BAFTA Wins for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Roughhouse, and Black Panther

11 February 2019 // News

Aaron Wood

Marketing Director & Writer

The British Academy Film and Television Award winners have been announced in London.

Winning the award for Animated Film (Feature) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse have beaten Pixar sequel Incredibles 2, and Wes Anderson’s critically-acclaimed stop-motion Isle of Dogs. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, Into the Spider-Verse was notable for being the feature film debut of Miles Morales, the African-American/Latino protagonist. Co-writer Phil Lord said:

We share this with 800 other filmmakers and maniacs who worked really hard to try to break new ground and take animation in new directions, all because we wanted to make a film worthy of Miles Morales, and I hope this encourages other people to do the same.

Aside from last year – when Kubo and the Two Strings picked up the BAFTA, and Coco picked up the OSCAR – plus 2015, when the BAFTA winning The Lego Movie was snubbed by the Academy; the BAFTA feature animation award has been a safe way to bet on the Oscar winner.

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Breaking the tradition of NFTS nominated films, which have picked up the award for the past 4 years, the winner for British Short Animation went to Roughhouse, by Jonathan Hodgson and Richard Van Den Boom, beating I’m OK (Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison) and Marfa (Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod). Roughhouse has been described as “a dramatised freewheeling anecdote with humour, emotion and charm, about three Birmingham lads at college in the 70s”  – Skwigly spoke to Jonathan earlier this year, a few days before his BAFTA nomination.

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The BAFTA for VFX went to Black Panther (Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick). The film is up for seven Oscar nominations, and could make history by becoming the first superhero movie to with the Best Picture award.

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