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Best Childrens Programme EntertainmentDrama | 1983 | John
1984 | Dianne
Best Short Film Animated | 1983 | John
Best Graphics | 1983 | Raymond
Aled Jones, the singer of single "Walking in the Air" that was released in 1985, three years after the film, is much more widely known than Peter Auty who sang the same song in the film. Many people mistakenly believe that Aled Jones also sang the song in the film. Jones sang the chart release because the song had been re-recorded for an advertisement for an English toy store's Christmas campaign (which also featured new animation).
When this program first aired on PBS stations in the United States, it featured a newly filmed introduction by David Bowie instead of Raymond Briggs on the grounds that the animation needed a star.
On December 23, 2020, Duncan Jones found the scarf his father David Bowie wore in the introduction. After sharing a photo of it on Twitter, Brian Harding, who produced the introduction, responded to it with a little backstory: The scarf was knitted by a woman in the accounts department of TVC, the production company of the animation. She visited the set and gave the scarf to Bowie. After filming ended, he asked the woman if he could keep it for his son. It was the only fee he charged for his performance.
A sequel was released in 2012 entitled The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012).
The boy has no name in the original Briggs cartoon book. However, the makers of the film required a name for the gift tag attached to the gift given to him by Santa Claus and selected "James" after the boyfriend (later husband) of one of the animators.
"James: [singing] We're walking in the air/We're floating in the moonlit sky/The people far below are sleeping as we fly/I'm holding very tight/I'm riding in the midnight blue/I'm finding I can fly so high above with you/All across the world/The villages go by like dreams/The rivers and the hills/The forests and the streams/Children gaze open-mouthed taken by surprise/Nobody down below believes their eyes/We're surfing in the air/We're swimming in the frozen sky/We're drifting over icy mountains floating by/Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep/Rousing up a mighty monster from his sleep/We're walking in the air/We're dancing in the midnight sky/And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly."
"Older James: [only dialogue] I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snow I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in the morning I woke in a room filled with light and silence, the whole world seemed to be held in a dream-like stillness. It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made The Snowman."
