IBC2011 Awards Categories

It is collaboration that makes the IBC Innovation Awards unique. They are awarded to the broadcaster or production company which has the vision to implement the latest technology – as seen at IBC – to deliver the quality, creativity and accessibility that their viewers and listeners expect.

There are three categories in the IBC2011 Innovation Awards: for the most innovative projects in content creation, content management and content delivery.

From a very large number of entries nominated at the beginning of the year, an international panel of editors and commentators selected and awarded what they judge to be the most effective in delivering results.

Here are the winners for the IBC2011 Innovation Awards:

Content Creation
Content Management
Content Delivery

There is a fourth award, at the gift of the judging panel. The Judges’ Prize may be drawn from the nominations in the three categories, or it may be another project which has caught their eye because of its creative, technical or commercial imagination. This year the Judges Prize was awarded to DNA on top of their Innovation Award for Content Delivery.

From time to time, IBC makes a special award to a project, a person or a programme which has gone the extra mile and achieved something truly remarkable. This year the IBC Special Award grew out of the judging process for the Innovation Awards.

Flying Monsters 3D with Sir David Attenborough was nominated, in the content creation category, for its post production on SGO Mistika at Onsight in London. Some of the judges, though, had the chance to see the complete programme and were hugely impressed by the way it uses technology to – literally – bring fossils to life. The stereoscopic 3D is a natural part of the creative process, putting computer generated pterosaurs into real environments seamlessly.

The IBC Special Award was presented to Anthony Geffen, ceo of Atlantic Productions, the company behind the film. He was joined on stage by Celia Taylor from Sky in the UK which commissioned the programme, and by representatives from Onsight and SGO Mistika.
 

The highest honour IBC bestows, the International Honour for Excellence is awarded each year to an individual or organisation that has made an outstanding contribution to the broadcast industry. Past winners have included James Cameron, director of Titanic and Avatar, the BBC Natural History Unit and Manolo Romero, managing director of Olympic Broadcasting Services.

The IBC2011 International Honour for Excellence was awarded to Sir David Attenborough.

The conference, with its important exchange of ideas and opinions, is the very heart of IBC. Within the conference, the technical papers programme is seen as the most important global arena to unveil the latest in cutting edge research.

The papers committee provides a peer review of every paper to be presented. From their deliberations they also choose the single paper which best combines innovative thinking and clarity of presentation, with the author receiving the IBC Conference Award.

The IBC Conference Paper Award went to NHK for its technical paper on its stunning Super Hi-Vision system.

Helping visitors find the technologies they require from the 1,300 IBC exhibitors is a challenge. We play our part in the way we lay out the halls by theme, and the exhibitors play their part by designing stands which guide the visitor and showcase their products.

A dedicated team of judges tours the entire exhibition, looking carefully at every stand and choosing those which they regard as outstanding in terms of accessibility, clarity and image. There are three IBC Exhibition Design Awards: for the best use of shell scheme space, and for the best smaller and larger free design stands.

View this years winners of the IBC2011 Exhibition Design Awards.