2022 BAFTA Award Winners: Encanto and Do Not Feed the Pigeons Scoop Top Prizes

15 March 2022 // News

Calum Peissel

Writer

On Sunday the 13^{th of} March, the best and brightest of cinema gathered once again for the annual EE British Academy Film Awards. Amongst the glittering mass of actors and directors, a small number arrived at the red carpet with the sole intention of winning awards for their animated productions, and the results are in…

For animation obsessed viewers, the main attraction was ‘Best Animated Film’, which this year was awarded to Disney’s ‘Encanto’. Completing the line-up of nominees was Pixar’s Luca, Sony Pictures Animation’s action-adventure film, ‘The Mitchells vs The Machines’, as well as Jonas Pohur Rassmusens’ Flee, the latter of which managed to make it into the shortlist for ‘Best Documentary’.

Despite its dominant presence at the British Animation Awards, Affairs of the Art lost its winning streak in the Best British Short Animation category to Vladimir Krasilnikov’s Do Not Feed the Pigeons. Ida Melum’s stop motion film Night of the Living Dread was also nominated.

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To nobody’s surprise, ‘Dune’ took home the award for best visual effects, (adding to the pile of trophies they had already won for best sound, score, production design and cinematography), and simultaneously dwarfing its competition, the latest instalments in the ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Matrix’ and ‘Bond’ franchises, as well as the action-comedy flick ‘Free Guy’.

Skwigly Readers Poll Results

As usual, we held our annual poll for Skwigly readers to see who YOU thought would pick up this year’s BAFTA top prizes – these were your predictions…

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