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British Academy Children's Awards
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Country United Kingdom
First awarded 1996
Last awarded 2022

The British Academy Children's Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). They have been awarded annually since 1996, before which time they were a part of the main British Academy Television Awards. It currently includes categories for television productions, feature films and video games.

The most recent ceremony, the 25th British Academy Children's Awards, was held on 27 November 2022 at Old Billingsgate in London, and was hosted by television presenter Lindsey Russell. The ceremony marked the return of the awards after a three-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2023, BAFTA confirmed that the children's awards would be folded and incorporated into the annual film, games and television award ceremonies in 2025 with new categories introduced for children's content.

History

The awards were held for the first time in 1996, since then, the awards have been presented annually, with the exception 2020 and 2021, where the awards were not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to 1996, productions targeted to children or young audiences were included in the British Academy Television Awards, from 1983 to 1996, two children-oriented categories, Children's Programme – Factual and Children's Programme – Fiction or Entertainment were presented. The last winners for those categories were CBBC's programme Short Change for the former and television movie Coping with Christmas for the latter.

The first edition featured seven competitive categories (Animation, Drama, Entertainment, Factual, Pre-School, Schools - Documentary, Schools - Drama), plus two special awards, one for film producer John Coates and the other for Lewis Rudd, who was head to the children's programming for ITV. The number of categories has varied through the editions with the creation of several categories such as International and Feature Film, both in 1999, Pre-School Animation and Presenter, both in 2000, and Game in 2007, among others. Until 2016, the awards also presented categories voted by the public through online voting, these included categories for feature film, television, video game and website.

Categories

As of 2022, the following fourteen competitive categories are presented:

  • Animation
  • Feature Film
  • Pre-School – Animation
  • Pre-School – Live Action
  • Non-Scripted
  • International
  • Content for Change
  • Game
  • Scripted
  • Game
  • Performer
  • Young Performer
  • Director
  • Writer

Current awards winners

Animation

Main article: British Academy Children's Award for Animation

Performer

Young Performer

Pre-School

Animation

Live Action

Presenter

Writer

Director

  • 2018: Grant Orchard (Hey Duggee)
  • 2019: Dirk Campbell (The Worst Witch)
  • 2022: Max Lang, Daniel Snaddon (The Snail and the Whale)

International

Main article: British Academy Children's Award for International

Feature Film

Main article: British Academy Children's Award for Feature Film

Game

Main article: British Academy Children's Award for Game
  • 2007: Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party
  • 2008: Lego Batman: The Videogame
  • 2009: LittleBigPlanet
  • 2010: Rabbids Go Home
  • 2011: Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
  • 2012: Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
  • 2013: Skylanders: Giants
  • 2014: Mario Kart 8
  • 2015: Splatoon
  • 2016: Lego Dimensions
  • 2017: Pokémon Go
  • 2018: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
  • 2019: Astro Bot Rescue Mission
  • 2022: Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Scripted

  • 2022: Dodger

Non-Scripted

  • 2022: FYI Ukraine Invasion Special

Content for Change

Special Award

Retired awards winners

Channel of the Year

Comedy

Drama

Entertainment

Factual

Factual Entertainment

Short Form

Independent Production Company

  • 2006: Darrall Macqueen
  • 2007: Aardman Animations
  • 2008: Ragdoll Productions
  • 2009: Astley Baker Davies
  • 2010: Kindle Entertainment
  • 2011: Kindle Entertainment
  • 2012: Blue-Zoo Productions
  • 2013: Somethin' Else
  • 2014: Kindle Entertainment
  • 2015: Somethin' Else
  • 2016: Sixteen South
  • 2017: Blue-Zoo Productions

Interactive

Original

Adapted

Learning

Primary

  • 2006: Mapping Our World
  • 2007: Espresso Education: Espresso Primary
  • 2008: ArtisanCam
  • 2009: Off By Heart
  • 2010: L8R
  • 2011: Quiff and Boot
  • 2012: Seeking Refuge
  • 2013: Children Of World War 2
  • 2014: Lizard Girl
  • 2017: History Bombs: Online History Resources

Secondary

  • 2006: Timelines: Empire
  • 2007: Recollection Eyewitnesses: Remembering the Holocaust
  • 2008: L8R
  • 2009: Troubled Minds
  • 2010: Timelines.tv: Smallpox Through Time
  • 2011: Privates
  • 2012: L8R Youngers 2
  • 2013: Just a Few Drinks
  • 2014: Poetry: Between the Lines
  • 2015: Poetry: Between the Lines
  • 2016: Ten Pieces II

Pre-School

Discontinued in 2000, for separate categories for live-action and animation.

Schools: Drama

  • 1996: Scene: Loved Up
  • 1997: Shakespeare Shorts: Romeo And Juliet
  • 1999: Junk
  • 2000: Dream On
  • 2001: ID Citizenship: Beyond The Boundary
  • 2002: Scene - Offside
  • 2003: Lion Mountain
  • 2004: The Illustrated Mum
  • 2005: Scene - Oddsquad

Schools Factual

Primary

Discontinued in 2006 for Learning: Primary.

  • 1999: Rat-A-Tat-Tat: Beans On Toast and Ketchup On Your Cornflakes
  • 2000: English Express: Texts - Football
  • 2001: Zig Zag - Snapshots: Children In The Second World War
  • 2002: Geography Junction: Jamaica - The Coastal Environment
  • 2003: Let's Write a Story: Writing Academy
  • 2004: Thinking Skills: Think About It - Hiding Places
  • 2005: Primary History - Indus Civilisation: Mohenjo-Daro

Secondary

Discontinued in 2006 for Learning: Secondary.

  • 2001: The Test Of Time - Forgiveness
  • 2002: History File: Britain 1906-1918 - A History In Photographs
  • 2003: The English Programme: Film Focus: Animation - Food Commercials
  • 2004: In Search of the Tartan Turban
  • 2005: School of Hard Knocks

Interactive

Discontinued in 2014 for separate Interactive categories: Original and Adapted.

BAFTA Kids' Vote

Discontinued in 2009, for separate voting categories for feature film, television, video game and website.

Website

Feature Film

Television

Video Game

Writer

Adapted

Discontinued in 2006 for one sole Writer category.

  • 2004: Debbie Isitt (The Illustrated Mum)
  • 2005: Barbara Cox (Wipe Out)

Original

Discontinued in 2006 for one sole Writer category.

Breakthrough Talent

  • 2007: Charles Martin
  • 2008: Eliot Otis Brown Walters
  • 2009: Adam Shaw

CBBC Me and My Movie

  • 2008: The Prank
  • 2009: Vern's Vacation

BAFTA Young Game Designers

  • 2010: HAMSTER: Accidental World Domination
  • 2011: Rollin' Scotch

Game Concept

  • 2012: Vacuum Panic AKA ... It Up

Game Making

  • 2012: Smiley Dodgems

Multiplatform

Ceremonies

Event Date Venue Host(s) Ref.
1st 1996 Unknown Unknown
2nd 6 April 1997
3rd 18 October 1998 Thorpe Park
4th 7 November 1999 London Hilton Katy Hill
5th 12 November 2000 Emma Bunton
Ortis Deley
6th 2 December 2001 Kate Thornton
7th 24 November 2002 Richard Blackwood
8th 30 November 2003 Fearne Cotton
9th 28 November 2004
10th 27 November 2005 Emma Forbes
11th 26 November 2006 Reggie Yates
12th 25 November 2007 Keith Chegwin
13th 29 November 2008
14th 29 November 2009 Dick and Dom
15th 28 November 2010 Barney Harwood
16th 27 November 2011
17th 25 November 2012
18th 24 November 2013 Jake Humphrey
19th 23 November 2014 The Roundhouse Doc Brown
20th 22 November 2015
21st 20 November 2016
22nd 26 November 2017
23rd 25 November 2018 Marvin Humes
Rochelle Humes
24th 1 December 2019 The Brewery, London
  • Ben Shires
  • Maddie Moate
  • Sam Homewood
  • Lindsey Russell
  • Nigel Clarke
  • Arielle Free
25th 27 November 2022 Old Billingsgate Lindsey Russell
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