BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation
| BAFTA Award for Best British Short Animation | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best British Short Animation |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First award | 1984[1] |
| Currently held by | Two Black Boys in Paradise (2025) |
| Website | https://www.bafta.org/awards/film/short-animated-film |
The BAFTA Award for Best British Short Animation is a film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the annual British Academy Film Awards. BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television).[2][3]
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category.[4][5]
History
[edit]The number of nominated films has varied over the course of the award. Four nominations were usual to begin with (with a total of 10 years with four nominations). More recently the number of nominations has been three.[6] The most nominations were in 1997, when there were six nominations.[7] The award has had three different names since its inception including Best Short Animation, Best Short Animation Film and, since 2014, Best British Short Animation.[8][9]
Winners and nominees
[edit] indicates the winner
1980s
[edit]| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Best Short Animation | ||
1989 (43rd) |
A Grand Day Out | Nick Park |
| Creature Comforts | Sara Mullock, Nick Park | |
| Egoli | Karen Kelly | |
| War Story | Peter Lord, Sara Mullock | |
1990s
[edit]| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
1990 (44th) |
Toxic | Andrew McEwan |
| Deadsy | David Anderson | |
| The Death Of Stalinism In Bohemia | Jan Švankmajer | |
1991 (45th) |
Balloon | Ken Lidster |
| Adam | Chris Moll, Peter Lord | |
| Anamorphosis | Keith Griffiths, Brothers Quay | |
| Touch | Debra Smith | |
1992 (46th) |
Daumier's Law | Ginger Gibbons, Geoff Dunbar |
| A Is For Autism | Dick Arnall, Tim Webb | |
| Blindscape | Stephen Palmer | |
| Soho Square | Pam Dennis, Sue Paxton, Mario Cavalli | |
1993 (47th) |
The Wrong Trousers | Chris Moll, Nick Park |
| Bob's Birthday | David Fine, Alison Snowden | |
| Britannia | David Parker, Joanna Quinn | |
| I Pagliacci | Ken Lidster | |
| The Village | Pam Dennis, Mark Baker | |
1994 (48th) |
The Big Story | Tim Watts, David Stoten |
| The Monk and the Fish | Patrick Evano, Jacques-Rémy Girard, Michaël Dudok de Wit | |
| Pib and Pog | Carla Shelley, Peter Peake | |
| Stressed | Karen Kelly | |
1995 (49th) |
A Close Shave | Carla Shelly, Michael Rose, Nick Park |
| Achilles | Glenn Holberton, Barry Purves | |
| Gogs Ogof | Deiniol Morris, Michael Mort | |
| The Tickler Talks | Steven Harding-Hill | |
1996 (50th) |
The Old Lady and the Pigeons | Bernard La Joie, Didier Brunner, Sylvain Chomet |
| Famous Fred | John Coates, Catrin Unwin, Joanna Quinn | |
| The Saint Inspector | Richard Hutchinson, Mike Booth | |
| Testament - The Bible In Animation: Joseph | Elizabeth Babakhina, Aida Ziablikoua | |
| Testament - The Bible In Animation: Moses | Naomi Jones, Gary Hurst | |
| Trainspotter | Christopher Moll, Jeff Newitt, Neville Astley | |
1997 (51st) |
Stage Fright | Helen Nabarro, Michael Rose, Steve Box |
| Flatworld | Nigel Pay, Daniel Greaves, Patrick Veale | |
| T.R.A.N.S.I.T. | Iain Harvey, Piet Kroon | |
| The Traveller | Jeremy Moorshead, Debra Smith | |
1998 (52nd) |
The Canterbury Tales | Aida Zyablikova, Renat Zinnurov, Ashley Potter, Dave Antrobus, Claire Jennings, Mic Graves, Joanna Quinn, Les Mills, Jonathan Myerson |
| 1001 Nights | Yukio Sonoyama, Mike Smith | |
| Gogwana | Helen Nabarro, Deiniol Morris, Sion Jones, Michael Mort, Joe Turner | |
| Humdrum | Carla Shelley, Michael Rose and Peter Peake | |
| The Man With The Beautiful Eyes | Jonathan Bairstow, Jonathan Hodgson | |
| Jolly Roger | Claire Jennings, Mark Baker, Neville Astley | |
| The Old Man And The Sea | Bernard Lajoie, Tatsuo Shimamura, Aleksandr Petrov | |
| The Periwig-Maker | Annette Schäffler, Steffen Schäffler |
2000s
[edit]| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Father and Daughter | Claire Jennings, Willem Thijssen, Michaël Dudok de Wit | |
| Cloud Cover | Lisbeth Svärling | |
| Lounge Act | Teun Hilte, Gareth Love | |
| Six Of One | Phil Davies, Tim Webb | |
| Dog | Suzie Templeton | |
| Camouflage | Jonathan Bairstow, Jonathan Hodgson | |
| Home Road Movies | Dick Arnall, Robert Bradbrook, Ian Sellar | |
| Tuesday | Geoff Dunbar, Judith Roberts | |
| The World Of Interiors | Chris Shepherd, Bunny Schendler | |
| Fish Never Sleep | Gaëlle Denis | |
| The ChubbChubbs! | Jacquie Barnbrook, Eric Armstrong, Jeff Wolverton | |
| The Dog Who Was A Cat Inside | Andrew Ruhemann, Siân Rees, Siri Melchoir | |
| Sap | Lucie Wenigerová, Hyun-Joo Kim | |
| Wedding Espresso | Jonathan Bairstow, Sandra Ensby, Lesley Glaister | |
| Jo Jo in the Stars | Sue Goffe, Marc Craste | |
| Dad's Dead | Maria Manton, Chris Shepherd | |
| Dear Sweet Emma | John Cernak | |
| Nibbles | Ron Diamond, Chris Hinton | |
| Plumber | Randi Yaffa, Andy Knight, Richard Rosenman | |
| Birthday Boy | Andrew Gregory, Sejong Park | |
| City Paradise | Erika Forzy & Gaëlle Denis | |
| Heavy Pockets | Jane Robertson, Sarah Cox | |
| His Passionate Bride | Sylvie Bringas, Monika Forsberg | |
| Little Things | Daniel Greaves | |
| Best Short Animation Film | ||
| Fallen Art | Jarek Sawko, Piotr Sikora, Tomasz Bagiński | |
| Film Noir | Osbert Parker | |
| Kamiya's Correspondence | Sumito Sakakibara | |
| The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello | Anthony Lucas, Julia Lucas, Mark Shirrefs | |
| Rabbit | Run Wrake | |
| Guy 101 | Ian Gouldstone | |
| Dreams And Desires: Family Ties | Les Mills, Joanna Quinn | |
| Peter And The Wolf | Hugh Welchman, Alan Dewhurst, Suzie Templeton | |
| Best Short Animation | ||
| The Pearce Sisters | Jo Allen, Luis Cook | |
| The Crumblegiant | Pearse Moore, John McCloskey | |
| Head Over Heels | Osbert Parker, Fiona Pitkin, Ian Gouldstone | |
| A Matter of Loaf and Death | Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker | |
| Codswallop | Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod | |
| Varmints | Sue Goffe, Marc Craste | |
| Mother of Many | Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby | |
| The Gruffalo | Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang | |
| The Happy Duckling | Gili Dolev | |
2010s
[edit]| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Eagleman Stag | Michael Please | |
| Matter Fisher | David Prosser | |
| Thursday | Matthias Hoegg | |
| A Morning Stroll | Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe | |
| Abuelas | Afarin Eghbal, Francesca Gardiner, Kasia Malipan | |
| Bobby Yeah | Robert Morgan | |
| The Making Of Longbird | Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson | |
| Here To Fall | Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath | |
| I’m Fine Thanks | Eamonn O'Neill | |
| Best British Short Animation | ||
| Sleeping With The Fishes | Yousif Al-Khalifa, James Walker, Sarah Woolner | |
| I Am Tom Moody | Ainslie Henderson | |
| Everything I Can See From Here | Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor | |
| The Bigger Picture | Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka | |
| Monkey Love Experiments | Ainslie Henderson, Cam Fraser, Will Anderson | |
| My Dad | Marcus Armitage | |
| Edmond | Nina Gantz, Emilie Jouffroy | |
| Manoman | Simon Cartwright, Kamilla Kristiane Hodol | |
| Prologue | Richard Williams, Imogen Sutton | |
| A Love Story | Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King | |
| The Alan Dimension | Jac Clinch, Jonathan Harbottle, Millie Marsh | |
| Tough | Jennifer Zheng | |
| Poles Apart | Paloma Baeza, Ser En Low | |
| Have Heart | Will Anderson | |
| Mamoon | Ben Steer | |
| Roughhouse | Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom | |
| I'm OK | Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison, Jelena Popovic | |
| Marfa | Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod | |
| Grandad Was A Romantic | Maryam Mohajer | |
| In Her Boots | Kathrin Steinbacher | |
| The Magic Boat | Naaman Azhari, Lilia Laurel | |
2020s
[edit]| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Owl and the Pussycat | Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf | |
| The Fire Next Time | Renaldho Pelle, Yanling Wang, Kerry Jade Kolbe | |
| The Song of a Lost Boy | Daniel Quirke, Jamie MacDonald, Brid Arnstein | |
| Do Not Feed the Pigeons | Vladimir Krasilnikov, Jordi Morera, Antonin Niclass | |
| Affairs of the Art | Les Mills, Joanna Quinn | |
| Night of the Living Dread | Danielle Goff, Hannah Kelso, Ida Melum, Laura Jayne Tunbridge | |
| The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, Cara Speller and Hannah Minghella | |
| Middle Watch | John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden and Giles Healy | |
| Your Mountain Is Waiting | Hannah Jacobs, Zoe Muslim and Harriet Gillian | |
| Crab Day | Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek and Aleksandra Sykulak | |
| Visible Mending | Samantha Moore and Tilley Bancroft | |
| Wild Summon | Karni Arieli, Saul Freed and Jay Woolley | |
| Wander to Wonder | Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright and Maarten Swart | |
| Adiós | José Prats, Natalia Kyriacou and Bernardo Angeletti | |
| Mog's Christmas | Robin Shaw, Joanna Harrison, Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding | |
| Two Black Boys in Paradise | Baz Sells, Dean Atta, and Ben Jackson | |
| Cardboard | J.P. Vine and Michaela Manas Malina | |
| Solstice | Luke Angus |
See also
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