Nickelodeon’s ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ wins Children’s BAFTA for international animation; Amazon Studios’ ‘Tumble Leaf’ wins international preschool award.
Winners of the British Academy Children’s Awards celebrating the best in global children’s media to be unveiled on Sunday, November 25.
Nine finalists selected from expanded international field of 469 entries from 35 countries.
UK kid’s TV pioneer received 2014 BAFTA Special Award for his incredible contribution to children’s media.
The HBO fantasy drama was presented the BAFTA Special Award, in addition to wins in two categories.
Honor is the most-recent for the visual-effects house in a busy awards season.
Company’s Montréal team created nearly 300 shots for the sequel to the sci-fi classic.
Pixar feature wins BAFTA Award for best animated film; Roger Deakins wins fourth BAFTA for Cinematography for ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ which also wins for special visual effects.
British Academy also picks five VFX nominees and nominates three homegrown candidates for the British Short Animation category.
Blue Zoo Animation earns Independent Production Company honor, while ‘Hey Duggee’ wins preschool animation category.
Awards for best in children’s media will be presented Nov. 26 in London.
LAIKA head and ‘Kubo’ director and producer Travis Knight receives the studio’s first BAFTA Award; Disney’s The Jungle Book awarded for Special Visual Effects.
Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory,’ LAIKA’s ‘Kubo and the Two Strings,’ and Disney’s ‘Moana’ and ‘Zootropolis’ (‘Zootopia’) receive nominations for best animated feature; British short animation nominees are ‘The Alan Dimension,’ ‘A Love Story’ and ‘Tough.’
YGD Mentor Award is awarded to Cambridge Regional College’s Michael Warburton, the creator of educational commercial games development studio Rizing Games.
Cardiff-based interactive design and development studio Thud Media receives three awards for its educational children’s game, ‘Boj Smoothies,’ featuring characters from the popular CBeebies series produced by Pesky Productions.
London-based independent VFX studio is awarded third consecutive British Academy Television Craft Award for BBC drama ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.’
The award for Special Visual Effects went to ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ while the BAFTA for Animated Film went to ‘Inside Out,’ and the BAFTA for British Short Animation was presented to ‘Edmond.’
Directing collective’s latest project -- an animated short that tells the fascinating story of Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh -- was made in collaboration with BH Los Angeles for Google Play and The California Sunday Magazine.
Interstellar’ is given the award for outstanding special effects; ‘The Bigger Picture,’ by Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs and Jennifer Majka, wins the prize for best British short animation.
Approaching the show like a “newbie” brought this old-timer a sense of renewed optimism and youthful excitement.
Alfonso Cuarón’s 3D space epic Gravity leads last night’s BAFTA Film Awards with six wins, including the prize for Outstanding British Film.
Following its rise to becoming one of the most successful Disney films of all time and taking in nearly a billion dollars at the global box office, Frozen wins the BAFTA for Best Animated Film.
Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity leads the field with 11 nominations for this year's British Academy Film Awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Magic Light Pictures’ Room on the Broom wins a BAFTA Children’s Award for animation.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announces the winners of Sunday night’s British Academy Children’s Awards, including Illumination Entertainment’sDespicable Me 2, andRoom on the Broom, the animated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's picture book.
