Lifetime Achivement Award
To honor key figures of the Nordic-baltic Animation Scene, the festival board has gives out the Life Time Achivement Award at Fredrikstad Animation Festival every year sines 2007. Before that the festival gave out special awards in 2001 and in 2004 to honor the history of the nordic-baltic animation scene. The goal of the Lifetime Achivement Award document the rich history of animation and to spotlight the people behind a growing animation scene from Northern Europe:
AWARD WINNERS
- 2001: Magnus Carlsson (Sverige) – Special Award
- 2004: Per Åhlin (Sverige), Jannik Hastrup (Denmark), Priit Pärn (Estonia) and Ivo Caprino (Norway) – The Caprino Award
- 2007: Erling Eriksson (Sverige)
- 2008: Leif Markussen (Denmark)
- 2009: Inni Karine Melbye (Norway)
- 2010: Børge Ring & Kaj Pindal (Denmark)
- 2011: Gunnar Strøm (Norway)
- 2012: Rein Raamat: (Estonia)
- 2013: Kine Aune & Thor Sivertsen (Norway)
- 2014: Antonia Ringbom (Finland)
- 2015: Ilja Bereznickas (Lithuania)
- 2016: Gunnar Ville (Denmark)
- 2017: Per Åhlin, (Sverige)
- 2018: Roze Stiebra (Latvia)
- 2019: Anna Tystad Aronsen (Norway)
- 2020: No award was given out due to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak