British Academy Television Craft Award
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded2008
Currently held byWilliam Stefan Smith for Top Boy (2023)
Websitehttp://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.

In 2006 and 2007 there was only on category for directors but in 2008 the category was split in three separate categories to recognize directing for different programming, first creating Best Director: Factual and Best Director: Fiction and then in 2011 Best Director: Multi-Camera.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Best Director

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2006 Brian Percival Much Ado About Nothing BBC One
Simon Cellan Jones The Queen's Sister Channel 4
Joe Ahearne Doctor Who BBC One
Justin Chadwick Bleak House
2007 Edmund Coulthard Soundproof BBC Two
Tom Hooper Longford Channel 4
Adrian Shergold Low Winter Sun
Bharat Nalluri Life on Mars BBC One

Best Director: Fiction

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2008 John Crowley Boy A Channel 4
Otto Bathurst Five Days BBC One
Marc Munden The Mark of Cain Channel 4
Adrian Shergold Persuasion ITV
2009 Rowan Joffé The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall Channel 4
Otto Bathurst Criminal Justice BBC One
Alex Holmes House of Saddam BBC Two
Niall MacCormick Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley BBC Four

2010s

Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster
2010 Philip Martin Mo Channel 4
Yann Demange Criminal Justice BBC One
Aisling Walsh Wallander "The Fifth Woman"
James Hawes Enid BBC Four
2011 Brian Percival Downton Abbey ITV1
Paul McGuigan Sherlock "A Study in Pink" BBC One
Shane Meadows This Is England '86 Channel 4
Charles Sturridge The Road to Coronation Street BBC Four
2012 Hugo Blick The Shadow Line BBC Two
Julian Jarrold Appropriate Adult ITV
John Alexander Exile BBC One
Yann Demange Top Boy Channel 4
2013 Philippa Lowthorpe Call the Midwife BBC One
Julian Jarrold The Girl BBC Two
Birger Larsen Murder
Hettie Macdonald Hit & Miss Sky Atlantic
2014 Otto Bathurst Peaky Blinders BBC One
James Strong Broadchurch "Episode One" ITV
Jane Campion, Garth Davis Top of the Lake BBC Two
Marc Munden Utopia Channel 4
2015 Julian Farino Marvellous BBC Two
Euros Lyn Happy Valley BBC One
Hugo Blick The Honourable Woman BBC Two
Paul Andrew Williams Murdered by My Boyfriend BBC Three
2016 Shane Meadows This Is England '90 Channel 4
Aisling Walsh An Inspector Calls BBC One
Ben Taylor Catastrophe Channel 4
Jakob Verbruggen London Spy BBC Two
2017
[1]		 Marc Munden National Treasure Channel 4
Euros Lyn Damilola, Our Loved Boy BBC One
Susanne Bier The Night Manager
Stephen Daldry The Crown Netflix
2018
[2]		 Philippa Lowthorpe Three Girls BBC One
Jane Campion Top of the Lake: China Girl BBC Two
Mackenzie Crook Detectorists BBC Four
Paul Whittington Little Boy Blue ITV
2019
[3]		 Stephen Frears A Very English Scandal BBC One
Harry Bradbeer Killing Eve "Nice Face" BBC One
Mahalia Belo The Long Song
Thomas Vincent Bodyguard "Episode 1"

2020s

Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster
2020
[4][5]		 Johan Renck Chernobyl Sky Atlantic
Harry Bradbeer Fleabag BBC Three
Toby Haynes Brexit: The Uncivil War Channel 4
Shane Meadows The Virtues
2021
[6]		 Michaela Coel and Sam Miller I May Destroy You BBC One
Lenny Abrahamson Normal People BBC Three
Steve McQueen Small Axe BBC One
Benjamin Caron The Crown "Fairytale" Netflix
2022
[7][8]		 Peter Hoar It's a Sin Channel 4
Lewis Arnold Time BBC One
Marc Munden Help Channel 4
Will Sharpe Landscapers Sky Atlantic
2023
[9][10]		 William Stefan Smith Top Boy Netflix
Dearbhla Walsh Bad Sisters Apple TV+
Hugo Blick The English BBC Two
Lucy Forbes This Is Going to Hurt BBC One

See also

References

  1. ^ "BAFTA TV Craft Award Winners Include 'The Crown', 'The Night Manager', 'National Treasure' — Full List". Deadline. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Nominations Announced for the British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2018". Bafta. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  4. ^ "Bafta TV Awards: Richard Ayoade to host socially-distanced delayed ceremony". bbc. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  5. ^ "'Chernobyl' Leads 2020 BAFTA TV Craft Awards". bbc. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  6. ^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  7. ^ Ritman, Alex (30 March 2022). "BAFTA TV Awards: Russell T. Davies' 'It's a Sin' Dominates Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  8. ^ Ritman, Alex (April 24, 2022). "BAFTA TV Craft Awards: 'Landscapers,' 'We Are Lady Parts' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  9. ^ Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  10. ^ Ravindran, Manori (23 April 2023). "'House of the Dragon,' 'This Is Going to Hurt' Lead Winners at BAFTA TV Craft Awards". Variety. Retrieved 24 April 2023.

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