The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today, Tuesday 21st October 2014, announced the nominations for the 2014 British Academy Children's Awards, its annual awards ceremony which honour the very best in children's media, which includes nominations for popular Nickelodeon shows! The awards ceremony will be held at the Roundhouse, London, on Sunday 233rd November 2014 and will be hosted by English rapper, comedian, actor, screenwriter and voiceover artist Doc Brown (also known as Ben Bailey Smith).

The hit original Nickelodeon comedy series "Victorious", NickToons UK's popular animated series "Max Steel" and Nickelodeon UK's official website, Nick.co.uk, have been nominated in the favourite "Television" show and favourite 'Website' categories, respectively, in the The BAFTA Kids' Vote, the part of the 2014 British Academy Children's Awards in which children aged between seven and 14 years have their say in a nationwide poll to choose their favourite film, television programme, website and game!
Additionally, Nickelodeon's hit animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" have been nominated in the best 'International' series British Academy Children's Award category, plus Channel 5's "Milkshake Monkey" has been nominated for the 'Short Form' Children's BAFTA award!
The BAFTA Kids' Vote in 2014 is supported by the initiatives official media partner,
Fun Kids Radio.
NickHeads can cast their votes for "Victorious", "Max Steel" and Nick.co.uk at
www.baftakidsvote.org. Voting for the BAFTA Kids' Vote opens today (21st October 2014) at 09:00 and closes at 4:30pm on Sunday 23rd November 2014!
Congratulations and good luck to Nickelodeon UK and everyone who has been nominated for a Children's BAFTA award!
Below is The British Academy of Film and Television Arts' official 2014 British Academy Children's Awards press release and a full list of Children's BAFTA nominations, from the
official BAFTA website, bafta.org:
Nominations Announced: British Academy Children's Awards
The nominations for the British Academy Children's Awards on Sunday 23 November 2014, have been announced.
Three nominations for Katie Morag
Old Jack's Boat, 4 O'Clock Club, The Amazing World Of Gumball, Roy and Wolfblood each receive two nominations.
BAFTA Kids' Vote launches
London, 21 October 2014: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced the nominations for its annual British Academy Children's Awards, which honour the very best in children's media. The ceremony will be held at the Roundhouse, London, on Sunday 23 November and will be hosted by Doc Brown.
Leading the way with three nominations is Katie Morag, based on the books by Mairi Hedderwick. The show, which follows the adventures of a small girl and her family on a Scottish island, receives Drama and Writer nominations, while eight-year-old Cherry Campbell, who plays the title role, is nominated in the Performer category.
A number of programmes have received two nominations each: Old Jack's Boat, for Pre-School Live Action and Performer with Bernard Cribbins as Jack; 4 O'Clock Club for Comedy and Performer with Akai Osei as Nero; Roy and Wolfblood each receive nominations in both the Drama and Writer categories and, for the fourth consecutive year, The Amazing World of Gumball is nominated in both the Writer and Animation categories. Rocket's Island picks up the final nomination in the Drama category and first-time nominee, Kia Pegg, completes the Performer category for her role as Jodi in The Dumping Ground.
Last year's Presenter winners, Sam Nixon & Mark Rhodes, are nominated once again and are joined in this category by fellow BAFTA-winning double-act Richard McCourt & Dominic Wood, comedian Iain Stirling and wildlife presenter Naomi Wilkinson.
Junior Bake Off, judged by Mary Berry and James Martin, picks up a nomination for Entertainment. Other nominees in the category include Hacker Time, hosted by Hacker T. Dog, and game shows Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge and Swashbuckle.
Animation dominates International, where the 2013 winner, Adventure Time, is joined by SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and pre-school series Doc McStuffins.
The four films nominated in the Feature Film category are: animated adventure- comedy The Lego Movie (Warner Bros), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DreamWorks Animation), Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures) and Maleficent (Walt Disney Pictures) starring Angelina Jolie. In Game, classic franchises are revisited with Mario Kart 8, Pokémon X & Y and Rayman Legends each receiving nominations together with Tearaway, whose development team is led by BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, Rex Crowle.
The BAFTA Kids' Vote also launched today, alongside its official media partner,
Fun Kids Radio. The audience award gives children aged 7-14 the opportunity to vote for their favourite film, television programme, website and game. Three-time winner of the Website category, Bin Weevils, will be hoping to retain the title, despite facing tough competition from returning runners-up Moshi Monsters and Club Penguin, while each of the four Feature Film nominees also appear in the Kids' Vote Film list alongside Mr Peabody & Sherman, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Rio 2, Turbo, Planes and Muppets Most Wanted.
Voting for the BAFTA Kids' Vote opens today (21 October) at 09:00 and closes at 16:30 on Sunday 23 November. Children can access exclusive content and competitions via
Fun Kids Radio and can cast their votes at
www.baftakidsvote.org.
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About BAFTA
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public. In addition to its Awards ceremonies, BAFTA has a year-round, international programme of learning events and initiatives that offers unique access to some of the world's most inspiring talent through workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes, connecting with audiences of all ages and backgrounds across the UK, Los Angeles and New York. BAFTA relies on income from membership subscriptions, individual donations, trusts, foundations and corporate partnerships to support its ongoing outreach work. To access the best creative minds in film, television and games production, visit
www.bafta.org/guru. For more, visit
www.bafta.org.
NOMINATIONS IN 2014
ANIMATION
THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL
Ben Bocquelet, Mic Graves, Sarah Fell - Cartoon Network Studios Europe/Cartoon Network
DENNIS THE MENACE & GNASHER
Production Team - Red Kite Animation/Sticky Pictures/CBBC
SHAUN THE SHEEP
Richard Starzak, Jay Grace, John Woolley - Aardman Animations/CBBC
STRANGE HILL HIGH
Production Team - Factory, CBBC and Fremantle/CBBC
CHANNEL OF THE YEAR
CARTOON NETWORK
CBBC
CBEEBIES
CYW
COMEDY
4 O'CLOCK CLUB
Production Team - CBBC/CBBC
ALL AT SEA
Production Team - CBBC/CBBC
DIDDY MOVIES
2 Steve Ryde, Dez Mcarthy, Annette Williams - CBBC/CBBC
DNN: DEFINITELY NOT NEWSROUND
Production Team - CBBC/CBBC
DRAMA
KATIE MORAG
Production Team - Move on Up/CBeebies
ROCKET'S ISLAND
Production Team - Lime Pictures/CBBC
ROY
Production Team - Jam Media/CBBC
WOLFBLOOD
Production Team - CBBC/CBBC
ENTERTAINMENT
FORT BOYARD: ULTIMATE CHALLENGE
Nigel Pickard, Joe Shaw - The Foundation TV Productions Ltd/ALP/CITV
HACKER TIME
Production Team - CBBC/CBBC
JUNIOR BAKE OFF
Production Team - Love Productions/CBBC
SWASHBUCKLE
Production Team - CBeebies/CBeebies
FACTUAL
DEADLY POLE TO POLE
Production Team - CBBC/CBBC
FRONTLINE FAMILIES - A NEWSROUND SPECIAL
Production Team - CBBC/CBBC
JUNIOR VETS
Production Team - True North/CBBC
OPERATION OUCH!
Production Team - Maverick Television/CBBC
FEATURE FILM
FROZEN
Peter Del Vecho, Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck - Walt Disney Animation Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold - DreamWorks Animation/Twentieth Century Fox
THE LEGO MOVIE
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dan Lin, Roy Lee - Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Road Show Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures
MALEFICENT
Joe Roth, Robert Stromberg, Linda Woolverton - Roth Films/Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
GAME
MARIO KART 8
Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
POKEMON X & Y
Development Team - Game Freak inc/The Pokémon Company International/Nintendo
RAYMAN LEGENDS
Michel Ansel, Christophe Heral, Jean-Christophe Alessandri - Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft
TEARAWAY
Development Team - Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment
INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR
BLUE ZOO
DOT TO DOT PRODUCTIONS
FACTORY TM LTD
KINDLE ENTERTAINMENT LTD
INTERACTIVE: ADAPTED
DISNEY ANIMATED
Development Team - Touch Press/Disney Interactive/Walt Disney Animation Studios
LUDUS
Rob Hyde, Aled Perry, Ruth Mills - Boom Kids and Cube Interactive
MADRON
Luke Davis, Wil Stephens, Darren Wall - Glasshead/Cube/Planet Jump Productions
ROOM ON THE BROOM: GAMES
Development Team - Magic Light Pictures & Stormcloud Games
INTERACTIVE: ORIGINAL
DIXI
Dan Berlinka, Nina Metivier, Melanie Stokes - Kindle Entertainment/Syndicut/Lucy Atkinson/CBBC Online
MAKIES
Development Team - MakieLab
MIXELS
Development Team - Hibernum for Cartoon Network/Cartoon Network
TEE & MO
Dominic Minns, Juliet Tzabar, Alan Owen - Plug-in Media/CBeebies Online
INTERNATIONAL
ADVENTURE TIME
Pendleton Ward, Graham Falk, Nick Jennings - Cartoon Network Studios/Cartoon Network
DOC MCSTUFFINS
Norton Virgien, Theresa Mayer, Chris Nee - Brown Bag Films/Disney Junior
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
Production Team - Nickelodeon/Nicktoons
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Production Team - Nickelodeon/Nicktoons
LEARNING: PRIMARY
CYW A'R WYDDOR (CYW AND THE ALPHABET)
Helen Davies, Carol Woodman - Boom Kids and Cube Interactive
LIZARD GIRL
Iona Sweeney, Lynsey Miller, Vivienne Franzmann - Feelgood Fiction/BBC Two
LLANDUDNO: A SEASIDE TOWN
Michael Davies, David Cortese - Landlines
THE STORY OF BRITAIN
Production Team - Lion Television/Ben Tobbit/BBC Learning
LEARNING: SECONDARY
CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST
Production Team - Fettle Animation/BBC Online
EXPLORING THE PAST: POST WAR BRITAIN
- Dominic Sant, Rhonda Evans, Nick Price - Evans Woolfe Media/BBC Two
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Andy Glynne, Dylan Howitt - Mosaic Films/BBC Two
POETRY: BETWEEN THE LINES
Production Team - Somethin' Else/BBC Two
PERFORMER
AKAI OSEI
4 O’Clock Club - CBBC
BERNARD CRIBBINS
Old Jack’s Boat - CBeebies
CHERRY CAMPBELL
Katie Morag - CBeebies
KIA PEGG
The Dumping Ground - CBBC
PRESCHOOL: ANIMATION
BING
Mikael Shields, Nicky Phelan, Jeroen Jaspaert - An Acamar Films Production coproduced by Brown Bag Films and Tandem Ltd/CBeebies
DINOPAWS
Production Team - Kindle Entertainment Ltd/Guru Studio Ltd/Laughing Gravy Media Ltd/CBeebies
POSTMAN PAT AND THE RUBBER DUCK RACE
Production Team - Mackinnon and Saunders/CBeebies
SARAH & DUCK
Tim O'Sullivan, Sarah Gomes Harris, Jamie Badminton - Karrot Entertainment/CBeebies
PRESCHOOL: LIVE ACTION
CBEEBIES THREE LITTLE PIGS
Angela Young, Charlotte Bushell, Vanessa Amberleigh - CBeebies/CBeebies
GRANDPA IN MY POCKET
Mellie Buse, Jan Page, Martin Franks - Adastra Creative Ltd/CBeebies
OLD JACK’S BOAT
Dominic MacDonald, Tony Reed, Tom Poole - CBeebies/CBeebies
SOMETHING SPECIAL
Angela Young, Kat Woolfe, Vanessa Amberleigh - CBeebies/CBeebies
PRESENTER
IAIN STIRLING
The Dog Ate My Homework - CBBC
NAOMI WILKINSON
Naomi's Nightmares of Nature - CBBC
RICHARD MCCOURT & DOMINIC WOOD
Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom - CBBC
SAM NIXON & MARK RHODES
Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up - CBBC
SHORT FORM
CITV SHARE A STORY 2013
Waldemar Werbel, Jadine Sage, Frank Mansfield - CITV/CITV
GUMBALL SONG
Production Team - Cartoon Network On Air/Blue-Zoo/Cartoon Network
MILKSHAKE! MONKEY
Production Team - Channel 5/Match Cut/Channel 5
NINA NEEDS TO GO
Production Team - ArthurCox/Disney Junior
WRITER
SERGIO CASCI
Katie Morag - CBeebies
DECLAN DE BARRA
Roy - CBBC
DEBBIE MOON
Wolfblood - CBBC
WRITING TEAM
The Amazing World of Gumball - Cartoon Network
BAFTA KIDS’ VOTE IN 2014
FILM
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (U) Sony Pictures
FROZEN (PG) Walt Disney Pictures
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Twentieth Century Fox
MALEFICENT (PG) Walt Disney Pictures
MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (U) Twentieth Century Fox
MUPPETS MOST WANTED (U) Walt Disney Pictures
PLANES (U) Walt Disney Pictures
RIO 2 (U) Twentieth Century Fox
THE LEGO MOVIE (U) Warner Bros
TURBO (U) Twentieth Century Fox
GAME
DISNEY INFINITY Disney Interactive Studios
FIFA 14 EA Games
FROZEN FREE FALL Disney Mobile
JUST DANCE 2014 Ubisoft
LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
MINECRAFT Mojang
NEED FOR SPEED: RIVALS EA Games
POKÉMON X & Y The Pokémon Company
SKYLANDERS SWAP FORCE Activision
THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEOGAME Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
TELEVISION
ALL OVER THE PLACE: AUSTRALIA CBBC
THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL Cartoon Network
THE DUMPING GROUND CBBC
JESSIE Disney Channel
MAX STEEL CITV
NEWSROUND CBBC
PHINEAS AND FERB Disney XD
REGULAR SHOW Cartoon Network
VICTORIOUS Nickelodeon
WOLFBLOOD CBBC
WEBSITE
BIN WEEVILS
CARTOON NETWORK
CBBC
CLUB PENGUIN
DISNEY
GIRLS GO GAME
LEGO
MOSHI MONSTERS
NICKELODEON
POKÉMON
Nominations are correct at the time of going to print. BAFTA reserves the right to make changes to the names listed at any time up until 23 November 2014
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