Owen Cooper (center) as Jamie Miller and Stephen Graham (right) as Jamie’s dad, Eddie, in 'Adolescence.' Courtesy of Netflix Netflix drama Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors were the biggest winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2026, which were handed out in London on Sunday, with each show receiving two honors.
Among the key winners, the craft award for best drama writer went to Will Smith for Slow Horses, while Philip Barantini won the best director in fiction honor for his work on Adolescence.
Other honors went to Andor, Amadeus, Reunion, Trespasses, The Celebrity Traitors, The Last Musician of Auschwitz and Mussolini: Son of the Century.
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The BAFTA TV Craft Awards ceremony, celebrating the best behind-the-scenes TV talent of 2024, was hosted by comedian Maisie Adam and held at The Brewery in the British capital, an 18th-century brewery recast as an events venue.
More U.K. TV awards are set to be handed out soon. The BAFTA TV Awards will be held on Sunday, May 10, at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Comedian and Taskmaster host Greg Davies will host the event. Across the TV and TV Craft Awards, Netflix’s hit Adolescence earned 11 nominations, followed by Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with seven.
The full list of Sunday’s 2026 BAFTA TV Craft Awards winners, highlighted in bold, follows.
Children’s Craft Team Ben Bocquelet, Joe Sparrow, Luke Allen, james Lancett, Adrian Cathie, Andy Goodman, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters, Bronwen Slater, The Very Small Creatures (WINNER) Samantha Cutler, Jeroen Jaspaert, Steven Bloomer, Terry Davies, Adrian Rhodes, Shannan Taylor, The Scarecrows’ Wedding Simon Partington, Andy Farago, Simon Couzens, Sandy Nuttgens, Alex Copley, Andy Brittain, BooSnoo! Costume Design Emma O’Loughlin, Trespasses Maja Meschede, A Thousand Blows (WINNER) Michael Wilkinson, Andor Rhona Russell, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth Director: Factual Benedict Sanderson, See No Evil Karim Shah, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack Olaide Sadiq, Grenfell: Uncovered Rob Coldstream, Vietnam: The War That Changed America (WINNER) Director: Fiction Dawn Shadforth, Trespasses Janus Metz, Andor Philip Barantini, Adolescence (WINNER) Sam Donovan, Severance Director: Multi-Camera Ben Archard, Eddie Lewis, Marieke Barker-Benfield, The Celebrity Traitors Ben Hardy, Last One Laughing Diccon Ramsay, VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember Laurence Cawsey, Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (WINNER) Editing: Factual Jennifer Asheitu Hampson, Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers Mel Quigley, Andy Kemp, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (WINNER) Paul Hammacott, Louis Theroux: The Settlers Samuel R. Santana, Grenfell: Uncovered Editing: Fiction Fiona Brands, Slow Horses (Episode 6) Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Prisoner 951 (WINNER) Simon Smith, The Last of Us Yan Miles, Andor Emerging Talent: Factual Alexandra Lacey, writer-director, The Twister: Caught in the Storm Elle Mower, director, Convicting My Ex Olaide Sadiq, director, Grenfell: Uncovered (WINNER) Emerging Talent: Fiction Chloe English, director, G’wed Emily McDonald, director, Am I Being Unreasonable? Eros V, director, Juice Janice Okoh, writer, Just Act Normal (WINNER) Entertainment Craft Team Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams, Nathan Lindley, The Celebrity Traitors (WINNER) Diccon Ramsay, Rikki Finlay, Mat Weekes, Ben Norman, James Tinsley, Robert Mansfield, Squid Game: The Challenge Graham Proud, Toby Wilkinson, Sam Turner, Alex Weeks, Jennifer Ford, Rob & Romesh Vs… Philip Barantini, Nyk Allen, Jacob Smith, Joe Blodgett, Frank Larson, Brendan Poutier, One Shot: With Ed Sheeran Make Up & Hair Design Lucy Sibbick, Victoria Money, Slow Horses Sjaan Gillings, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth Sian Wilson, Caroline Greenough , Clare Ramsey, Cheryl Garvey, Madlen Mierzwiak, A Thousand Blows Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrier Gower, Amadeus (WINNER) Original Music: Factual Anne Nikitin, Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey Jessica Dannheisser, The Last Musician of Auschwitz (WINNER) Louis Dodd, Matthew Sanches, The Sycamore Gap Mystery Sophy Purnell, Moon: Nature’s Secret Force Original Music: Fiction Ariel Marx, Hotel Reverie (Black Mirror) Federico Jusid, A Thousand Blows Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, The Death of Bunny Munro Tom Rowlands, Mussolini: Son of the Century (WINNER) Photography: Factual Camera Team, Secrets of the Penguins Jordan Bryon, Our Land: Israel’s Other War (WINNER) Marcel Mettelsiefen, State of War: Fighting the Narcos (Exposure) Stefano Ferrari, Tim Cragg, Surviving Black Hawk Down Photography & Lighting: Fiction Catherine Goldschmidt, The Last of Us Matthew Lewis, Adolescence Ryan Kernaghan, Trespasses (WINNER) Suzie Lavelle, Severance Production Design Gillian Devenney, Trespasses Luke Hull, Rebecca Alleyway, Toby Britton, Andor Philippa Mumford, Juice (WINNER) Tom Burton, Grant Bailey, Barbara Herman-Skelding, A Thousand Blows Scripted Casting Nathan Toth, What it Feels Like for a Girl Nathan Toth, Julie Harkin, Reunion (WINNER) Shaheen Baig, Adolescence Shaheen Baig, Get Millie Black Sound: Factual Andy Deacon, Kevin Dugg, Will Thomas Jonathan Gibson, The Lost Music of Auschwitz Sount Team, The Celebrity Traitors (WINNER) Sound Team, Formula 1: Drive to Survive Tristan Powell, Will Chapman, The Last Musician of Auschwitz Sound: Fiction Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Ben Tisdall, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Conor Thompson, Slow Horses Danny Hambrook, David Acord, Margit Pfeiffer, James Spencer, Josh Gold, John Finklea, Andor James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McMAnus, Kyle Pickford, Adam Mendez, Adolescence (WINNER) Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Saoirse Christopherson, Andy Kennedy, Lee Crichlow, Chris Campion, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth Special, Visual & Graphic Effects James Maclachlan, Josie Henwood, Union VFX Studios Malta, Magic Lab Studios, Sam Chynoweth, USS Callister: Into Infinity (Black Mirror) Luke Murphy, Mohen Leo, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clement Soret, Andor (WINNER) Russell Dodgson, Framestore, Andy Jones, Simon Bland, Francois Dumoulin, Gavin McKenzie, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Sara Bennett, Richard Reed, David Stephens, Jet Omoshebi, Caimin Bourne, Scanline, The Witcher Titles & Graphic Identity Huge Designs, Code of Silence Isabella Eklof, Luke Dunkley, Mike Holliday, Tony Kearns, Dean Wares, The Death of Bunny Munro Light Creative, A Thousand Blows Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes, UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 (WINNER) Writer: Comedy Daisy May Cooper, Selin Hizli, Am I Being Unreasonable? Jack Rooke, Big Boys (WINNER) Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) Writer: Drama Ailbhe Keogan, Trespasses Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham, Adolescence Paris Lees, What It Feels Like For a Girl Will Smith, Slow Horses (WINNER)
BAFTA Television Craft Special Award (WINNER) Simone Pennant, founder and CEO of The TV Collective
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