Netflix, Magic Light Pictures, Sky Kids and Channel 5’s Milkshake each took home a pair of British Animation Awards at last night’s ceremony, which was held at London’s BFI Southbank.
Netflix had a big night with holiday content, snapping up the Best Original Music trophy for its Aardman-produced holiday special and Oscar-nominated short film Robin Robin (pictured), while also collecting a Best Design award for feature film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey.
Meanwhile, Magic Light Pictures took home the Best Children’s Preschool Series award for Pip and Posy (its first-ever show for the demo), and won in the Best Use of Sound category for its BBC One Christmas special Zog and the Flying Doctors.
As for Sky Kids, it shared Best Children’s Preschool Series honors with Magic Light for Pip and Posy, and won a Children’s Choice award for its mixed-media series The Brilliant World of Tom Gates.
Rounding out the winners circle, Channel 5’s Milkshake grabbed the Best Children’s Series trophy for its Fourth Wall-produced 2D-animated series Milo, and it also shared the Best Children’s Preschool Series award with Magic Light and Sky Kids for Pip and Posy.
Other notable winners include Locksmith Animation feature Ron’s Gone Wrong (Best Long Form) and production coordinator Hodan Abdi (Lamb Award).
Here’s a look at the results in some other key categories:
Best Long Form
Ron’s Gone Wrong – Directors: Jean-Philippe Vine, Sarah Smith, Octavio E Rodriguez (produced by Locksmith Animation)
Best Children’s Series
Milo – Director: Chris Capstick (produced by Fourth Wall, DeAPlaneta Entertainment, Milkshake!)
Best Children’s Preschool Series
Pip and Posy – Directors: Jeroen Jaspaert, Matt Tea (produced by Magic Light Pictures, Milkshake! and Sky Kids)
Best Original Music
Robin Robin – Music: The Bookshop Band (Ben Please and Beth Porter); Directors: Dan Ojari, Mikey Please (produced by Aardman Animations, Netflix)
Best Use of Sound
Zog and the Flying Doctors – Sound designer & mixer: Adrian Rhodes; Director: Sean Mullen (produced by Magic Light Pictures)
Best Design
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey – Director: Ian Spendloff (produced by Netflix)
Best Immersive Animation
The Beast – Directors: Grant Berry, Dane Winn
Children’s Choice Award
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates – Director: George Sawyer (produced by Sky Kids, TG Entertainment)
Lamb Award
Hodan Abdi (production coordinator), nominated by Illuminated Films
Best Social Good
Typically – Directors: Anna Ginsburg, Caitlin McCarthy
Cutting Edge
Dead Pixels (season two) – Directors: Jamie Jay Johnson, Asa Movshovitz
Wildcard (awarded to animated projects of any duration deemed “extraordinary”)
Timeline – Director: Osbert Parker
Best Post-Graduate Film
O Black Hole! – Renee Zhan (National Film & Television School)
Best Under-Graduate Student Film
Suburb – Miles Jezuita (Arts University Bournemouth)
The full list of winners is on the British Animation Awards website.