# BAFTA Award for Best Animation

The BAFTA Award for Best Animation (also known as BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film) is a retired film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the annual British Academy Film Awards. BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television).
Introduced in the 1955 ceremony and awarded until the 1982 ceremony, the category covered both short and feature-length animated films. Subsequently, separate awards were introduced based on the films' running times: the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation, and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (the latter introduced in the 2007 ceremony).

## Winners and nominees

Note: In the following tables, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The dates given below refer to the years in which the films under consideration were released or eligible, not to the years in which the award ceremonies took place. (This differs from the BAFTA website's awards history feature, which uses years based on the award ceremonies' dates.)

### 1950s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1954 (8th) | Árie prérie (Song of the Prairie, 1949) | | | |
| 1954 (8th) | Little Brave Heart | | | |
| 1954 (8th) | Power to Fly | | | |
| 1954 (8th) | The Unicorn in the Garden | William Hurtz | | |
| 1955 (9th) | Blinkity Blank | Norman McLaren | | |
| 1955 (9th) | Animal Farm | | | |
| 1955 (9th) | Down a Long Way | | | |
| 1955 (9th) | Fudget's Budget | | | |
| 1955 (9th) | Lady and the Tramp | Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson | Walt Disney | United States |
| 1955 (9th) | Magoo Express | | | |
| 1956 (10th) | Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo | | | |
| 1956 (10th) | Calling All Salesmen | | | |
| 1956 (10th) | Christopher Crumpet's Playmate | | | |
| 1956 (10th) | The History of the Cinema | | | |
| 1956 (10th) | The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy | | | |
| 1956 (10th) | Love and the Zeppelin | | | |
| 1956 (10th) | Rythmetic | | | |
| 1957 (11th) | Pan-Tele-Tron | | | |
| 1957 (11th) | Earth is a Battlefield | | | |
| 1957 (11th) | The Magic Fluke | | | |
| 1957 (11th) | The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep (La Bergère et le Ramoneur) | | | |
| 1958 (12th) | The Little Island | | | |
| 1958 (12th) | The Juggler of Our Lady | | | |
| 1958 (12th) | The Blackbird (Le Merle) | | | |
| 1959 (13th) | The Violinist | Ernest Pintoff | | |
| 1959 (13th) | Beep Peep | | | |
| 1959 (13th) | Dom | Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica | | |
| 1959 (13th) | Short and Suite | Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart | | |

### 1960s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) | Country |
| 1960 (14th) | Universe | Roman Kroitor, Colin Low | |
| 1960 (14th) | The Interview | Ernest Pintoff | |
| 1960 (14th) | Piccolo | Dušan Vukotić | |
| 1961 (15th) | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | | |
| 1961 (15th) | Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit | | |
| 1961 (15th) | For Better... For Worse | | |
| 1962 (16th) | The Apple | | |
| 1962 (16th) | Four Line Conics | | |
| 1962 (16th) | The Travelling Tune | | |
| 1963 (17th) | Automania 2000 | | |
| 1963 (17th) | The Critic | | |
| 1964 (18th) | The Insects | Jimmy T. Murakami | |
| 1965 (19th) | Be Careful Boys | Vera Linnecar, Nancy Hanna, Keith Learner | |
| 1965 (19th) | The Bargain | Beryl Stevens | |
| 1965 (19th) | Birds, Bees And Storks | John Halas | |
| 1965 (19th) | The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra | Harold Whitaker | |
| 1966 (20th) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| 1967 (21st) | Notes On A Triangle | René Jodoin | |
| 1967 (21st) | Tidy Why | Bill Sewell | |
| 1967 (21st) | Toys | Grant Munro | |
| 1968 (22nd) | Dance For Two (Pas de deux) | Norman McLaren | |
| 1968 (22nd) | The Hand | Jiří Trnka | |
| 1968 (22nd) | The House That Jack Built | Ron Tunis | |
| 1968 (22nd) | The Question | John Halas | |
| 1969 (23rd) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) | Country |
| 1971 (24th) | Henry Nine 'Til Five | Bob Godfrey | |
| 1971 (24th) | Children And Cars | John Halas | |
| 1971 (24th) | Espolio | Sidney Goldsmith | |
| 1971 (24th) | It's Tough to Be a Bird | Ward Kimball | |
| 1971 (25th) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| 1972 (26th) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| 1973 (27th) | Tchou Tchou | | |
| 1973 (27th) | Balablok | | |
| 1974 (28th) | Hunger (La Faim) | | |
| 1974 (28th) | Cat's Cradle | | |
| 1975 (29th) | Great | Bob Godfrey | |
| 1975 (29th) | The Owl Who Married a Goose | Caroline Leaf (advised by Co Hoedeman) | |
| 1976 (30th) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| 1977 (31st) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| 1978 (32nd) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| 1979 (33rd) | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 1980 (34th) | The Three Inventors | Michel Ocelot |
| 1980 (34th) | Bio Woman | Bob Godfrey |
| 1980 (34th) | The Cube | Kamil Pixa |
| 1980 (34th) | Seaside Woman | Oscar Grillo |
| 1981 (35th) | The Sweater | Sheldon Cohen |
| 1981 (35th) | Beginnings | Clorinda Warny |
| 1981 (35th) | Creole | Sam Weiss |