It looks like it didn’t take long for “” directors and to get over their Oscars snub — and a award for best animated film certainly helps. The movie won best animated film at Sunday’s BAFTAs, and Lord and Miller took some light-hearted jabs at the Academy while accepting the award at the ceremony. “You are our favorite Academy by far,” the directors said on stage. “You guys win the award for best Academy. This is the end of the awards road for us, so we can say whatever we want. There’s no one left to impress.” “The Lego Movie,” which was considered a shoe-in for the animated film category at the 2015 Academy Awards, ended up as one of the biggest shocks of last month’s nominations when it was snubbed in favor of “Big Hero 6,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “The Boxtrolls,” “Song of the Sea” and “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.” Even then, though, Lord and Miller took the snub in stride. Lord tweeted a Lego version of an Oscar, saying, “It’s okay.
Warner Bros.’ ‘Lego Movie’ Takes BAFTA Kids’ Award Cartoon Network takes the kids' channel of the year prize LONDON — Warner Bros.’ “The Movie” won the kids’ feature film prize at the Children’s Awards Sunday, fighting off competition from “Maleficent,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2” and “Frozen.” won the kids’ channel of the year prize, while its show “Adventure Time” took the award for international program. Kindle Entertainment was named independent production company of the year, and was part of the team behind online mystery-drama “Dixi,” which nabbed the BAFTA for original interactive show. Disney Animated won for adapted interactive show. The vidgames category was won by Nintendo’s racing title “Mario Kart 8.” “Katie Morag,” which is produced by Move on Up, won the BAFTA for drama, and the show’s 9 year-old lead Cherry Campbell took home the performer prize. Debbie Moon won the writer’s prize for “Wolfblood.”
Love Productions’ “Junior Bake Off” excelled in the entertainment category. Maverick Television’s “Operation Ouch!” picked up the BAFTA for factual. Aardman Animations’ “Shaun the Sheep” received the BAFTA award for animation. Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood, better known as double-act Dick & Dom, triumphed in the presenter category for “Absolute Genius with Dick & Dom,” while another of their shows, “Diddy Movies,” picked up the BAFTA in the comedy category. The short form category was won for the third year in a row by CITV’s “Share a Story.” Peter Firmin received the Special Award for his outstanding contribution to children’s media. The results of the BAFTA kids’ vote were also announced at the ceremony. More than 200,000 votes were cast by 7 to 14 year olds. The winners were “Frozen” for feature film, “Jessie” for television, “Minecraft” for game and “Bin Weevils” website. NOMINATIONS WITH WINNERS *HIGHLIGHTED
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 TM, CBBC and Fremantle/CBBC CHANNEL OF THE YEAR 4 O’CLOCK CLUB Julia Kent, Spencer Campbell, Mark Oswin – CBBC/CBBC ALL AT SEA Juliet Charlesworth, Tracey Rooney, Brian Lynch – CBBC/CBBC *DIDDY MOVIES 2 Steve Ryde, Dez McCarthy, Annette Williams – CBBC/CBBC DNN: DEFINITELY NOT NEWSROUND Sid Cole, Richard Grocock, Sue Howes – CBBC/CBBC *KATIE MORAG Production Team – Move on Up/CBeebies ROCKET’S ISLAND Production Team – Lime Pictures/CBBC ROY Production Team – JAM Media/CBBC WOLFBLOOD Debbie Moon, Matthew Evans, Foz Allan – CBBC/CBBC FORT BOYARD: ULTIMATE CHALLENGE Nigel Pickard, Joe Shaw – The Foundation TV Productions Ltd/ALP/CITV
HACKER TIME Lee English, Sid Cole, Jamie Wilson – CBBC/CBBC *JUNIOR BAKE OFF Production Team – Love Productions/CBBC SWASHBUCKLE Jon Hancock, Tony Grech-Smith, Tony Reed – CBeebies/CBeebies DEADLY POLE TO POLE Scott Alexander, Jonny Keeling, Janelle Backes – CBBC/CBBC FRONTLINE FAMILIES – A NEWSROUND SPECIAL Steph Atkinson, Rowan Crompton, Martin Dougan – CBBC/CBBC JUNIOR VETS Production Team – True North/CBBCProduction Team – Maverick Television/CBBC 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
*MARIO KART 8 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo POKEMON X & Y Development Team – Game Freak inc/The Pokémon Company International/Nintendo RAYMAN LEGENDS Michel Ancel, Christophe Heral, Jean-Christophe Alessandri – Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft TEARAWAY Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR DOT TO DOT PRODUCTIONS *DISNEY ANIMATED Development Team – Touch Press/Disney Interactive/Walt Disney Animation Studios LUDUS Rob Hyde, Aled Parry, 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 *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 *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 Marc Ceccarelli, Luke Brookshier, Vincent Waller – Nickelodeon/Nicktoons TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Alan Wan, Brandon Auman, Ciro Nieli – Nickelodeon/Nicktoons 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 Tobitt/BBC Learning 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 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 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 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 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 *CITV SHARE A STORY 2013 Waldemar Werbel, Jardine Sage, Frank Mansfield – CITV/CITV GUMBALL SONG Production Team – Cartoon Network On Air/Blue-Zoo Animations/Cartoon NetworkMONKEY Production Team – Channel 5/Match Cut/Channel 5 NINA NEEDS TO GO Production Team – ArthurCox/Disney Junior 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 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
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