Baby Reindeer, Rivals and Slow Horses all big winners at Bafta TV Craft Awards

Baby Reindeer won two Bafta TV Craft awards

Netflix stalker drama Baby Reindeer, Disney+ black comedy Rivals and Apple TV+ spy thriller series Slow Horses all took home two honours each at the Bafta Television Craft Awards last night.

Held at the Brewery in London and hosted by TV presenter Stacey Dooley, the star-studded ceremony celebrates the best behind-the-scenes talent in the industry.

Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd picked up the gong for Best Writer: Drama, while Weronika Tofilska triumphed in the Best Director: Fiction category for the same show.

Jilly Cooper adaptation rivals, starring David Tennant and Aidan Turner, took home honours for Best Make Up and Hair Design (Jill Sweeney, Abi Brotherton, Natalie Allan, Tiffany Pierre, Franziska Roesslhuber & Martine Watkins), and Best Production Design (Dominic Hyman); while Slow Horses was victorious in the Best Editing: Fiction (Robert Frost) and Best Sound: Fiction brackets (Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Alex Ellerington, Duncan Price & Abbie Shaw).

Former The League of Gentlemen stars Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton were named Best Writer: Comedy for dark anthology series Inside No.9. Isabella Odoffin, meanwhile, won Best Scripted Casting for Netflix superhero hit Supacell.

Charlie Hamilton-James was named Best Director: Factual for the National Geographic docufilm Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story; while Janet Fraser Cook won Best Director: Multi-Camera for the BBC’s Glastonbury 2024 music festival coverage.

In the Best Original Music categories, Tim Phillips and PJ Harvey accepted the Fiction award for Apple TV+ Irish black comedy Bad Sisters, while Noor Khalegi picked up the Factual equivalent for BBC Two’s Rage Against the Regime: Iran.

Channel 4 comedy panel format Taskmaster was named Best Entertainment Craft Team (Andy Devonshire, Rebecca Bowker, James Dillon & Dru Masters); Best Costume Design went to Suzanne Cave for Netflix’s Eric; and the Best Children’s Craft Team was picked up by Jennifer Perrott, Rick Thiele, Sarah Brewerton, Anna Rackard, James Mather & Tom Bidwell for Apple TV+ fantasy short The Velveteen Rabbit.

Best Photography and Lighting: Fiction went to Christopher Ross for Disney+ historical epic Shōgun; Marcel Mettelsiefen won Best Photography: Factual for Channel 4’s State of Rage; and Best Sound: Factual was collected by Brian Moseley, Angela Groves, Paul Fisher, Chris Watson & Ioannis Spanos for Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough.

Prime Video fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power scooped Best Special, Visual and Graphic Effects (Jason Smith, Richard Bain, Ryan Conder & Chris Rodgers); and Peter Anderson Studio won Best Titles and Graphic Identity for Sky Atlantic’s dark comedy Sweetpea.

Best Editing: Factual went to Sarah Keeling for Storyville: Life and Death in Gaza; while the Best Emerging Talent Categories were won by writer Lucia Keskin for BBC Three’s Things You Should Have Done (Fiction), and DoP Jaber Badwan for Kill Zone: Inside Gaza (Factual).

Finally, the 2025 Special Award went to BBC One soap opera EastEnders and was picked up by former cast member Anita Dobson.