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THEBRITISHACADEMYCHILDREN’S
FILM&TVAWARDS2001
FILM&TVAWARDS2001
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE LEGO COMPANY
Awards & Events
THEBRITISHACADEMYCHILDREN’S
The BBC’s classic school drama Grange Hill won a special award for its out- standing creative contri- bution to television at the 6th annual British Academy Children’s Film and Television Awards in association with the LEGO Company. Past and present pupils, including ‘Tucker Jenkins’ (Todd Carty) joined ex-head- mistress ‘Mrs McClusky’ (Gwyneth Powell) and creator Phil Redmond to accept the award, which was presented by Anna Home, who originally commissioned the series for the BBC.
A multitude of television per- sonalities joined host Kate Thornton at the glittering awards ceremony, which was held at the London Hilton Park Lane on Sunday 2nd December. Presenters included Olympic gold-winning medallists Audley Harrison and Denise Lewis; judge Simon Cowell from ITV’s Pop Idols; presenter of BBC1’s Saturday Show Dani Behr; one of the child stars of Harry Potter, Tom Felton, the voice of Bob the Builder, Neil Morrissey and Ralf Little from TV’s The Royle Family. Hear’Say provided the musical interlude, singing their new hit single ‘Everybody’.
Roy Apps, writer of such TV shows as The Ghost Hunter and Byker Grove won the coveted Writer’s Award, which was presented by the star of his Barmy Aunt Boomerang - singer and actress Toyah Wilcox - for his contribution to chil- dren’s television over the past 20 years.
Other BAFTA winners included Cat Deeley, who was congratulated by her
Chairman Simon Relph with singer/actress Toyah Wilcox
Teletubbies to be awarded the BAFTA for Pre-School Live Action, and WisedUp Productions won the Factual BAFTA for Nick News, which featured a hard-hitting report on the murder of Damilola Taylor.
This year’s LEGO/ BAFTA Kids’ Vote was won by the Disney Channel Kids Awards Final, after 45,000 children visited a special website to vote for their favourite programme of the year.
The press attendance this year surpassed all other years, with more than 60 broadcasters, journalists and photographers attending the awards.
WisedUp Productions were at the ceremony with their presenter Misha, recording a TV programme of the awards entitled My Big Night At The BAFTAs that will be broadcast on CiTV on Thursday 27th December at 10.50 am.
So as we close the door on the children’s awards for another year, the only thing left to do is the thank yous, especially to the LEGO Company for their contin- ued support. Once again, Children’s Awards Officer Lisa Prime and her assistant Kelly
Smith have put on an event that BAFTA can be truly proud of and which has grown in stature since it’s humble beginnings six years ago. Thanks also to producer, Marc Baker; Clare Brown, Producer of Special Events at BAFTA; John Richmond, Chair of the Children’s Committee, and the rest of his fellow committee members. ■ Tara Davies
former SM:tv Live colleagues, Ant and Dec. Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly left CiTV’s popular live show on Saturday morning after making their final appearance,
but it was Cat who won the BAFTA for Best Presenter.
Shrek, the hit animated film featuring the voices of Mike
Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz, beat The Grinch, The Emperor’s
New Groove and Robert Rodriguez’ Spy Kids to win the award for Feature Film.
Channel 4’s The Hoobs fought off tough competition from The Tweenies, Mopatop’s Shop and
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