Animation Triumphs at Children’s BAFTAs
The 2014 Children’s BAFTA’s took place this year at the Roundhouse in London, celebrating the art of children’s television making in a glitzy ceremony. As a staple of the children’s television diet, animation came out on top with some fantastic shows taking home awards that evening. Karrot entertainment achieved a well deserved win for Sarah & Duck a show which has been waiting patiently for this kind of recognition for a long time. Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep took home a BAFTA ahead of what is shaping up to be a huge year for the character as he stars in his first feature in February as well as a Christmas special next December.
CITV’s Share a Story won its third BAFTA scoring a hat trick for the much loved series. Feature film wise, The LEGO Movie continued its awesome year with best feature film whilst Frozen was deemed the best in a kids vote. Disney triumphed again with a win for the Disney Animated app. Internationally, Adventure Time scooped an award in an animation centric category.
Smallfilms co-founder Peter Firmin was presented with a special award.
Peter Firmin © BAFTA/Richard Kendal
Below is a complete list of the winners. Congratulations folks!
WINNERS
ANIMATION sponsored by Toon Boom
SHAUN THE SHEEP Richard Starzak, Jay Grace, John Woolley – Aardman Animations/CBBC
CHANNEL OF THE YEAR
CARTOON NETWORK
COMEDY
DIDDY MOVIES 2 Steve Ryde, Dez McCarthy, Annette Williams – CBBC/CBBC
DRAMA
KATIE MORAG Production Team – Move on Up/CBeebies
ENTERTAINMENT
JUNIOR BAKE OFF Production Team – Love Productions/CBBC
FACTUAL
OPERATION OUCH! Production Team – Maverick Television/CBBC
FEATURE FILM
THE LEGO MOVIE Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dan Lin, Roy Lee – Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Road Show Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures
GAME
MARIO KART 8 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR
KINDLE ENTERTAINMENT LTD
INTERACTIVE: ADAPTED
DISNEY ANIMATED Development Team – Touch Press/Disney Interactive/Walt Disney Animation Studios
INTERACTIVE: ORIGINAL
DIXI Dan Berlinka, Nina Metivier, Melanie Stokes – Kindle Entertainment/Syndicut/Lucy Atkinson/CBBC Online
INTERNATIONAL
ADVENTURE TIME Pendleton Ward, Graham Falk, Nick Jennings – Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network
LEARNING: PRIMARY
LIZARD GIRL Iona Sweeney, Lynsey Miller, Vivienne Franzmann – Feelgood Fiction/BBC Two
LEARNING: SECONDARY
POETRY: BETWEEN THE LINES Production Team – Somethin’ Else/BBC Two
PERFORMER
CHERRY CAMPBELL Katie Morag – CBeebies
PRESCHOOL: ANIMATION
SARAH & DUCK Tim O’Sullivan, Sarah Gomes Harris, Jamie Badminton – Karrot Entertainment/CBeebies
PRESCHOOL: LIVE ACTION
OLD JACK’S BOAT Dominic MacDonald, Tony Reed, Tom Poole – CBeebies/CBeebies
PRESENTER
RICHARD MCCOURT & DOMINIC WOOD Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom – CBBC
SHORT FORM
CITV SHARE A STORY 2013 Waldemar Werbel, Jardine Sage, Frank Mansfield – CITV/CITV
WRITER
DEBBIE MOON Wolfblood – CBBC
BAFTA KIDS’ VOTE IN 2014
FILM
FROZEN (PG) Walt Disney Pictures
GAME
MINECRAFT Mojang
TELEVISION
JESSIE Disney Channel
WEBSITE
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