News: Bafta Wins for Inside No 9 Director, This Country Writers & Famalam's Akemnji Ndifornyen

The director of the live Inside no 9 episode has picked up a prize at th BAFTA Academy Television Craft Awards.

Barbara Wiltshire was the winner in the Director: Multi-Camera category for her work on the ground-breaking episode Dead Line, which went out as a Halloween Special in 2018.

Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, the duo behind This Country, won in Writer: Comedy category.

The Breakthrough Talent category was won this year by composer, producer and writer Akemnji Ndifornyen for Famalam.

Elsewhere A Very English Scandal, the drama mini-series based on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal, was successful in three BAFTA categories: Costume Design, Director: Fiction and Editing: Fiction.

Two programmes won two BAFTAs each. Spy drama Killing Eve, starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, was successful in Original Music and Sound: Fiction. Patrick Melrose received the Production Design and Writer: Drama awards.

The award for Entertainment Craft Team was presented to the BBC Studios team for Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance, which paid tribute to the victims of war and conflict. The Director: Factual BAFTA was presented to Ben Anthony for Grenfell.

First-time winners included Will Gilbey in Editing: Factual for Bros: After the Screaming Stops; Lindsay McCrae in Photography: Factual for Dynasties: Emperor; and Woo-hyung Kim in Photography & Lighting: Fiction for The Little Drummer Girl.

The Make-Up & Hair Design BAFTA was presented to Vanity Fair. The award for Sound: Factual was won by Later Live…With Jools Holland. Special, Visual & Graphic Effectswas won by Troy: Fall of a City, and, for Titles & Graphic Identity, the 2018 Winter Olympics ‘The Fearless are Here’ won the BAFTA.

Script supervisor Emma Thomas was presented with the BAFTA Special Award for her outstanding contribution to the industry. Emma has acted as script supervisor on some of the most cherished television shows including Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds of a Feather, Benidorm, Bad Education, Luther and The Bill. Most recently, Emma was the script supervisor on Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle for BBC Four, a series of monologues that reveal the hopes, desires, achievements, shattered dreams and broken promises of a single fictionalised family over four generations. The award was presented by Greg Davies.   

 

 

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