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Bronze Award
Best Christmas Ever
The Walt Disney Company
United Kingdom
2026
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Entrant Company
adam&eve\TBWA
Entry Type
Product/Service
Launch Country
United Kingdom
Program
Clio Awards 2026
Medium Type
Professional
Medium
Film
Category
61 Seconds to Five Minutes
Disney is a brand known for its creative storytelling, and only Disney could tell a story about a girl's imaginative Doodle coming to life. When creating this holiday short, we had the intention of using Disney's strong stake in storytelling to a unique tale about a girl named Molly and her doodle. Out story begins with Molly absentmindedly doodling on her letter to Santa. To her surprise, Santa mistakes her doodle as a Christmas wish and gifts her with a real, living, breathing version of her doodle on Christmas morning. The film goes on to show warm and funny moments of Molly and her doodle going about their new lives together. But there's one small problem, Molly forgot to draw a mouth on Doodle. Throughout the year he is frustrated not to be able to join in, but when the next Christmas comes around, is especially sad not to be able to participate in the holiday fun. We even see him pick up a grinning Stitch toy in the mirror and hold it to his face--imagining what it would be like to have a mouth. Upon seeing this, Molly gets an idea from one of her Disney posters to write to Santa for a Mr Potato Head (from Toy Story). On Christmas morning, Doodle at long last is given the gift of a Mr potato head mouth and everything he's wanted to say the whole year comes out at once. We end the film with Molly and Doodle chatting the whole of christmas together, the best of friends.
Credits
Creative Agency
adam&eve\TBWA
London
Brand
The Walt Disney Company
Global
Creative Agency
adam&eve\TBWA
London
Agency Network
TBWA Worldwide
new york
Agency Network
Omnicom
New York City
Production Company
Hungry Man
New York
Chief Creative Officers
Ant Nelson & Mike Sutherland
adam&eveDDB
Creatives
Sali Horsey, Zoe Nash
adam&eve\TBWA
Creative Director
Richard Gayton & Darren Beresford
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Joint Head of Integrated Production / Producer
Sally Pritchett
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Assistant TV Producer
Holly Wormleighton
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Chief Executive Officer
Miranda Hipwell
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General Legal Counsel
Candice Macleod
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Senior Legal Counsel
Tom Campbell
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Planning Director
Catherine Willoughby
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Head of Account Management, NY
Margaret Coleman
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Account Director
Freya Schofield
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Account Supervisor
Emma Falkenberry
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Business Affairs Manager
Layla Husted
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Business Affairs Manager
Danni Rouse
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Director
Taika Waititi
Hungry Man
Managing Partner
Matt Buels
Hungry Man
Producer
Hannah Stone
Hungry Man
Production Manager
Marian Mikhail
Hungry Man
Production Designer
Olly Williams
Hungry Man
1st AD
Ben Glickman
Hungry Man
Wardrobe & Hair/Make-Up
Monique Bezuidenhout, Cathy Kukard
Hungry Man
Casting Director
Margareta Abena
Hungry Man
2nd Unit Director
Ruth Pickett
Hungry Man
Production
Beverly Wynne, Laila Shrand-Hodgson, Kelly Drummond
Gatehouse
Executive Director
Ian Berry
Untold Studios
Executive Producer
Melody Alexander
Untold Studios
Producers
Helen Tang, Natalie London
Untold Studios
Creative Directors
Adam Droy & Tim Van Hussen
Untold Studios
VFX Supervisor
Christian Baker
Untold Studios
CG Supervisor
Hudson Martins
Untold Studios
Character Concept
Therese Vildefall
Untold Studios
Character Lead
Cyriel Verkuijlen
Untold Studios
Lead Artists
Avinash Savant, Jinhui Wang, Philippe Moine, Sam Driscoll, Murali Krishna, Bhaveesh PV, Sriram Namana
Untold Studios
VFX Artists
Alberto Lara, Alex de la Sotilla, Alex Miller, Antoine Mariez, Bhavesh Budhkar, Briag Mallat, Corentin Maudhuit, Dhanesh Sudhakaran, Gianluca Di Marco, Henry Affonso, Jadheer T M, Kalaiarasu P, Lindsey Lo Presti, Luke Warpus, Mack Knights Mary Doyle, Melissa Yung-Hok, Nathan McKenna, Paila Netaji, Pim Meijer, Salman Attar, Silvia Bartoli, Sriram Namana, V Siva Sarweswar, Victor Almela
Untold Studios
Online
James Pratt, Pete Hughes
Untold Studios
Editor
Joe Guest
Final Cut
Assistant Editor
Hannah Burger
Final Cut
Offline Edit Producer
Michelle Corney
Final Cut
Orchestrator
Dave Foster
Soundtree
Head of Music
Luis Almau
Soundtree
EP/MD
Jay James
Soundtree
Colourist
Jean-Clément Soret
Company 3
Color Producer
Edwin Elkington
Company 3
President, Disney Entertainment, Studio Marketing and Chief Brand Officer
Asad Ayaz
The Walt Disney Company
SVP, Brand Management
Joanna Balikian
The Walt Disney Company
Director, Brand Marketing
Tim Pennoyer
The Walt Disney Company
Senior Manager, Brand Marketing
Jenise Fretz
The Walt Disney Company
Executive Producer
Paige Bonanno
The Walt Disney Company
VP, Creative Director
Josh Dunn
The Walt Disney Company
EVP, Marketing
Frank Chiocchi
The Walt Disney Company
Chief Strategy Officer
Will Grundy
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