Black Mirror, Eurovision Song Contest 2023, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, Silo and Slow Horses each won two prizes at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali won the Writer Drama category while Stephan Pehrsson won for Photography & Lighting Fiction for Black Mirror episode Demon 79.
Nikki Parsons, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Valentine won the Director: Multi-camera category, and Julio Himede, Tim Routledge, Kojo Samuel, Michael Sharp and Dan Shipton won Entertainment Craft Team for Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
The Editing Team behind Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland won Editing: Factual and the documentary’s composer Simon Russell won Original Music: Factual.
Tim Crosbie, Caimin Bourne, Jet Omoshebi, Dan Weir, Cinesite and David Stephens won Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for The Witcher.
Atli Örvarsson won Original Music: Fiction and Gavin Bocquet and Amanda Bernstein won Production Design for their work on Silo.
The Sound Team behind Slow Horses won Sound: Fiction, and Sam Williams collected a BAFTA for Editing: Fiction, for their work on episode one of the show.
Whilst Sound: Factual award went to the team behindThe Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla.
Meanwhile, Director: Factual was won by Peter Beard and Bruce Fletcher for Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story. Peter Hoar won Director: Fiction for The Last of Us.
Shining a spotlight on best emerging talent in the industry, the Emerging Talent: Fiction category was won by writer Kat Sadler for Such Brave Girls, while the Emerging Talent: Factual saw director Fred Scott win for London Bridge: Facing Terror.
First-time BAFTA winners included Benedict Sanderson, winner of Photography: Factual for The Detectives: Taking down an OCG.
Tamsin McGee, Ben Hanbury, Hugo Moss and Paul McDonnell won for Wilderness in the Titles and Graphic Identity category.
The Television Craft Special Award was presented to MAMA Youth Project in recognition of their work helping young people from underrepresented groups to access careers in the television and media industries. Founder and CEO Bob Clarke accepted the Award.
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards were hosted by TV presenter Stacey Dooley, and took place at The Brewery London.
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