BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film facts for kids
Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film |
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| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| First awarded | 1955 |
| Currently held by | Zootopia 2 (2025) |
The BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film is a special prize given to the best animated movie each year. It's presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA for short. BAFTA is a British group that celebrates amazing work in movies, TV shows, and video games. They have a big awards show every year called the British Academy Film Awards.
This award started a long time ago, at the 1955 ceremony. Back then, it honored both short and long animated films. After 1982, BAFTA created a separate award for short animated films. Then, in 2007, the 'Best Animated Film' award returned. Now, it's given only to full-length animated movies.
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Celebrating Animated Film Excellence
indicates the winner
Note: The years listed below show when the films were released. They do not refer to the year the award ceremony took place.
Early Animated Film Winners (1950s-1980s)
The BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film was first given out in 1955. In its early years, it celebrated both short and feature-length animated movies. Here are some of the films that won this award during that time:
| Year | Film | Country |
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| 1954 | Árie prérie (Song of the Prairie) | |
| 1955 | Blinkity Blank | Canada |
| 1956 | Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo | |
| 1957 | Pan-tele-tron | |
| 1958 | The Little Island | United Kingdom |
| 1959 | The Violinist | United States |
| 1960 | Universe | Canada |
| 1961 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | United States |
| 1962 | The Apple | |
| 1963 | Automania 2000 | United Kingdom |
| 1963 | The Critic | United States |
| 1964 | The Insects | |
| 1965 | Do Be Careful Boys | |
| 1967 | Notes On A Triangle | |
| 1968 | Dance For Two (Pas de deux) | Canada |
| 1970 | Henry 9 'til 5 | United Kingdom |
| 1973 | Tchou-tchou | |
| 1974 | Hunger (La Faim) | Canada |
| 1975 | Great | United Kingdom |
| 1980 | The Three Inventors | |
| 1981 | The Sweater | Canada |
Recent Animated Film Winners (2000s-Present)
The award for Best Animated Film was brought back in 2007, focusing only on full-length movies. Here are the amazing films that have won since then:
Top Studios in Animation Awards
This table shows which animation studios have won or been nominated for the BAFTA Best Animated Film award the most. It's cool to see which studios create the most award-winning movies!
| Studio | Wins | Nominations | Notable Films |
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| Pixar | 8 | 19 | Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Brave, Monsters University, Inside Out, Finding Dory, Coco, Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, Soul, Luca, Turning Red, Elemental, Inside Out 2 |
| DreamWorks Animation | 0 | 5 | Flushed Away, Shrek the Third,How to Train Your Dragon, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Wild Robot |
| Disney | 3 | 8 | Frankenweenie, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Frozen 2, Encanto, Zootopia 2 |
| Aardman | 1 | 6 | Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, Shaun the Sheep Movie, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl |
| Nickelodeon Movies | 1 | 2 | Rango, The Adventures of Tintin |
| Laika | 1 | 4 | Coraline, ParaNorman,The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings |
| Sony | 1 | 5 | Arthur Christmas, The Adventures of Tintin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse |
| 20th Century Fox | 0 | 3 | The Simpsons Movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs |
| Tim Burton | 0 | 1 | Frankenweenie |
| Illumination | 0 | 3 | Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Minions |
| Netflix | 2 | 2 | Klaus, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio |
| Other Studios | 0 | 9 | Persepolis, Waltz with Bashir, Loving Vincent, My Life as a Courgette, Flee, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Flow, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain |
| Studio Ghibli | 1 | 1 | The Boy and the Heron |
| Cartoon Saloon | 0 | 1 | Wolfwalkers |
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA a la mejor película de animación para niños
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature — Independent
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature
- Japan Media Arts Festival
- Animation Kobe
- Tokyo Anime Award
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film
