BAFTA award ceremony are always glitzy affairs, and the TV Craft awards are no different. Taking place at London’s The Brewery, the biggest and best talent in TV were celebrated, with awards being given out for Best Costume Design, Best Writer and Best Director.
The first winner of the night was The Musketeers, with Phoebe De Gaye taking away the award for Best Costume Design. Clearly a little flabbergasted by her win, she took to the media room with only great things to say about her time on the BBC One smash:
It’s a great show to design. It’s got great scope, fantastic characters and it’s a great period to be given a bit of a contemporary feel to it. We also had a fantastic set up in the Czech Republic, which gave us a lot of room to make great costumes
But De Gaye did reveal that she has now left The Musketeers, stating that she will be leaving the show to spend time with her family, she did reassure that the show’s costume design has been left in “very capable hands” -phew!
And it wouldn’t be an award show without fan favourites getting shown some love, with Doctor Who picking up a SFX and VFX BAFTA for their work on episode ‘Deep Breath’, and Sherlock picking up Best Editing.
Speaking to THN, Kate Walsh at Millennium SFX and Murray Barber for Milk VFK spoke about how challenging but “exciting” the episode was to create. Barber said:
It was a huge collaboration between the two companies and it worked incredibly well. It was hugely enjoyable, Ben Wheatley, the director, made it a lot of fun…he’s got a film coming out soon actually called HIGH RISE which is brilliant and I urge you all to go and see.
When we asked the pair about the show’s huge following, Barber admitted that the huge response would have kept him up at night if he would have known…
We won a BAFTA for the 50th anniversary episode and somebody had asked me “Is there anything that keeps you up at night?” and I remember thinking “Yeah the 77 million people that watched it!” If I would have known that before hand, I wouldn’t have slept!
Adding onto the message, Walsh admitted that the now BAFTA award winning Half-Face Man kept her up at night, saying she did not sleep much through December and January! We’re sure the sleepless night was worth it…
While there were many winners that have been in the industry for many years, BAFTA also celebrated the new talent coming through – with Best Breakthrough going to Mark Williams. Williams directed the brilliant Channel 4 documentary Last Chance School. The programme, which had very little interviews and relied on the children telling their story, was an experience that will stay with the director forever:
I think when you make a documentary and you absorb in their lives, you get very emotionally involved, and in this case the boys who often had troubled pasts. They’re really trying to conquer themselves in the film so we were really rooting for them. By the end of the shoot we were really amazed at the boys and how they grew, it really changes your life when you go through something like that.
Channel 4 documentaries got a lot of love on the night – with Dan Reed winning Best Director: Factual for The Pedophile Hunter, the documentary that followed online blogger Stinson Hunter as he tries and stops online pedophiles by exposing them in stings. We asked Reed whether a documentary sequel was on the cards, in which Reed replied:
Not a documentary, but I would definitely love to do a movie. I’m in talks with Stinson right now about it actually…
Through out the night we saw winners in the form of MacKenzie Crook (who admitted he was a little “dazed” over his BAFTA win for Detectorists), the crew of Penny Dreadful and The X Factor, but the last award of the night went to Julian Farino, who won Best Director for Neil Baldwin TV movie Marvellous. He has been overwhelmed with the response the biopic has had…
We live in a dark and brooding age, so to have something that looked on the light side, the positively of life, was absolutely lovely to do and I’m so happy that it connected with people…
Farino is known for his work on hit HBO shows like Entourage, and he is continuing his work with them. He has just finished up Ballers, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson:
It’s an half hour comedy, many time the budget of Marvellous but still a great show, but it’s so different I can’t even begin to tell you, it’s a wish fulfilment! I’m just joking to myself just how different it was from Marvellous, all those cold nights in Stoke On Trent to an American comedy drama with a big movie star!
With the special award being handed to Vision Mixer Hilary Briegel, that marked the end of another BAFTA event. We can’t wait to see what next year brings us!
