Bob Godfrey was awarded an MBE in 1986, and received the newly established Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bradford Animation Festival on 18 November 2007, with the festival including a retrospective of his films. His later films included social and political satires based on the work of Steve Bell, such as "Beaks to the Grindstone" and "A Journalist's Tale". He worked with Bell again on the series "Margaret Thatcher: Where Am I Now?" He appeared on a number of programmes and documentaries on animation over the years, including the BBC 2 documentary "The Craftsmen" and the documentary series "Animation Nation", shown on BBC Four in 2005. He also taught animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design (now University for the Creative Arts).