BAFTA has announced the winners of the 2025 BAFTA Television Craft Awards at a ceremony in London. Celebrating the exceptional creativity, skill and craft of behind-the-scenes television talent and the best programmes of 2024.
Christopher Ross BSC won the BAFTA for Photography & Lighting: Fiction for Shōgun, with the other category nominees including Benedict Spence BSC for Eric, Stephen Murphy BSC ISC for Say Nothing, and Nick Morris for Sweetpea.
The following programmes won two BAFTAs each:
- Richard Gadd won the Writer Drama category and Weronika Tofilska won for Director: Fiction for Baby Reindeer
- Jill Sweeney, Abi Brotherton, Natalie Allan, Tifanny Pierre, Franziska Roesslhuber and Martine Watkins won the Make-up and Hair category, and Dominic Hyman won for Production Design for Rivals.
- Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Alex Ellerington, Duncan Price and Abbie Shaw won in Sound: Fiction for Slow Horses and Robert Frost collected the award for Editing: Fiction, for their work on episode 1 of the show.
Shining a spotlight on the emerging talent in the industry writer Lucia Keskin won Emerging Talent: Fiction for Things You Should Have Done and director of photography Jaber Badwan won Emerging Talent: Factual for Kill Zone: Inside Gaza
Director: Factual was won by Charlie Hamilton James for Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story.
Janet Fraser Crook collected the Director: Multi-Camera BAFTA for Glastonbury 2024.
Previous winners, in 2018, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton collected the BAFTA for Writer: Comedy for Inside No. 9.
Following her win in 2019 Suzanne Cave won Costume Design for Eric; new category Children’s Craft Team was won by Tom Bidwell, Jennifer Perrott, Rick Thiele, Sarah Brewerton, Anna Rackard and James Mather for The Velveteen Rabbit. Entertainment Craft Team went to Andy Devonshire, Rebecca Bowker, James Dillon and Dru Masters for Taskmaster. Scripted Casting was won by Isabella Odoffin for Supacell.
First-time BAFTA winners included, Noor Khaleghi, Original Music: Factual for Rage Against the Regime: Iran, Sarah Keeling, winner of Editing: Factual for Life and Death in Gaza (Storyville) and Tim Phillips and PJ Harvey for Bad Sisters in Original Music: Fiction
Previous BAFTA winner Marcel Mettelsiefen won Photography: Factual for State of Rage; Photography & Lighting: Fiction was won by Christopher Ross for Shōgun.
Brian Moseley, Angela Groves, Paul Fisher, Chris Watson and Ioannis Spanos won Sound: Factual for Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough
Peter Anderson Studio won for Sweetpea in the Titles and Graphic Identity category.
Jason Smith, Richard Bain, Ryan Conder and Chris Rodgers collected the award for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Anita Dobson presented the Television Craft Special Award to EastEnders. Kate Oates, head of genre, and Ben Wadey, executive producer, were presented with the award. In the year that EastEnders celebrated 40 years on screen, the award honoured the show’s long-term commitment to nurturing new talent through their production process, which has enabled the development of many of the UK and international film and television industry’s top behind-the-camera talents.
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards was hosted by Stacey Dooley, and took place at The Brewery London. The night featured a host of top TV talent as guest presenters including; Angela Rippon, Benedict Wong, David Proud, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Harriet Kemsley, India Ria Amarteifio, Lindsey Russell, Malachi Kirby, Nisha Katona, Sian Gibson and Siena Kelly.
