BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film


The BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film is a film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the annual British Academy Film Awards. BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games.
The original version of the category, introduced in the 1955 ceremony and awarded until the 1982 ceremony, covered both short and feature-length animated films. Subsequently, two separate animation award categories have been used, based on the films' running times: in the 1980s, the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation was introduced, and in the 2007 ceremony, the Best Animated Film title was re-introduced, now as an award only for feature films.

Winners and nominees

Note: In the following tables, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients; those not in bold are the nominees. The dates given below refer to the years in which the films under consideration were released or eligible, not to the years in which the award ceremonies took place.

1950s (inauguration)

YearFilmDirectorProducerCountry
1954
Árie prérie
1954
Little Brave Heart
1954
Power to Fly
1954
The Unicorn in the GardenWilliam HurtzUnited States
1955
Blinkity BlankNorman McLarenCanada
1955
Animal FarmJohn Halas, Joy BatchelorUnited Kingdom, United States
1955
Down a Long Way
1955
Fudget's BudgetUnited States
1955
Lady and the TrampHamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred JacksonWalt DisneyUnited States
1955
Magoo Express
1956
Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo
1956
Calling All Salesmen
1956
Christopher Crumpet's Playmate
1956
The History of the Cinema
1956
The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy
1956
Love and the Zeppelin
1956
Rythmetic
1957
Pan-tele-tron
1957
Earth is a Battlefield
1957
The Magic Fluke
1957
The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep
1958
The Little IslandRichard WilliamsRichard WilliamsUnited Kingdom
1958
The Juggler of Our Lady
1958
The Blackbird
1959
The ViolinistErnest PintoffErnest PintoffUnited States
1959
Beep Peep
1959
DomWalerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
1959
Short and SuiteNorman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart

1980s

YearFilmRecipientCountry
1980
The Three InventorsMichel Ocelot
1980
Bio WomanBob Godfrey
1980
The CubeKamil Pixa
1980
Seaside WomanOscar Grillo
1981
The SweaterSheldon CohenCanada
1981
BeginningsClorinda WarnyCanada
1981
CreoleSam Weiss
1981
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2000s (re-inauguration)

YearFilmDirectorProducerCountry
2006
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2006
Happy FeetGeorge Miller, Warren Coleman, Judy MorrisBill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Philip HearnshawUnited States
Australia
2006
CarsJohn Lasseter, Joe RanftDarla K. AndersonUnited States
2006
Flushed AwayDavid Bowers, Sam FellDick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Simon NyeUnited Kingdom
United States
2007
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2007
RatatouilleBrad Bird, Jan PinkavaBrad Lewis, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Galyn SusmanUnited States
2007
Shrek the ThirdChris Miller, Raman HuiAron Warner, Andrew Adamson, Denise Nolan CascinoUnited States
2007
The Simpsons MovieDavid SilvermanJames L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, Richard SakaiUnited States
2008
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2008
WALL-EAndrew StantonJim Morris, Lindsey Collins, John LasseterUnited States
2008
PersepolisMarjane Satrapi, Vincent ParonnaudMarc-Antoine RobertFrance
Iran
2008
Waltz with BashirAri FolmanAri Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Roman PaulIsrael
2009
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2009
UpPete Docter, Bob PetersonJonas Rivera, John Lasseter, Andrew StantonUnited States
2009
CoralineHenry SelickClaire JenningsUnited States
2009
Fantastic Mr. FoxWes AndersonWes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Allison Abbate, Steven RalesUnited States