Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, Marc Munden’s Lord of the Flies and Hasan Hadi’s The President’s Cake were among the winners of the 2026 FilmLight Colour Awards, announced Saturday at the ToruńCamerimage film festival in Poland.
Bugonia, graded by Greg Fisher of Company 3, took the Theatrical Feature award. Lanthimos’ darkly comic science-fiction thriller stars Emma Stone as a powerful pharmaceutical executive kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists convinced she is an alien plotting to destroy Earth.
Aidan Farrell of The Farm Post Production won the TV Series/Episodic category for Lord of the Flies, Munden’s television adaptation of William Golding’s novel about a group of schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island whose attempts to establish order descend into savagery.
The Spotlight and Documentary award went to The President’s Cake, graded by Andu Radu of Abator. Hadi’s feature, set in 1990s Iraq under Saddam Hussein, follows a young girl tasked with making a cake to celebrate the dictator’s birthday, an assignment that exposes the hardships of life under his regime.
The sixth annual awards recognize excellence in colour grading across five categories: Theatrical Feature, TV Series/Episodic, Spotlight and Documentary, Commercial and Emerging Talent. The winners received a special full-color version of Camerimage’s Golden Frog trophy, created in recognition of the contribution colorists make to the art of cinematography.
In the Commercial category, Nadia Khairat Gómez took the prize for the North Face campaign Defy Easy, while Imri Agmon won Emerging Talent for the Kidsuper SS26 fashion film The Boy Who Jumped the Moon.
The awards were presented as part of TorunCamerimage, the world’s leading festival dedicated to the art of cinematography. Festival founder and director Marek Żydowicz said the awards recognize the creative collaboration between colorists, cinematographers and directors in shaping a film’s visual language.
“Colorists help them achieve this, working together with cinematographers and directors to create emotional depth in film images, balance their colors and enhance color and tonal accents in individual shots,” Żydowicz said.
2026 FilmLight Colour Awards Winners
Theatrical Feature: Bugonia — Greg Fisher (Company 3)
TV Series/Episodic: Lord of the Flies — Aidan Farrell (The Farm Post Production)
Spotlight and Documentary: The President’s Cake — Andu Radu (Abator)
Commercial: North Face, Defy Easy — Nadia Khairat Gómez
Emerging Talent: Kidsuper SS26, The Boy Who Jumped the Moon — Imri Agmon (S EC Studio)
