BAFTA announce TV Award nominations

Mar 27, 2025

Controversial Netflix hit Baby Reindeer and ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which brought about change in governmental legislation, have received multiple nominations at the Bafta TV Awards.

The nominees for the best television shows of the last year were revealed on Thursday (26 March).

Find the full list of BAFTA TV Craft and TV Award nominations here:

Photography and Lighting: Fiction

Benedict Spence BSC – Eric

Christopher Ross BSC – Shōgun

Nick Morris, Sweetpea

Stephen Murphy BSC ISC, Say Nothing episode eight

 

Photography: Factual

Camera Team – Life and Death in Gaza: Storyville

Charlie Hamilton James, Johnny Rolt Bertie Gregory – Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story

Marcel Mettelsiefen – State of Rage

Miles Blayden-Ryall, Vianet Djenguet, Sam Dawe – Silverback

 

Limited Drama

Baby Reindeer

Lost Boys and Fairies

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

One Day

Drama Series

Blue Lights

Sherwood

Supacell

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

 

Leading Actor

David Tennant – Rivals

Gary Oldman – Slow Horses

Lennie James – Mr Loverman

Martin Freeman – The Responder

Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer

Toby Jones – Mr Bates vs The Post Office

 

Leading Actress

Anna Maxwell Martin – Until I Kill You

Billie Piper – Scoop

Lola Petticrew – Say Nothing

Marisa Abela – Industry

Monica Dolan – Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Sharon D Clarke – Mr Loverman

 

Female Performance in a Comedy

Anjana Vasan –We Are Lady Parts

Kate O’Flynn – Everyone Else Burns

Lolly Adefope – The Franchise

Nicola Coughlan – Big Mood

Ruth Jones – Gavin & Stacey: The Finale

Sophie Willan – Alma’s Not Normal

 

Male Performance in a Comedy

Bilal Hasna – Extraordinary

Danny Dyer – Mr Bigstuff

Dylan Thomas-Smith – G’Wed

Nabhaan Rizwan – Kaos

Oliver Savell – Changing Ends

Phil Dunning – Smoggie Queens

 

Scripted Comedy

Alma’s Not Normal

Brassic

G’wed

Ludwig

 

Supporting Actor

Ariyon Bakare – Mr Loverman

Christopher Chung – Slow Horses

Damian Lewis – Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Jonathan Pryce – Slow Horses

McKinley Belcher III – Eric

Sonny Walker – The Gathering

 

Supporting Actress

Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer

Katherine Parkinson – Rivals

Maxine Peake – Say Nothing

Monica Dolan – Sherwood

Nava Mau – Baby Reindeer

Sue Johnston – Truelove

 

Children’s: Non-Scripted

Boosnoo!

Disability and Me: FYI Investigates

Operation Ouch!

Reu & Harper’s Wonder World

 

Children’s: Scripted

CBeebies’ As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe

Horrible Histories

Ready Eddie Go!

Tweedy & Fluff

 

Current Affairs

Life and Death in Gaza: Storyville

Maternity: Broken Trust State of Rage

Ukraine’s War: The Other Side

 

Daytime

Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure

Loose Women

Morning Live

Richard Osman’s House of Games

 

Entertainment

The 1% Club

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

Taskmaster

Would I Lie to You?

 

Entertainment Performance

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

Claudia Winkleman – The Traitors

Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show

Joe Lycett – Late Night Lycett

Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett – Rob & Romesh Vs

Stacey Solomon – Sort Your Life Out

 

Factual Entertainment

In Vogue: The 90s

Race Across the World

Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour

Sort Your Life Out

 

Factual Series

American Nightmare

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour

The Push: Murder on the Cliff

To Catch a Copper

 

International

After the Party

Colin From Accounts

Say Nothing

Shōgun

True Detective: Night Country

You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolfpack

 

Live Event Coverage

D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen

Glastonbury 2024

Last Night of the Proms

 

News Coverage

BBC Breakfast: Post Office Special

Channel 4 News: Inside Sednaya – The Fall of Assad

Channel 4 News: Undercover Inside Reform’s Campaign

 

Reality

Dragons’ Den

The Jury: Murder Trial

Love Is Blind UK

The Traitors

 

Short Form

Brown Brit

Peaked

Quiet Life

Spud

 

Single Documentary

Hell Jumper

Tell Them You Love Me

Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods

Undercover: Exposing the Far Right

 

Soap

Casualty

Coronation Street

EastEnders

 

Specialist Factual

Atomic People

Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story

Children of the Cult

Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain

 

Sports Coverage

Euro 2024 Production Team

Paris 2024 Olympics Production Team

Wimbledon 2024 Production Team

 

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award (voted for by the public)

Bridgerton – the carriage scene where Colin admits his true feelings for Penelope

Gavin & Stacey: The Finale  Smithy’s wedding: Mick stands up

Mr Bates vs the Post Office – Jo Hamilton phones the Horizon helpline

Rivals – Rupert Campbell-Black and Sarah Stratton are caught in a game of naked tennis

Strictly Come Dancing – Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell waltz to “You’ll Never Walk Alone”

The Traitors – “Paul isn’t my son… but Ross is!”

 

CRAFT AWARDS

Writer: Comedy

Brett Goldstein – Shrinking

Nida Manzoor – We Are Lady Parts

Phil Dunning – Smoggie Queens

Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton – Inside No9

 

Writer: Drama

Gwyneth Hughes – Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Mickey Down, Konrad Kay – Industry

Nicole Taylor – One Day

Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer

 

Children’s Craft Team

Hey Duggee

Horrible Histories

BooSnoo!

The Velveteen Rabbit

 

Costume Design

Annie Symons and Jason Airey – Mary & George

Ian Fulcher – Black Doves

Jan Kocman – The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Suzanne Cave – Eric

 

Director: Factual

Charlie Hamilton James – Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story

Colette Camden – Lucan

Natasha Cox – Life and Death in Gaza: Storyville

Tom Green and Tommy Forbes – Me and the Voice in My Head

 

Director: Fiction sponsored by 3 Mills Studios

Molly Manners – One Day

Nida Manzoor – We Are Lady Parts

Peter Kosminsky – Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Weronika Tofilska – Baby Reindeer

 

Director: Multi-Camera

Chris Cook – BBC General Election 2024

Directing Team – D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen

Janet Fraser Crook – Glastonbury 2024

Nikki Parsons – Strictly Come Dancing

 

Editing: Factual

Kate Spankie – Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods

Otto Burnham – Apollo 13: Survival

Sarah Keeling – Life and Death in Gaza: Storyville

Sean Mackenzie and Chris Nicholls – Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain

 

Editing: Fiction

Luke Dunkley – The Day of the Jackal

Mike Jones – Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Peter Oliver and Benjamin Gerstein – Baby Reindeer

Robert Frost – Slow Horses episode one

 

Emerging Talent: Factual

Anna Johnston (director) – Parole

Jaber Badwan (director of photography) – Kill Zone: Inside Gaza

Lucy Wells (shooting director) – 24 Hours in Police Custody: Murder on Prescription

 

Emerging Talent: Fiction sponsored by Sara Putt Associates

Kyla Harris and Lee Getty (writers) – We Might Regret This

Lucia Keskin (writer) – Things You Should Have Done

Mitch Kalisa (director) – Letting Go: On the Edge

Phil Dunning writer) – Smoggie Queens

 

Entertainment Craft Team sponsored by Hotcam

Taskmaster

The Traitors

Strictly Come Dancing

Miracles

 

Make Up & Hair Design

Erika Ökvist – Bridgerton

Jill Sweeney, Abi Brotherton, Natalie Allan, Tiffany Pierre, Franziska Roesslhuber, Martine Watkins – Rivals

Nic Collins – Joan

Paul Gooch, Adam James Phillips, Julia Vernon, Debbi Salmon – Mary & George

 

Original Music: Factual

Jessica Jones – American Nightmare

Nitin Sawhney – Tiger

Noor Khaleghi – Rage Against the Regime: Iran

Tandis Jenhudson – Israel & Gaza: Into the Abyss: Exposure

 

Original Music: Fiction

Carly Paradis – Until I Kill You

Daniel Pemberton and Toy Drum – Slow Horses

Natalie Holt and Jack Halama – Rivals

Tim Phillips and PJ Harvey – Bad Sisters

 

Production Design sponsored by BENlabs

Ashleigh Jeffers – Breathtaking

Chris Seagers – Masters of the Air

Dominic Hyman – Rivals

Richard Bullock – The Day of the Jackal

 

Scripted Casting

Isabella Odoffin – Supacell

Jill Trevellick – Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Lauren Evans – Lost Boys and Fairies

Kelly Valentine Hendry – Rivals

 

Sound: Factual

Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough

Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Apollo 13: Survival

Earthsounds

 

Sound: Fiction

House of the Dragon

Slow Horses

True Detective: Night Country

Baby Reindeer

 

Special, Visual and Graphic Effects

House of the Dragon

Silo

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Masters of the Air

 

Titles and Graphic Identity

Paris 2024 Olympics

A Gentleman in Moscow

Ludwig

Sweetpea

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