CORPSE BRIDE upset favorite WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT and THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE to win Best European Animated Feature at this year’s British Animation Awards hosted by the comedian Jeremy Hardy and held at the Shaw Theatre in London. Aardman’s BBC-3 special ANGRY KID: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE walked off with the Best TV Special award and Hat Trick and Decode’s BROMWELL HIGH “Baby Boom” won the Best Comedy Award.

Passion Pictures took four awards, including two Public Choice Awards, jointly winning Favorite Film with Gaelle Dennis’ CITY PARADISE and gaining the Favorite Music Video for Gorillaz: FEEL GOOD INC. They also walked away with Best Commercial: Craft for Mayfly for Vodafone, and the Award for Best Music Video, with SSR’s Subtle: SWAN MEAT.

Commercial directors Smith & Foulkes from Nexus studios also scored a hat trick they won the Award for Best Commercial: Direction for their Honda ‘Grrr’ campaign picked up a BAA for Best Film/TV Graphics for Motorola Classics and gained the Public Choice Award for Favorite Ad for the Observer Monthly Music Magazine: From ABBA to Zappa.

London-based animator Run Wrake won two Awards for RABBIT – the Best Film at the Cutting Edge and the Best Short Film.

The Public Choice Awards are a vital part of the ceremony and are the only awards to be voted for by members of the public, 20 screenings were held in independent cinemas across the country with the audience voting for their favorites.

“This was a sparkling year for animation with some fierce competition,” said BAA director Jayne Pilling. “We would like to congratulate the winners and all those who were nominated for making our job so incredibly difficult!”

In place of a statuette, all the winners of this year’s BAAs took home a unique artwork created specially for the occasion by a range of leading international and UK animation artists. In recognition of the awards’ acronym, the artworks had feature one or more sheep, with the option for a visual reference to the U.K. and/or animation.

Full List of Winners are as follows:

Best Animated Feature Film

CORPSE BRIDE
Directors: Mike Johnson and Tim Burton
Warner Bros.

Best TV Special

ANGRY KID: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
Director: Darren Walsh
Producer: Jacky Priddle
An Aardman Production for BBC3

Best Comedy

BROMWELL HIGH: Baby Boom
Director: Pete Bishop
Producer: Anil Gutpa
A Hat Trick/Decode Co production for Channel 4

Best Children's Series

THOSE SCURVY RASCALS: Pants Odyssey
Director: Oliver Hyatt
Producer: Adam Shaw
Produced by Blue Zoo Productions for Nickelodeon

Best Children's Pre-School Series

PEPPA PIG: Mummy Pig at Work (WINNER)
Director: Mark Baker & Neville Astley
Producer: Phil Davies
An Astley Baker Davies/Contender Entertainment Group Production association with Five and Nick Junior

Writers Award

KOALA BROTHERS – OUTBACK CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Writer Dave Ingham
A Famous Films/Spellbound Entertainment Ltd Production for CBBC Animation

Best Music Video

Subtle: SWAN MEAT
Directors: SSSR (Yu Sato, Marc Reisberg, Kristian Hammerstad)
Producer: SSSR
A Passion Pictures production for Lex Records

Best Film/TV Graphics

Motorola Classics (WINNER)
Director: Smith & Foulkes
Producer: Chris O’Reilly
A Nexus Production for The Fish Can Sing

Best Film at The Cutting Edge

RABBIT
Director: Run Wrake
Producer: Run Wrake
A Sclah Films Production for animate! funded by Arts Council England & Channel 4

Best Short Film
Director: Run Wrake
Producer: Run Wrake
A Sclah Films Production for animate! funded by Arts Council England & Channel 4

Best Commercial: Direction

Honda: GRRR
Director: Smith & Foulkes
A Nexus Production for Wieden & Kennedy London

Best Commercial: Craft

Vodafone: Mayfly