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“Brave,” “Life of Pi” and “The Making of Longbird” Win BAFTA Awards
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented their awards today in London. Pixar’s Brave took home the BAFTA award for Best Animated Film; it was up against ParaNorman and Frankenweenie.
Interesting note: Brenda Chapman, the original director of Brave, accepted the award with the film’s second director, Mark Andrews:
Life of Pi was the winner in the category of Special Visual Effects.
The award for Best Animated Short went to The Making Of Longbird, a mockumentary by Will Anderson, 23, produced at the Edinburgh College of Art. Ainslie Henderson (I Am Tom Moody), who co-wrote the film, shared the award with Anderson. This is the trailer for the short: