Nominations Announced: British Academy Children’s Awards
Three nominations for KATIE MORAG, OLD JACK’S BOAT, 4 O’CLOCK CLUB, THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL, ROY and WOLFBLOOD each receive two nominations.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced the nominations for its annual 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 23 November and will be hosted by Doc Brown.
Leading the way with three nominations is Katie Morag, based on the books by Mairi Hedderwick. The show, which follows the adventures of a small girl and her family on a Scottish island, receives Drama and Writer nominations, while eight-year-old Cherry Campbell, who plays the title role, is nominated in the Performer category.
A number of programmes have received two nominations each: Old Jack’s Boat, for Pre-School Live Action and Performerwith Bernard Cribbins as Jack; 4 O’Clock Club for Comedy and Performer with Akai Osei as Nero; Roy and Wolfblood each receive nominations in both the Drama and Writer categories and, for the fourth consecutive year, The Amazing World of Gumball is nominated in both the Writer and Animation categories. Rocket’s Island picks up the final nomination in the Drama category and first-time nominee, Kia Pegg, completes the Performer category for her role as Jodi in The Dumping Ground.
Last year’s Presenter winners, Sam Nixon & Mark Rhodes, are nominated once again and are joined in this category by fellow BAFTA-winning double-act Richard McCourt & Dominic Wood, comedian Iain Stirling and wildlife presenter Naomi Wilkinson.
Junior Bake Off, judged by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, picks up a nomination for Entertainment. Other nominees in the category include Hacker Time, hosted by Hacker T. Dog, and game shows Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge and Swashbuckle.
Animation dominates International, where the 2013 winner, Adventure Time, is joined by SpongeBob SquarePants,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and pre-school series Doc McStuffins.
The four films nominated in the Feature Film category are: animated adventure-comedy The Lego Movie (Warner Bros), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DreamWorks Animation), Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures) and Maleficent (Walt Disney Pictures) starring Angelina Jolie. In Game, classic franchises are revisited with Mario Kart 8, Pokémon X & Y and Rayman Legendseach receiving nominations together with Tearaway, whose development team is led by BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, Rex Crowle.
The BAFTA Kids’ Vote also launched today, alongside its official media partner, Fun Kids Radio. The audience award gives children aged 7-14 the opportunity to vote for their favourite film, television programme, website and game. Three-time winner of the Website category, Bin Weevils, will be hoping to retain the title, despite facing tough competition from returning runners-up Moshi Monsters and Club Penguin, while each of the four Feature Film nominees also appear in the Kids’ VoteFilm list alongside Mr Peabody & Sherman, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Rio 2, Turbo, Planes and Muppets Most Wanted.
Full list of nominations in 2014
ANIMATION
THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL Ben Bocquelet, Mic Graves, Sarah Fell – Cartoon Network Studios Europe/Cartoon Network
DENNIS THE MENACE & GNASHER Production Team – Red Kite Animation/Sticky Pictures/CBBC
SHAUN THE SHEEP Richard Starzak, Jay Grace, John Woolley – Aardman Animations/CBBC
STRANGE HILL HIGH Production Team – Factory, CBBC and Fremantle/CBBC
CHANNEL OF THE YEAR CARTOON NETWORK
CBBC
CBEEBIES
CYW
COMEDY
4 O’CLOCK CLUB Production Team – CBBC/CBBC
ALL AT SEA Production Team – CBBC/CBBC
DIDDY MOVIES 2 Steve Ryde, Dez Mcarthy, Annette Williams – CBBC/CBBC
DNN: DEFINITELY NOT NEWSROUND Production Team – CBBC/CBBC
DRAMA KATIE MORAG Production Team – Move on Up/CBeebies
ROCKET’S ISLAND Production Team – Lime Pictures/CBBC
ROY Production Team – Jam Media/CBBC
WOLFBLOOD Production Team – CBBC/CBBC
ENTERTAINMENT
FORT BOYARD: ULTIMATE CHALLENGE Nigel Pickard, Joe Shaw – The Foundation TV Productions Ltd/ALP/CITV
HACKER TIME Production Team – CBBC/CBBC
JUNIOR BAKE OFF Production Team – Love Productions/CBBC
SWASHBUCKLE Production Team – CBeebies/CBeebies
FACTUAL
DEADLY POLE TO POLE Production Team – CBBC/CBBC
FRONTLINE FAMILIES – A NEWSROUND SPECIAL Production Team – CBBC/CBBC
JUNIOR VETS Production Team – True North/CBBC
OPERATION OUCH! Production Team – Maverick Television/CBBC
FEATURE FILM
FROZEN Peter Del Vecho, Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck – Walt Disney Animation Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold – DreamWorks Animation/Twentieth Century Fox
THE LEGO MOVIE Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dan Lin, Roy Lee – Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Road Show Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures
MALEFICENT Joe Roth, Robert Stromberg, Linda Woolverton – Roth Films/Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
GAME
MARIO KART 8 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
POKEMON X & Y Development Team – Game Freak inc/The Pokémon Company International/Nintendo
RAYMAN LEGENDS Michel Ansel, Christophe Heral, Jean-Christophe Alessandri – Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft
TEARAWAY Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment
INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR
BLUE ZOO
DOT TO DOT PRODUCTIONS
FACTORY TM LTD
KINDLE ENTERTAINMENT LTD
INTERACTIVE: ADAPTED
DISNEY ANIMATED Development Team – Touch Press/Disney Interactive/Walt Disney Animation Studios
LUDUS Rob Hyde, Aled Perry, Ruth Mills – Boom Kids and Cube Interactive
MADRON Luke Davis, Wil Stephens, Darren Wall – Glasshead/Cube/Planet Jump Productions
ROOM ON THE BROOM: GAMES Development Team – Magic Light Pictures & Stormcloud Games
INTERACTIVE: ORIGINAL
DIXI Dan Berlinka, Nina Metivier, Melanie Stokes – Kindle Entertainment/Syndicut/Lucy Atkinson/CBBC Online
MAKIES Development Team – MakieLab
MIXELS Development Team – Hibernum for Cartoon Network/Cartoon Network
TEE & MO Dominic Minns, Juliet Tzabar, Alan Owen – Plug-in Media/CBeebies Online
INTERNATIONAL
ADVENTURE TIME Pendleton Ward, Graham Falk, Nick Jennings – Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network
DOC MCSTUFFINS Norton Virgien, Theresa Mayer, Chris Nee – Brown Bag Films/Disney Junior
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Production Team – Nickelodeon/Nicktoons
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Production Team – Nickelodeon/Nicktoons
LEARNING: PRIMARY
CYW A’R WYDDOR (CYW AND THE ALPHABET) Helen Davies, Carol Woodman – Boom Kids and Cube Interactive
LIZARD GIRL Iona Sweeney, Lynsey Miller, Vivienne Franzmann – Feelgood Fiction/BBC Two
LLANDUDNO: A SEASIDE TOWN Michael Davies, David Cortese – Landlines
THE STORY OF BRITAIN Production Team – Lion Television/Ben Tobbit/BBC Learning
LEARNING: SECONDARY
CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST Production Team – Fettle Animation/BBC Online
EXPLORING THE PAST: POST WAR BRITAIN – Dominic Sant, Rhonda Evans, Nick Price – Evans Woolfe Media/BBC Two
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Andy Glynne, Dylan Howitt – Mosaic Films/BBC Two
POETRY: BETWEEN THE LINES Production Team – Somethin’ Else/BBC Two
PERFORMER
AKAI OSEI 4 O’Clock Club – CBBC
BERNARD CRIBBINS Old Jack’s Boat – CBeebies
CHERRY CAMPBELL Katie Morag – CBeebies
KIA PEGG The Dumping Ground – CBBC
PRESCHOOL: ANIMATION
BING Mikael Shields, Nicky Phelan, Jeroen Jaspaert – An Acamar Films Production coproduced by Brown Bag Films and Tandem Ltd/CBeebies
DINOPAWS Production Team – Kindle Entertainment Ltd/Guru Studio Ltd/Laughing Gravy Media Ltd/CBeebies
POSTMAN PAT AND THE RUBBER DUCK RACE Production Team – Mackinnon and Saunders/CBeebies
SARAH & DUCK Tim O’Sullivan, Sarah Gomes Harris, Jamie Badminton – Karrot Entertainment/CBeebies
PRESCHOOL: LIVE ACTION
CBEEBIES THREE LITTLE PIGS Angela Young, Charlotte Bushell, Vanessa Amberleigh – CBeebies/CBeebies
GRANDPA IN MY POCKET Mellie Buse, Jan Page, Martin Franks – Adastra Creative Ltd/CBeebies
OLD JACK’S BOAT Dominic MacDonald, Tony Reed, Tom Poole – CBeebies/CBeebies
SOMETHING SPECIAL Angela Young, Kat Woolfe, Vanessa Amberleigh – CBeebies/CBeebies
PRESENTER
IAIN STIRLING The Dog Ate My Homework – CBBC
NAOMI WILKINSON Naomi’s Nightmares of Nature – CBBC
RICHARD MCCOURT & DOMINIC WOOD Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom – CBBC
SAM NIXON & MARK RHODES Sam and Mark’s Big Friday Wind-Up – CBBC
SHORT FORM
CITV SHARE A STORY 2013 Waldemar Werbel, Jadine Sage, Frank Mansfield – CITV/CITV
GUMBALL SONG Production Team – Cartoon Network On Air/Blue-Zoo/Cartoon Network
MILKSHAKE! MONKEY Production Team – Channel 5/Match Cut/Channel 5
NINA NEEDS TO GO Production Team – ArthurCox/Disney Junior
WRITER
SERGIO CASCI Katie Morag – CBeebies
DECLAN DE BARRA Roy – CBBC
DEBBIE MOON Wolfblood – CBBC
WRITING TEAM The Amazing World of Gumball – Cartoon Network
BAFTA KIDS’ VOTE IN 2014
FILM
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (U) Sony Pictures
FROZEN (PG) Walt Disney Pictures
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Twentieth Century Fox
MALEFICENT (PG) Walt Disney Pictures
MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (U) Twentieth Century Fox
MUPPETS MOST WANTED (U) Walt Disney Pictures
PLANES (U) Walt Disney Pictures
RIO 2 (U) Twentieth Century Fox
THE LEGO MOVIE (U) Warner Bros
TURBO (U) Twentieth Century Fox
GAME
DISNEY INFINITY Disney Interactive Studios
FIFA 14 EA Games
FROZEN FREE FALL Disney Mobile
JUST DANCE 2014 Ubisoft
LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
MINECRAFT Mojang
NEED FOR SPEED: RIVALS EA Games
POKÉMON X & Y The Pokémon Company
SKYLANDERS SWAP FORCE Activision
THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEOGAME Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
TELEVISION
ALL OVER THE PLACE: AUSTRALIA CBBC
THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL Cartoon Network
THE DUMPING GROUND CBBC
JESSIE Disney Channel
MAX STEEL CITV
NEWSROUND CBBC
PHINEAS AND FERB Disney XD
REGULAR SHOW Cartoon Network
VICTORIOUS Nickelodeon
WOLFBLOOD CBBC
WEBSITE
BIN WEEVILS
CARTOON NETWORK
CBBC
CLUB PENGUIN
DISNEY
GIRLS GO GAME
LEGO
MOSHI MONSTERS
NICKELODEON
POKÉMON
Nominations are correct at the time of going to print. BAFTA reserves the right to make changes to the names listed at any time up until 23 November 2014
Voting for the BAFTA Kids’ Vote opens today (21 October) at 09:00 and closes at 16:30 on Sunday 23 November. Children can access exclusive content and competitions via www.funkidslive.com and can cast their votes at www.baftakidsvote.org.