2016 British Academy Television Craft Awards


The 17th Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 24 April 2016, with Stephen Mangan hosting the event for the fourth year in a row. The awards were held at The Brewery, City of London, and given in recognition of technical achievements in British television of 2015.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are listed below.
Best Breakthrough TalentBest Director - Fiction/Entertainment
Michaela Coel – Chewing Gum
Shane Meadows – This Is England '90
  • * Aisling Walsh – An Inspector Calls
  • * Ben Taylor – Catastrophe
  • * Jakob Verbruggen – London Spy
  • Best Director - FactualBest Director - Multi-Camera
    Dave Nath – The Murder Detectives
  • * Adam Jessel – Professor Green: Suicide and Me
  • * James Newton – The Detectives
  • * Ursula Macfarlane – Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris
  • Richard Valentine, Coky Giedroyc – The Sound Of Music Live!
  • * Chris Power – Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • * John Anderson – Coronation Street
  • * John Watts – Rugby World Cup Final: New Zealand V Australia
  • Best Writer - ComedyBest Writer - Drama
    Rob Delaney, Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
  • * Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain – Peep Show
  • * Julia Davis, Barunka O'Shaughnessy – Hunderby
  • * Writing Team – Peter Kay's Car Share
  • Russell T Davies – Cucumber
  • * Mike Bartlett – Doctor Foster
  • * Neil Cross – Luther
  • * Peter Straughan – Wolf Hall
  • Best Make Up and Hair DesignBest Production Design
    The Dresser – Jenny Shircore
  • * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Emilie Gauthier, Joyce Dean
  • * Penny Dreadful – Enzo Mastrantonio, Nick Dudman, Ferdinando Merolla
  • * Wolf Hall – Roseann Samuel
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – David Roger
  • * Fortitude – Gemma Jackson
  • * This Is England '90 – Janey Levick
  • * Dickensian – Michael Ralph
  • Best Original Television MusicBest Costume Design
    The Hunt – Steven Price
  • * Poldark – Anne Dudley
  • * Thunderbirds Are Go – Ben Foster, Nick Foster
  • * Broadchurch – Ólafur Arnalds
  • The Dresser – Fotini Dimou
  • * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Barbara Kidd
  • * Wolf Hall – Joanna Eatwell
  • * Poldark – Marianne Agertoft
  • Best Photography – FactualBest Photography and Lighting – Fiction
    Camera Team – The Hunt
  • * Andrew Muggleton – Handmade: Metal
  • * Ben Steele – The Children Who Beat Ebola
  • * Pete Hayns, Mark Payne-Gill, Luke Barnett – Big Cats: An Amazing Animal Family
  • London Spy – Laurie Rose
  • * Wolf Hall – Gavin Finney
  • * The Frankenstein Chronicles – Ian Moss
  • * Fortitude – John Conroy
  • Best Editing – FactualBest Editing – Fiction
    The Murder Detectives – Ben Brown
  • * Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough – Dominic Lester
  • * Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris – James Clarkson Lyon
  • * My Son the Jihadi – Simon McMahon
  • Wolf Hall – David Blackmore
  • * An Inspector Calls – Alex Mackie
  • * Humans – Daniel Greenway
  • * This Is England '90 – Matthew Gray
  • * London Spy – Victoria Boydell
  • Best Digital CreativityBest Entertainment Craft Team
    Humans – Development Team
  • * I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! – Athena Witter, Barry Hayter, Teresa Pegrum, Liam Dalley
  • * The Last Hours of Laura K – Gabriel Bisset-Smith, Rachel De-Lahay, Kenny Emson, Ed Sellek
  • * Two Billion Miles – Mike Smith, Felix Renicks, Kieron Bryan, Harry Horton
  • The Sound Of Music Live! – Zac Nicholson, Tomas Burton, Edward K. Gibbon, Jacquetta Levon
  • * A League of Their Own – Andrew Norgate, Aiden Spackman, Kevin Day, Kevin Duff
  • * The Apprentice – James Clarke, Mark Owen, John Featherstone, Ian Hughes
  • * Strictly Come Dancing – Jason Gilkison, Mark Kenyon, Tony Revell, Dave Newton
  • Best Sound – FactualBest Sound – Fiction
    VE Day 70: The Nation Remembers – Andy James, Andy Payne, Andy Groves, Julian Pasqua
  • * The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone – Daniel Jones, Gareth Malone, Conrad Fletcher, Mat Wood
  • * Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough – John Rogerson, Richard Addis, Ryan Twyman, Freddie Claire
  • * La Traviata: Love, Death and Divas – Matt Skilton, Mike Hatch, Tony Burke
  • Wolf Hall – Sound Team
  • * The Enfield Haunting – Adrian Rhodes, Simon Farmer, Jamie Roden, Antony Bayman
  • * The Sound Of Music Live! – Kevin Duff, Andy Deacon, Sally Hesketh, Ben Milton
  • * Fortitude – Rudi Buckle, Phil Barnes, Blair Jollands, Howard Bargroff
  • * London Spy – Scott Jones, Robert Brazier, Joseph Stracey, Ian Voigt
  • * Doctor Foster – Stuart Hilliker, Jim Goddard, Billy Quinn, Tom Deane
  • Best TitlesBest Special, Visual and Graphic Effects
    Fortitude – MOMOCO
  • * Murder in Successville – Edward Tracy
  • * Luther – Nic Benns, Miki Kato
  • * The Last Kingdom – Paul McDonnell, Ben Hanbury, Hugo Moss
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Milk VFX
  • * The Last Kingdom – BlueBolt
  • * Fungus the Bogeyman – DNeg TV, Chris Rodgers
  • * Doctor Who – Milk VFX, Millennium FX, Real SFX, Molinare
  • Special Award