# 2018 British Academy Television Craft Awards

The 19th Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and was held on 22 April 2018. For the sixth consecutive year, Stephen Mangan was the ceremony's host. The awards were held at The Brewery, City of London, and given in recognition of technical achievements in British television of 2017. The Crown lead the nominations with seven followed by Taboo with six.

## Winners and nominees

Winners will be listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Special Award
* Game of Thrones
| Best Breakthrough Talent | Best Director: Multi-Camera |
| Daisy May Cooper (writer), Charlie Cooper (writer) – This Country Bernard MacMahon (director), Allison McGourty (Writer, Producer and Music Supervisor) – American Epic: The Sessions Tom Pursey (director and producer) – Fighting Cancer: My Online Diary Charlotte Wolf (writer) – Inspector George Gently | Julia Knowles – World War One Remembered: Passchendaele James Morgan – Wild Alaska Live Nikki Parsons – Strictly Come Dancing Chris Power – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway |
| Best Director: Fiction | Best Director: Factual |
| Philippa Lowthorpe – Three Girls Jane Campion – Top of the Lake: China Girl Mackenzie Crook – Detectorists Paul Wittington – Little Boy Blue | Charlie Russell – Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me Anna Hall – Catching a Killer: The Search for Natalie Hemming Will Yapp – The Real Full Monty Xavier Alford – Drugsland: Heroin Love Story |
| Best Writer: Drama | Best Writer: Comedy |
| Nicole Taylor – Three Girls Charlie Brooker – Hang the DJ (Black Mirror) Steven Knight – Peaky Blinders Peter Morgan – The Crown | Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton – Inside No. 9 Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper – This Country Paul Coleman, Peter Kay and Sian Gibson – Peter Kay's Car Share Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe |
| Best Editing: Fiction | Best Editing: Factual |
| Three Girls - Úna Ní Dhonghaíle Line of Duty (Episode 4) - Andrew John McClelland Peaky Blinders (Episode 5) - Dan Roberts The Crown (Paterfamilias) - Pia di Ciaula | Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me - Will Grayburn Blue Planet II (for "One Ocean) - Matt Meech Blue Planet II (for "The Deep") - Nigel Buck David Bowie: The Last Five Years - Ged Murphy Louis Theroux: Dark States (for "Heroin Town") - Anna Price |
| Best Costume Design | Best Make Up & Hair Design |
| Game of Thrones - Michele Clapton Peaky Blinders - Alison McCosh The Crown - Jane Petrie Taboo - Joanna Eatwell | Taboo - Jan Archivald, Erika Ökvist, Audrey Doyle The Miniaturist - Chrissie Baker Gunpowder - Jacqueline Fowler Peaky Blinders - Loz Schiavo |
| Best Production Design | Best Original Music |
| Game of Thrones - Deborah Riley, Rob Cameron USS Callister (Black Mirror) - Joel Collins, Phil Sims The Crown - Martin Childs, Alison Harvey The State - Pat Campbell | King Charles III - Jocelyn Pook Born to be Free: Saving Russia’s Whales - Katya Mihailova Taboo - Max Richter Howards End - Nico Muhly |
| Best Photography: Fiction | Best Photography: Factual |
| The Crown (Beryl) - Adriano Goldman Against the Law - Johann Perry Taboo - Mark Patten USS Callister (Black Mirror) - Stephan Pehrsson | Blue Planet II (for "One Ocean") - Camera Team The Detectives: Murder on the Streets - Daniel Vernon, Daniel Dewsbury Last Men in Aleppo - Fadi Al-Halabi, Hassan Kattan, Thaer Mohammed The Fight for Mosul (Dispatches) - Olivier Sarbil |
| Best Titles & Graphic Identity | Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects |
| SS-GB - William Barlett Blue Planet II - BDH Creative Have I Got News for You - Liquid TV Top of the Lake: China Girl - Morgan Beringer | Metalhead (Black Mirror) - Jean-Clement Soret, Russell McLean, Joel Collins Taboo - Adam Glasman, Rob Pizzey The Crown - Asa Shoul, Christopher Reynolds Emerald City - Thomas Horton |
| Best Sound: Fiction | Best Sound: Factual |
| The Crown - Sound Team Peaky Blinders (Episode 6) - Forbes Noonan, Ben Norrington, Jim Goddard, Grant Bridgeman Sherlock - Sound Team Taboo - Sound Team | Blue Planet II (for "Coral Reefs") - Graham Wild, Tim Owens, Kate Hopkins David Bowie: The Last Five Years - Karl Mainzer, Rowan Jennings, Adam Scourfield, Sean O'Neil Mountain: Life at the Extreme (Himalaya) - Graham Wild, George Fry, James Burchill The Grand Tour - Russell Edwards, Trisan Powell, Robert Entwistle, Marc Wojtanowski World War One Remembered: Passchendaele - Andy Deacon, Kevin Duff, Andy James, Mark McLoughlin |
| Best Entertainment Craft Team |
| World War One Remembered: Passchendaele - Nigel Catmur, David Cole, Kate Dawkins, Kevin Duff One Love Manchester - Richard Valentine, Toby Alington, Simon Sanders Strictly Come Dancing - Jason Gilkison, Mark Kenyon, Patrick Doherty, David Newton The Voice UK - Dave Davey, David Tench, Dominic Tolfts, Kevin Duff |

## Programmes with multiple nominations

Programmes that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Programme |
| 7 | The Crown |
| 6 | Taboo |
| 5 | Blue Planet II |
| 5 | Peaky Blinders |
| 4 | Black Mirror |
| 3 | Three Girls |
| 3 | World War One Remembered: Passchendaele |
| 2 | Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me |
| 2 | David Bowie: The Last Five Years |
| 2 | Game of Thrones |
| 2 | Strictly Come Dancing |
| 2 | This Country |
| 2 | Top of the Lake : China Girl |

## Most major wins

Shows that received multiple awards :
| Wins | Show |
| 2 | Game of Thrones |
| 2 | Three Girls |
| 2 | Blue Planet II |
| 2 | Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me |
| 2 | The Crown |
| 2 | World War One Remembered: Passchendaele |
Wins by Network :
| Wins | Network |
| 9 | BBC One |
| 4 | BBC Two |
| 3 | HBO |
| 3 | Netflix |
| 3 | Sky Atlantic |