BAFTA has announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2023 at a ceremony in London.
Celebrating behind-the-scenes television talent of 2022, the ceremony was hosted by Mel Giedroyc, and featured a host of TV talent as guest presenters. Lisa McGee won her first BAFTA for Writer: Comedy for Derry Girls, and Peter Anderson Studio won Titles and Graphic Identity for Bad Sisters.
House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones, was successful in three categories. Amanda Knight, Barrie Gower and Rosalia Culora for Make-Up & Hair Design, Alastair Sirkett, Doug Cooper, Martin Seeley, Paula Fairfield, Tim Hands and Adele Fletcher for Sound: Fiction, and Angus Bickerton, Nikeah Forde, Asa Shoul, Mike Dawson, MPC and Pixomodo for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects.
This is Going to Hurt won in three categories: first-time winner Adam Kay won a BAFTA for Writer: Drama, for the series based upon his memoir as a junior doctor; Selina MacArthur, also a first-time winner, won for Editing Fiction; and Nina Gold and Martin Ware won for Scripted Casting.
The Emerging Talent: Fiction award went to writer Pete Jackson for Somewhere Boy, and Emerging Talent: Factual saw producer/director Charlie Melville win for John & Joe Bishop: Life After Deaf.
Other first-time BAFTA winners were Felicity Morris (Director: Factual) for The Tinder Swindler, William Stefan Smith (Director: Fiction) for Top Boy, Jane Petrie (Costume Design) for The Essex Serpent, Jessica Jones (Original Music: Factual) for Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, Nicôle Lecky, Bryan Senti, Kwame ‘KZ’ Kwei-Armah JR (Original Music: Fiction) for Mood, Chas Appeti (Photography & Lighting: Fiction) for Jungle, and Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling (Production Design) for Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.
Editing: Factual was won by Rupert Houseman for Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, Entertainment Craft Team was won by Catherine Land, David Bishop, Patrick Doherty, Richard Sillitto, David Newton and Joe Phillips for Strictly Come Dancing, and Photography: Factual was won by Marcel Mettelsiefen and Jordan Bryon for Children of the Taliban.
The Television Craft Special Award was presented by Adrian Lester to Alison Barnett in recognition of her pioneering role as one of the very first female Heads of Production in the UK television industry. Alison Barnett is the first Head of Production to receive a BAFTA honorary award.
The BAFTA Television Awards, hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, will take place on Sunday 14 May and will be broadcast at 7pm on BBC One.
