BAFTA has announced the winners of the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards with both Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors winning two each.
Philip Barantini won the Director: Fiction category and James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McManus, Kyle Pickford and Adam Méndez won for Sound: Fiction for Adolescence.
Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams and Nathan Lindley won the Entertainment Craft Team category, and Sound Team won for Sound: Factual for The Celebrity Traitors.
Writer Janice Okoh won Emerging Talent: Fiction for Just Act Normal and director and BAFTA Breakthrough Olaide Sadiq won Emerging Talent: Factual for Grenfell: Uncovered.
Director: Multicamera was won by Laurence Cawsey for Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur.
BAFTA Breakthrough and previous winner in 2024, Jack Rooke collected the BAFTA for Writer: Comedy for Big Boys.
First-time BAFTA winners included, Will Smith, Writer: Drama for Slow Horses; Maja Meschede, winner of Costume Design for A Thousand Blows; Ryan Kernaghan for Trespasses in Photography & Lighting: Fiction; Philippa Mumford for Juice in Production Design; Rob Coldstream for Vietnam: The War That Changed America in Director: Factual; Jessica Dannheisser for The Last Musician of Auschwitz in Original Music: Factual and Tom Rowlands for Mussolini: Son of the Century in Original Music: Fiction.
Children’s Craft Team was won by Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters and Bronwen Slater for The Very Small Creatures.
Make Up & Hair Design went to Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrie Gower and Attila Veg for Amadeus. Scripted Casting was won by Nathan Toth and Julie Harkin for Reunion.
Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp won Editing: Factual for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack and Photography: Factual was won by Jordan Bryon for Our Land: Israel’s Other War.
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle won Editing: Fiction for Prisoner 951.
Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes and Phil Bigwood won for UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 in the Titles and Graphic Identity category.
Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Luke Murphy, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clément Soret and Industrial Light & Magic collected the Award for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for Andor.
The BAFTA Television Craft Special Award was presented by BAFTA Trustee Ade Rawcliffe to Founder of The TV Collective, Simone Pennant. The award recognises Simone’s extraordinary leadership and the lasting legacy of change she has brought to the screen industries since founding The TV Collective (TVC) in 2008.
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards with Samsung OLED was hosted by Maisie Adam, and took place at The Brewery in London.
The full list of winners
Children’s Craft Team
Ben Bocquelet, Joe Sparrow, Luke Allen, james Lancett, Adrian Cathie, Andy Goodman, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters, Bronwen Slater, The Very Small Creatures (WINNER)
Samantha Cutler, Jeroen Jaspaert, Steven Bloomer, Terry Davies, Adrian Rhodes, Shannan Taylor, The Scarecrows’ Wedding
Simon Partington, Andy Farago, Simon Couzens, Sandy Nuttgens, Alex Copley, Andy Brittain, BooSnoo!
Costume Design
Emma O’Loughlin, Trespasses
Maja Meschede, A Thousand Blows (WINNER)
Michael Wilkinson, Andor
Rhona Russell, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Director: Factual
Benedict Sanderson, See No Evil
Karim Shah, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Olaide Sadiq, Grenfell: Uncovered
Rob Coldstream, Vietnam: The War That Changed America (WINNER)
Director: Fiction
Dawn Shadforth, Trespasses
Janus Metz, Andor
Philip Barantini, Adolescence (WINNER)
Sam Donovan, Severance
Director: Multi-Camera
Ben Archard, Eddie Lewis, Marieke Barker-Benfield, The Celebrity Traitors
Ben Hardy, Last One Laughing
Diccon Ramsay, VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember
Laurence Cawsey, Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur(WINNER)
Editing: Factual
Jennifer Asheitu Hampson, Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers
Mel Quigley, Andy Kemp, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (WINNER)
Paul Hammacott, Louis Theroux: The Settlers
Samuel R. Santana, Grenfell: Uncovered
Editing: Fiction
Fiona Brands, Slow Horses (Episode 6)
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Prisoner 951 (WINNER)
Simon Smith, The Last of Us
Yan Miles, Andor
Emerging Talent: Factual
Alexandra Lacey, writer-director, The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Elle Mower, director, Convicting My Ex
Olaide Sadiq, director, Grenfell: Uncovered (WINNER)
Emerging Talent: Fiction
Chloe English, director, G’wed
Emily McDonald, director, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Eros V, director, Juice
Janice Okoh, writer, Just Act Normal (WINNER)
Entertainment Craft Team
Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams, Nathan Lindley, The Celebrity Traitors (WINNER)
Diccon Ramsay, Rikki Finlay, Mat Weekes, Ben Norman, James Tinsley, Robert Mansfield, Squid Game: The Challenge
Graham Proud, Toby Wilkinson, Sam Turner, Alex Weeks, Jennifer Ford, Rob & Romesh Vs…
Philip Barantini, Nyk Allen, Jacob Smith, Joe Blodgett, Frank Larson, Brendan Poutier, One Shot: With Ed Sheeran
Make Up & Hair Design
Lucy Sibbick, Victoria Money, Slow Horses
Sjaan Gillings, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Sian Wilson, Caroline Greenough , Clare Ramsey, Cheryl Garvey, Madlen Mierzwiak, A Thousand Blows
Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrier Gower, Amadeus (WINNER)
Original Music: Factual
Anne Nikitin, Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey
Jessica Dannheisser, The Last Musician of Auschwitz (WINNER)
Louis Dodd, Matthew Sanches, The Sycamore Gap Mystery
Sophy Purnell, Moon: Nature’s Secret Force
Original Music: Fiction
Ariel Marx, Hotel Reverie (Black Mirror)
Federico Jusid, A Thousand Blows
Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, The Death of Bunny Munro
Tom Rowlands, Mussolini: Son of the Century (WINNER)
Photography: Factual
Camera Team, Secrets of the Penguins
Jordan Bryon, Our Land: Israel’s Other War (WINNER)
Marcel Mettelsiefen, State of War: Fighting the Narcos (Exposure)
Stefano Ferrari, Tim Cragg, Surviving Black Hawk Down
Photography & Lighting: Fiction
Catherine Goldschmidt, The Last of Us
Matthew Lewis, Adolescence
Ryan Kernaghan, Trespasses (WINNER)
Suzie Lavelle, Severance
Production Design
Gillian Devenney, Trespasses
Luke Hull, Rebecca Alleyway, Toby Britton, Andor
Philippa Mumford, Juice (WINNER)
Tom Burton, Grant Bailey, Barbara Herman-Skelding, A Thousand Blows
Scripted Casting
Nathan Toth, What it Feels Like for a Girl
Nathan Toth, Julie Harkin, Reunion (WINNER)
Shaheen Baig, Adolescence
Shaheen Baig, Get Millie Black
Sound: Factual
Andy Deacon, Kevin Dugg, Will Thomas Jonathan Gibson, The Lost Music of Auschwitz
Sount Team, The Celebrity Traitors (WINNER)
Sound Team, Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Tristan Powell, Will Chapman, The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Sound: Fiction
Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Ben Tisdall, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Conor Thompson, Slow Horses
Danny Hambrook, David Acord, Margit Pfeiffer, James Spencer, Josh Gold, John Finklea, Andor
James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McMAnus, Kyle Pickford, Adam Mendez, Adolescence (WINNER)
Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Saoirse Christopherson, Andy Kennedy, Lee Crichlow, Chris Campion, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Special, Visual & Graphic Effects
James Maclachlan, Josie Henwood, Union VFX Studios Malta, Magic Lab Studios, Sam Chynoweth, USS Callister: Into Infinity (Black Mirror)
Luke Murphy, Mohen Leo, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clement Soret, Andor(WINNER)
Russell Dodgson, Framestore, Andy Jones, Simon Bland, Francois Dumoulin, Gavin McKenzie, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
Sara Bennett, Richard Reed, David Stephens, Jet Omoshebi, Caimin Bourne, Scanline, The Witcher
Titles & Graphic Identity
Huge Designs, Code of Silence
Isabella Eklof, Luke Dunkley, Mike Holliday, Tony Kearns, Dean Wares, The Death of Bunny Munro
Light Creative, A Thousand Blows
Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes, UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 (WINNER)
Writer: Comedy
Daisy May Cooper, Selin Hizli, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Jack Rooke, Big Boys (WINNER)
Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls
Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Writer: Drama
Ailbhe Keogan, Trespasses
Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Paris Lees, What It Feels Like For a Girl
Will Smith, Slow Horses (WINNER)
Jon Creamer
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