Happy Feet bags Bafta Childrens Award for best feature film

Happy Feet, a comedy adventure set in Antarctica and featuring a band of singing, dancing emperor penguins, has bagged this years Bafta Childrens Award for best feature film.

London, Nov 26 : Happy Feet, a comedy adventure set in Antarctica and featuring a band of singing, dancing emperor penguins, has bagged this year's Bafta Children's Award for best feature film.

Penguins triumphed over 'Flushed Away,' 'Bridge to Terabithia,' and the latest JK Rowling adaptation, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,' reports Scotsman.

However, Happy Feet was defeated by 'The Simpsons Movie' in a separate category in which kids under 16 voted for their favourite film of the year.

Bafta Children's Award, the junior version of the British Academy's annual awards, presented on Oct 25 at a ceremony in central London hosted by Keith Chegwin, included computer games for the first time.

PlayStation 2 quiz game Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party received the honour, defeating 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' on the Xbox 360, Lego 'Star Wars: The Complete Saga' on the Nintendo DS, and 'Crash of the Titans' for the Wii.

CBeebies was awarded as the best channel and Aardman - creators of Wallace and Gromit - won award for independent production of the year.

The award for the best presenter went to Barney Harwood, host of now-cancelled BBC Sunday morning programme Smile, while the award for break-through talent went to Charles Martin, who debuted last year as lead director of ITV comedy My Life As A Popat.

CBBC Newsround's 'The Wrong Trainers,' which turned real stories about child poverty into short animated films, bagged the award for the factual category.

'That Summer Day,' a BBC drama about the 7 July 2005, attacks on London from a child's perspective, was awarded as the year's best drama.

ANI