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In Pictures: The BAFTA TV Craft Awards with Samsung OLED 2026

Posted: 28 Apr 2026

The BAFTA TV Craft Awards is our yearly celebration of the exceptional  behind-the-scenes television talent who use their creativity, skill and craft to bring stories to life on screen.

Relive the excitement of the night, including double wins for Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors, with the photos below and take a look at the full list of winners and nominees.

You can also catch up on more from the night on our YouTube channel.

Award wins...

A black woman with hair in braids holding up a BAFTA. She is wearing a long white silk gown with gold mesh underlay, a patterned blue jacket with black fringed sleeves, and a large gold collar necklace and statement gold flower earrings.
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Simone Pennant MBE received the BAFTA TV Craft Special award.
Mawaan Rizwan and Philippa Mumford. An Asian man with short dark hair wearing a white t-shirt and dark jacket with his arm around a white woman with shoulder length red hair wearing glasses and a green velvety dress.
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Philippa Mumford accepting the Production Design Award for 'Juice' with Mawaan Rizwan.
A black woman with short cropped black hair holding a BAFTA. She is wearing a green long-sleeved velvety dress.
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Olaide Sadiq with the Emerging Talent: Factual Award for 'Grenfell: Uncovered'.
A white man with dark blond hair parted at one side. He is wearing black rimmed glasses, a tuxedo and black bow tie and is stood on a stage holding a BAFTA mask and giving a speech.
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Will Smith accepting the Writer: Drama Award for 'Slow Horses'.
A man with thick curly hair wearing a white shirt with red pattern on teh sleeves and holding a BAFTA award. On his left is a woman with shoulder-length blonde hair wearing an all black outfit and on his right is a woman with red hair tied back and wearing a sleeveless black dress.
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Jack Rooke with his BAFTA for Writer: Comedy Award for 'Big Boys', posing with citation readers Victoria Smurfit and and Katherine Parkinson.
A black woman on stage collecting a BAFTA. She has long black hair and is wearing a long black v-neck dress and thick rimmed black glasses.
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Janice Okoh accepting the Emerging Talent: Fiction Award for 'Just Act Normal'.
A white man with light blond hair and large black rimmed glasses wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie and holding a BAFTA.
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Rob Coldstream with the Director: Factual Award for 'Vietnam: The War That Changed America'.
A white man with a semi-bald head and a beard wearing a black suit and tie. He is stood at a lectern, holding up a BAFTA and reading a note from a mobile phone.
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Jack Thorne accepts the Director: Fiction Award on behalf of Philip Barantini for 'Adolescence'.
A white man with ginger hair and beard wearing a black velvety blazer and black bow tie and holding a BAFTA.
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Laurence Cawsey with the Director: Multi-Camera Award for 'Super Sunday - Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur'.
A row of six men, all in tuxedos and holding BAFTA masks.
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The 'Adolescence' team with the Sound: Fiction Award - the show won two awards on the night.
A woman with shoulder length strawberry blonde hair wearing a bright pink long-sleeved dress and holding a BAFTA mask.
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Maja Meschede with the Costume Design Award for 'A Thousand Blows'.
Three men and a red-headed woman all in black coloured evening wear and holding BAFTAs.
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'The Celebrity Traitors' crew with the Sound: Factual Award.
A white man in a white blazer and black bow tie leaning down towards a camera holding up a BAFTA. There are two men in black suits behind him.
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Director Ben Archard and team with the Entertainment Craft Team Award for 'The Celebrity Traitors'.
A white woman with shoulder length blonde hair wearing a long-sleeved black dress stood talking at a lectern.
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Úna Ní Dhonghaíle accepts the Editing: Fiction Award for 'Prisoner 951'.
Four men and a woman, in a long green dress, in formal wear posing in a marble floored reception area with BAFTA awards in their hands.
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Lucy Izzard (second left) and crew with the Children's Craft Team Award for 'The Very Small Creatures' .
A woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing an off the shoulder black dress and a man with a grey and white goatee wearing a tuxedo and blow tie. Both are holding BAFTA awards.
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Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp with the Editing: Factual Award for 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack'.
A man with a well trimmed dark beard wearing all black and a hat, a woman with blonde hair and a thick fringe wearing a blue puff sleeved dress and a bald man with glasses wearing a white shirt and bow tie.
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Attila Vég, Vickie Lang and Nik Williams, with the Make-Up & Hair Award for 'Amadeus'.
A woman with dark hair in a sleeveless maroon dress holding a BAFTA, next to her is a man with dark hair wearing a black suit and holding up a BAFTA mask.
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Julie Harkin and Nathan Toth with Scripted Casting Award for 'Reunion'.
A group of six people all in black evening gear and holding BAFTA masks.
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Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes, Nicos Livesey, Rebecca Little, Bart Yates and guest with the Titles & Graphic Identity Award for 'UEFA Women's Euro 2025'.
A woman with long curly dark hair wearing a strapless black dress and standing at a lectern, with a BAFTA mask on it, giving a speech.
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Jessica Dannheisser accepts the Original Music: Factual Award for 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz'.
A bald man with a white beard wearing a tuxedo and bow tie and holding a BAFTA mask.
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Ryan Kernaghan with the Photography & Lighting: Fiction Award for 'Trespasses'.
Five men all in tuxedos holding BAFTA masks.
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From second left TJ Falls, Mohen Leo, Neal Scanlan and Jean-Clement Sorel with the Special, Visual & Graphic Effects Award for 'Andor'.
A white man with dark hair wearing a sparkly blazer punching a fist in the air while holding a BAFTA mask in the other.
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Jordan Bryon with the Photography: Factual Award for 'Our Land: Israel's Other War'.
  • The award for Original Music: Fiction went to Tom Rowlands, who was unable to attend the ceremony, for ‘Mussolini: Son of the Century’.

Red carpet & afterparty

A black man with light stubble wearing thick black sunglasses and denim blazer.
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'Ghosts' star Kiell Smith-Bynoe arrives ahead of his citation reading duties.
A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair wearing a long dark red silky dress.
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'Bad Sisters' and 'Shameless' actress Anne-Marie Duff presented an award at this year's BAFTA TV Craft Awards.
A white man with dark hair and a white beard wearing a white blazer and black bow tie.
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'Sewing Bee' judge Patrick Grant
A white woman with dark hair tied back stands in front of a giant BAFTA mask wearing a black trouser suit.
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'Call the Midwife' actress Jessica Raine was a guest at the event.
A black man with short cropped black hair and stubble wearing tinted glasses and a mid-brown shirt.
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Actor Hammed Animashaun, who is currently starring in SNL UK, was one of the night's citation readers.
Two white women, one with shoulder-length blonde hair wearing a black dress and blazer and one with red hair ties back wearing a blue floaty skirt dress.
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Victoria Smurfit and Katherine Parkinson presented an award together.
A white man with ginger hair wearing a red velvety suit stood next to a white woman with brown hair wearing a green sleeveless dress.
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Guests Owain Wyn Evans and Elizabeth Rizzini.
Four white women. From left to right; one has mid length blonde wavy hair and is wearing a gold dress, one has a blonde pixie cut and is wearing a black and white blazer dress with statement collar, a blonde woman in a pale pink strapless dress and a red-headed woman wearing an off the shoulder black velvet dress.
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Harriet Kemsley, the night's host Maisie Adam, Lou Sanders and Amy Gledhill enjoying the afterparty.

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