British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Factual

British Academy Television Craft Award
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded2008
Currently held byFelicity Morris for The Tinder Swindler (2023)
Websitehttp://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Factual is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.

In 2006 and 2007 there was only on category for directors but in 2008 the category was split in three separate categories to recognize directing for different programming, first creating Best Director: Factual and Best Director: Fiction and then in 2011 Best Director: Multi-Camera.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Best Director

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2006 Brian Percival Much Ado About Nothing BBC One
Simon Cellan Jones The Queen's Sister Channel 4
Joe Ahearne Doctor Who BBC One
Justin Chadwick Bleak House
2007 Edmund Coulthard Soundproof BBC Two
Tom Hooper Longford Channel 4
Adrian Shergold Low Winter Sun
Bharat Nalluri Life on Mars BBC One

Best Director: Factual

Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster
2008 Jezza Neumann Dispatches "China’s Stolen Children" Channel 4
Annabel Gillings Earth: The Power of the Planet "Atmosphere" BBC Two
Livia Russell Grand Designs Channel 4
Joseph Bullman The Seven Sins of England
2009 Morgan Matthews The Fallen BBC Two
Amanda Blue Prescott: The Class System and Me BBC Two
Jonathan Smith The Family Channel 4
Stephen Walker A Boy Called Alex

2010s

Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster
2010 Patrick Forbes The Force Channel 4
Annabel Gillings How Earth Made Us "Water" BBC Two
Nick Read Dispatches "The Slumdog Children of Mumbai" Channel 4
Dan Reed "Terror in Mumbai"
2011 Dan Reed Dispatches "The Battle for Haiti" Channel 4
Gideon Bradshaw, Paul Olding Wonders of the Solar System "Empire of the Sun" BBC Two
Chris Holt "The Thin Blue Line"
Nicolas Brown Human Planet "Arctic" BBC One
2012 David Clews Educating Essex Channel 4
Vanessa Berlowitz, Chadden Hunter, Kathryn Jeffs Frozen Planet "To the Ends of the Earth" BBC One
Sacha Mirzoeff Protecting Our Children BBC Two
Charlie Russell Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
2013 Ben Chanan The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes Channel 4
Katharine English Our War BBC Three
John Dower Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow Sky Atlantic
Ben Anthony 7/7 One Day in London BBC Two
2014 Nick Holt The Murder Trial Channel 4
Lee Phillips Her Majesty's Prison Aylesbury ITV
David Brindley, Grace Reynolds Educating Yorkshire Channel 4
Sara Hardy, Blue Ryan The Unspeakable Crime: Rape BBC One
2015 Dan Reed The Paedophile Hunter Channel 4
Ben Anthony Life and Death Row "Execution" BBC Three
Alisa Pomeroy 24 Hours in Police Custody Channel 4
Neil Crombie Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
2016 Dave Nath The Murder Detectives Channel 4
Adam Jessel Professor Green: Suicide and Me BBC Three
James Newton The Detectives BBC Two
Ursula Macfarlane Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris Channel 4
2017
[1]
James Bluemel Exodus: Our Journey to Europe BBC Two
Anna Hall Behind Closed Doors BBC One
Daniel Gordon Hillsborough BBC Two
Peter Beard Gender Clinic: Kids on the Edge Channel 4
2018
[2]
Charlie Russell Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me BBC Two
Anna Hall Catching a Killer "The Search for Natalie Hemming" Channel 4
Will Yapp The Real Full Monty ITV
Xavier Alford Drugsland "Heroin Love Story" BBC Three
2019
[3]
Ben Anthony Grenfell BBC One
David Soutar, Joe Pearlman Bros: After the Screaming Stops BBC Four
James Rogan Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation BBC One
Paddy Wivell Prison Channel 4

2020s

Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster
2020
[4][5]
Arthur Cary, Morgan Matthews, Katherine Anstey, Joby Gee The Last Survivors BBC Two
Dan Reed Leaving Neverland Channel 4
Mark Lewis Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer Netflix
Robin Barnwell Exposure "Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag" ITV
2021
[6]
Teresa Griffiths Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line BBC Two
Xavier Alford Storyville "Locked in: Breaking the Silence" BBC Four
James Bluemel Once Upon a Time in Iraq BBC Two
Deeyah Khan Exposure "America's War on Abortion" ITV
2022
[7][8]
James Newton Grenfell: The Untold Story Channel 4
Arthur Cary Surviving 9/11 BBC Two
Jamie Roberts Four Hours at the Capitol
James Newton Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles Channel 4
2023
[9][10]
Felicity Morris The Tinder Swindler Netflix
James Jones Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes Sky Documentaries
Emma Cooper The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes Netflix
Sophie Robinson My Dead Body Channel 4
2024
[11]
Gesbeen Mohammad Exposure "Inside Iran: The Fight for Freedom" ITV
James Bluemel Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland BBC Two
John Dower Lockerbie Sky Documentaries
Peter Beard, Bruce Fletcher Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story

See also

References

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