# British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Original Music

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Original Music 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.
It was first awarded in 1981, according to the BAFTA website, a programme will be eligible to this category if "more than 50% of its music is original composition created specifically for it."
In 2023, the category was split into two categories: Original Music: Fiction and Original Music: Factual.

## Winners and nominees
### 1980s

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
| 1981 | The Merchant of Venice Fair Stood The Wind For France Love Story Oppenheimer Hollywood The Misanthrope The Sailor's Return The Old Curiosity Shop | Carl Davis |
| 1981 | Enemy at the Door Pride and Prejudice | Wilfred Josephs |
| 1981 | Fox (Incidental) Shoestring Bloody Kids | George Fenton |
| 1981 | Flickers Shelley Tales Of The Unexpected | Ron Grainer |
| 1982 | Bergerac Going Gently The History Man BBC News Theme | George Fenton |
| 1982 | Brideshead Revisited | Geoffrey Burgon |
| 1982 | Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years | Carl Davis |
| 1982 | The Flame Trees of Thika | Ken Howard, Alan Blaikely |
| 1983 | Smiley's People I Remember Nelson The Woman in White | Patrick Gowers |
| 1983 | Harry's Game | Clannad |
| 1983 | The Flight of the Condor | Inti-Illimani |
| 1983 | A Voyage Round My Father Mona The Bell | Marc Wilkinson |
| 1984 | An Englishman Abroad Saigon: Year of the Cat Loving Walter Walter and June The Ghost Writer Breakfast Time Natural World Village Earth | George Fenton |
| 1984 | The Aerodrome Macbeth The Spice Of Life The Tale Of Beatrix Potter Unknown Chaplin | Carl Davis |
| 1984 | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | David Mackay |
| 1984 | Reilly, Ace of Spies | Harry Rabinowitz |
| 1985 | Robin of Sherwood | Clannad |
| 1985 | The Ebony Tower | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| 1985 | The Far Pavilions | Carl Davis |
| 1985 | The Jewel in the Crown | George Fenton |
| 1986 | Edge of Darkness | Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen |
| 1986 | Kingdom of the Ice Bear | Terry Oldfield |
| 1986 | Silas Marner | Carl Davis |
| 1986 | Tender is the Night | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| 1987 | The Monocled Mutineer | George Fenton |
| 1987 | Fire and Ice | Carl Davis |
| 1987 | Hotel Du Lac | Carl Davis |
| 1987 | The Insurance Man | Ilona Sekacz |
| 1987 | The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | Peter Filleul |
| 1987 | Lost Empires | Derek Hilton |
| 1988 | Porterhouse Blue | Christopher Gunning, Rick Lloyd |
| 1988 | The Beiderbecke Tapes | Frank Ricotti |
| 1988 | Fortunes of War | Richard Holmes |
| 1988 | A Perfect Spy | Michael Storey |
| 1989 | The Beiderbecke Connection | Frank Ricotti |
| 1989 | Talking Heads | George Fenton |
| 1989 | Tumbledown | Richard Hartley |
| 1989 | A Very British Coup | John Keane |

### 1990s

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 1990 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Christopher Gunning | ITV |
| 1990 | Around The World in 80 Days | Paddy Kingsland | BBC One |
| 1990 | Traffik | Tim Souster | Channel 4 |
| 1990 | The Woman in Black | Rachel Portman | ITV |
| 1991 | The Green Man | Tim Souster | BBC One |
| 1991 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Rachel Portman | BBC Two |
| 1991 | House of Cards | Jim Parker | BBC One |
| 1991 | The Trials of Life | George Fenton | BBC One |
| 1992 | G.B.H. | Richard Harvey, Elvis Costello | Channel 4 |
| 1992 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Christopher Gunning | ITV |
| 1992 | Inspector Morse | Barrington Pheloung | ITV |
| 1992 | Prime Suspect | Stephen Warbeck | ITV |
| 1993 | Frankie's House | Jeff Beck, Jed Leiber | ITV |
| 1993 | The Big Battalions | Christopher Gunning | Channel 4 |
| 1993 | Love Hurts | Alan Hawkshaw | BBC One |
| 1993 | Jeeves and Wooster | Anne Dudley | ITV |
| 1994 | To Play the King | Jim Parker | BBC |
| 1994 | The Buddha of Suburbia | David Bowie | BBC Two |
| 1994 | Mr Wroe’s Virgins | Roger and Brian Eno | BBC Two |
| 1994 | Life in the Freezer | George Fenton | BBC One |
| 1995 | Middlemarch | Stanley Myers, Christopher Gunning | BBC Two |
| 1995 | Crocodile Shoes | Tony McAnaney, Jimmy Nail, Paddy McAloon | BBC One |
| 1995 | Martin Chuzzlewit | Geoffrey Burgon | BBC Two |
| 1995 | Skallagrigg | Stephen Warbeck | BBC Two |
| 1996 | Persuasion | Jeremy Sams | BBC Two |
| 1996 | Cracker | Rick Wentworth | ITV |
| 1996 | Signs and Wonders | Daemion Barry | BBC Two |
| 1996 | The Hanging Gale | Shaun Davey | BBC One |
| 1997 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders | Jim Parker | ITV |
| 1997 | Cruel Train | Nick Bicat | BBC Two |
| 1997 | Ballykissangel | Shaun Davey | BBC One |
| 1997 | The Crow Road | Colin Towns | BBC Scotland |
| 1998 | Tom Jones | Jim Parker | BBC One |
| 1998 | Holding On | Nick Bicat | BBC Two |
| 1998 | The Lakes | Simon Boswell | BBC One |
| 1998 | Trial & Retribution | Evelyn Glennie | ITV |
| 1999 | A Rather English Marriage | Jim Parker | BBC Two |
| 1999 | Vanity Fair | Murray Gold | BBC One |
| 1999 | Our Mutual Friend | Adrian Johnston | BBC Two |
| 1999 | Hornblower: The Even Chance | John Keane | ITV |

### 2000s

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2000 | Walking with Dinosaurs | Ben Bartlett | BBC One |
| 2000 | Queer as Folk | Murray Gold | Channel 4 |
| 2000 | Oliver Twist | Paul Pritchard, Elvis Costello | ITV |
| 2000 | Cold Feet | Mark Russell | ITV |
| 2001 | Longitude | Geoffrey Burgon | Channel 4 |
| 2001 | War Behind the Wire | Daemion Barry | BBC Two |
| 2001 | Gormenghast | Richard Rodney Bennett | BBC Two |
| 2001 | Elizabeth | Andy Price | Channel 4 |
| 2002 | The Blue Planet | George Fenton | BBC One |
| 2002 | Perfect Strangers | Adrian Johnston | BBC Two |
| 2002 | The Way We Live Now | Nicholas Hooper | BBC One |
| 2002 | The Lost World | Rob Lane | BBC One |
| 2003 | The Forsyte Saga | Geoffrey Burgon | ITV |
| 2003 | The Gathering Storm | Howard Goodall | BBC Two |
| 2003 | Tipping the Velvet | Adrian Johnston, Terry Davies | BBC |
| 2003 | Spooks | Jennie Muskett | BBC One |
| 2004 | The Young Visiters | Nicholas Hooper | BBC One |
| 2004 | The Forsyte Saga | Geoffrey Burgon | ITV |
| 2004 | State of Play | Nicholas Hooper | BBC One |
| 2004 | The Lost Prince | Adrian Johnston | BBC One |
| 2005 | Sex Traffic | Jonathan Goldsmith | Channel 4 |
| 2005 | Himalaya with Michael Palin | David Hartley, Andre Jacquemin, Dave Howman | BBC One |
| 2005 | Spooks | Jennie Muskett, Sheridan Tongue | BBC One |
| 2005 | Green Wing | Jonathan Whitehead | Channel 4 |
| 2006 | Elizabeth I | Rob Lane | Channel 4 |
| 2006 | Casanova | Murray Gold | BBC Three |
| 2006 | The Girl in the Café | Nicholas Hooper | BBC One |
| 2006 | The Government Inspector | Jocelyn Pook | Channel 4 |
| 2007 | Prime Suspect: The Final Act | Nicholas Hooper | ITV |
| 2007 | Planet Earth | George Fenton | BBC One |
| 2007 | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Alex Heffes | BBC One |
| 2007 | Jane Eyre | Rob Lane | BBC One |
| 2008 | Capturing Mary | Adrian Johnston | BBC Two |
| 2008 | Boy A | Paddy Cunneen | Channel 4 |
| 2008 | Cranford | Carl Davis | BBC One |
| 2008 | Doctor Who | Murray Gold | BBC One |
| 2009 | Wallander | Martin Phipps | BBC One |
| 2009 | Spooks | Paul Leonard-Morgan | BBC One |
| 2009 | Little Dorrit | John Lunn | BBC One |
| 2009 | Sense and Sensibility | Martin Phipps | BBC One |

### 2010s

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2010 | Small Island | Martin Phipps | BBC One |
| 2010 | Red Riding 1974 | Adrian Johnston | Channel 4 |
| 2010 | Moses Jones | Craig Pruess | BBC Two |
| 2010 | Being Human | Richard Wells | BBC Three |
| 2011 | Any Human Heart | Dan Jones | Channel 4 |
| 2011 | Sherlock: A Study in Pink | David Arnold, Michael Price | BBC One |
| 2011 | Terry Pratchett's Going Postal | John Lunn | Sky 1 |
| 2011 | Misfits | Vince Pope | E4 |
| 2012 | Top Boy | Brian Eno | Channel 4 |
| 2012 | Downton Abbey | John Lunn | ITV |
| 2012 | Frozen Planet | George Fenton | BBC One |
| 2012 | Great Expectations | Martin Phipps | BBC One |
| 2013 | Henry IV (The Hollow Crown) | Stephen Warbeck | BBC Two |
| 2013 | Doctor Who (for "Asylum of the Daleks") | Murray Gold | BBC One |
| 2013 | The Hour | Kevin Sargent | BBC Two |
| 2013 | The Snowman and the Snowdog | Ilan Eshkeri, Andy Burrows | Channel 4 |
| 2014 | Broadchurch | Ólafur Arnalds | ITV |
| 2014 | Luther | Paul Englishby | BBC One |
| 2014 | Peaky Blinders | Martin Phipps | BBC Two |
| 2014 | Top of the Lake | Mark Bradshaw | BBC Two |
| 2015 | Penny Dreadful | Abel Korzeniowski | Sky Atlantic |
| 2015 | Downton Abbey | John Lunn | ITV |
| 2015 | The Honourable Woman | Martin Phipps | BBC Two |
| 2015 | Life and Death Row (for "Execution") | Richard Spiller | BBC Three |
| 2016 | The Hunt | Steven Price | BBC One |
| 2016 | Thunderbirds Are Go | Ben Foster, Nick Foster | ITV |
| 2016 | Broadchurch | Ólafur Arnalds | ITV |
| 2016 | Poldark | Anne Dudley | BBC One |
| 2017 | National Treasure | Cristobal Tapia de Veer | Channel 4 |
| 2017 | Poldark | Anne Dudley | BBC One |
| 2017 | Planet Earth II | Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, Jasha Klebe | BBC One |
| 2017 | War & Peace | Martin Phipps | BBC One |
| 2018 | King Charles III | Jocelyn Pook | BBC Two |
| 2018 | Taboo | Max Richter | BBC One |
| 2018 | Howards End | Nico Muhly | BBC One |
| 2018 | Born to be Free: Saving Russia's Whales | Katya Mihailova | Channel 4 |
| 2019 | Killing Eve | David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia | BBC One |
| 2019 | The Little Drummer Girl | Cho Young-Wuk | BBC One |
| 2019 | A Very English Scandal | Murray Gold | BBC One |
| 2019 | Patrick Melrose | Hauschka | Sky Atlantic |

### 2020s

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2020 | Chernobyl | Hildur Guðnadóttir | Sky Atlantic |
| 2020 | Killing Eve | David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia | BBC One |
| 2020 | Giri/Haji | Adrian Johnston | BBC Two |
| 2020 | War in the Blood | Andrew Phillips | BBC Two |
| 2021 | Roadkill | Harry Escott | BBC One |
| 2021 | The Third Day (for "Sunday – The Ghost") | Cristobal Tapia de Veer | Sky Atlantic |
| 2021 | Baghdad Central | H. Scott Salinas | Channel 4 |
| 2021 | The Crown | Martin Phipps | Netflix |
| 2022 | Landscapers | Arthur Sharpe | Sky Atlantic |
| 2022 | Line of Duty | Carly Paradis | BBC One |
| 2022 | The Outsiders | Jonathan "Elevated" Olorunfemi | YouTube |
| 2022 | Loki | Natalie Holt | Disney+ |

#### Best Original Music - Fiction

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2023 | Mood | Nicôle Lecky, Bryan Senti, Kwame KZ Kwei-Armah Jr. | BBC Three |
| 2023 | The English | Federico Jusid | BBC Two |
| 2023 | Slow Horses | Daniel Pemberton, Mick Jagger | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 | The Responder | Matthew Herbert | BBC One |
| 2024 | Silo | Atli Örvarsson | Apple TV+ |
| 2024 | Heartstopper | Adiescar Chase | Netflix |
| 2024 | Nolly | Blair Mowat | ITVX |
| 2024 | Loki | Natalie Holt | Disney+ |

#### Best Original Music - Factual

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2023 | Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story | Jessica Jones | Netflix |
| 2023 | House of Maxwell | Andrew Phillips | BBC Two |
| 2023 | The Elon Musk Show | Max de Wardener | BBC Two |
| 2023 | The Tinder Swindler | Jessica Jones | Netflix |
| 2024 | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland | Simon Russell | BBC Two |
| 2024 | Wild Isles | George Fenton | BBC One |
| 2024 | A Time to Die | Simon Rogers | ITV |
| 2024 | Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story | Ed Harcourt | Sky Documentaries |