BAFTA Award for Best Animation

The BAFTA Award for Best Animation (also known as BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film) is a retired film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the annual British Academy Film Awards. BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television).

BAFTA Award for Best Animation
Awarded for	Excellence in feature-length and short animated films
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First award	1954
Final award	1980
Currently held by	The Three Inventors (1981)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

Introduced in the 1955 ceremony and awarded until the 1982 ceremony, the category covered both short and feature-length animated films. Subsequently, separate awards were introduced based on the films' running times: the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation, and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (the latter introduced in the 2007 ceremony).

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

Note: In the following tables, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; 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. (This differs from the BAFTA website's awards history feature, which uses years based on the award ceremonies' dates.)

1950s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
1954 (8th)[1]	Árie prérie (Song of the Prairie, 1949)
	Little Brave Heart
	Power to Fly
	The Unicorn in the Garden	William Hurtz
1955 (9th)[2]	Blinkity Blank	Norman McLaren
	Animal Farm
	Down a Long Way
	Fudget's Budget
	Lady and the Tramp	Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson	Walt Disney	United States
	Magoo Express
1956 (10th)[3]	Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo
	Calling All Salesmen
	Christopher Crumpet's Playmate
	The History of the Cinema
	The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy
	Love and the Zeppelin
	Rythmetic
1957 (11th)[4]	Pan-tele-tron
	Earth is a Battlefield
	The Magic Fluke
	The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep (La Bergère et le Ramoneur)
1958 (12th)[5]	The Little Island
	The Juggler of Our Lady
	The Blackbird (Le Merle)
1959 (13th)[6]	The Violinist	Ernest Pintoff
	Beep Peep
	Dom	Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
	Short and Suite	Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart[a]

1960s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)	Country
1960 (14th)[7]	Universe	Roman Kroitor, Colin Low
	The Interview	Ernest Pintoff
	Piccolo	Dušan Vukotić
1961 (15th)[8]	One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit
	For Better... For Worse
1962 (16th)[9]	The Apple
	Four Line Conics
	The Travelling Tune
1963 (17th)[10][11]	Automania 2000[b]
	The Critic[b]
1964 (18th)[12]	The Insects	Jimmy T. Murakami[13]
1965 (19th)[14][15]	Be Careful Boys	Vera Linnecar, Nancy Hanna, Keith Learner
	The Bargain[16]	Beryl Stevens
	Birds, Bees And Storks	John Halas
	The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra	Harold Whitaker
1966 (20th)[17]	Not awarded.[c]
1967 (21st)[18][19]	Notes On A Triangle	René Jodoin
	Tidy Why	Bill Sewell
	Toys	Grant Munro
1968 (22nd)[20][21]	Dance For Two (Pas de deux)	Norman McLaren
	The Hand	Jiří Trnka
	The House That Jack Built	Ron Tunis
	The Question	John Halas
1969 (23rd)[22]	Not awarded.[c]

1970s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)	Country
1971 (24th)[23][24]	Henry Nine 'Til Five	Bob Godfrey
	Children And Cars	John Halas
	Espolio	Sidney Goldsmith
	It's Tough to Be a Bird	Ward Kimball
1971 (25th)[25]	Not awarded.[c]
1972 (26th)[26]	Not awarded.[c]
1973 (27th)[27]	Tchou Tchou
	Balablok
1974 (28th)[28]	Hunger (La Faim)
	Cat's Cradle
1975 (29th)[29]	Great	Bob Godfrey
	The Owl Who Married a Goose	Caroline Leaf (advised by Co Hoedeman)
1976 (30th)[30]	Not awarded.[d]
1977 (31st)[31]	Not awarded.[d]
1978 (32nd)[32]	Not awarded.[d]
1979 (33rd)[33]	Not awarded.[d]

1980s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)	Country
1980 (34th)[34]	The Three Inventors	Michel Ocelot
	Bio Woman	Bob Godfrey
	The Cube	Kamil Pixa
	Seaside Woman	Oscar Grillo
1981 (35th)[35]	The Sweater	Sheldon Cohen
	Beginnings	Clorinda Warny
	Creole	Sam Weiss

Notes

1. Listed as "Evelyn Lambert" on BAFTA website.
2. BAFTA's website lists both Automania 2000 and The Critic as winners.^[10][11]
3. The cited archived version of the BAFTA website specifically states "Category not awarded this year".
4. The cited archived version of the BAFTA website does not specifically state that this category was not awarded in this year.