There were big wins for Skills Fund contributors at this year’s BAFTA Television and Craft Awards. The two ceremonies, held a fortnight apart, saw productions that paid in to the High-end TV (HETV), Unscripted TV (USF) and Animation Skills Funds all collect prizes on one of the biggest nights in the British TV calendar.
It was a record-breaking night for the year’s biggest winner, Adolescence, whose four BAFTA TV Awards became the most awarded to a show in a single year. The breakout critical and commercial hit was awarded the BAFTA for Limited Drama alongside acting prizes for three of its stars Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Christine Tremarco. Two weeks previously the Warp Film production and HETV Skills Fund contributor, had picked up the Direction: Fiction and Sound: Fiction awards at the BAFTA Craft ceremony.
A further 11 contributors to the HETV Skills Fund were awarded across the two ceremonies as comedies Amandaland, Here We Go, How Are You? It’s Alan Partridge and Big Boys each picked up BAFTAs. Elsewhere, dramas A Thousand Blows, Trespasses, Code of Silence, Slow Horses, Andor and Amadeus were awarded, while documentary feature Grenfell: Uncovered collected awards at both ceremonies, taking home the BAFTAs for Single Documentary and Emerging Talent: Factual for director Olaide Sadiq.
Celebrity Traitors, produced by USF contributor Studio Lambert, won two BAFTA TV Awards to add to the two Craft awards it had won previously. The year’s most watched TV show was recognised in the Reality, Memorable Moment, Sound: Factual and Entertainment Craft Team categories.
Other wins for production companies, broadcasters and streamers that contribute to he USF included double winner Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (Basement Films; Last Musicion of Auschwitz (Two Rivers); Our Land Isreal's Other War (Hard Cash Productions); BBCs Scam Interceptors and Simon Schama: the Road to Auschwitz; Channel 4 factual duo Go Back to where you Came From and See No Evil, and Last One Laughing, commissioned by Amazone Prime.
There was also a win for Animation Skills Fund contributor, The Very Small Creatures, which was awarded the BAFTA Craft Award for Children’s Craft Team.
In addition to their contributions, winning productions offered placements to candidates from a range of Fund-supported training programmes, helping new entrants gain valuable early experience through First Break and Trainee Finder, enabling experienced crew step up via progression initiative Make a Move, providing grade-specific guidance to those joining the electrical and accounts department, and embedded ScreenSkills eLearning to improve the workplace environment for all.
We congratulate each of the winning and nominated productions and thank them for their contribution.