On Monday, May 28, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the winners of the British Academy Television Craft Awards, celebrating the very best behind-the-scenes television talent of 2020. The ceremony was broadcast on BAFTA’s YouTube and Facebook channels, hosted by Gbemisola Ikumelo, co-written by Ikumelo and Akemnji Ndifornyen, and featured guest presenters including Annie Wallace, Ellen Thomas, Nathaniel Martello-White, Tony Robinson, Max Harwood and Mawaan Rizwan.
Small Axe, Steve McQueen‘s limited series about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s won five awards for JoJo Williams‘s Make Up & Hair Design; Jacqueline Durran for Costume Design; Helen Scott for Production Design; Shabier Kirchner for Photography & Lighting: Fiction; and Gary Davy for Scripted Casting.
I May Destroy You, the HBO drama series featuring a woman who seeks to rebuild her life after a sexual assault, saw Michaela Coel and Sam Miller win in Director: Fiction, with Michaela Coel also collecting the award for Writer: Drama and the Editing Team winning Editing: Fiction.
His Dark Materials, the drama based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy of novels, received two awards: Jon Thomas, Gareth Bull, James Ridgway, Dillon Bennett, Eilam Hoffman and James Drake won for Sound: Fiction, while Russell Dodgson, James Whitlam, Jean-Clement Soret, Robert Harrington, Dan May and Brian Fisher won Special, Visual & Graphic Effects.
The rest of the BAFTA Television Awards will be handed out on June 6.
You can read the full list of winners below:
EMERGING TALENT: FICTION sponsored by Sara Putt Associates
Georgi Banks-Davies (Director) – I Hate Suzie – Bad Wolf/Sky Atlantic
EMERGING TALENT: FACTUAL
Marian Mohamed (Director) – Defending Digga D – Lambent Productions/BBC Three
COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran – Small Axe (Lovers Rock) – Turbine Studios, Lammas Park/BBC One
DIRECTOR: FACTUAL
Teresa Griffiths, Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line – Erica Starling Productions & Ronachan Films/BBC Two
DIRECTOR: FICTION sponsored by 3 Mills Studios
Michaela Coel, Sam Miller – I May Destroy You – Various Artists, FALKNA/BBC One
DIRECTOR: MULTI-CAMERA
Marcus Viner – ENO’s Drive & Live: La bohème – Somethin’ Else, ENO/Sky Arts
EDITING: FACTUAL Sponsored by Adobe
Claire Guillon, Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line – Erica Starling Productions, Ronachan Films/BBC Two
EDITING: FICTION Sponsored by Adobe
Editing Team – I May Destroy You – Various Artists, FALKNA/BBC One
ENTERTAINMENT CRAFT TEAM sponsored by Hotcam
MARK BUSK-COWLEY, ROY CALLOW, STEVE KRUGER, ANDY MILLIGAN, JAMES TINSLEY, MATHIEU WEEKES – I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! – ITV Studios/ITV
MAKE UP & HAIR DESIGN
JOJO WILLIAMS – Small Axe – Turbine Studios, Lammas Park/BBC One
ORIGINAL MUSIC
HARRY ESCOTT – Roadkill -The Forge Entertainment/BBC One
PHOTOGRAPHY: FACTUAL sponsored by The Farm
JOHNNY SHIPLEY, DRONE CAMERA TEAM, JOHN LIVESEY – The Great Mountain Sheep Gather – Windfall Films/BBC Four
PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING: FICTION Sponsored by ScreenSkills High-end Television Skills Fund
SHABIER KIRCHNER – Small Axe – Turbine Studios, Lammas Park/BBC One
PRODUCTION DESIGN sponsored by Microsoft
HELEN SCOTT – Small Axe -Turbine Studios, Lammas Park/BBC One
SCRIPTED CASTING sponsored by Spotlight
GARY DAVY Small Axe – Turbine Studios, Lammas Park/BBC One
SOUND: FACTUAL
NICK FRY, STEVE SPEED, JAMES EVANS, HUGH DWAN – Formula 1: Drive to Survive – Box to Box Films/Netflix
SOUND: FICTION
JON THOMAS, GARETH BULL, JAMES RIDGWAY, DILLON BENNETT, EILAM HOFFMAN, JAAMES DRAKE – His Dark Materials (Episode 7) – Bad Wolf/BBC One
SPECIAL, VISUAL & GRAPHIC EFFECTS
RUSSELL DODGSON, JAMES WHITLAM, JEAN-CLEMENT SORET, ROBERT HARRINGTON, DAN MAY, BRIAN FISHER – His Dark Materials – Bad Wolf/BBC One
TITLES & GRAPHIC IDENTITY
NIC BENNS, MIKI KATO – Fear City: New York vs The Mafia – A RAW and Brillstein Entertainment Partners Production/Netflix
WRITER: COMEDY
SOPHIE WILLAN – Alma’s Not Normal – Expectation/BBC Two
WRITER: DRAMA
MICHAELA COEL – I May Destroy You – Various Artists, FALKNA/BBC One
