Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors led the winners for this year’s Bafta Television Craft Awards, taking home two prizes each.
For Adolescence, 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 prize.
For The Celebrity Traitors, 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.
Meanwhile, the Director: Multicamera prize was won by Laurence Cawsey for Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur.
Shining a spotlight on emerging talent, Writer Janice Okoh won Emerging Talent: Fiction for Just Act Normal, and Director Olaide Sadiq won Emerging Talent: Factual for Grenfell: Uncovered.
Jack Rooke collected the Bafta for Writer: Comedy for Big Boys.
First-time Bafta winners included: Will Smith, who won the Writer: Drama award for Slow Horses; Maja Meschede, winner of Costume Design for A Thousand Blows; Ryan Kernaghan for his work on Trespasses in the Photography and Lighting: Fiction category; Philippa Mumford won the Production Design award for Juice; Rob Coldstream was recognised in the Director: Factual category for Vietnam: The War That Changed America; Jessica Dannheisser’s work in The Last Musician of Auschwitz won her the Original Music: Factual award; and Tom Rowlands won the Original Music: Fiction award for his work in Mussolini: Son of the Century.
The 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 and Hair Design went to Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrie Gower, and Attila Veg for Amadeus. The Scripted Casting award was won by Nathan Toth and Julie Harkin for Reunion.
Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp won Editing: Factual for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. Meanwhile, Photography: Factual was won by Jordan Bryon for Our Land: Israel’s Other War.
Additionally, 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 and Graphic Effects for Andor.
Finally, the Bafta Television Craft Special Award was presented to the Founder of The TV Collective, Simone Pennant.
The Bafta Television Craft Awards with Samsung OLED was hosted by Maisie Adam and took place at The Brewery in London.
At the RTS Programme Awards 2026, Netflix’s Adolescence won four awards – Limited Series, Single Drama, and Writer of Drama. Owen Cooper also won both the Breakthrough Award and Supporting Actor – Male categories. Discover more here.
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