British Academy Children's Film And Television Awards 2006

Sunday 26th November 2006 - London Hilton Park Lane

Hosted by Reggie Yates

THE BRITISH ACADEMY CHILDREN'S FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH ELECTRONIC ARTS

WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT SCOOPS ITS SECOND BAFTA AWARD THIS YEAR

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE WINS BAFTA KIDS' VOTE

NICKELODEON UK NAMED CHANNEL OF THE YEAR

HOLLY WILLOUGHBY BEATS THE BOYS TO WIN BEST PRESENTER

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit has tonight won another BAFTA award, picking up the Feature Film award at The British Academy Children's Film and Television Awards in association with Electronic Arts. The film, which also won the British Film BAFTA at the Film Awards earlier this year, beat The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest to the honour.

However, it was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that captured the hearts of children, to win this year's BAFTA Kids' Vote in association with Electronic Arts, the only public award of the ceremony. Almost 100,000 children under 16 voted for their favourite film from a shortlist of ten (see notes to editor), through the CiTV, CBBC, Nickelodeon and EA/BAFTA websites. The last time a film from the Harry Potter series won the BAFTA Kids' Vote was in 2003 for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

In two of the new categories launched this year, Nickelodeon UK collected the Channel of the Year award, withstanding competition from CBBC, CBeebies and Nick Jr UK, while Darrall MacQueen won the Independent Production Company of the Year award.

It proved to be second time lucky for Michaela's Wild Challenge as it converted its second consecutive nomination in the Factual category into a win, beating Blue Peter - Book Awards, The Really Wild Show and Serious Amazon (the sequel to last year's winner Serious Arctic).

In the Presenter category, Holly Willoughby, (receiving her second consecutive nomination), fought off competition from Trick TV's Stephen Mulhern, Newsround's Lizo Mzimba and Level Up's Sam & Mark, for her part on Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown. The Entertainment award was won by Raven and The Giblet Boys claimed the Drama Award.

The ceremony was held at the London Hilton Park Lane on Sunday 26 November and was hosted by children's presenter Reggie Yates. Guest presenters included Charlie Clements, Burn Gorman, Alex Pettyfer, Kelly Brook, Richard Armitage and Shaun Woodward MP. A musical performance was provided by Angelis.

The International award was presented to Lazy Town, while the Interactive category was won by Level Up.  The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers! collected the coveted BAFTA mask in the Animation category and Peter Tabern won the Writer award for Johnny and the Bomb. Purple and Brown was victorious in the new Short Form category.

The Pre-School Animation award was presented to Pocoyo, while the Pre-School Live Action award was given to CBeebies Springwatch. In the Learning categories, the winners were Mapping Our World for Learning Primary and Timelines: Empire for Learning Secondary.

The British Academy also presented a Special Award to Nigel Pickard for his outstanding contribution to children's television. Pickard was controller of ITV's children's and youth programmes, and oversaw the launch of CBBC and CBeebies during his 3 year stint as Controller of Children's TV at the BBC, before returning to ITV as Director of Programmes. He is now Director of Family & Children's Programming at RDF Television.

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