Shrek 2 gets kiddy vote

Children were given the chance to select their favourite films, TV programmes and celebrities yesterday at the annual Children's Bafta awards.

15:57 29 November 2004

Children were given the chance to select their favourite films, TV programmes and celebrities yesterday at the annual Children's Bafta awards.

More than 6,000 children voted in the best film category - the only one to be decided by fans - and picked Pixar's animated ogre tale Shrek 2 as the year's best movie.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third instalment in the hugely successful movie franchise of the works by JK Rowling, was voted in at second place.

On TV, slightly disturbing duo Dick and Dom (aka Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood), who fill the BBC's crucial Saturday morning slot, won two awards for best entertainment and best presenters.

And in a blast from the past, former Playschool presenter and leading light for many a child of the 80's Floella Benjamin was awarded the Special Award for outstanding creative contribution to children's film and television, having made her first appearance on the show nearly a quarter of a century ago.

Debbie Isitt won the award for best adaptation writer for her work on Jacqueline Wilson's The Illustrated Mum, which won the award for best schools drama.