The 2016 British Animation Awards have wrapped up, having successfully celebrated 20 years. Top honors were bestowed on internationally acclaimed actor Martin Freeman, Aardman Animation’s madcap feature adventure Shaun the Sheep: The Movie, holiday special Stick Man and kids’ series The Amazing World of Gumball. The awards ceremony was held at BFI Southbank in London, hosted by actors and impressionists Duncan Wisbey and Jess Robinson.
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock) picked up the Best Voice Performance award, sponsored by Fitzrovia Post, for his work in Magic Light Pictures’ Stick Man. The feature-length Christmas special was one of only two double winners this year, also picking up Best Use of Sound. Also taking two awards was Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball, which snapped up Best Children’s Series (sponsored by CBBC/CBeebies) and Children’s Choice Award (sponsored by HIT Ent.)
Shaun the Sheep: The Movie took the prestigious Best Long Form award (sponsored by Bubble), winning out over Stick Man and Fettle Animation’s Children of the Holocaust. The award marks the 20th BAA for Aardman Animations over the last two decades. Other key awards went to Daniel Gray & Tom Brown’s Teeth (Short Film), Sixteen South’s Lily’s Driftwood Bay (Best Pre-School Series), Katie Lenton’s Man Up You (Best Under-Graduate Student Film) and Sarina Nihel’s Small People with Hats (Post-Graduate Film).
Full List of BAA Winners
Best Long Form Animation: Shaun the Sheep: The Movie
Directors/Script Mark Burton & Richard Starzak
Producers Julie Lockhart & Paul Kewley
Produced by Aardman Animations for Studio Canal
Best Voice: Martin Freeman as Stick Man – Stick Man
Director: Jeroen Jaspaert and Daniel Snaddon
Producers Michael Rose & Martin Pope
Produced by Magic Light Pictures
Best Children’s Series and Children’s Choice Award: The Amazing World of Gumball “The Shell”
Directors Mic Graves & Ben Bocquelet
Producer Sarah Fell Animation
Produced by Turner Broadcasting for Cartoon Network
Best Pre-School Series: Lily’s Driftwood Bay “Goodbye Seabird”
Directors Colin Williams & Darren Vandenburg
Producer: Colin Williams
Produced by Sixteen South for Nick Jr.
Best Music Video: James “Moving On”
Directed and produced by Ainslie Henderson
Produced by An Independent Production for BMG
Best Commissioned Animation: Promotional: HIAS “For The Refugees”
Directors Moth Collective
Producer Sovev Media
Produced by Moth Collective for HIAS
Best Commissioned Animation: Documentary: Animated Minds: Stories of Postnatal Depression
Series Directed and produced by George Sander-Jackson
Produced by Mosaic Films for Wellcome Trust & Maudsley Charity
Best Short Film: Teeth
Directors Daniel Gray & Tom Brown
Produced by Holbrooks Films
Best Animation in a Commercial: Anchor “Little Elephant”
Directors Kyra & Constantin
Producer Matt Saxton
Produced by Passion Picture for Creature London
Best Film/TV Graphics: The Power of Privacy
Directors: Callum Cooper & Matthias Hoegg
Producer Carrie Budge
Produced by Carrie Budge for The Guardian
Best Use of Sound: Stick Man
Sound Designer & Mixer Adrian Rhodes Music René Aubry
Directors Jeroen Jaspaert & Daniel Snaddon
Producers Michael Rose & Martin Pope
Produced by Magic Light Pictures
Best Student Film: Undergraduate: Man Up You
Director Katie Lenton
Produced at University of the Creative Arts, Farnham
Best Student Film: Postgraduate: Small People with Hats
Director Sarina Nihei
Produced at the Royal College of Art
Public Choice – Favourite Music Video: Benjamin Scheuer “Cookie-tin Banjo”
Directed and produced by Peter Baynton
Produced by Radish Pictures for Escapist Records
Public Choice – Favourite Film (tie):
Mend and Make Do by Bexie Bush
BlueBarry by TwinTrash
