Impact/film
The Abaunza Group has designed and executed impact campaigns for the following films and limited series, and specific initiatives for awards titles (partial list).
All Quiet on the Western Front
Academy Awards: Best International Feature, Best Music, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography. BAFTA Awards: Best Film, Best Film Not in the English language, Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Cinematography
The Elephant Whisperers
Won Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film. Nominated: DOC NYC, Short – Change Makers, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Score-Short Film, IDA Documentary Awards, Best Short Documentary
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Academy Award: Best Animated Feature. BAFTA: Best Animated Film, Best Original Score, Best Production Golden Globe: Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Score, Best Original Song. Critic’s Choice: Best Animated Feature, Best Score, Best Song.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Academy Award: Best Short Film, Animaited, BAFTA: Best British Short Animation, Annie Award: Best Animated Special Production
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Winner, Golden Globe, Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Nominated for 4 others including Best Motion Picture- Drama and Best Director – Motion Picture. Winner, AFI Awards, Movie of the Year
Boys State
Winner, Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary and Best Political Documentary, Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance
Francesco
On 22 October 2020, director Evgeny Afineevsky received the 18th Kinéo Prize in the Vatican Gardens for this film for “promot[ing] social, humanitarian, and environmental issues in cinema.”
The Great Hack
Nominee, Primetime Emmy, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, Nominee, BAFTA, Best Documentary
The Edge of Democracy
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature, Winner, Peabody Award, Nominee, Sundance Grand Jury Prize
The Life Ahead
Winner, Golden Globe Best Original Song, Nominee, Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
A Love Song for Latasha
Winner, Best Short Film, Sundance; Winner, Best Documentary Short, Tribeca Film Festival.
Roma
Winner, 3 Oscars, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Motion Picture; Winner, 2 Golden Globes, Best Director and Best Motion Picture, Nominated Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Knock Down the House
Winner, Sundance, Audience Award, Nominee, Grand Jury Prize; Winner, Critics Choice Documentary Award, Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary, Nominee, Best Political Documentary
The Two Popes
Nominated for 3 Oscars including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Adapted Screenplay; Nominated for 4 Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Drama
When They See Us
Nominated for 14 Primetime Emmys, won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie; Winner, BAFTA Awards, International; Nominated, Screen Actors Guild, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series; Winner, AFI Award, TV Program of the Year; Winner, Peabody Award.
Cries From Syria
Nominated for 4 Emmys including Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary; Winner, Humanitas Prize; Winner, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Best Director; Winner, Cinema for Peace, Most Valuable Documentary of the Year.
The Hunting Ground
Nominated for Oscar, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song, Winner, Primetime Emmy, Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, Nominee, Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Winner, PGA Awards, Stanley Kramer Award, Nominee, Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
Blood Diamond
Nominated for 5 Oscars including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; Nominee, Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama; Nominee, SAG Awards, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Constant Gardener
Nominated for four Oscars, winner, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, nominated for three Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director – Motion Picture; winner, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture; winner, London Critics Circle Film Awards, British Film of the Year, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director
Hotel Rwanda
Nominated for 3 Oscars, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay; Nominated for 3 Golden Globes, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, Best Original Song – Motion Picture, and Best Motion Picture, Winner, AFI Audience Award, Winner, Cinema for Peace, Most Valuable Film of the Year, Winner, Toronto Film Festival, People’s Choice Award
Food Inc.
Winner, Emmy for Outstanding Informational Programming and Best Documentary; Nominee for Oscar, Best Documentary Feature; Nominee, Directors Guild of America, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary; Nominee, Independent Spirit Award, Best Documentary
The Look of Silence
Nominated for Oscar, Best Documentary, Feature; Winner, Independent Spirit Awards, Best Documentary; Nominated for 2 Emmys, Outstanding Investigative Documentary and Best Documentary; Winner of 5 awards at Venice Film Festival, including Grand Jury Prize.
A Private War
Nominee, Golden Globes, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture and Best Original Song; Winner, American Film Awards, Best Actress; Nominee, Directors Guild of America, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
Heart of Nuba
Winner, Cinema for Peace, Most Valuable Documentary of the Year; Winner, Hollywood Film Festival, Jury Prize