Frozen has won the Bafta for animated film, following its ascendency to becoming one of the most successful Disney films of all time, taking nearly a billion dollars at the global box office. It beat Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University to the award.

Its directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee thanked their gigantic crew, saying "it took about 600 people on this one - we had thousands of storyboard designs they had to draw and redraw". They acknowledged the voice recording from stars including Kristen Bell, as well as the computer rigging and the songwriters of the popular musical numbers from the film.

The film is considered a frontrunner for the animation Oscar, which will be announced in a fortnight's time.

• The Baftas ceremony is on BBC1 from 9pm. You can watch along with Xan Brooks's live blog, which begins at 8pm

• This article was amended on Monday 17 February. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee are the directors of Frozen, not the producers as we originally said. This has been corrected.