BAFTA wins for The Making of Longbird and Brave
The British Academy film and television award winners have been announced at a star studded event in London. With the world of film being profiled and awards being showered on feature smashes such as Skyfall, Life of Pi and Argo being an animation magazine we thought it would only be right to show a bit of attention to the winners of the animation categories.
Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman awarded for Best Animated Feature
The winner of Best Feature went to Disney/Pixars Brave which adds another award to Pixars already groaning award cabinet after the film won the Golden Globe earlier in the year. Leaving home empty handed are were Tim Burtons Frankenweenie and ParaNorman from Laika. BAFTA have presented an award for Best Animated feature since 2006 and every one of them has also won the Oscar. Is this a sign that Brave will pick up another Oscar for the studio or will the trend be broke this year?
Up against Eamonn O’Neills I’m Fine Thanks and Here to Fall directed by Kris Kelly & Evelyn McGrath, Will Anderson won the BAFTA for Best Animated Short film for his film The Making of Longbird.
Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson collect their BAFTAs for The Making of Longbird
The remarkable student film has had quite the excellent run on the festival circuit scooping awards at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Annecy as well as others. You can see our interview with Will Anderson here.