# 2023 British Academy Scotland Awards

The 2023 British Academy Scotland Awards took place on 19 November 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. The ceremony was hosted by Edith Bowman.

## Nominations and winners

The nominations were announced on 11 October and the winners were announced on 19 November. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Actor in Film | Best Actress in Film |
| Paul Mescal – Aftersun James Cosmo – My Sailor, My Love Chinaza Uche – A Good Person | Lucy Halliday – Blue Jean Frankie Corio – Aftersun Sally Hawkins – The Lost King |
| Best Actor in Television | Best Actress in Television |
| Lewis Gribben – Somewhere Boy Brian Cox – Succession Tony Curran – Mayflies Conor McCarron – Dog Days | Lauren Lyle – Karen Pirie Izuka Hoyle – Big Boys Ashley Jensen – Mayflies Vignette Robinson – Six Four |
| Best Director (Factual) | Best Director (Fiction) |
| Jono McLeod – My Old School Alice McMahon-Major – Three Mothers, Two Babies and a Scandal Matt Pinder – The Hunt for the World’s End Killers | Charlotte Wells – Aftersun Jon S. Baird – Tetris Gareth Bryn – Karen Pirie |
| Entertainment | Factual Series |
| Frankie Boyle's Farewell to the Monarchy – Production Team (Two Rivers Media/Channel 4) Richard Osman's House of Games – Tamara Gilder, Breid McLoone, John Smith, Gemma Whitford - Remarkable Television/BBC Two Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out – Production Team (IWC Media/Channel 5) | Three Mothers, Two Babies and a Scandal – Alice McMahon-Major, Nicole Kleeman, Vari Innes, Naomi Buchanan (Firecrest Films/Amazon Prime Video) Fred West: The Glasgow Girls – Production Team (IWC Media/Sky Crime) The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland – Production Team (Two Rivers Media/BBC Scotland) |
| Feature Film | Features |
| Winners – Hassan Nazer, Nadira Murray, Paul Welsh, Arash Seifie Jamadi My Old School – Jono McLeod, John Archer, Olivia Lichtenstein, Berny McGurk Aftersun – Charlotte Wells, Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski | Designing the Hebrides – Production Team (DSP/BBC Scotland) Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it – Kirstie Allsopp, Phil Spencer, Laura Harding, Jonny Wharton (Raise the Roof Productions/Channel 4) The Yorkshire Auction House – Craig Hunter, John Redshaw, Diccon Green, Sarah Forster (STV Studios/Really) |
| Short Film & Animation | Single Documentary |
| A Long Winter – Eilidh Munro, Finlay Pretsell Clean – Miranda Stern, Reece Cargan Shackle – Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson | The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld – Michael Waldman, Lorraine McKechnie, David G. Hill, Calum Leslie (Finestripe Productions/BBC Two) The Snowman: The Film That Changed Christmas – Production Team (Two Rivers Media/Channel 4) War and Justice: The Case of Marine A – Production Team (Two Rivers Media, Uppercut Films/Channel 4) |
| Specialist Factual | Television Scripted |
| Imagine: Douglas Stuart… Love, Hope and Grit – Linda Sands, Tanya Hudson, Alan Yentob, Ed Horne (BBC Studios/BBC One) Becoming Fridah Kahlo – James Rogan, Mark Hedgecoe, Nancy Bornat, Louise Lockwood (Rogan Productions/BBC One) What Killed the Whale? – Production Team (STV Studios/Channel 4) | Mayflies – Claire Mundell, Brian Kaczynski, Andrea Gibb, Peter Mackie Burns (Synchronicity Films/BBC One) Guilt – Production Team (Expectation North, Happy Tramp North/BBC Scotland) Karen Pirie – Production Team (World Productions/ITV) |
| Writer Film/Television in partnership with Screen Scotland |
| Charlotte Wells – Aftersun Neil Forsyth – The Gold Krysty Wilson-Cairns – The Good Nurse |

### Outstanding Contribution awards

* Outstanding Contribution to Film & Television – Shirley Henderson
* Outstanding Contribution to Craft – Stuart Wilson (sound engineering)