# British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.
In 2006 and 2007 there was only on category for directors but in 2008 the category was split in three separate categories to recognize directing for different programming, first creating Best Director: Factual and Best Director: Fiction and then in 2011 Best Director: Multi-Camera.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

Best Director
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Broadcaster |
| 2006 | Brian Percival | Much Ado About Nothing | BBC One |
| 2006 | Simon Cellan Jones | The Queen's Sister | Channel 4 |
| 2006 | Joe Ahearne | Doctor Who | BBC One |
| 2006 | Justin Chadwick | Bleak House | BBC One |
| 2007 | Edmund Coulthard | Soundproof | BBC Two |
| 2007 | Tom Hooper | Longford | Channel 4 |
| 2007 | Adrian Shergold | Low Winter Sun | Channel 4 |
| 2007 | Bharat Nalluri | Life on Mars | BBC One |
Best Director: Fiction
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Broadcaster |
| 2008 | John Crowley | Boy A | Channel 4 |
| 2008 | Otto Bathurst | Five Days | BBC One |
| 2008 | Marc Munden | The Mark of Cain | Channel 4 |
| 2008 | Adrian Shergold | Persuasion | ITV |
| 2009 | Rowan Joffé | The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall | Channel 4 |
| 2009 | Otto Bathurst | Criminal Justice | BBC One |
| 2009 | Alex Holmes | House of Saddam | BBC Two |
| 2009 | Niall MacCormick | Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | BBC Four |

### 2010s

| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Episode | Broadcaster |
| 2010 | Philip Martin | Mo | Mo | Channel 4 |
| 2010 | Yann Demange | Criminal Justice | Criminal Justice | BBC One |
| 2010 | Aisling Walsh | Wallander | "The Fifth Woman" | BBC One |
| 2010 | James Hawes | Enid | Enid | BBC Four |
| 2011 | Brian Percival | Downton Abbey | Downton Abbey | ITV1 |
| 2011 | Paul McGuigan | Sherlock | "A Study in Pink" | BBC One |
| 2011 | Shane Meadows | This Is England '86 | This Is England '86 | Channel 4 |
| 2011 | Charles Sturridge | The Road to Coronation Street | The Road to Coronation Street | BBC Four |
| 2012 | Hugo Blick | The Shadow Line | The Shadow Line | BBC Two |
| 2012 | Julian Jarrold | Appropriate Adult | Appropriate Adult | ITV |
| 2012 | John Alexander | Exile | Exile | BBC One |
| 2012 | Yann Demange | Top Boy | Top Boy | Channel 4 |
| 2013 | Philippa Lowthorpe | Call the Midwife | Call the Midwife | BBC One |
| 2013 | Julian Jarrold | The Girl | The Girl | BBC Two |
| 2013 | Birger Larsen | Murder | Murder | | BBC Two |
| 2013 | Hettie Macdonald | Hit & Miss | Hit & Miss | Sky Atlantic |
| 2014 | Otto Bathurst | Peaky Blinders | Peaky Blinders | BBC One |
| 2014 | James Strong | Broadchurch | "Episode One" | ITV |
| 2014 | Jane Campion, Garth Davis | Top of the Lake | Top of the Lake | BBC Two |
| 2014 | Marc Munden | Utopia | Utopia | Channel 4 |
| 2015 | Julian Farino | Marvellous | Marvellous | BBC Two |
| 2015 | Euros Lyn | Happy Valley | Happy Valley | BBC One |
| 2015 | Hugo Blick | The Honourable Woman | The Honourable Woman | BBC Two |
| 2015 | Paul Andrew Williams | Murdered by My Boyfriend | Murdered by My Boyfriend | BBC Three |
| 2016 | Shane Meadows | This Is England '90 | This Is England '90 | Channel 4 |
| 2016 | Aisling Walsh | An Inspector Calls | An Inspector Calls | BBC One |
| 2016 | Ben Taylor | Catastrophe | Catastrophe | Channel 4 |
| 2016 | Jakob Verbruggen | London Spy | London Spy | BBC Two |
| 2017 | Marc Munden | National Treasure | National Treasure | Channel 4 |
| 2017 | Euros Lyn | Damilola, Our Loved Boy | Damilola, Our Loved Boy | BBC One |
| 2017 | Susanne Bier | The Night Manager | The Night Manager | | BBC One |
| 2017 | Stephen Daldry | The Crown | The Crown | Netflix |
| 2018 | Philippa Lowthorpe | Three Girls | Three Girls | BBC One |
| 2018 | Jane Campion | Top of the Lake: China Girl | Top of the Lake: China Girl | BBC Two |
| 2018 | Mackenzie Crook | Detectorists | Detectorists | BBC Four |
| 2018 | Paul Whittington | Little Boy Blue | Little Boy Blue | ITV |
| 2019 | Stephen Frears | A Very English Scandal | A Very English Scandal | BBC One |
| 2019 | Harry Bradbeer | Killing Eve | "Nice Face" | BBC One |
| 2019 | Mahalia Belo | The Long Song | The Long Song | | BBC One |
| 2019 | Thomas Vincent | Bodyguard | "Episode 1" | BBC One |

### 2020s

| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Episode | Broadcaster |
| 2020 | Johan Renck | Chernobyl | Chernobyl | Sky Atlantic |
| 2020 | Harry Bradbeer | Fleabag | Fleabag | BBC Three |
| 2020 | Toby Haynes | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Channel 4 |
| 2020 | Shane Meadows | The Virtues | The Virtues | | Channel 4 |
| 2021 | Michaela Coel and Sam Miller | I May Destroy You | I May Destroy You | BBC One |
| 2021 | Lenny Abrahamson | Normal People | Normal People | BBC Three |
| 2021 | Steve McQueen | Small Axe | Small Axe | BBC One |
| 2021 | Benjamin Caron | The Crown | "Fairytale" | Netflix |
| 2022 | Peter Hoar | It's a Sin | It's a Sin | Channel 4 |
| 2022 | Lewis Arnold | Time | Time | BBC One |
| 2022 | Marc Munden | Help | Help | Channel 4 |
| 2022 | Will Sharpe | Landscapers | Landscapers | Sky Atlantic |
| 2023 | William Stefan Smith | Top Boy | Top Boy | Netflix |
| 2023 | Dearbhla Walsh | Bad Sisters | Bad Sisters | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 | Hugo Blick | The English | The English | BBC Two |
| 2023 | Lucy Forbes | This Is Going to Hurt | This Is Going to Hurt | BBC One |
| 2024 | Joseph Bullman | Partygate | Partygate | Channel 4 |
| 2024 | Lewis Arnold | The Long Shadow | "Episode 6" | ITV |
| 2024 | Peter Hoar | The Last of Us | The Last of Us | HBO / Sky Atlantic |
| 2024 | William Stefan Smith | Top Boy | "If We Are Not Monsters" | Netflix |