didrik Bråthen (TMLS). Project Hail Mary by David Cole (FotoKem). Resurrection by Qiang Tang (ATTAKK COLOR, Beijing).

TV Series / Episodic: Lord of the Flies by Aidan Farrell (The Farm Post Production) (winner). Euphoria, Season 3 by Tom Poole (Company 3). Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Season 3 by Michael Hatzer (Picture Shop). My Brilliant Career by Marina Starke.

Spotlight &. Documentary: The President’s Cake by Andu Radu (Abator) (winner). Armony by Valerio Liberatore (Frame by Frame). Chichero by Raúl Espinosa López (Misterio Color Lab). Elephants in the Fog by Marina Starke. I’ll Be Gone in June by Nadia Khairat Gómez.

Commercial: The North Face, Defy Easy by Nadia Khairat Gómez (winner). Asahi Super Dry, Seek What Is Unique by Andi Chu (Electric Theatre Collective). Squarespace, Unavailable by Greg Fisher (Company 3). Zara, Delicately Distressed by Tim Masick (Company 3).

Emerging Talent: KidSuper SS26, The Boy Who Jumped the Moon by Imri Agmon (S EC Studio) (winner). Altea, FW26 by Andrea Sabatelli. Chiello, Ti Penso Sempre by Leonardo Masoero. Huawei Nova, In Full Bloom by Haobo Wang (王普通).