UNIVERSAL REAPS ANOTHER SUCCESFUL YEAR AT BVA AWARDS 2009
UNIVERSAL REAPS ANOTHER SUCCESFUL YEAR AT BVA AWARDS 2009
Universal Pictures (UK) Limited again topped the list of winners at last night’s annualBritish Video Association Awards at Old Billingsgate, picking up four awards for Marketing Initiatives in Film and Special Interest as well as winning the Best Retail and Rental Distributor and Title 2008 of the year with Mamma Mia!, Atonement and American Gangster respectively.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment took home two BVA Awards to add to their collection, winning Marketing Initiatives of the Year for Music and Television as did Sony Pictures Home Entertainment with Marketing Initiative wins in Catalogue and Film (up to £10million box off
ice)
Momentum Pictures won the Creative Initiative of the Year for their innovative CSI – Finger Print set whilst Optimum Releasing with their authoring house Eyeframe, came away from the night of celebration with an award for the Best British Authored Title.
Asda and Blockbuster won the retail and rental categories, whilst Firebelly was named Agency of the Year.
HiT Entertainment was victorious in the Children’s category, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment were triumphant in Non-Theatrical category and Warner Home Video were rewarded for the huge success of The Dark Knight which was firmly voted by the public as Best Blu-ray title of the Year at www.blurayrevolution.co.uk – the UK’s official Blu-ray website.
For their relentless campaign against piracy, FACT were rewarded with a BVA Award for Industry Initiative of the Year for their 2008 Strengthened Enforcement Programme.
The BVA Awards 2009 were a huge success, celebrating another year of creative and commercial achievements in a retail climate that has seen many changes over the past year.
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Notes to Editors
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The full list of BVA 2009 Award winners is as follows:
Creative Initiative of the Year
Momentum Pictures CSI - Finger Print Initiative
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Non-Theatrical
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Tinker
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Music
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd Shine a Light
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Children’s
HiT Entertainment Thomas and Friends - The Great Discovery
Rental Distributor and Title of the Year
Universal Pictures (
Rental Success of the Year
Blockbuster
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Television
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd Family Guy Series 7
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Special Interest
Universal Pictures (
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Catalogue
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Girls' Night In
Best British Authored DVD/Blu-ray
Optimum Releasing/Eyeframe Son of Rambow
Supplier/Agency of the Year
Firebelly
Retail Distributor and Title of the Year
Universal Pictures (
Retail Success of the Year
Asda
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Film – up to £10 million Box Office
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Superbad
Marketing Initiative of the Year – Film – over £10 million Box Office
Universal Pictures (
Best Blu-ray Title of the Year (consumer voted)
Warner Home Video The Dark Knight
Industry Initiative of the Year
FACT Strengthened Enforcement Programme 2008
