BAFTA Kids' Vote

This year’s BAFTA Kids’ Vote embraced all media platforms - from film and television to video games and websites. We received a record number votes - over 180,000 children under the age of 14 voted on the BAFTA Kids Vote website .

The Results

The winner was announced at the EA British Academy Children’s Awards on Sunday 30 November. This year, the small screen outperformed bigger screen rivals and Disney's Hannah Montana was presented with the coveted Award - the only category voted for by the public.

The BAFTA Kids' Vote

In 1997, when the BAFTA Kids’ Vote made its debut in the Children’s Awards, children were running home from school to watch Kipper and Basil Brush. The one prize voted for by children themselves, was for their favourite television programme.

Five years later, the popular vote went for the first time to a Feature Film starring a little bespectacled boy whose magical powers brought millions of children flocking to their local multiplex.

Today’s children still love the magic of cinema and stick their favourite TV heroes onto their bedroom walls, but many of those bedrooms now also house a computer and certainly some kind of games console.

What a great opportunity then for the Academy to embrace this rich diversity of children’s media. For the first time, children get to have their say in a nationwide poll to choose their favourite film, television programme, website and video game.

To compile to the voting shortlists, we compiled the top children's films at the box office, the highest-rated terrestrial and multichannel programmes, the most visited websites and the top-selling children’s video games. We then asked a panel of Children’s media experts, writers and presenters to whittle them down to four top-ten lists. We are most grateful for their invaluable input and enthusiasm.

Previous Winners

Last year, our sponsor EA ran a fantastic competition supported by the film companies and children around the country voted The Simpsons Movie as their favourite film of the year.

• See the full list of winners in 2007

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