BAFTA Children’s Awards: ‘Spider-Verse’ Wins Animated Feature Prize

The British Academy Children’s Awards were held at London’s The Brewery on Sunday, December 1, crowning many worthy animated winners. Determined by BAFTA, the Awards celebrate the very best in children’s media from TV series to feature films, presenters and performers.

A select list of winners follows. A full list of the nominees and winners is available on the BAFTA website.

FEATURE FILM

HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE – ROTTEN ROMANS Will Clarke, Caroline Norris, Dominic Brigstocke – Altitude Film Entertainment, Citrus Films/Altitude Film Distribution

MARY POPPINS RETURNS Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Marc Platt – Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

TOY STORY 4 Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera, Mark Nielsen – Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Winner: SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord – Sony Pictures Animation/Sony Pictures Releasing UK

ANIMATION

THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL Ben Bocquelet, Mic Graves, Sarah Fell – Great Marlborough Productions/Cartoon Network

DANGER MOUSE Aidan McAteer, Tim Searle, Chapman Maddox – Co-produced by BBC Children’s In-House Productions and Boat Rocker Media/CBBC

THE DEMON’S HEAD Production Team – CTVC/TrueTube

Winner: HILDA Luke Pearson, Stephanie Simpson, Kurt Mueller – Silvergate Media/Netflix

INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION

APPLE & ONION George Gendi, Brent Tanner, Benton Connor – Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network

DOC MCSTUFFINS Dan Nosella, Michael Stern, Chris Nee – Brown Bag Films/Disney Junior

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Stephen Hillenburg, Vincent Waller, Marc Ceccarelli – Nickelodeon Animation Studio/Nicktoons

Winner: TEEN TITANS GO! Production Team – Warner Bros./Cartoon Network

PRE-SCHOOL – ANIMATION

DIGBY DRAGON Adam Shaw, Chris Drew, Jen Upton – Blue Zoo Productions/Channel 5

FLOOGALS Production Team – Nevision/Channel 5

HEY DUGGEE Grant Orchard, Sander Jones, Janine Voong – Studio AKA/CBeebies

Winner: NUMBERBLOCKS Joe Elliot, Simon Taylor, Ben Lee-Delisle – Blue Zoo for Alphablocks/CBeebies

SHORT FORM

CBEEBIES BEDTIME STORIES Production Team – BBC Children’s/CBeebies

LABUNTINA Valentina Ventimiglia, Naomi Jones, Lorenzo Castellarin – Labuntina/Sky Kids

A WHALE’S TALE Production Team – Cartoon Network/Blue Zoo/BBC Children’s/Sky Kids

Winner: TEE AND MO: HELP OUR LITTLE WORLD Dominic Minns, Nathaniel Cooper, Ellie Wyatt – Plug-in Media/CBeebies

WRITER

CIARAN MURTAGH, ANDREW BARNETT JONES Danger Mouse – CBBC

WRITING TEAM Horrible Histories – CBBC

MARK BAKER, NEVILLE ASTLEY, PHIL HALL Peppa Pig – Channel 5

Winner: WRITING TEAM The Amazing World of Gumball – Cartoon Network

GAME

CHIMPARTY Development Team – NapNok Games/ Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

LEGO DC SUPER-VILLAINS Stephen Sharples, David Hoye, Matt Ellison – TT Games/WB Games

OVERCOOKED 2 Development Team – Ghost Town Games/Team17

Winner: ASTRO BOT RESCUE MISSION Development Team – SIE Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

CHANNEL

CBBC

HOPSTER

TRUETUBE

Winner: CBEEBIES

By Mercedes Milligan/Animation Magazine