The British Academy Children's Awards were presented in an annual award show hosted by the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA, ) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom. In addition to its annual awa ...
(BAFTA). They were awarded annually since 1996, before which time they were a part of the main
British Academy Television Awards
The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They have been awarded annually since 1955.
Background
The first-ever Awards, given in ...
. 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
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...
in
London
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, and was hosted by television presenter
Lindsey Russell
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.
The ceremony marked the return of the awards after a three-year absence due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. In September 2023, BAFTA confirmed that the children's awards would be folded and incorporated into the annual
film
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,
games
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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
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. Prior to 1996, productions targeted to children or young audiences were included in the
British Academy Television Awards
The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They have been awarded annually since 1955.
Background
The first-ever Awards, given in ...
, 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
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's programme ''
Short Change
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'' 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
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*
Feature Film
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*
Pre-School – Animation
* Pre-School – Live Action
* Non-Scripted
*
International
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International may also refer to:
Music Albums
* ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011
* ''International'' (New Order album), 2002
* ''International'' (The T ...
* Content for Change
*
Game
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* Scripted
* Game
* Performer
* Young Performer
* Director
* Writer
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
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Series overview
Cast
References
External links
* {{IMDb ti ...
''
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
''Tots TV'' is a British children's television programme, produced by Ragdoll Productions and Central. The series was first telecast in the UK on the ITV network (part of CITV) from 1993 to 1998.
Development
''Tots TV'' was written by two of ...
''
* 1997: ''
Tots TV (Lapland Out)''
* 1998: ''
Teletubbies
''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on t ...
''
* 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: ''
Club Penguin
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''
* 2010: ''
Club Penguin
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''
* 2011: ''
Bin Weevils
Bin Weevils was a British MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities.
Bin Weevils was created by Jon Turner, co-founded by Amelia Johnson and launched in ...
''
* 2012: ''
Bin Weevils
Bin Weevils was a British MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities.
Bin Weevils was created by Jon Turner, co-founded by Amelia Johnson and launched in ...
''
* 2013: ''
Bin Weevils
Bin Weevils was a British MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities.
Bin Weevils was created by Jon Turner, co-founded by Amelia Johnson and launched in ...
''
* 2014: ''
Bin Weevils
Bin Weevils was a British MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities.
Bin Weevils was created by Jon Turner, co-founded by Amelia Johnson and launched in ...
''
Feature Film
Television
Video Game
Writer
Adapted
Discontinued in 2006 for one sole ''Writer'' category.
* 2004:
Debbie Isitt
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Early life and education
Isitt was born in Birmingham. She went to Our Lady of Fatima Primary School and Lordswood Girls Secondary ...
(''The Illustrated Mum'')
* 2005:
Barbara Cox (''Wipe Out'')
Original
Discontinued in 2006 for one sole ''Writer'' category.
* 2004: Tony Collingwood (''
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
''Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!'' is a British animated children's television series, produced by Collingwood O'Hare Productions Limited, originally distributed by HIT Entertainment and currently distributed by Foothill Entertainment, which aired fro ...
'')
* 2005:
John Godber
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and Jane Thornton (''Scene - Oddsquad'')
Breakthrough Talent
* 2007:
Charles Martin
* 2008:
Eliot Otis Brown Walters
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Career
Eliot started acting when he was eight and has been a member of ...
* 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
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''
Ceremonies
References
External links
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{{BAFTA
1996 establishments in the United Kingdom
2023 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
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Children's
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Awards established in 1996
Awards disestablished in 2023
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