AMAZING News! Angela's Christmas Wish writer and director Damien O'Connor has been awarded the ZeBBie Award in this year's Animation category in a joint win with Kavaleer!

The ZeBBie Awards are an annual award created by the WGI to acknowledge the best scripts written by Irish playwrights and screenwriters during the previous year.

Delighted to be celebrating our favourite people tonight! Screenwriters! #zebbies pic.twitter.com/QVs6fgHvnN

— SDGI (@screendirectors) November 3, 2021

A huge congrats to Damien on this superb win for Best Animation Script for Angela's Christmas Wish, it feels like our own Christmas wish may have come early!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! #zebbies2021 pic.twitter.com/fz7vFrDsLm

— WGI (@WritersGuildIRL) November 3, 2021

Whoohooo, I won a Zebbie Award for writing the Angela's Christmas Wish screenplay, delighted my syllables n that won summit, thanks @WritersGuildIRL and congrats to joint winners @KavaleerTweets #zebbie2021 pic.twitter.com/qGLlG9hCMc

— Damien O'Connor (@ratskins) November 3, 2021

Angela's Christmas Wish, the sequel to Angel's Christmas, is a heart-warming tale of a determined little girl who sets out to reunite her family in time for Christmas. Based on characters from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, it is a tender and funny story about the importance of family and togetherness.

Don't forget you can enjoy both Angel's Christmas and Angela's Christmas Wish on Netflix right now, and since the holiday season is approaching it makes for the perfect cozy winter viewing!

For the full list of this year's ZeBBie Awards nominees, click here.