Andy Serkis will receive the honorary award for excellence at IBC 2019

Producer, director and actor, Serkis is also an eminence bringing digital characters to life through motion capture.

He IBC 2019 International Honour for Excellence Award It will be on this occasion for Andy Serkis, the director, producer and actor best known today for his motion capture roles. Among them are Gollum, Supreme Leader Snoke, King Kong and Caesar of Planet of the Apes.

Michael Crimp, CEO of IBC, highlights that "IBC is where the technology, craft and business of the media industry come together. The International Honor for Excellence has a long history of recognizing those who have transformed our creative vision. Andy Serkis has achieved this by bringing extraordinary humanity to computer-generated characters."

Serkis was born in England in 1964 and wanted to be an artist before becoming an actor, working in theater and television. Today he is also a producer and director, with his London company Imaginary Studios producing Mowgli, Legend of the Jungle last year, a new interpretation of Kipling's originals adapted by Serkis, in which he also co-starred in Baloo the bear alongside Christian Bale's Bagheera.

His greatest achievement, however, is making the shift from mere motion capture for CGI to a combination of technology and the acting skill of the actor to create the fidelity of the performance in every detail. This is what gives him genuine humanity: his performance as Caesar in all three Planet of the Apes films earned him an acting nomination from the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

Serkis acknowledges feeling "incredibly honored to have been chosen as the winner of this year's prestigious IBC Award. I want to share this appreciation with the phenomenal legions of creative artists, visionaries and pioneers with whom I have been fortunate to work on this journey through the stories of the next generation."

The 2019 IBC Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, September 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the RAI Auditorium in Amsterdam.

Previously, on Sunday (12:30 p.m.), Andy Serkis will participate in the opening of the IBC in a conversation with Hollywood journalist Carolyn Giardina. They will review his career, the state of the art in motion capture, and discuss where he sees the future of the technology in film and television.