Netflix drama Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors were the biggest winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2026, which were handed out in London on Sunday, with each show receiving two honors.
Among the key winners, the craft award for best drama writer went to Will Smith for Slow Horses, while Philip Barantini won the best director in fiction honor for his work on Adolescence.
Other honors went to Andor, Amadeus, Reunion, Trespasses, The Celebrity Traitors, The Last Musician of Auschwitz and Mussolini: Son of the Century.
The BAFTA TV Craft Awards ceremony, celebrating the best behind-the-scenes TV talent of 2024, was hosted by comedian Maisie Adam and held at The Brewery in the British capital, an 18th-century brewery recast as an events venue.
More U.K. TV awards are set to be handed out soon. The BAFTA TV Awards will be held on Sunday, May 10, at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Comedian and Taskmaster host Greg Davies will host the event. Across the TV and TV Craft Awards, Netflix’s hit Adolescence earned 11 nominations, followed by Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with seven.
The full list of Sunday’s 2026 BAFTA TV Craft Awards winners, highlighted in bold, follows.
Children’s Craft Team
Ben Bocquelet, Joe Sparrow, Luke Allen, james Lancett, Adrian Cathie, Andy Goodman, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters, Bronwen Slater, The Very Small Creatures (WINNER)
Samantha Cutler, Jeroen Jaspaert, Steven Bloomer, Terry Davies, Adrian Rhodes, Shannan Taylor, The Scarecrows’ Wedding
Simon Partington, Andy Farago, Simon Couzens, Sandy Nuttgens, Alex Copley, Andy Brittain, BooSnoo!
Costume Design
Emma O’Loughlin, Trespasses
Maja Meschede, A Thousand Blows (WINNER)
Michael Wilkinson, Andor
Rhona Russell, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Director: Factual
Benedict Sanderson, See No Evil
Karim Shah, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Olaide Sadiq, Grenfell: Uncovered
Rob Coldstream, Vietnam: The War That Changed America (WINNER)
Director: Fiction
Dawn Shadforth, Trespasses
Janus Metz, Andor
Philip Barantini, Adolescence (WINNER)
Sam Donovan, Severance
Director: Multi-Camera
Ben Archard, Eddie Lewis, Marieke Barker-Benfield, The Celebrity Traitors
Ben Hardy, Last One Laughing
Diccon Ramsay, VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember
Laurence Cawsey, Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (WINNER)
Editing: Factual
Jennifer Asheitu Hampson, Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers
Mel Quigley, Andy Kemp, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (WINNER)
Paul Hammacott, Louis Theroux: The Settlers
Samuel R. Santana, Grenfell: Uncovered
Editing: Fiction
Fiona Brands, Slow Horses (Episode 6)
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Prisoner 951 (WINNER)
Simon Smith, The Last of Us
Yan Miles, Andor
Emerging Talent: Factual
Alexandra Lacey, writer-director, The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Elle Mower, director, Convicting My Ex
Olaide Sadiq, director, Grenfell: Uncovered (WINNER)
Emerging Talent: Fiction
Chloe English, director, G’wed
Emily McDonald, director, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Eros V, director, Juice
Janice Okoh, writer, Just Act Normal (WINNER)
Entertainment Craft Team
Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams, Nathan Lindley, The Celebrity Traitors (WINNER)
Diccon Ramsay, Rikki Finlay, Mat Weekes, Ben Norman, James Tinsley, Robert Mansfield, Squid Game: The Challenge
Graham Proud, Toby Wilkinson, Sam Turner, Alex Weeks, Jennifer Ford, Rob & Romesh Vs…
Philip Barantini, Nyk Allen, Jacob Smith, Joe Blodgett, Frank Larson, Brendan Poutier, One Shot: With Ed Sheeran
Make Up & Hair Design
Lucy Sibbick, Victoria Money, Slow Horses
Sjaan Gillings, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Sian Wilson, Caroline Greenough , Clare Ramsey, Cheryl Garvey, Madlen Mierzwiak, A Thousand Blows
Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrier Gower, Amadeus (WINNER)
Original Music: Factual
Anne Nikitin, Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey
Jessica Dannheisser, The Last Musician of Auschwitz (WINNER)
Louis Dodd, Matthew Sanches, The Sycamore Gap Mystery
Sophy Purnell, Moon: Nature’s Secret Force
Original Music: Fiction
Ariel Marx, Hotel Reverie (Black Mirror)
Federico Jusid, A Thousand Blows
Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, The Death of Bunny Munro
Tom Rowlands, Mussolini: Son of the Century (WINNER)
Photography: Factual
Camera Team, Secrets of the Penguins
Jordan Bryon, Our Land: Israel’s Other War (WINNER)
Marcel Mettelsiefen, State of War: Fighting the Narcos (Exposure)
Stefano Ferrari, Tim Cragg, Surviving Black Hawk Down
Photography & Lighting: Fiction
Catherine Goldschmidt, The Last of Us
Matthew Lewis, Adolescence
Ryan Kernaghan, Trespasses (WINNER)
Suzie Lavelle, Severance
Production Design
Gillian Devenney, Trespasses
Luke Hull, Rebecca Alleyway, Toby Britton, Andor
Philippa Mumford, Juice (WINNER)
Tom Burton, Grant Bailey, Barbara Herman-Skelding, A Thousand Blows
Scripted Casting
Nathan Toth, What it Feels Like for a Girl
Nathan Toth, Julie Harkin, Reunion (WINNER)
Shaheen Baig, Adolescence
Shaheen Baig, Get Millie Black
Sound: Factual
Andy Deacon, Kevin Dugg, Will Thomas Jonathan Gibson, The Lost Music of Auschwitz
Sount Team, The Celebrity Traitors (WINNER)
Sound Team, Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Tristan Powell, Will Chapman, The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Sound: Fiction
Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Ben Tisdall, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Conor Thompson, Slow Horses
Danny Hambrook, David Acord, Margit Pfeiffer, James Spencer, Josh Gold, John Finklea, Andor
James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McMAnus, Kyle Pickford, Adam Mendez, Adolescence (WINNER)
Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Saoirse Christopherson, Andy Kennedy, Lee Crichlow, Chris Campion, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Special, Visual & Graphic Effects
James Maclachlan, Josie Henwood, Union VFX Studios Malta, Magic Lab Studios, Sam Chynoweth, USS Callister: Into Infinity (Black Mirror)
Luke Murphy, Mohen Leo, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clement Soret, Andor (WINNER)
Russell Dodgson, Framestore, Andy Jones, Simon Bland, Francois Dumoulin, Gavin McKenzie, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
Sara Bennett, Richard Reed, David Stephens, Jet Omoshebi, Caimin Bourne, Scanline, The Witcher
Titles & Graphic Identity
Huge Designs, Code of Silence
Isabella Eklof, Luke Dunkley, Mike Holliday, Tony Kearns, Dean Wares, The Death of Bunny Munro
Light Creative, A Thousand Blows
Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes, UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 (WINNER)
Writer: Comedy
Daisy May Cooper, Selin Hizli, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Jack Rooke, Big Boys (WINNER)
Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls
Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Writer: Drama
Ailbhe Keogan, Trespasses
Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Paris Lees, What It Feels Like For a Girl
Will Smith, Slow Horses (WINNER)
BAFTA Television Craft Special Award (WINNER)
Simone Pennant, founder and CEO of The TV Collective
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