- Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors each win two BAFTAs
- Janice Okoh wins Emerging Talent: Fiction for Just Act Normal
- Olaide Sadiq wins Emerging Talent: Factual for Grenfell: Uncovered
- Simone Pennant MBE receives BAFTA Television Craft Special Award
Tonight, BAFTA has announced the winners of the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards with Samsung OLED at a ceremony in London. Celebrating the exceptional creativity, skill and craft of behind-the-scenes television talent and the best programmes of 2025.
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The following programmes won two BAFTAs each:
- Philip Barantini won the Director: Fiction category and James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McManus, Kyle Pickford and Adam Méndez won for Sound: Fiction for Adolescence
- Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams and Nathan Lindley won the Entertainment Craft Team category, and Sound Team won for Sound: Factual for The Celebrity Traitors.
Shining a spotlight on emerging talent, writer Janice Okoh won Emerging Talent: Fiction for Just Act Normal and director and BAFTA Breakthrough Olaide Sadiq won Emerging Talent: Factual for Grenfell: Uncovered.
Director: Multicamera was won by Laurence Cawsey for Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur.
BAFTA Breakthrough and previous winner in 2024, Jack Rooke collected the BAFTA for Writer: Comedy for Big Boys.
First-time BAFTA winners included, Will Smith, Writer: Drama for Slow Horses; Maja Meschede, winner of Costume Design for A Thousand Blows; Ryan Kernaghan for Trespasses in Photography & Lighting: Fiction; Philippa Mumford for Juice in Production Design; Rob Coldstream for Vietnam: The War That Changed America in Director: Factual; Jessica Dannheisser for The Last Musician of Auschwitz in Original Music: Factual and Tom Rowlands for Mussolini: Son of the Century in Original Music: Fiction.
Children’s Craft Team was won by Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters and Bronwen Slater for The Very Small Creatures.
Make Up & Hair Design went to Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrie Gower and Attila Veg for Amadeus. Scripted Casting was won by Nathan Toth and Julie Harkin for Reunion.
Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp won Editing: Factual for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack and Photography: Factual was won by Jordan Bryon for Our Land: Israel’s Other War.
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle won Editing: Fiction for Prisoner 951.
Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes and Phil Bigwood won for UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 in the Titles and Graphic Identity category.
Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Luke Murphy, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clément Soret and Industrial Light & Magic collected the Award for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for Andor.
The BAFTA Television Craft Special Award was presented by BAFTA Trustee Ade Rawcliffe to Founder of The TV Collective, Simone Pennant. The award recognises Simone’s extraordinary leadership and the lasting legacy of change she has brought to the screen industries since founding The TV Collective (TVC) in 2008.
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards with Samsung OLED was hosted by Maisie Adam, and took place at The Brewery in London. The night featured a host of top TV talent as guest presenters including; Hammed Animashaun, Liz Carr, Chris Chung, Anne Marie Duff, Owain Wyn Evans, Leila Farzad, Amy Gledhill, Gillian Joseph, Dr Trishala Lakhani, Katherine Parkinson, Jessica Raine, Alexandria Riley, Mawaan Rizwaan, Lou Sanders, Emmett J. Scanlan, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, and Victoria Smurfitt.
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The BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises, hosted by Greg Davies, will take place on Sunday 10 May and will be broadcast at 7pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with content on @BAFTA
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