2018 British Academy Television Craft Awards

The 19th Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and was held on 22 April 2018.^[1] For the sixth consecutive year, Stephen Mangan was the ceremony's host. The awards were held at The Brewery, City of London, and given in recognition of technical achievements in British television of 2017. The Crown lead the nominations with seven followed by Taboo with six.

19th British Academy Television Craft Awards
Date	2 April 2018
Site	The Brewery, London
Hosted by	Stephen Mangan
Highlights
Best Direction	Philippa Lowthorpe (Fiction) Charlie Russell (Factual) Three Girls (Fiction) Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me (Factual)
Most awards	This Country / Three Girls (2)
Most nominations	The Crown (7)
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Winners and nominees

Winners will be listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Special Award

• Game of Thrones

Best Breakthrough Talent	Best Director: Multi-Camera
Daisy May Cooper (writer), Charlie Cooper (writer) – This Country Bernard MacMahon (director), Allison McGourty (Writer, Producer and Music Supervisor) – American Epic: The Sessions Tom Pursey (director and producer) – Fighting Cancer: My Online Diary Charlotte Wolf (writer) – Inspector George Gently	Julia Knowles – World War One Remembered: Passchendaele James Morgan – Wild Alaska Live Nikki Parsons – Strictly Come Dancing Chris Power – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Best Director: Fiction	Best Director: Factual
Philippa Lowthorpe – Three Girls Jane Campion – Top of the Lake: China Girl Mackenzie Crook – Detectorists Paul Wittington – Little Boy Blue	Charlie Russell – Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me Anna Hall – Catching a Killer: The Search for Natalie Hemming Will Yapp – The Real Full Monty Xavier Alford – Drugsland: Heroin Love Story
Best Writer: Drama	Best Writer: Comedy
Nicole Taylor – Three Girls Charlie Brooker – Hang the DJ (Black Mirror) Steven Knight – Peaky Blinders Peter Morgan – The Crown	Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton – Inside No. 9 Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper – This Country Paul Coleman, Peter Kay and Sian Gibson – Peter Kay's Car Share Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Best Editing: Fiction	Best Editing: Factual
Three Girls - Úna Ní Dhonghaíle Line of Duty (Episode 4) - Andrew John McClelland Peaky Blinders (Episode 5) - Dan Roberts The Crown (Paterfamilias) - Pia di Ciaula	Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me - Will Grayburn Blue Planet II (for "One Ocean) - Matt Meech Blue Planet II (for "The Deep") - Nigel Buck David Bowie: The Last Five Years - Ged Murphy Louis Theroux: Dark States (for "Heroin Town") - Anna Price
Best Costume Design	Best Make Up & Hair Design
Game of Thrones - Michele Clapton Peaky Blinders - Alison McCosh The Crown - Jane Petrie Taboo - Joanna Eatwell	Taboo - Jan Archivald, Erika Ökvist, Audrey Doyle The Miniaturist - Chrissie Baker Gunpowder - Jacqueline Fowler Peaky Blinders - Loz Schiavo
Best Production Design	Best Original Music
Game of Thrones - Deborah Riley, Rob Cameron USS Callister (Black Mirror) - Joel Collins, Phil Sims The Crown - Martin Childs, Alison Harvey The State - Pat Campbell	King Charles III - Jocelyn Pook Born to be Free: Saving Russia’s Whales - Katya Mihailova Taboo - Max Richter Howards End - Nico Muhly
Best Photography: Fiction	Best Photography: Factual
The Crown (Beryl) - Adriano Goldman Against the Law - Johann Perry Taboo - Mark Patten USS Callister (Black Mirror) - Stephan Pehrsson	Blue Planet II (for "One Ocean") - Camera Team The Detectives: Murder on the Streets - Daniel Vernon, Daniel Dewsbury Last Men in Aleppo - Fadi Al-Halabi, Hassan Kattan, Thaer Mohammed The Fight for Mosul (Dispatches) - Olivier Sarbil
Best Titles & Graphic Identity	Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects
SS-GB - William Barlett Blue Planet II - BDH Creative Have I Got News for You - Liquid TV Top of the Lake: China Girl - Morgan Beringer	Metalhead (Black Mirror) - Jean-Clement Soret, Russell McLean, Joel Collins Taboo - Adam Glasman, Rob Pizzey The Crown - Asa Shoul, Christopher Reynolds Emerald City - Thomas Horton
Best Sound: Fiction	Best Sound: Factual
The Crown - Sound Team Peaky Blinders (Episode 6) - Forbes Noonan, Ben Norrington, Jim Goddard, Grant Bridgeman Sherlock - Sound Team Taboo - Sound Team	Blue Planet II (for "Coral Reefs") - Graham Wild, Tim Owens, Kate Hopkins David Bowie: The Last Five Years - Karl Mainzer, Rowan Jennings, Adam Scourfield, Sean O'Neil Mountain: Life at the Extreme (Himalaya) - Graham Wild, George Fry, James Burchill The Grand Tour - Russell Edwards, Trisan Powell, Robert Entwistle, Marc Wojtanowski World War One Remembered: Passchendaele - Andy Deacon, Kevin Duff, Andy James, Mark McLoughlin
Best Entertainment Craft Team
World War One Remembered: Passchendaele - Nigel Catmur, David Cole, Kate Dawkins, Kevin Duff One Love Manchester - Richard Valentine, Toby Alington, Simon Sanders Strictly Come Dancing - Jason Gilkison, Mark Kenyon, Patrick Doherty, David Newton The Voice UK - Dave Davey, David Tench, Dominic Tolfts, Kevin Duff

Programmes with multiple nominations

Programmes that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Programme
7	The Crown
6	Taboo
5	Blue Planet II
	Peaky Blinders
4	Black Mirror
3	Three Girls
	World War One Remembered: Passchendaele
2	Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me
	David Bowie: The Last Five Years
	Game of Thrones
	Strictly Come Dancing
	This Country
	Top of the Lake : China Girl

Most major wins

Shows that received multiple awards

Wins	Show
2	Game of Thrones
	Three Girls
2	Blue Planet II
	Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me
	The Crown
	World War One Remembered: Passchendaele

Wins by Network

Wins	Network
9	BBC One
4	BBC Two
3	HBO
	Netflix
	Sky Atlantic

See also

• 2018 British Academy Television Awards