Wallander leads the way, with four BAFTA wins
It’s a double victory for Doctor Who and The Fallen
Aardman Animations receives the Special Award
Today, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the winners of this year’s British Academy Television Craft Awards, held at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane. Stephen Fry, Marc Warren, Jodie Whittaker, Jaime Winstone, Claire Foy, Max Beasley and Philip Glennister were just some of the stars who turned out to celebrate the heroes behind the camera at this year’s glittering ceremony, now celebrating its tenth anniversary as a stand-alone ceremony. The evening was hosted by Alexander Armstrong.
Following its recent success in the Drama Series category at the Television Awards, the big winner of the evening was Kenneth Branagh’s Wallander which was victorious in four categories; _Original Television Music, Photography and Lighting: Fiction/Entertainment, Production Design_ and _Sound Fiction/Entertainment. Slumdog Millionaire_ Oscar winner Anthony Dod Mantle wins for Wallander in the _Cinematography_ category.
Doctor Who won two BAFTAs for _Editing: Fiction/Entertainment_ and _Visual Effects_ while the other double winner was The Fallen; this single documentary which personally chronicled the 300 British troops who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years, brought victory to Morgan Matthews in the _Director Factual_ category and also triumphed in _Editing Factual._
The _Break-Through Talent_ category this year went to Daniel Vernon, the producer and director of the _Wonderland_ single documentary The Man Who Eats Badgers (And Other Strange Tales From Bodmin Moor); a recent graduate of the National Film & Television School, this surprising, funny and moving first full-length documentary, hailed the arrival of an exceptional new documentary talent.
This year’s _Special Award_ honoured Aardman Animations Ltd, the multi-award-winning animation studio behind such successes as _Creature Comforts, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, Chicken Run, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit_ and _A Matter of Loaf and Death._
The _Writer_ category was claimed by Peter Moffat for Criminal Justice which won the _Drama Serial_ BAFTA at the Television Awards last month, while Rowan Joffe claimed the BAFTA for _Director Fiction/Entertainment_ for The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall. _Costume Design_ went to Michele Clapton for The Devil’s Whore while _Make-up & Hair Design_ went to Christine Walmesley-Cotham for Miss Austen Regrets. In the factual categories, A History of Scotland won in the _Photography Factual_ category while Ross Kemp In Afghanistan received the coveted BAFTA for _Sound Factual._ The _Titles_ category went to BBC Sport for Olympics 2008.
Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set was victorious in the _Interactive Creative Contribution_ category for its viral horror set in the Big Brother house which drove 1.6m viewers to the show’s first airing, while Mi Vida Loca: Real Spanish, Real Drama triumphed in _Interactive Innovation – Service Platform;_ this BBC Languages’ Spanish language resource offered a very creative means of learning Spanish by following and participating in its online interactive mystery series.
Backstage interviews with all the winners, clips of the nominated programmes and all the latest images from the night’s events will be online at bafta.org/awards/television-craft
TV Craft Awards – Winners List (162.7 KB) – pdf
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For further information on this year’s event please contact:
Deborah Goodman @ DGPR
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