Directors’ success

Some of the good things happening to directors who entered the Shiny Awards.
Find them, and discover today’s emerging & diverse directors in the Shiny List

1.4 Awards, April 2026

The 1.4 Awards are one of the best for seeing great commercial work, featuring directors fairly near the start of their career, through to exciting directors who have arrived. We always have overlap with their awarded directors and it’s great to see the ‘Shiny’ directors celebrated by the 1.4 Awards

Winners, In The Making:
Biko Julian Voigts
Elias Ben Dahhou
Felix Foltas
Jonas Perkmann
Joe Picozzi
Julia Mervis
Leve Kühl
Marco De Rosso
Martin Pihlap
Nicolas Bori
Pablo Dunkerly
Tom Oliver
Werner Vivier

Winners, On the Cusp:
Arthur Studholme
Florian Reittner
Jan Sederlöf
Milo Blake
Naghmeh Pour
Rob Sanderson