BAFTA has announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, presented at a ceremony in London on Sunday evening. The awards celebrate the creativity, skill and craft of behind-the-scenes television talent and the best programs of 2023.
The following people each won two BAFTAs:
- Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali won Author’s drama Category and Stephan Pehrsson won for Photography & light fiction for Demon 79 (Black Mirror).
- Nikki Parsons, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Valentine won Director: Multicamera category, and Julio Himede, Tim Routledge, Kojo Samuel, Michael Sharp and Dan Shipton won Entertainment Craft Team for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
- The editorial team behind it Once upon a time in Northern Ireland won Edit: Factual and the documentary’s composer, Simon Russell, won Original music: Factual.
- Atli Örvarsson won Original music: fiction and Gavin Bocquet and Amanda Bernstein won Product design for their work Silo.
- The sound team behind it Slow horses won Tone: Fictionand Sam Williams received a BAFTA for Editing: fiction, for her work on Episode 1 of the show.
Director: Factual was won by Peter Beard and Bruce Fletcher Otto Baxter: Not a damn horror story.
Peter Hoar won Director: fiction for The last of us.
The Emerging Talent: Fiction The author Kat Sadler won the category for Such brave girls while Emerging Talent: Factual saw director Fred Scott win London Bridge: Facing Terror.
BAFTA breakthrough Jack Rooke received the BAFTA for Author: Comedy for Big boys.
Aisha Bywaters, also a BAFTA Breakthrough graduate, received her second BAFTA for Scripted casting for Three little birdsafter winning for 2022 We are Lady Parts.
The first BAFTA winners included Sharon Long, Costume design for The great, Lisa Parkinson, Make-up and hair design for The long shadow, and Benedict Sanderson, winner of Photography: Factual for The Detectives: Taking out an OCG.
The sound team won Tone: Factual for The Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla.
Tamsin McGee, Ben Hanbury, Hugo Moss and Paul McDonnell won wilderness in the Title and graphic identity Category.
Tim Crosbie, Caimin Bourne, Jet Omoshebi, Dan Weir, Cinesite and David Stephens won Special visual and graphical effects for The Witcher.
The Television Craft Special Award was presented by ITV presenter Ria Hebden to the MAMA Youth Project in recognition of its work enabling young people from under-represented groups to gain access to careers in the television and media industries. Founder and CEO Bob Clarke accepted the award.
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards were hosted for the first time by award-winning TV presenter Stacey Dooley and took place at The Brewery London.
The evening featured a host of top TV talent as guest presenters including: Angelica Bell, Bettany Hughes, Callum Scott Howells, Cliff Parisi, Daniel Laurie, Diane Carson, Emily Lloyd-Saini, Humphrey Ker, Jodie Ounsley, Josh Tedeku, Judi Love, Katie Piper, Liz Bonnin, Mawaan Rizwan, Myles Kamwendo, Ray Panthaki, Ria Hebden, Rochelle Neil, Roisin Gallagher, Saffron Coomber, Tanya Moodie and Yazmin Belo.
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