Annal:2004 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Children's Feature Film
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Results of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of films, try an honor roll:
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Children's Feature Film
- Children's films
- Children's directors.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Part 3 of Harry Potter
- 2004 BAFTA-Children winner
- 2005 Saturn-Fantasy nominee
- Score: 16.54
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry, Ron and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts, where they are forced to face escaped prisoner, Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry and his friends spend their third year learning how to handle a half-horse half-eagle Hippogriff, repel shape-shifting Boggarts and master the art of Divination. They also visit the wizarding village of Hogsmeade and the Shrieking Shack, which is considered the most haunted building in Britain. In addition to these new experiences, Harry…
- 2004 Oscar-Animation winner
- 2004 Saturn-Animated winner
- 2004 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2004 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2004 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2004 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 44.54
A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar’s animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast—and astonishingly detailed—ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who’s both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in…
- 2005 Oscar-Animation nominee
- 2005 Saturn-Animated nominee
- 2004 BAFTA-Children nominee
- Score: 18.55
The lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to Fiona’s former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona’s parents—which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he’s proved right: The parents are horrified by their daughter’s transformation into an ogress, a fairy godmother wants her son Prince Charming to win Fiona, and a feline assassin is hired to get Shrek out of the way. The computer animation is more detailed than ever, but it’s the…
The Lord of the Rings: Part 3. The Return of the King
- 2004 BAFTA-Film winner
- 2004 Golden Globe-Drama winner
- 2004 Hugo-Video winner
- 2004 MTV-Movie winner
- 2004 Oscar-Picture winner
- 2004 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 2004 BAFTA-Children nominee
- Score: 66.54
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, triumphantly completed by the 11-Oscar-winning The Return of the King, sets out to show that Tolkien’s epic work, once derided as mere adolescent escapism, is not just fodder for the best mass entertainment spectacle ever seen on the big screen, but is also replete with emotionally satisfying meditations on the human condition. What is the nature of true friendship? What constitutes real courage? Why is it important for us to care about people living beyond our borders? What does it mean to live in harmony…
