Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron and Yorgos Langthimos’ Poor Things were two of the top winners at last night’s 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, hosted by David Tennant at The Royal Festival Hall in London. Miyazaki’s acclaimed feature beat Aardman’s Chicken Run: Dawn of The Nugget, Disney/Pixar’s Elemental and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse for best animated film. The Boy and Heron became the first Japanese production to win the Best Animated Feature BAFTA and it also marked the first BAFTA win for Hayao Miyazaki, who turned 83 last year.
Yorgos Langthimos’ Poor Things won the BAFTA for Best Visual Effects. The other nominees were 20th Century Studios’ The Creator, Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and Columbia Pictures’ Napoleon.
Crab Day by Bart Stanislawek, Ross Stringer and Aleksander Sykulak took home the BAFTA for the Best Animated Short, beating the other nominees Wild Summon (by Karni Arieli, Saul Freed and Jay Woolley) and Visible Mending by Samantha Moore and Tilley Bancroft.
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You can read our interview with the director Ross Stringer here and watch the short below:
