**FREE** PH Awards: ARCANE: Season 2

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From Riot Games, ARCANE returned last November on Netflix and won 7 Annie Awards earlier this year. The animated series, based on the League of Legends game and one of Netflix’s most successful animated series ever, is created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee. Executive producers include Linke, Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck. The Animation Studio is Fortiche Production. Voices include Hailee Steinfeld (Vi), Annie Award winner Ella Purnell (Jinx) and Katie Leung (Caitlyn), Reed Shannon (Ekko), Amirah Vann (Sevika), Mick Wingert (Heimerdinger), and Ellen Thomas (Ambessa), and Brett Tucker (Singed) among others to be announced. Fortiche directed and produced the animation, under the direction of the founders Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord. 

Season One of ARCANE solidified Netflix’s position as a leader in adapting game franchises into animated cultural phenomena. Globally praised as one of the Best TV Shows of 2021, the adult animated series also earned four PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS (2022) including Outstanding Animated Program – the first streaming series to win Outstanding Animated Program. The series swept the 2022 Annie Awards with wins in Nine categories including Best TV/Media, Best Writing, Best Voice Acting (Ella Purnell), Best Direction (with Fortiche Production), Best Production Design (with Fortiche Production), Best Character Animation (with Fortiche Production), Best Storyboarding, Best Character Design and Best FX (with Fortiche Production.) The series was also recognized by the gaming community winning Best Adaptation at The Game Awards (2022). In addition, the Arcane album was nominated for a 2022 Billboard Music Award for Top Soundtrack. (Description courtesy of Netflix)

Barthelemy Manoury is a director and head of character animation at Fortiche best known for co-directing all nine episodes of ARCANE's second season and serving as animation director for the first season. For his work on the first season, he won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.