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 'brickfilms that do extraordinarily in many aspects of film and entertainment'. 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 event is considered to have taken over from the Brick Award for Film Arts (BAFAs) which ran for one year in 2007 on Brickfilms.com, which in turn took over from the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts awards (BAMPA awards) 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 "Dragoon." The winners were announced on March 19, 2006.

2006 Brickfilms Achievement in Motion Pictures Awards
Changes from 2005: Best Overall Film renamed to Best Film, Best Debut replaced by Best Score.

2007 Brick Award for Film Arts
The 2007 BAFA Awards, the only of its kind, was created by Matthew Buck to be a successor to the BAMPAs. Changes from 2006: Added Best Director, split Best Visual Elements into Best Set Design and Best Visual Effects, renamed Best Score to Best Music, renamed Best Voice Acting Performance to Best Vocal Performance, added Best Ensemble Cast.

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, this was due its organiser Dylan Woodley only receiving 5 nomination ballots from the staff members of the site and a 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.

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.