The final day of the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity saw the announcement of winners across the Glass: The Lion for Change, Sustainable Development Goals Lions, Film Lions, Dan Wieden Titanium Lions, and Grand Prix for Good categories, with Leo Australia taking the Titanium Grand Prix among the day’s top honors.
Representing APAC with a big win, Leo Australia was awarded the Dan Wieden Titanium Grand Prix for their work on ‘Haven’, created for Suncorp Insurance.
“We are so thrilled to have our resilience work for Suncorp globally recognised with a Titanium. It’s been a long-term commitment for us with this work taking our focus on resilience from an idea into an action that all Australians can benefit from,” said Mim Haysom, CMO and Executive General Manager Brand and Customer Experience, Suncorp.
Andy Fergusson, Chief Creative Officer at Leo Australia, added: “It is truly humbling to have our work recognised in this way, and hard to put into words how proud I am of the team. This project was two years in the making and many more years in preparation. Everyone involved in Haven worked tirelessly to create something unique, that we believed could change behaviour.”
Final Day Winners
Glass: The Lion for Change
Glass: The Lion for Change received 122 entries, with 5 Lions awarded: 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze, and the Grand Prix, which went to ‘Nigrum Corpus’, for IDOMED & Instituto Yduqs, by Artplan, São Paulo. The work turned an abstract injustice — racism — into a reality doctors are trained to recognize and treat, shifting how medicine sees, studies, and cares for Black patients.
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.”
APAC Winners
Gold Lion
- Motion Sickness Auckland, ‘The Māori Roll Call’ for Whānau Ora.
Sustainable Development Goals Lions
From 289 entries received in the Sustainable Development Goals Lions, 9 Lions were awarded: 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze, and the Grand Prix, which went to ‘Paid Sick Leave for Cows’, for Too Good, by The Partnership Agency, Nairobi. The work crosses boundaries between labor rights and agriculture, creating a new way to think about work and value in food systems.
Jury President 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.”
APAC Winners
Gold Lion
- Motion Sickness Auckland, ‘The Māori Roll Call’ for Whānau Ora
Bronze Lion
- Grey Thailand, ‘Your Birthday, Their Birthday’ for Thai Health Promotion Foundation
Film Lions
The Film Lions received 1,469 entries, with 45 Lions awarded: 8 Gold, 14 Silver, 22 Bronze, and the Grand Prix, which went to two campaign films — ‘Can I Get a Six Pack Quickly?’ and ‘How Can I Communicate Better with My Mom?’ — for Claude, by Mother London. The darkly comedic Super Bowl films positioned Claude as the AI pledging not to run commercial messages on its tools.
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.”
Silver Lion
- Ogilvy Bangkok, ‘Every Bite Changes Everything’ for Thai Life Insurance
- VML Bangkok, ‘The Most Important Claim’ for Shield Insurance
Bronze Lion
- Hanami Food Bangkok / Choojai and Friends Bangkok, ‘The Crispy Discount’ for Snack Jack
- Ogilvy Singapore / VML South Africa, ‘Vaseline Verified’ for Vaseline
- Ogilvy Singapore / VML South Africa, ‘Vaseline Verified’ for Vaseline
- Wolf BKK, ‘Unwelcome Home’ for KFC Thailand
Dan Wieden Titanium Lions
In the Dan Wieden Titanium Lions, 138 entries were received and 5 Lions were presented: 4 Titanium Lions and the Grand Prix, awarded to ‘Haven’, for Suncorp Insurance, by Leo Australia. The work turned insurance into a long-term public service initiative, combining education, design innovation, and policy advocacy to help Australians better prepare their homes and communities for extreme weather.
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 Wieden 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, by Rainbow Lobster, Mexico City / Comando Con Venezuela, Caracas. The work turned a simple QR code into a decentralized electoral verification system, transforming more than 600,000 citizens into an effective electoral verification network during the 2024 Venezuelan elections.
Special Awards
The following Special Awards were also announced:
Network of the Year:
1. Ogilvy
2. VML
3. TBWA Worldwide
Independent Network of the Year:
1. Rethink
2. Mother
3. Wieden+Kennedy
Agency of the Year:
1. LePub, Milan, Italy
2. VML, New York, United States
3. Rethink, Toronto, Canada
Independent Agency of the Year:
1. Rethink, Toronto, Canada
2. Isle of Any, New York, United States
3. Mother, London, United Kingdom
Palme d’Or:
1. MJZ, United States
2. Biscuit Filmworks, United Kingdom
3. CANADA, Spain
Creative Brand of the Year:
1. Heineken
2. KitKat
3. IKEA
Agency of the Year by Track
Agency of the Year – Classic
Rethink, Toronto, Canada
Agency of the Year – Craft
TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles, United States
Agency of the Year – Engagement
LePub, Milan, Italy
Agency of the Year – Entertainment
DAVID, New York, United States
Agency of the Year – Experience
VML, Warsaw, Poland
Agency of the Year – Good
Motion Sickness, Auckland, New Zealand
Agency of the Year – Health
Fallon, Minneapolis, United States
Agency of the Year – Strategy
Publicis Conseil, Paris, France
Independent Agency of the Year by Track
Independent Agency of the Year – Classic
Rethink, Toronto, Canada
Independent Agency of the Year – Craft
Isle of Any, New York, United States
Independent Agency of the Year – Engagement
Special, Los Angeles, United States
Independent Agency of the Year – Entertainment
Wieden+Kennedy, Mexico City, Mexico
Independent Agency of the Year – Experience
WESAYHI, Sliema, Malta
Independent Agency of the Year – Good
Motion Sickness, Auckland, New Zealand
Independent Agency of the Year – Health
Klick Health, Toronto, Canada
Independent Agency of the Year – Strategy
Rethink, Toronto, Canada
In-house Agency of the Year
- Apple, Cupertino, United States
- Google Creative Lab, Mountain View, United States
- L’Oréal, New York, United States
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.”
