The Bricks In Motion Awards

The Bricks In Motion Awards
Logo for the 2008 awards
Type	Annual award event
Location	BricksInMotion.com
Founded	2008
Hosts	2008 - 2009: NXTManiac 2010: NXTManiac (failed due to lack of ballots) 2011: Jargon
Predecessors	2005 and 2006 BAMPA Awards, 2007 BAFAs

The Bricks In Motion Awards is an annual event held on the brickfilming forumBricks In Motion to recognize 'brickfilms that do extraordinarily in many aspects of film and entertainment'. The winners of each category are awarded with a Bricks In Motion Award.

It is broadly similar to other film industry award shows such as the BAFTAs or Oscars with films being nominated for a category in advance and then the winner being announced 'live' to an audience. For the Bricks In Motion Awards, winners are usually announced 'live' via IRC chat which has sometimes been accompanied with a video stream.

The event is considered to have taken over from the Brick Award for Film Arts (BAFAs) which ran for one year in 2007, which in turn took over from the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts awards (BAMPA awards) which ran in 2005 and 2006.

History

The Bricks In Motion Awards were founded by NXTManiac. The first awards were for films in 2008 and replaced the BAFAs after Nathan Wells who was due to takeover from Film Brain for the 2008 BAFAs, the organiser of the 2007 BAFAs, became inactive on the site. The event was also replaced with a delay and was held in August 2009 due to the chaotic events of the Brickfilms.com split and for this reason its name is associated with Bricks In Motion.

The Lack of A 2010 Bricks In Awards

The first BiM awards in 2008 was very successful and as a result NXTManiac hosted it again in 2009 and 2010. However, despite NXT announcing the 2010 awards and producing a short list of films for the viewers choice award, the event never happened. Voting for the viewers choice award ended and then there was no information from NXT till 5 months later! It turned out that the 2010 BiMAs fell apart due to a lack of qualified voters.. NXT only recieved 5 ballots from the staff members of the site.

Categories

There are awards given out in the following categories

• Best Animation
• Best Screenplay
• Best Visual Effects
• Best Set Design

  

  An example of a Bricks In Motion award. Egyptian Holiday went on to win four in 2011.

• Best Sound Design
• Best Original Score
• Best Vocal Performance
• Best Ensemble Cast
• Best Cinematography
• Best Series (added for the 2009 awards onwards)
• Viewer's Choice (added for the 2009 awards onwards)
• Best Film

Eligibility to enter and vote for Viewer's Choice

For a film to be eligible to win a Bricks In Motion Award the director must have been a member of Bricks In Motion during the year of the awards, the film have been posted on BiM and the film must have been released during the year of the awards (except for the 2008 awards when any film made in 2008 was eligible due to there being no directory).

To be eligible to vote for film for the Viewer's Choice award you must have been a member on Bricks In Motion since July 1st, the year of the awards. The short list of films that you can vote from is suggested by the Bricks In Motion 'Board of Directors' and community.

A list of potential nominees for the rest of the awards is suggested by the Bricks In Motion community. Judges then vote and create a nominee list.

Previous Award Winners

	2008	2009
Best Animation	Attack of the Second Amendment Zach Macias	A Clone Halloween Fancypants
Best Screenplay	Unrenewable Philip Heinrich	Days of Our Pizza Keshen
Best Cinematography	Bill Carney's Body Nikolas Jaeger	The River Night Owl
Best Visual Effects	Unrenewable Philip Heinrich	Picturesque Nick Durron
Best Set Design	802.701 The Time Machine Go! Le Go!	Alles ist die Noppe nichtgedreht
Best Sound Design	The New Neighbour Maxime Marion	The River Night Owl
Best Original Score	Unrenewable Philip Heinrich	The River Night Owl
Best Vocal Performance	Unrenewable Philip Heinrich as Jack Darter	Days of Our Pizza Keshen as Febrizzio
Best Ensemble Cast	Unrenewable Philip Heinrich	It's the Network LegoSharkProductions
Best Series	N/A	Nightly News at Nine Fallentomato
Viewer's Choice	N/A	The River Night Owl
Best Film	Unrenewable Philip Heinrich	Alles ist die Noppe nichtgedreht
Notes	Award Results Video Results thread on BiM	Results thread on BiM