For ten years, The Motion Awards have celebrated the craft that moves us. This June, we are turning that celebration into a month-long spotlight.
As The Motion Awards X enters the final stretch of general submissions, Motionographer is declaring June to be The Motion Awards Month, a dedicated editorial celebration of the artists, studios, directors, designers, animators, sound designers, producers, students, and creative teams shaping the language of Motion Design today.
We will be featuring 2025 winners throughout the month on Motionographer, revisiting the work that defined last year’s edition while looking ahead to the milestone tenth edition now open for submissions.
Because The Motion Awards X is not simply another awards cycle.
It is a marker.
Ten years. A rebuilt platform. A sharper jury. New honors. A renewed commitment to the community that made Motionographer possible in the first place.
Since 2016, The Motion Awards have existed to recognize Motion Design as a discipline in its own right. Not as a subcategory. Not as an afterthought. Not as decoration. Motion Design is a craft, a language, an industry, and a culture, and for a decade, The Motion Awards have honored the people moving that culture forward.
This year, for the Xth edition, that mission expands. The Motion Awards X introduces new Special Recognitions designed to reflect not only what wins, but what resonates.
The Grand Award
The Pulse
The Honorary Pick
The Grand Award will become the highest recognition in The Motion Awards, selected by the jury from the year’s winning work.
The Pulse, introduced for the first time in TMA history, will give the Motion Design community a voice. Every shortlisted entry across all disciplines becomes eligible. One vote per person. One winner. The work the community chooses to call its own.
And the Honorary Pick returns, continuing a tradition that began in 2017, recognizing a piece whose message reaches beyond category, craft, or convention.
That is why June matters.
Over the coming weeks, we will use this space to look back, look forward, and celebrate the range of what Motion Design can be. From commercial campaigns to title sequences, from student work to sound design, from brand systems to experimental films, The Motion Awards Month is an invitation to remember the scale of this field and the people behind it.
It is also an invitation to enter.
General submissions for The Motion Awards X are open through June 16. Late entries will remain open from June 17 through June 30.
For teams still gathering credits, case studies, final links, or project details, submissions do not need to be fully completed today. You can confirm your entry now, secure the current entry rate, and return to refine the remaining information before judging begins.
In other words: if the work is ready, this is the moment to reserve its place.
If you made work this year that deserves to be seen, considered, discussed, and remembered, this is the moment.
The Motion Awards X is here.
Enter before June 16 and claim your place in it.
June belongs to the work.