BAFTA Interactive Awards
The BAFTA Interactive Awards and BAFTA Games Awards were created in 2003 by splitting the original BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards into two separate ceremonies.[1]
While the previous ceremonies had been annually hosted each October since 1998, the 2003 Interactive Awards weren't held until 19 February of the following year,[2] while the 2004 event took place on 2 March 2005.[3]
In March 2006, BAFTA issued a press release announcing that "Video Games are as Important as Film and Television", and reinstated the Games Awards to the traditional October slot.[4] No mention of Interactive Awards was made, and all traces of the ceremony vanished shortly afterwards when BAFTA's website was reorganised, making it the shortest running event in BAFTA's history.[5]
Children's Learning
- 2004 : Headline History
- 2003 : (not awarded)
Design
- 2004 : Alexander McQueen Website
- 2003 : Greenwich Millennium Village
Factual
- 2004 : Stagework
- 2003 : (two awards - Online & Offline)
Film/TV website
- 2004 : Trauma
- 2003 : Starfinder
Interactive Arts
- 2004 : Frequency and Volume
- 2003 : Alleph.net
Interactive Arts Installation
- 2004 : (not awarded)
- 2003 : The House of Osama Bin Laden
Interactive TV
- 2004 : Spooks Interactive
- 2003 : V:MX
Music
- 2004 : SSEYO miniMIXA
- 2003 : (not awarded)
New Talent Award
- 2004 : Dan Jones
- 2003 : (not awarded)
News & Sport
- 2004 : England's Exit From Euro 2004
- 2003 : (not awarded)
Offline Factual
- 2004 : (single Factual award)
- 2003 : DNA Interactive DVD
Offline Learning
- 2004 : (combined with Online Learning)
- 2003 : Knowledge Box
Online Entertainment
- 2004 : Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adventure Game - 20th Anniversary Edition
- 2003 : Celebdaq
Online Factual
- 2004 : (single Factual award)
- 2003 : Tate Online
Online Learning
- 2004 : Stagework
- 2003 : Bodysong
Technical Innovation
- 2004 : Careers Wales Online
- 2003 : The Darkhouse
References
- Multimedia's best in Bafta battle - BBC News announces BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award split; 1 December 2003.
- BBC's Celebdaq wins Bafta award - BBC News lists 2003 winners; 20 February 2004.
- BBC leads interactive Bafta wins - BBC News lists 2004 winners; 2 March 2005.
- Video Games Awards become BAFTA's 'third arm' - BAFTA official press release (pdf).
- Winners & Nominees - Archive of 2004 BAFTA Interactive Awards.