Mumbai: The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity concluded its 2026 edition by announcing the final set of winners across Glass: The Lion for Change, Sustainable Development Goals Lions, Film Lions, Dan Wieden Titanium Lions and the Grand Prix for Good, while also unveiling the Festival’s coveted Special Awards.
This year’s edition marked significant milestones, including Kenya securing its first-ever Grand Prix and Greece earning its inaugural Grand Prix earlier in the week, reflecting the increasingly global nature of creative excellence.
Simon Cook, CEO, LIONS, said, “The body of work our Jurors have awarded showcases the ideas, innovations and creative excellence that moves the industry forward. Across the Festival week, we have seen Lion winners representing every corner of the globe with first-time Grands Prix for Kenya and Greece. Huge congratulations to all. Thanks, once again, to our incredible Jurors, entrants and winners for setting the global creative benchmark for 2026.”
Glass: The Lion for Change
The Glass: The Lion for Change category received 122 entries and awarded five Lions, including one Gold, one Silver, two Bronze and the Grand Prix.
The Grand Prix was awarded to ‘Nigrum Corpus’ for IDOMED & Instituto Yduqs, created by Artplan, São Paulo. The campaign addressed racial disparities in healthcare by reframing racism as a medical issue requiring recognition and treatment.
Glass Jury President Monique Nelson, Executive Chair, UWG, said, “The Grand Prix is awarded to ‘Nigrum Corpus’, a multimodal medical textbook that treats racism as a disease and attacks it at the educational level. What set this work apart was the rigorous documentation, quantification, and research of the lived experience of Black patients translated into action. Adopted by Brazil’s highest medical authority and endorsed by the WHO, it is now redefining medical education and humanising Black bodies for an estimated 2 billion people worldwide.”
Sustainable Development Goals Lions
From 289 entries, nine Lions were awarded including two Gold, two Silver, four Bronze and the Grand Prix.
The category’s top honour went to ‘Paid Sick Leave for Cows’ for Too Good, created by The Partnership Agency, Nairobi — earning Kenya its historic first Grand Prix.
Kazoo Sato, Chief Creative Officer and CEO, Earth Centric Design, said, “The Jury awarded the Grand Prix to a piece of work with a brilliantly simple idea that goes beyond awareness to create lasting systemic change. It transforms an apparent trade-off into shared value, benefiting people, business and other species alike. More than solving a single problem, it offers a replicable model for how creativity can help redesign a more sustainable future.”
Film Lions
The Film Lions category received 1,469 entries and awarded 45 Lions.
The Film Grand Prix was awarded to Mother London for its campaign films ‘Can I Get a Six Pack Quickly?’ and ‘How Can I Communicate Better with My Mom?’ for Claude, using humour and irony to position the AI platform differently from competitors.
Film Jury President Pelle Sjoenell, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer, NLS Corp., said, “An ad about where ads shouldn’t exist. An AI making fun of AI. A challenger that took on the market leader, using its own announcement against it, like corporate aikido, with wit, nerve and craft in every frame. The risk was profound, the execution immaculate, and it reshuffled the perceptions in the most consequential technology race of our age.”
Dan Wieden Titanium Lions
The Titanium Lions received 138 entries and awarded five honours including four Titanium Lions and the Grand Prix.
The Grand Prix was awarded to ‘Haven’ for Suncorp Insurance, created by Leo Australia, for transforming insurance into a long-term public service initiative focused on climate preparedness.
Dan Wieden Titanium Jury President Chaka Sobhani, Global Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\Worldwide, said, “The theme of the festival is where does creativity go next? And that is what the Dan Weiden Titanium Lion exemplifies in droves. This is about celebrating the ideas that are genuinely game changing, that inspire us to reimagine what is possible, and that genuinely pave the way for where creativity can go in the future. These are not ideas that exist for just one moment but that have a true and profound lasting impact on how brands show up in the world, on business, on people, on the culture we are part of and on the world we live in. Ultimately ideas that the world would miss if they didn’t exist.”
Grand Prix for Good
The Grand Prix for Good was awarded to ‘600K Network’ for Comando Con Venezuela, developed by Rainbow Lobster, Mexico City / Comando Con Venezuela, Caracas.
The initiative transformed citizens into a decentralised electoral verification network during Venezuela’s 2024 elections using QR-enabled participation.
Special Awards Highlights
Among the Festival’s top honours:
- Network of the Year: Ogilvy
- Independent Network of the Year: Rethink
- Agency of the Year: LePub, Milan
- Independent Agency of the Year: Rethink, Toronto
- Palme d’Or: MJZ, United States
- Creative Brand of the Year: Heineken
- In-house Agency of the Year: Apple
The 2026 Cannes Lions Festival closed with recognition for work that demonstrated creativity’s growing role in driving business transformation, social progress, innovation and cultural impact across industries and geographies.
