# British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Factual

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Factual 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: Factual
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Episode | Broadcaster |
| 2008 | Jezza Neumann | Dispatches | "China’s Stolen Children" | Channel 4 |
| 2008 | Annabel Gillings | Earth: The Power of the Planet | "Atmosphere" | BBC Two |
| 2008 | Livia Russell | Grand Designs | Grand Designs | Channel 4 |
| 2008 | Joseph Bullman | The Seven Sins of England | The Seven Sins of England | | Channel 4 |
| 2009 | Morgan Matthews | The Fallen | The Fallen | BBC Two |
| 2009 | Amanda Blue | Prescott: The Class System and Me | Prescott: The Class System and Me | BBC Two |
| 2009 | Jonathan Smith | The Family | The Family | Channel 4 |
| 2009 | Stephen Walker | A Boy Called Alex | A Boy Called Alex | | Channel 4 |

### 2010s

| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Episode | Broadcaster |
| 2010 | Patrick Forbes | The Force | The Force | Channel 4 |
| 2010 | Annabel Gillings | How Earth Made Us | "Water" | BBC Two |
| 2010 | Nick Read | Dispatches | "The Slumdog Children of Mumbai" | Channel 4 |
| 2010 | Dan Reed | Dispatches | "Terror in Mumbai" | Channel 4 |
| 2011 | Dan Reed | Dispatches | "The Battle for Haiti" | Channel 4 |
| 2011 | Gideon Bradshaw, Paul Olding | Wonders of the Solar System | "Empire of the Sun" | BBC Two |
| 2011 | Chris Holt | Wonders of the Solar System | "The Thin Blue Line" | BBC Two |
| 2011 | Nicolas Brown | Human Planet | "Arctic" | BBC One |
| 2012 | David Clews | Educating Essex | Educating Essex | Channel 4 |
| 2012 | Vanessa Berlowitz, Chadden Hunter, Kathryn Jeffs | Frozen Planet | "To the Ends of the Earth" | BBC One |
| 2012 | Sacha Mirzoeff | Protecting Our Children | Protecting Our Children | BBC Two |
| 2012 | Charlie Russell | Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die | Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die | | BBC Two |
| 2013 | Ben Chanan | The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes | The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes | Channel 4 |
| 2013 | Katharine English | Our War | Our War | BBC Three |
| 2013 | John Dower | Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow | Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow | Sky Atlantic |
| 2013 | Ben Anthony | 7/7 One Day in London | 7/7 One Day in London | BBC Two |
| 2014 | Nick Holt | The Murder Trial | The Murder Trial | Channel 4 |
| 2014 | Lee Phillips | Her Majesty's Prison Aylesbury | Her Majesty's Prison Aylesbury | ITV |
| 2014 | David Brindley, Grace Reynolds | Educating Yorkshire | Educating Yorkshire | Channel 4 |
| 2014 | Sara Hardy, Blue Ryan | The Unspeakable Crime: Rape | The Unspeakable Crime: Rape | BBC One |
| 2015 | Dan Reed | The Paedophile Hunter | The Paedophile Hunter | Channel 4 |
| 2015 | Ben Anthony | Life and Death Row | "Execution" | BBC Three |
| 2015 | Alisa Pomeroy | 24 Hours in Police Custody | 24 Hours in Police Custody | Channel 4 |
| 2015 | Neil Crombie | Grayson Perry: Who Are You? | Grayson Perry: Who Are You? | | Channel 4 |
| 2016 | Dave Nath | The Murder Detectives | The Murder Detectives | Channel 4 |
| 2016 | Adam Jessel | Professor Green: Suicide and Me | Professor Green: Suicide and Me | BBC Three |
| 2016 | James Newton | The Detectives | The Detectives | BBC Two |
| 2016 | Ursula Macfarlane | Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris | Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris | Channel 4 |
| 2017 | James Bluemel | Exodus: Our Journey to Europe | Exodus: Our Journey to Europe | BBC Two |
| 2017 | Anna Hall | Behind Closed Doors | Behind Closed Doors | BBC One |
| 2017 | Daniel Gordon | Hillsborough | Hillsborough | BBC Two |
| 2017 | Peter Beard | Gender Clinic: Kids on the Edge | Gender Clinic: Kids on the Edge | Channel 4 |
| 2018 | Charlie Russell | Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me | Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me | BBC Two |
| 2018 | Anna Hall | Catching a Killer | "The Search for Natalie Hemming" | Channel 4 |
| 2018 | Will Yapp | The Real Full Monty | The Real Full Monty | ITV |
| 2018 | Xavier Alford | Drugsland | "Heroin Love Story" | BBC Three |
| 2019 | Ben Anthony | Grenfell | Grenfell | BBC One |
| 2019 | David Soutar, Joe Pearlman | Bros: After the Screaming Stops | Bros: After the Screaming Stops | BBC Four |
| 2019 | James Rogan | Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation | Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation | BBC One |
| 2019 | Paddy Wivell | Prison | Prison | Channel 4 |

### 2020s

| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Episode | Broadcaster |
| 2020 | Arthur Cary, Morgan Matthews, Katherine Anstey, Joby Gee | The Last Survivors | The Last Survivors | BBC Two |
| 2020 | Dan Reed | Leaving Neverland | Leaving Neverland | Channel 4 |
| 2020 | Mark Lewis | Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer | Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer | Netflix |
| 2020 | Robin Barnwell | Exposure | "Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag" | ITV |
| 2021 | Teresa Griffiths | Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line | Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line | BBC Two |
| 2021 | Xavier Alford | Storyville | "Locked in: Breaking the Silence" | BBC Four |
| 2021 | James Bluemel | Once Upon a Time in Iraq | Once Upon a Time in Iraq | BBC Two |
| 2021 | Deeyah Khan | Exposure | "America's War on Abortion" | ITV |
| 2022 | James Newton | Grenfell: The Untold Story | Grenfell: The Untold Story | Channel 4 |
| 2022 | Arthur Cary | Surviving 9/11 | Surviving 9/11 | BBC Two |
| 2022 | Jamie Roberts | Four Hours at the Capitol | Four Hours at the Capitol | | BBC Two |
| 2022 | James Newton | Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles | Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles | Channel 4 |
| 2023 | Felicity Morris | The Tinder Swindler | The Tinder Swindler | Netflix |
| 2023 | James Jones | Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes | Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes | Sky Documentaries |
| 2023 | Emma Cooper | The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes | The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes | Netflix |
| 2023 | Sophie Robinson | My Dead Body | My Dead Body | Channel 4 |
| 2024 | Peter Beard, Bruce Fletcher | Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story | Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story | Sky Documentaries |
| 2024 | James Bluemel | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland | BBC Two |
| 2024 | John Dower | Lockerbie | Lockerbie | Sky Documentaries |
| 2024 | Gesbeen Mohammad | Exposure | "Inside Iran: The Fight for Freedom" | ITV |