Five nominations for Parade’s End
Four nominations for The Girl, Ripper Street and The Hour
Doctor Who, 7/7 One Day in London, Call the Midwife, Amish: A Secret Life, Richard II, The Thick of It, Top Gear , The Fear and The London 2012 Olympics: Super Saturday each receive two nominations
London 2012-themed programming features across five categories
One of the most important things behind any final production, is all the craft and hard work that goes into making them look awesome. Today , BAFTA have announced the nominations for its annual British Academy Television Craft Awards, which honour the very best behind-the-scenes talent from television. This year’s ceremony will be held at The Brewery, in the City of London, on Sunday 28th April.
A diverse range of programmes compete in each category for the coveted BAFTA masks. Leading the way with five nominations is BBC Two’s five-part period drama, Parade’s End, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson. BBC Two’s The Girl follows closely with four nominations, and stars Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock in a one-off drama that charts the acclaimed director’s obsessive relationship with Tippi Hedren, star of his 1962 film The Birds, played by Sienna Miller.
Also with four nominations each are BBC One’s Jack the Ripper drama, Ripper Street, which took viewers back to the East End of London in 1889, and The Hour, BBC Two’s drama set behind the scenes of a 1950s current affairs programme. A number of programmes have two nominations each: family drama Doctor Who; Call the Midwife, the 1950s medical drama based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth; the documentaries 7/7 One Day in London, which gathered testimony from people directly affected by the terrorist attack on London’s public transport network in 2005, and Amish: A Secret Life, which gave viewers an intimate portrait of Amish family life and faith; an adaption of Shakespeare’s Richard II; the political satire The Thick of it; the driving show Top Gear; and The Fear, starring Peter Mullan as an ageing gangster suffering from an aggressive form of dementia.
London 2012 is a strong theme throughout this year’s shortlist, featuring in three of the four nominations in the Director: Multi-Camera category: The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isle of Wonder; The London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: Symphony of British Music; and The London 2012 Olympics: Super Saturday, which is also nominated in the Sound: Factual category. Furthermore, Channel 4 Paralympics is nominated in the Digital Creativity category, BBC One’s The Psychology of Winning picks up a nomination in Visual & Graphic Effects, whilst John Morton receives a nomination for Twenty Twelve in Writer: Comedy, a category introduced for the first time this year.
Other nominees in the Writer: Comedy category include Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine for Getting On, Julia Davis for Hunderby, and Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche and Simon Blackwell for The Thick of It. Nominees in the Writer: Drama category are Shaun Duggan and Jimmy McGovern for Accused (Tracie’s Story), Gwyneth Hughes for The Girl, Sally Wainwright for The Last Tango in Halifax, and Tom Stoppard for Parade’s End.
Industry-renowned television director Hamish Hamilton will receive the BAFTA Special Award at the British Academy Television Craft Awards. The Award recognises Hamish’s ability to showcase unique live spectacles through multi-camera-based television directing, with millions watching his work on the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympic Games. You can read more on his award by clicking along here!
The British Academy Television Craft Awards recognise skills across 19 different categories: Break-Through Talent sponsored by Sara Putt Associates; Costume Design; Digital Creativity sponsored by Brightcove; Director: Factual; Director: Fiction; Director: Multi-Camera sponsored by The Farm LA; Editing: Factual; Editing: Fiction; Entertainment Craft Team sponsored by Hotcam; Make-up and Hair Design sponsored by MAC; Original Music; Photography: Factual; Photography & Lighting: Fiction; Production Design sponsored by The London Studios; Sound: Factual; Sound: Fiction; Visual & Graphic Effects; Writer: Drama; and Writer: Comedy.
We look forward to seeing what happens this year at the ceremony on Sunday 28th April. It’s held at The Brewery, in London and set to be hosted by Stephen Mangan, who had this to say:
“I’m absolutely delighted to be hosting BAFTA’s TV Craft Awards again, especially as it’s taking place at somewhere called The Brewery; my kind of evening.”
If you’re looking for the full – massive – list of nominations, here you go!
SPECIAL AWARD
Hamish Hamilton
BREAK-THROUGH TALENT sponsored by Sara Putt Associates
Mike Bartlett (Writer) – The Town
Big Talk Productions/ITV
Julie Gearey (Writer) – Prisoners’ Wives
Tiger Aspect for BBC Scotland/BBC One
Rhys Thomas (Director) – Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (Director’s Cut)
Mercury Songs/Eagle Rock/BBC Four
Tim Whitnall (Writer) – Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Mammoth Screen/BBC Four
COSTUME DESIGN
Amy Roberts – Mrs Biggs
ITV Studios/ ITV
Sheena Napier – Parade’s End
Mammoth Screen/BBC Two
Odile Dicks-Mireaux – Richard II (The Hollow Crown)
Neal Street Productions/BBC Two
Lorna Marie Mugan – Ripper Street
Tiger Aspect Productions/BBC One
DIGITAL CREATIVITY sponsored by Brightcove
Steve Boulton, James Rutherford – Channel 4 Paralympics
deltatre/13 Strides/Channel 4
Production Team – Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic
Maverick Television/Channel 4
Production Team – Foxes Live: Wild in the City
Windfall Films/Channel 4
Production Team – The Great British Property Scandal
Tiger Aspect & The Project Factory/Channel 4
DIRECTOR: FACTUAL
Katharine English – Our War
BBC Productions/BBC Three
Ben Chanan – The Plot to Bring Down Britain’s Planes
Raw TV/Channel 4
John Dower – Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow
TwoFour Productions/Sky Atlantic
Ben Anthony – 7/7 One Day in London
Minnow Films/BBC Two
DIRECTOR: FICTION
Philippa Lowthorpe – Call the Midwife
Neal Street Productions /BBC One
Julian Jarrold – The Girl
Wall to Wall/BBC Two
Hettie McDonald – Hit and Miss
Red Production Company/Sky Atlantic
Birger Larsen – Murder
Touchpaper TV/BBC Two
DIRECTOR: MULTI-CAMERA sponsored by The Farm LA
Nikki Parsons – Strictly Come Dancing
BBC Productions/BBC One
Hamish Hamilton, Tapani Parm – The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isle of Wonder
Done & Dusted/BBC One
Hamish Hamilton, Tapani Parm – The London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: Symphony of British Music
Done & Dusted/BBC One
Paul Davies – The London 2012 Olympics: Super Saturday
BBC Sport/BBC One
EDITING: FACTUAL
Michael Harrowes – The Secret History of Our Streets (Portland Road)
Century Films/Halcyons Heart/BBC Two
Rupert Houseman – 7/7 One Day in London
Minnow Films/BBC Two
Peter Christelis – Britain in a Day
Scott Free Films/BBC Two
Sean Mackenzie – Amish: A Secret Life
BBC Wales/BBC Two
EDITING: FICTION
Trevor Waite – The Fear
World Productions/Channel 4
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Ripper Street
Tiger Aspect Productions/BBC One
Anthony Boys, Gary Dollner – The Thick of It
BBC Productions/BBC Two
Gareth Scales – The Hour (Ep 1)
Kudos Film & Television/BBC Two
ENTERTAINMENT CRAFT TEAM sponsored by HotCam
Stephen Bryce, Andrew Cooke, Simon Ainge, Nick Foster – Derren Brown: Apocalypse
Objective Productions/Channel 4
Durham Marenghi, Steve Nolan, Sam Pattinson, Tim Routledge – The Diamond Jubilee Concert
BBC Productions/BBC One
Dan James, James Hart, Richard Porter, Kate Jones-Mackay – Top Gear
BBC Productions/BBC Two
Dave Davey, Robert Edwards, Florian Wieder, Julien Rigal – The X Factor (Final)
Thames/ITV
MAKE UP & HAIR DESIGN sponsored by MAC
Christine Walmesley-Cotham – Call the Midwife
Neal Street Productions/BBC One
Nadine Prigge, Neill Gorton, Clinton Aiden Smith – The Girl
Wall to Wall/BBC Two
Jan Archibald – Parade’s End
Mammoth Screen/BBC Two
Eileen Buggy, Sharon Doyle – Ripper Street
Tiger Aspect Productions/BBC One
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Murray Gold – Doctor Who (Asylum of the Daleks)
BBC Wales/BBC One
Kevin Sargent – The Hour
Kudos Film & Television/BBC Two
Ilan Eshkeri, Andy Burrows – The Snowman and the Snowdog
Lupus Films/Channel 4
Stephen Warbeck – Henry IV (The Hollow Crown)
Neal Street Productions co-production with NBC Universal and WNET Thirteen/BBC Two
PHOTOGRAPHY: FACTUAL
Steve Robinson – Amish: A Secret Life
BBC Wales/BBC Two
Tim Cragg, Robert Hollingworth, Tim Shepherd – Kingdom of Plants 3D
Atlantic Productions/Sky 3D
Rupert Binsley – Return to the Falklands
Factual North and Shiver/ITV
Julius Brighton, Paul O’Callaghan – Supersized Earth
BBC Specialist Factual/BBC One
PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING: FICTION
Christopher Ross – Blackout
Red Production Company/BBC One
Gavin Finney – The Fear
World Productions/Channel 4
Balazs Bolygo – Hunted
Kudos Film & Television/BBC One
Julian Court – Ripper Street
Tiger Aspect Productions/BBC One
PRODUCTION DESIGN sponsored by The London Studios
Darryl Hammer – The Girl
Wall to Wall/BBC Two
Eve Stewart – The Hour
Kudos Film & Television/BBC Two
Martin Childs – Parade’s End
Mammoth Screen/BBC Two
Donal Woods – Downton Abbey
Carnival Film & Television/ITV
SOUND: FACTUAL
Peter Bridges – The London 2012 Olympics: Super Saturday
BBC Sport/BBC One
George Foulgham, Sebastian Dunn – Brazil with Michael Palin
Prominent Television/BBC One
Chris Lebert, Robert Entwistle, Russell Edwards, Kiff McManus – Top Gear
BBC Productions/BBC Two
Grant Covacic, Pete Lee, Karl Mainzer, Michael Wood – The Plane Crash
Dragonfly Film & Television/Channel 4
SOUND: FICTION
Tim Fraser, Adrian Rhodes, Keith Marriner – Richard II (The Hollow Crown)
Neal Street Productions co-production with NBC Universal and WNET Thirteen/BBC Two
Paul Hamblin, Matt Skelding, Jim Goddard, Martin Beresford – Wallander
Leftbank Pictures/BBC One
Graham Headicar, Emma Pegram, Stuart Hilliker, Grant Bridgeman – Accused (Mo & Sue’s Story)
RSJ Films/BBC One
John Mooney, Nigel Squibbs, Jamie Caple, Marc Lawes – The Hour
Kudos Film & Television/BBC Two
VISUAL & GRAPHIC EFFECTS
The Mill – Doctor Who
BBC Wales/BBC One
Rupert Ray, Benuts – Parade’s End
Mammoth Screen/BBC Two
Robin Nurse, Julian Gibbs, Richard Gort – The Psychology of Winning
BBC Sport/The Intro Partnership/BBC One
Tom Turnbull – Titanic
ITV Studios/ITV
WRITER: DRAMA
Shaun Duggan, Jimmy McGovern – Accused (Tracie’s Story)
RSJ Films/BBC One
Gwyneth Hughes – The Girl
Wall to Wall/BBC Two
Sally Wainwright – Last Tango in Halifax
Red Production Company/BBC One
Tom Stoppard – Parade’s End
Mammoth Screen/BBC Two
WRITER: COMEDY
Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan – Getting On
Vera Productions/BBC Four
Julia Davis – Hunderby
Baby Cow Productions/Sky Atlantic
Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, Simon Blackwell – The Thick of It
BBC Productions/BBC Two
John Morton – Twenty Twelve
BBC Productions/BBC Two
Nominations are correct at the time of going to print. BAFTA reserves the right to make changes to the names listed at any time up until 28 April 2013.
