BAFTA NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED: British Academy Children’s Awards in 2015
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced the nominations for the 20th British Academy Children’s Awards, which honour the very best in children’s media. The ceremony will be held at the Roundhouse, London, on Sunday 22 November and will be hosted by Doc Brown.
Leading the way with three nominations is Horrible Histories. The latest instalment of the gruesomely entertaining history show is nominated in both the Comedy and Writing categories for its special Magna Carta episode, while Jessica Ransom is nominated in the Performer category for her portrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots, later in the series.
A number of programmes have received two nominations each: Peppa Pig receives its ninth nomination for Preschool: Animation and its fourth in the Writer category; last year’s Factual winner, Operation Ouch!, is nominated once again in the same category and receives its first Presenter nomination for Drs. Alexander & Chris van Tulleken; Sam Nixon & Mark Rhodes are also Presenter nominees for their Christmas special of Sam & Mark’s Big Friday Wind-Up, which picks up a nomination in the Entertainment category too; and The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, based on the children’s books by Norman Hunter, is nominated for Comedy, with Harry Hill nominated in the title role.
Also with two nominations is wartime children’s drama Harriet’s Army, which is nominated in both the Drama and Writer categories. Joining it in the Drama category is The Dumping Ground, with its associated game The Dumping Ground: You’re The Boss featuring in the Interactive: Adapted category. The final two nominations for Drama are Wolfblood and the television adaptation of Katie Morag, based on the books by Mairi Hedderwick. Completing the Comedy category are All At Sea and Gigglebiz with Justin Fletcher. Justin’s House is also nominated in Entertainment along with pirate gameshow Swashbuckle and cookery show Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch.
The International category features three first-time nominees: Clarence, Gravity Falls, and Nowhere Boys. They are joined by past nominee, Adventure Time, whose accompanying mobile app, Adventure Time Game Wizard, is nominated in the Game category together with Splatoon, Yoshi’s Woolly World and Minecraft Console Edition. The Minecraft team was also presented with the YGD Hero Award at the Young Game Designers ceremony earlier this year.
There are more first-time nominees in the Preschool: Animation category where classic remake The Clangers is joined by Lily’s Driftwood Bay and Hey Duggee. CBeebies Elves and the Shoemaker, My Pet and Me and Topsy and Tim also make their debut in Preschool: Live Action along with last year’s winner, Old Jack’s Boat.
The four films nominated in the Feature Film category are: Big Hero 6, Inside Out, Paddington and Shaun the Sheep: The Movie. On the small screen, Shaun the Sheep also picks up a consecutive nomination for Animation, where it is joined by The Amazing World of Gumball, Strange Hill High and Mr Bean: The Animated Series based on the original comedy starring Rowan Atkinson and still voiced by the star.
The BAFTA Kids Vote launched earlier this week. Until 21 November, children aged seven to 14 can cast their votes at the new-look BAFTA Kids website – www.baftakids.org – which includes online challenges, competitions, and information on BAFTA’s year-round events and initiatives that give families an insight into creative excellence within film, television and games, through behind-the-scenes roadshows, workshops and masterclasses, and special hospice screenings.
The BAFTA Kids Vote is supported by its official media partner, Fun Kids Radio. Children can access exclusive content and competitions via www.funkidslive.com.
NOMINATIONS
ANIMATION
THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL Ben Bocquelet, Mic Graves, Sarah Fell – Great Marlborough Productions Ltd/Cartoon Network
MR BEAN THE ANIMATED SERIES Production Team – Tiger Aspect Productions/CITV
SHAUN THE SHEEP John Woolley, Steve Box, Lee Wilton – Aardman/CBBC
STRANGE HILL HIGH Josh Weinstein, Kat Van Henderson, Geoff Walker – CBBC In House Production with Fremantle and Factory/CBBC
CHANNEL OF THE YEAR
CARTOON NETWORK
CBBC
CBEEBIES
CYW
COMEDY
ALL AT SEA Brian Lynch, Mark Oswin, Simon Nelson – CBBC/CBBC
GIGGLEBIZ Anna Perowne, Vanessa Amberleigh, Simon Brown – CBeebies/CBeebies
HORRIBLE HISTORIES SPECIAL Production Team – Lion TV/BBC Two
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM Sandy Johnson, Rosemary McGowan, Charlie Higson – BBC Comedy Production London/BBC One
DRAMA
THE DUMPING GROUND Julie Dixon, Nigel Douglas, Philip Leach – CBBC/CBBC
HARRIET’S ARMY Guy Burt, Stewart Svaasand, Foz Allen – CBBC/CBBC
KATIE MORAG Production Team – Move On Up/CBeebies
WOLFBLOOD Debbie Moon, Jonathan Wolfman, Sallie Aprahamian – CBBC with ZDF/CBBC
ENTERTAINMENT
JUSTIN’S HOUSE Philip Cooper, Becky Overton, Iwan Watson – CBeebies/CBeebies
MATILDA AND THE RAMSAY BUNCH Production Team – One Potato Two Potato/CBBC
SAM & MARK’S BIG FRIDAY WIND UP Sid Cole, David Beardsell, Tony Grech-Smith – CBBC/CBBC
SWASHBUCKLE Martin Williams-Neale, Geoff Coward, Jon Hancock – CBeebies/CBeebies
FACTUAL
BEING ME: A NEWSROUND SPECIAL Steph Atkinson, Millie Innes, Kirsti Adair – CBBC/CBBC
I AM LEO (MY LIFE) Phil Niland, Cat Lewis, Lyndsay Rowan – Nine Lives Media/CBBC
MR ALZHEIMERS AND ME (MY LIFE) Production Team – Tigerlily Films Ltd/CBBC
OPERATION OUCH! Production Team – Maverick Television/CBBC
FEATURE FILM
BIG HERO 6 Roy Conli, Chris Williams, Don Hall – Walt Disney Animation Studios
INSIDE OUT Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Jonas Rivera – Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
PADDINGTON Paul King, David Heyman – Heyday Films/Studio Canal
SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE MOVIE Mark Burton, Richard Starzak, Julie Lockhart, Paul Kewley – Aardman/Studio Canal
GAME
ADVENTURE TIME GAME WIZARD Development Team – Turner Broadcasting System Inc/Cartoon Network
MINECRAFT CONSOLE EDITION Development Team – 4J Studios/Mojang
SPLATOON Development Team – Nintendo/Mojang
YOSHI’S WOOLLY WORLD Development Team – Nintendo/Mojang
INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR
FACTORY
LIME PICTURES
PRETZEL TV
SOMETHIN’ ELSE
INTERACTIVE – ADAPTED
CBEEBIES STORYTIME APP John Kearney, Sarah Parsons, Robin Gibson – CBeebies
THE DUMPING GROUND: YOU’RE THE BOSS Development Team – CBBC Interactive/Somethin’ Else
GRUFFALO: GAMES Development Team – Magic Light Pictures/Stormcloud Games
TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE Development Team – Marmalade Game Studio
INTERACTIVE – ORIGINAL
ESCARGOT ESCAPE ARTISTES Alex Heron, Jim Tongue, Jake Manion – CBBC with Aardman Digital
MONSTER MINGLE Chris O’Shea, Wip Vernooij, Nick Stoney – Cowly Owl
TEACH YOUR MONSTER TO READ 3: CHAMPION READER Development Team – Usborne Foundation
VIRRY Svetlana Dragayeva, Martin Percy, Joanna Fogler – Fountain Digital Labs / UNIT9
INTERNATIONAL
ADVENTURE TIME Production Team – Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network
CLARENCE Production Team – Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network
GRAVITY FALLS Production Team – Disney XD/Disney XD
NOWHERE BOYS Beth Frey, Tony Ayres, Daina Reid – Matchbox Pictures/CBBC
LEARNING – PRIMARY
FILMING OUR GREATEST GENERATION Production Team – Testimony Films/BBC Two
MY LIFE, MY RELIGION Dawn Langan – BBC Learning/BBC Two
NIGHT ZOOKEEPER Development Team – Wonky Star Ltd
TEN PIECES Katy Jones, Serena Cross, Sam White – BBC Learning/BBC Music Television/Somethin’ Else/BBC Two
LEARNING – SECONDARY
THE BORIS GAMES Martin Wright, Richard England, Hao Cai – GamelabUK
EXPLORATION INDIA Dominic Sant, Harvey Woolfe, Nick Price – Evans Woolfe Media/BBC Two
LLOND CEG Llinos Griffin-Williams, Aled Haydn Jones, Meinir Siencyn – Green Bay Media/S4C
POETRY: BETWEEN THE LINES Production Team – Somethin’ Else/BBC Two
PERFORMER
GUS BARRY as Mathias in Hetty Feather – CBBC
HARRY HILL as Professor Branestawnm in The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm – BBC One
JESSICA RANSOM as Mary Queen of Scots in Horrible Histories – CBBC
POPPY LEE FRIAR as Eve in EVE – CBBC
PRESCHOOL – ANIMATION
THE CLANGERS Production Team – Coolabi Productions Limited/Factory Create/CBeebies
HEY DUGGEE Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe, Janine Murphy – Studio AKA/CBeebies
LILY’S DRIFTWOOD BAY Production Team – Sixteen south/Nick Jr
PEPPA PIG Neville Astley, Mark Baker, Phil Davies – Astley Baker Davies/Channel 5
PRESCHOOL – LIVE ACTION
CBEEBIES ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER Angela Young, Iwan Watson – CBeebies/CBeebies
MY PET AND ME Rachel Bazeley, Lottie Elwell – CBeebies/Cbeebies
OLD JACK’S BOAT Paul Shuttleworth, Dermot Canterbury, Bernard Cribbins – CBeebies/CBeebies
TOPSY AND TIM Production Team – Darrall Macqueen Ltd/Cbeebies
PRESENTER
ALEXANDER AND CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN Operation Ouch! – CBBC
BARNEY HARWOOD Blue Peter – CBBC
IAIN STERLING The Dog Ate My Homework – CBBC
SAM NIXON AND MARK RHODES Sam & Mark’s Big Christmas Wind Up – CBBC
SHORT FORM
CN BUDDY NETWORK Production Team – Turner Broadcasting/Cartoon Network
BITESIZE SHAKESPEARE – RICHARD III Will Adams, Rory Lowe, Innes Smith – Once Were Farmers/BBC Learning Online
OOGLIES Cameron Fraser, Neil Jack, Bob Last – Ko Lik Films Two Ltd/CBBC
POPPIES Simon Partington, Jackie Edwards – CBeebies/CBeebies
WRITER
GUY BURT Harriet’s Army – CBBC
NEVILLE ASTLEY, MARK BAKER Peppa Pig – Channel 5
PHIL FORD Wizards vs Aliens – CBBC
WRITING TEAM Horrible Histories Special – BBC Two