Epica Advertising Awards 2005

The 2005 Epica d'Or winners have been announced, as well as the other winners for the 2005 Epica Awards. The awards ceremony will be held at the Ritz Carlton in Istanbul on January 20, 2006.

Epica d'Or TV got down to a run-off between AMV/BBDO's "NoitulovE" for Guinness and Swedish H&M commercial featuring Karl Lagerfeld.

Epica d'Or Print was a decision between the Swedish campaign for the Stockholm Stadsmission and the Grande Reportagem Flags campaign.
Read on to find out who won.

The 2005 Epica d’Or was won by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, London, for the new Guinness commercial “noitulovE” (“Evolution”).

Agency: Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, London
Copywriter: Ian Heartfield
Art Director: Matt Doman
Planner: Ashley Alsup
Production: Company Kleinman Productions
Director: Danny Kleinman
Producers: Yvonne Chalkley (AMV BBDO), Johnnie Frankel (Kleinman)
Editor: Steve Gandolfi (Cut & Run)
Post-Production: Framestore-CFC, Wave Recording Studio
Client: Diageo/Guinness

The 2005 print Epica d’Or was won by Foote Cone & Belding, Lisbon, for the Grande Reportagem “Flags” campaign.It marks the first time that one of Epica’s top awards has gone to a Portuguese agency.

Agency: Foote Cone & Belding, Lisbon
Creative Directors: Luís Silva Dias, Duarte Pinheiro de Melo
Copywriter: Ícaro Dória
Art Director: Joãn Roque
Account Director: Andrea Valenti
Client: Grande Reportagem Magazine “Flags” Campaign