Wellington's Weta Workshop has missed out on a special visual effects Bafta award.
Weta was nominated for its work on two films - The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Rise of the Planet of the Apes - but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows took home the prize for this section.
Weta's Joe Letteri, Jamie Beard, Keith F Miller and Wayne Stables were nominated for the motion-capture 3D animation on The Adventures of Tintin.
Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and R Christopher White, also from Weta, were nominated for work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
New Zealand's Sir Peter Jackson and director Steven Spielberg still have a chance for best animated film with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.
Hosted by Stephen Fry, the awards are under way at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
The Artist, a black-and-white silent film by French director Michel Hazanavicius, is the bookies' favourite for the best picture award.
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