The winners of the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards with Samsung OLED have been announced. Recognising the achievements of the people who work behind the scenes in the TV and film industry, the Awards were presented in a ceremony at The Brewery in London last night.
Two of last year’s biggest TV hits each received two BAFTAs. Philip Barantini won Director: Fiction category and James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McManus, Kyle Pickford and Adam Méndez won for Sound: Fiction for Adolescence.
For their work on The Celebrity Traitors, Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams and Nathan Lindley won the Entertainment Craft Team category, and the show’s sound team took the award for Sound.
Laurence Cawsey was awarded the BAFTA for Director: Multicamera for Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur.
Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes and Phil Bigwood won for UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 in the Titles and Graphic Identity category.
For Andor, Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Luke Murphy, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clément Soret and Industrial Light & Magic won the award for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects.
Other winners included Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp, who won Editing: Factual for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack and the honour for Photography: Factual went to Jordan Bryon for Our Land: Israel’s Other War. The BAFTA for Editing: Fiction went to Úna Ní Dhonghaíle for Prisoner 951.
Writer Janice Okoh won Emerging Talent: Fiction for Just Act Normal with director and BAFTA Breakthrough Olaide Sadiq taking home the Award for Emerging Talent: Factual for Grenfell: Uncovered.
First-time BAFTA winners included:
Will Smith, Writer: Drama for Slow Horses
Maja Meschede: Costume Design for A Thousand Blows
Ryan Kernaghan for Trespasses in Photography & Lighting: Fiction
Philippa Mumford for Juice in Production Design
Director: Factual went to Rob Coldstream for Vietnam: The War That Changed America.
Jessica Dannheisser won Original Music: Factual for The Last Musician of Auschwitz.
Tom Rowlands won the BAFTA for Original Music: Fiction for Mussolini: Son of the Century.
Children’s Craft Team was won by Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters and Bronwen Slater for The Very Small Creatures
In recognition of her “extraordinary leadership and the lasting legacy of change she has brought to the screen industries since founding The TV Collective,” the BAFTA Television Craft Special Award was presented to Simone Pennant by BAFTA Trustee Ade Rawcliffe.
