The BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2025 Nominations: From Exceptional Writing to Remarkable Directing

Popular British TV shows dominate the nominations at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2025. Big shows like Slow Horses and Baby Reindeer have received six and eight nominations respectively. Along with the Disney Plus show, Rivals, and ITVs Mr Bates vs The Post Office edging close behind.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominated 134 programmes this year. But the categories span from Writing, Photography, and Casting to Directing, Editing, and Visual Effects.

Also up for four nominations is FX’s drama series, Say Nothing which is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s true story, Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Mayhem In Northern Ireland. However, it’s also worthy to note that an impressive 21 of the 44 nominees have received their first-ever nomination for a BAFTA Television Craft Award.

Read Below For the BAFTA TV Awards 2025 Nominees:

Children’s Craft Team

• BooSnoo!
• Hey Duggee
• Horrible Histories
• The Velveteen Rabbit

Costume Design

• Ian Fulcher for Black Doves
• Suzanne Cave for Eric
• Annie Symons and Jason Airey for Mary & George
• Ján Kocman for The Tattoo of Auschwitz

Director: Factual

• Charlie Hamilton James for Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
• Natasha Cox for Life and Death in Gaza (Storyville)
• Colette Camden for Lucan
• Tom Green & Tommy Forbes for Me and the Voice in My Head

Director: Fiction, Sponsored By 3 Mills Studios

• Weronika Tofilska for Baby Reindeer
• Molly Manners for One Day
• Nida Manzoor for We Are Lady Parts
• Peter Kosminsky for Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Director: Multi-Camera

• Chris Cook for BBC General Election 2024
• Directing Team for D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen
• Janet Fraser Cook for Glastonbury 2024
• Nikki Parsons for Strictly Come Dancing

Editing: Factual

• Otto Burnham for Apollo 13: Survival
• Sarah Keeling for Life and Death in Gaza (Storyville)
• Sean Mackenzie & Chris Nicholls for Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain
• Kate Spankie for Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods

Editing: Fiction

• Peter Oliver & Benjamin Gerstein for Baby Reindeer
• Mike Jones for Mr Bates vs The Post Office
• Robert Frost for Slow Horses (Episode One)
• Luke Dunkley for The Day of the Jackal

Emerging Talent: Factual

• Lucy Wells (Shooting Director) for 24 Hours in Police Custody: Murder on Prescription
• Jaber Badwan (Director of Photography) for Kill Zone: Inside Gaza
• Anna Johnston (Director) for Parole

Emerging Talent: Fiction, Sponsored By Sara Putt Associates

• Mitch Kalisa (Director) for Letting Go (On The Edge)
• Phil Dunning (Writer) for Smoggie Queens
• Lucia Keskin (Writer) for Things You Should Have Done
• Kyla Harris & Lee Getty (Writers) for We Might Regret This

Entertainment Craft Team, Sponsored By Hotcam

• Miracles
• Strictly Come Dancing
• Taskmaster
• The Traitors

Make Up & Hair Design

• Erika Ökvist for Bridgerton
• Nic Collins for Joan
• Mary & George
• Rivals

Original Music: Factual

• Jessica Jones for American Nightmare
• Tandis Jenhudson for Israel & Gaza: Into the Abysss (Exposure)
• Noor Khaleghi for Rage Against The Regime: Iran
• Nitin Sawhney for Tiger

Original Music: Fiction

• Tim Phillips & PJ Harvey for Bad Sisters
• Natalie Holt & Jack Halama for Rivals
• Daniel Pemberton & Toy Drum for Slow Horses
• Carly Paradis for Until I Kill You

Photography & Lighting: Fiction

• Benedict Spence for Eric
• Stephen Murphy for Say Nothing (Episode Eight)
• Christopher Ross for Shogun
• Nick Morris for Sweetpea

Photography: Factual

• Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
• Camera Team for Life and Death in Gaza (Storyville)
• Silverback
• Marcel Mettelsiefen for State of Rage

Production Design, Sponsored By Microsoft

• Ashleigh Jeffers for Breathtaking
• Chris Seagers for Masters of the Air
• Dominic Hyman for Rivals
• Richard Bullock for The Day of the Jackal

Scripted Casting

• Lauren Evans for Lost Boys and Fairies
• Jill Trevellick for Mr Bates vs The Post Office
• Kelly Valentine Hendry for Rivals
• Isabella Odoffin for Supacell

Sound: Factual

• Apollo13: Survival
• Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
• The Sound Team for Earthsounds
• Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough

Sound: Fiction

• Baby Reindeer
• House of the Dragon
• Slow Horses
• True Detective: Night Country

Special, Visual And Graphic Effects

• House of the Dragon
• Masters of the Air
• Silo
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Titles & Graphic Identity

• Matt Curtis for A Gentleman in Moscow
• Ludwig
• Paris 2024 Olympics
• Peter Anderson Studio for Sweetpea

Writer: Comedy

• Reese Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton for Inside No.9
• Brett Goldstein for Shrinking
• Phil Dunning for Smoggie Queens
• Nida Manzoor for We Are Lady Parts

Writer: Drama

• Richard Gadd for Baby Reindeer
• Mickey Down & Konrad Kay for Industry
• Gwyneth Hughes for Mr Bates vs The Post Office
• Nicole Taylor for One Day

The BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2025 will be hosted by Stacey Dooley and will air on 27th April 2025. You can watch the BAFTAS TV Craft Awards on BBC One with catch up available on BBC iPlayer.
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