Award Show Bedlam! Cannes Lions, One Show, ADC News

The 57th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival seems to have shored up all of its Jury Presidents, announcing Cyber, Design and Direct, as well as announcing the Titanium & Integrated President and Jury.

• Jeff Benjamin, VP/Interactive Executive Creative Director at upstart Crispin Porter + Bogusky will lead the Cyber jury

• Steff Geissbuhler, Partner at C&G Partners will be in charge of the Design Jury

• Pablo Alzugaray, CEO of Shackleton is running the Direct Jury

• Bob “Sex Doll” Scarpelli, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, DDB Worldwide will be serving as the President of the Titanium and Integrated Jury, and he’s already rounded up a posse of judges to mete out hard justice in a world too cold for compassion.

• Susan Bonds, President & Chief Executive Officer, 42 Entertainment, USA
• Fábio Fernandes, Partner & CEO, Creative Director, F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Brazil
• Rei Inamoto, Chief Creative Officer, AKQA, USA
• Khai Meng Tham, Worldwide Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, USA
• Jens Mortier, Partner & Creative Director, Mortierbrigade, Belgium
• Rob Reilly, Partner & Co-Executive Creative Director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, USA
• David Sable, Vice-Chairman & Chief Operating Officer, Wunderman, USA
• Mark Waites, Joint Creative Director & Founding Partner, Mother, UK
• Nick Worthington, Executive Creative Director, ColensoBBDO, New Zealand

Delegate registration is up and running, and Cannes is freezing their rates from last year. You can check out all of the delegate packages right here.

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Cannes isn’t the only game around with a kickass jury to announce. The One Show is also on its way, and they’ve put out a list of superstar judges to separate the Pencils from the lead.

So who will decide if your agency needs to expand its trophy case?

• Andrew Keller – Crispin Porter + Bogusky (Boulder, CO)
• Andy Berndt – Google Creative Lab (New York, NY)
• Anna Qvennerstedt – Forsman & Bodenfors (Sweden)
• Bob Winter – Leo Burnett (Chicago, IL)
• Christian Mommertz – Ogilvy (Germany)
• Chuck McBride – Cutwater (San Francisco, CA)
• Colin Jeffrey – David&Goliath (Los Angeles, CA)
• Danielle Flagg – Wieden + Kennedy (Portland, OR)
• David Oakley – BooneOakley (Charlotte, NC)
• Duncan Marshall – Droga5 (New York, NY)
• Feh Tarty – Wieden + Kennedy (UK)
• Fernando Sosa – la comunidad (Argentina)
• Fernando Vega Olmos – JWT (Spain)
• Götz Ulmer – Jung Von Matt (Germany)
• Graham Warsop – Jupiter Drawing Room (South Africa)
• Greg Hahn – BBDO (New York, NY)
• Ian Reichenthal – Y&R (New York, NY)
• Jason McCann – Taxi (Canada)
• Jimmy Smith – TBWA\Chiat\Day (Los Angeles, CA)
• Joe Alexander – The Martin Agency (Richmond, VA)
• Josh Denberg – McCann (San Francisco, CA)
• Judy John – Leo Burnett (Canada)
• Mark Waites – Mother (UK)
• Mike Hughes – Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners (Sausalito, CA)
• Mimi Cook – Apple (Cupertino, CA)
• Paul Keister – Goodness Mfg (Venice, CA)
• Perry Fair – Grey (New York, NY)
• Polly Chu – JWT (China)
• Rosie Arnold – BBH (UK)
• Steve Simpson – Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (San Francisco, CA)

Deadline for entries is coming up in three weeks on Friday February 12th, with the awards themselves taking place on May 10th, 13th and 14th.

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The Art Directors Club also has deadlines that are fast approaching. They’ve staggered their deadlines a bit, and extended them a tad. Design, Interactive and Student entries are due next Friday, January 29th, with Advertising entries being due a week later on February 5th. If you were planning on entering the ADC Hybrid and ADC Sphere Awards, you have a little more time, the deadline for those categories isn’t until February 26th.