Baby Reindeer, Rivals and Slow Horses each won two prizes at the 2025 BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
Richard Gadd won the Writer Drama category and Weronika Tofilska won for Director: Fiction for Baby Reindeer.
Rivals’ two prizes were won by Jill Sweeney, Abi Brotherton, Natalie Allan, Tifanny Pierre, Franziska Roesslhuber and Martine Watkins for the Make-up and Hair category, and Dominic Hyman won for Production Design.
Slow Horses’ trophies went to Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Alex Ellerington, Duncan Price and Abbie Shaw won for Sound: Fiction and to Robert Frost for Editing: Fiction, for their work on episode one of the show.
Meanwhile, Janet Fraser Crook collected the Director: Multi-Camera BAFTA for Glastonbury 2024.
Previous BAFTA winner Marcel Mettelsiefen won Photography: Factual for State of Rage; Photography & Lighting: Fiction was won by Christopher Ross for Shōgun.
Jason Smith, Richard Bain, Ryan Conder and Chris Rodgers collected the award for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Brian Moseley, Angela Groves, Paul Fisher, Chris Watson and Ioannis Spanos won Sound: Factual for Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough.
Director: Factual was won by Charlie Hamilton James for Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story.
Peter Anderson Studio won for Sweetpea in the Titles and Graphic Identity category.
Following her win in 2019 Suzanne Cave won Costume Design for Eric. The new category Children’s Craft Team was won by Tom Bidwell, Jennifer Perrott, Rick Thiele, Sarah Brewerton, Anna Rackard and James Mather for The Velveteen Rabbit.
Shining a spotlight on the emerging talent in the industry writer Lucia Keskin won Emerging Talent: Fiction for Things You Should Have Done and director of photography Jaber Badwan won for Emerging Talent Factual for Kill Zone: Inside Gaza.
Entertainment Craft Team went to Andy Devonshire, Rebecca Bowker, James Dillon and Dru Masters for Taskmaster. Scripted Casting was won by Isabella Odoffin for Supacell.
First-time BAFTA winners included, Noor Khaleghi, Original Music: Factual for Rage Against the Regime: Iran, Sarah Keeling, winner of Editing: Factual for Life and Death in Gaza (Storyville) and Tim Phillips and PJ Harvey for Bad Sisters in Original Music: Fiction.
Previous winners, in 2018, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton collected the BAFTA for Writer: Comedy for Inside No. 9.
Anita Dobson presented the Television Craft Special Award to EastEnders. Kate Oates, head of genre, and Ben Wadey, executive producer, were presented with the award.
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards was hosted by Stacey Dooley, and took place at The Brewery London.
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