Irish writer Graham Linehan, Mark Geraghty and Cillian Murphy’s ‘Peaky Blinders’ were among the Irish winners at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Craft Awards in London on Sunday night.
The craft awards honour behind-the-scenes achievements in TV in categories such as editing, special effects, sound and directing etc. Linehan took top prize in the Best Comedy Writer category for the TV series 'The IT Crowd', starring Chris O’Dowd. Other nominees in the category were Steve Delaney for ‘Count Arthur Strong’, Sam Bain for ‘Fresh Meat’ and James Corden for ‘The Wrong Mans’. The win marks Linehan’s fifth BAFTA award and second for 'The IT Crowd'.
Mark Geraghty picked up the Best Production Design award for his work on the Dublin-shot ‘Ripper Street’. Geraghty’s screen credits include many Irish productions such as ‘Dead Bodies’, ‘The Actors’, ‘Dancing At Lughnasa’ and ‘In America’ as well as Jim Sheridan’s ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’, which earned him a Best Production Design Irish Film and Television Award in 2007. ‘The Fall’s’ Steve Singleton was also honoured with the Best Editing, Fiction award.
Irish cinematographer John Conroy (Luther) was nominated in the Best Photography and Lighting for fictional works but lost out to George Steel of ‘Peaky Blinders’. On top of the dramas success in photography, ‘Peaky Blinders’, starring Irish actor Cillian Murphy, picked up yet another award for Best Director (Otto Bathurst).
The full list of the 2014 BAFTA TV Craft Winners can be viewed here.
