Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Mog’s Christmas and many more are nominated for British Animation Awards.
The finalists have been announced for the prestigious British Animation Awards 2024. Rewarding the very best in UK animation across a variety of categories, the British Animation Awards (BAAs) attract the great and the good from across the industry to this biennial celebration of their craft.
Now in its 28th year and presented by Henning Wehn, this year’s BAA ceremony is being held at London’s BFI Southbank on 7th March 2024.
Competing for honours in the prestigious Best Feature Film category are:
- Aardman Animation’s Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (director: Sam Fell), which sees a band of fearless fowl flock together to save chicken-kind from a new threat
- A Cat Called Dom, Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson’s film about a son dealing with his mother’s cancer diagnosis
- Lupus Films’ hand-drawn animated feature film based on Michael Morpurgo’s classic adventure story about a boy washed up on a seemingly deserted island, Kensuke’s Kingdom (director: Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry);
- Cartoon Saloon and Dog Ear’s Netflix feature about an island and its avian inhabitants facing the perils of climate change – Puffin Rock and the New Friends (director: Jeremy Purcell)
- Sky Cinema’s fantasy comedy feature based on the Terry Pratchett novel about a streetwise cat and his gang of rats, The Amazing Maurice (director: Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann).
In the Best Children’s Pre-School category, family favourites Hey Duggee, The Adventures of Paddington, The Very Small Creatures and Odo are battling it out to win the hearts of the very youngest animation fans, while the category for Best International Animated Series will be fought out between Captain Fall, Milo, The Tiny Chef Show and Supa Team 4.
ITV series dominate the Best Children’s Series award with contenders including The Sound Collector – Harp Strings, The Rubbish World of Dave Spud – Moonbreaker, and Lloyd of the Flies. Channel Five’s Milkshake!’s Tweedy and Fluff completes the nominations.
The ever-popular Children’s Choice Award will be decided by students at St. Mary Redcliffe Primary School in Bristol from a shortlist including: Dead End: Paranormal Park, Supertato, The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe – The Prince and the Valiant Quest, and Lego City – No Limits – (episode 6).
For the full list of awards nominations, in categories including Best Design, Best Use of Sound, Best Undergraduate Film and more, click here.
BAA director Helen Brunsdon and producer Kieran Argo said: “Despite myriad changes and challenges facing the animation industry in the UK over the last couple of years, the sector remains thriving and productive. The quality and quantity of the work submitted to the BAAs is evidence of the dedication and creative ingenuity of all who work in animation and is a great indication of how UK animation continues to punch above its bodyweight on the world stage.”
The BAAs are the only awards to recognise all forms of animation and reward the work of both new and established animators across all aspects of the UK animation scene, from student work to commercials, children’s entertainment, short and experiential films, music videos and new technologies.
For more information and tickets, visit www.britishanimationawards.com
