Bricks in Motion Awards

The Bricks In Motion Awards (commonly abbreviated to BiMA or BiMAs) is an annual event held on Bricks In Motion to recognize notable brickfilms that excel in animation, storytelling, visual design, entertainment and artistic quality. The winners of each category are awarded with a (virtual) Bricks In Motion Award.

The BiMAs are similar in style to 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 to a live audience. The 'live' winner's announcement of the BiMAs is usually done via IRC chat which has sometimes been accompanied with a video stream.

The Bricks in Motion Awards replaced the Brick Award for Film Arts (BAFAs) which ran for one year in 2007 on Brickfilms.com, which in turn was a replacement for the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts awards (BAMPAs) which ran in 2005 and 2006 on Brickfilms.com.

2005 Brickfilms Achievement in Motion Pictures Awards
The 2005 BAMPAs were created by Brickfilms.com member Scott "Dragoon" Dombert. The winners were announced on March 19, 2006.

2006 Brickfilms Achievement in Motion Pictures Awards
The 2006 BAMPAs were once again hosted by Scott Dombert. Nominees were announced on April 9, 2007 and winners were announced June 9, 2007. Changes from 2005 include: Best Overall Film was renamed to Best Film and Best Debut was replaced by Best Score.

2007 Brick Award for Film Arts
The 2007 BAFA Awards, the only of its kind, was created by Mathew Buck to be a successor to the BAMPAs. Changes from the 2006 BAMPAs include: adding Best Director, splitting Best Visual Elements into Best Set Design and Best Visual Effects, renaming Best Score to Best Music, renaming Best Voice Acting Performance to Best Vocal Performance, and adding Best Ensemble Cast. Winners were announced March 22nd, 2008.

2008 Bricks in Motion Awards
The Bricks in Motion Awards were created by Dylan Woodley as a successor to the BAFAs. The results were posted August 9, 2009.

2010 Bricks in Motion Awards
The 2010 Bricks in Motion Awards did not take place because its organizer Dylan Woodley only received 5 nomination ballots from the staff members of the site, and because of the lack of eligible voters. The lack of a 2010 awards came as a surprise to many users because Woodley had already announced the 2010 awards as happening and produced a short list of films for the Viewers Choice Award. It took 5 months after the closing of Viewer's Choice voting for official confirmation that the event was not happening.

2011 Bricks in Motion Awards
The Bricks in Motion Awards were momentarily revived in 2011 by Aaron "Jargon" Bulger. The nominees were announced on June 4, 2012 and the winners announced on June 23, 2012.

The Bricks in Motion Awards Hiatus
There were no Bricks in Motion Awards for 2012 and 2013.

2014 Bricks in Motion Awards
The 2014 Bricks in Motion Awards are being run by Nathan Wells and Zach Macias. They are being judged by Zach Macias, Nathan Wells, Seán Willis, Rachel Dew, Joseph Hayden, Graeme Allen and Philip Heinrich. The nominees were announced on March 23, 2015. Changes include the addition of the Best Editing category and the removal of the Best Series category, and removing the requirement that nominees must have been posted in the Bricks in Motion Releases forum.