British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction

British Academy Television Craft Award
British Academy Television Craft Award
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	2008
Currently held by	William Stefan Smith for Top Boy (2023)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.

In 2006 and 2007 there was only on category for directors but in 2008 the category was split in three separate categories to recognize directing for different programming, first creating Best Director: Factual and Best Director: Fiction and then in 2011 Best Director: Multi-Camera.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Best Director

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Broadcaster
2006	Brian Percival	Much Ado About Nothing	BBC One
	Simon Cellan Jones	The Queen's Sister	Channel 4
	Joe Ahearne	Doctor Who	BBC One
	Justin Chadwick	Bleak House	BBC One
2007	Edmund Coulthard	Soundproof	BBC Two
	Tom Hooper	Longford	Channel 4
	Adrian Shergold	Low Winter Sun	Channel 4
	Bharat Nalluri	Life on Mars	BBC One

Best Director: Fiction

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Broadcaster
2008	John Crowley	Boy A	Channel 4
	Otto Bathurst	Five Days	BBC One
	Marc Munden	The Mark of Cain	Channel 4
	Adrian Shergold	Persuasion	ITV
2009	Rowan Joffé	The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall	Channel 4
	Otto Bathurst	Criminal Justice	BBC One
	Alex Holmes	House of Saddam	BBC Two
	Niall MacCormick	Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley	BBC Four

2010s

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Episode	Broadcaster
2010	Philip Martin	Mo		Channel 4
	Yann Demange	Criminal Justice		BBC One
	Aisling Walsh	Wallander	"The Fifth Woman"	BBC One
	James Hawes	Enid		BBC Four
2011	Brian Percival	Downton Abbey		ITV1
	Paul McGuigan	Sherlock	"A Study in Pink"	BBC One
	Shane Meadows	This Is England '86		Channel 4
	Charles Sturridge	The Road to Coronation Street		BBC Four
2012	Hugo Blick	The Shadow Line		BBC Two
	Julian Jarrold	Appropriate Adult		ITV
	John Alexander	Exile		BBC One
	Yann Demange	Top Boy		Channel 4
2013	Philippa Lowthorpe	Call the Midwife		BBC One
	Julian Jarrold	The Girl		BBC Two
	Birger Larsen	Murder		BBC Two
	Hettie Macdonald	Hit & Miss		Sky Atlantic
2014	Otto Bathurst	Peaky Blinders		BBC One
	James Strong	Broadchurch	"Episode One"	ITV
	Jane Campion, Garth Davis	Top of the Lake		BBC Two
	Marc Munden	Utopia		Channel 4
2015	Julian Farino	Marvellous		BBC Two
	Euros Lyn	Happy Valley		BBC One
	Hugo Blick	The Honourable Woman		BBC Two
	Paul Andrew Williams	Murdered by My Boyfriend		BBC Three
2016	Shane Meadows	This Is England '90		Channel 4
	Aisling Walsh	An Inspector Calls		BBC One
	Ben Taylor	Catastrophe		Channel 4
	Jakob Verbruggen	London Spy		BBC Two
2017 ^[1]	Marc Munden	National Treasure		Channel 4
	Euros Lyn	Damilola, Our Loved Boy		BBC One
	Susanne Bier	The Night Manager		BBC One
	Stephen Daldry	The Crown		Netflix
2018 ^[2]	Philippa Lowthorpe	Three Girls		BBC One
	Jane Campion	Top of the Lake: China Girl		BBC Two
	Mackenzie Crook	Detectorists		BBC Four
	Paul Whittington	Little Boy Blue		ITV
2019 ^[3]	Stephen Frears	A Very English Scandal		BBC One
	Harry Bradbeer	Killing Eve	"Nice Face"	BBC One
	Mahalia Belo	The Long Song
	Thomas Vincent	Bodyguard	"Episode 1"

2020s

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Episode	Broadcaster
2020 ^[4]^[5]	Johan Renck	Chernobyl		Sky Atlantic
	Harry Bradbeer	Fleabag		BBC Three
	Toby Haynes	Brexit: The Uncivil War		Channel 4
	Shane Meadows	The Virtues		Channel 4
2021 ^[6]	Michaela Coel and Sam Miller	I May Destroy You		BBC One
	Lenny Abrahamson	Normal People		BBC Three
	Steve McQueen	Small Axe		BBC One
	Benjamin Caron	The Crown	"Fairytale"	Netflix
2022 ^[7]^[8]	Peter Hoar	It's a Sin		Channel 4
	Lewis Arnold	Time		BBC One
	Marc Munden	Help		Channel 4
	Will Sharpe	Landscapers		Sky Atlantic
2023 ^[9]^[10]	William Stefan Smith	Top Boy		Netflix
	Dearbhla Walsh	Bad Sisters		Apple TV+
	Hugo Blick	The English		BBC Two
	Lucy Forbes	This Is Going to Hurt		BBC One
2024 ^[11]	Joseph Bullman	Partygate		Channel 4
	Lewis Arnold	The Long Shadow	"Episode 6"	ITV
	Peter Hoar	The Last of Us		HBO / Sky Atlantic
	William Stefan Smith	Top Boy	"If We Are Not Monsters"	Netflix

References

^ "BAFTA TV Craft Award Winners Include 'The Crown', 'The Night Manager', 'National Treasure' — Full List". Deadline. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "Nominations Announced for the British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2018". Bafta. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
^ "Bafta TV Awards: Richard Ayoade to host socially-distanced delayed ceremony". bbc. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "'Chernobyl' Leads 2020 BAFTA TV Craft Awards". bbc. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
^ Ritman, Alex (30 March 2022). "BAFTA TV Awards: Russell T. Davies' 'It's a Sin' Dominates Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ Ritman, Alex (April 24, 2022). "BAFTA TV Craft Awards: 'Landscapers,' 'We Are Lady Parts' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
^ Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
^ Ravindran, Manori (23 April 2023). "'House of the Dragon,' 'This Is Going to Hurt' Lead Winners at BAFTA TV Craft Awards". Variety. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
^ Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

External links

Official website

[1] "BAFTA TV Craft Award Winners Include 'The Crown', 'The Night Manager', 'National Treasure' — Full List". Deadline. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[2] "Nominations Announced for the British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2018". Bafta. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[3] "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-21.

[4] "Bafta TV Awards: Richard Ayoade to host socially-distanced delayed ceremony". bbc. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[5] "'Chernobyl' Leads 2020 BAFTA TV Craft Awards". bbc. Retrieved 21 March 2021.

[6] "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

[7] Ritman, Alex (30 March 2022). "BAFTA TV Awards: Russell T. Davies' 'It's a Sin' Dominates Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

[8] Ritman, Alex (April 24, 2022). "BAFTA TV Craft Awards: 'Landscapers,' 'We Are Lady Parts' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 26, 2022.

[9] Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

[10] Ravindran, Manori (23 April 2023). "'House of the Dragon,' 'This Is Going to Hurt' Lead Winners at BAFTA TV Craft Awards". Variety. Retrieved 24 April 2023.

[11] Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

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