The British Academy Children's Awards were presented in an annual award show hosted by the

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(BAFTA). They were awarded annually since 1996, before which time they were a part of the main

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. Categories included those for television productions, feature films and video games. The final ceremony, the 25th British Academy Children's Awards, was held on 27 November 2022 at Old Billingsgate in

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, and was hosted by television presenter Lindsey Russell. The ceremony marked the return of the awards after a three-year absence due to the

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. In September 2023, BAFTA confirmed that the children's awards would be folded and incorporated into the annual

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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

. Prior to 1996, productions targeted to children or young audiences were included in the

, 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

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'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.

Current awards winners

Animation

Performer

Young Performer

Pre-School

Animation

Live Action

Presenter

Writer

Director

International

Feature Film

Game

Scripted

Non-Scripted

Content for Change

Special Award

Retired awards winners

Channel of the Year

Comedy

Drama

Entertainment

Factual

Factual Entertainment

Short Form

Independent Production Company

Interactive

Original

* 2014: ''Dixi'' * 2015: ''Virry'' * 2016: '' Secret Life of Boys''

Adapted

* 2014: '' Disney Animated'' * 2015: '' The Dumping Ground: You're the Boss'' * 2016: ''Get Well Soon Hospital with Dr Ranj'' * 2017: '' Hey Duggee: We Love Animals''

Learning

Primary

Secondary

Pre-School

Discontinued in 2000, for separate categories for live-action and animation. * 1996: '' Tots TV'' * 1997: '' Tots TV (Lapland Out)'' * 1998: ''

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'' * 1999: ''Tecwyn Y Tractor''

Schools: Drama

Schools Factual

Primary

Discontinued in 2006 for ''Learning: Primary''.

Secondary

Discontinued in 2006 for ''Learning: Secondary''.

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

* 2009: ''

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'' * 2010: ''

'' * 2011: '' Bin Weevils'' * 2012: '' Bin Weevils'' * 2013: '' Bin Weevils'' * 2014: '' Bin Weevils''

Feature Film

Television

Video Game

Writer

Adapted

Discontinued in 2006 for one sole ''Writer'' category. * 2004:

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(''The Illustrated Mum'') * 2005: Barbara Cox (''Wipe Out'')

Original

Discontinued in 2006 for one sole ''Writer'' category. * 2004: Tony Collingwood (''

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'') * 2005:

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and Jane Thornton (''Scene - Oddsquad'')

Breakthrough Talent

* 2007: Charles Martin * 2008:

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* 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 Suck It Up''

Game Making

* 2012: ''Smiley Dodgems''

Multiplatform

* 2013: '' Kinect Sesame Street TV''

Ceremonies

References

External links

* {{BAFTA 1996 establishments in the United Kingdom 2023 disestablishments in the United Kingdom *

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