British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Emerging Talent: Fiction

British Academy Television Craft Award
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded2001
Currently held byPete Jackson for Somewhere Boy (2023)
Websitehttp://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Emerging Talent: Fiction 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. According to the BAFTA website, the category is "designed to recognise potential, awarding those who have begun to capture the attention of their peers through demonstrating exceptional talent and ambition within their craft for the first time in scripted programming."[1]

Several categories have existed to recognize breakthrough talent and new faces in the British television industry:

  • From 2001 to 2005, three categories were presented to recognize new writers and directors in television; Best New Writer, Best Director: Factual and Best Director: Fiction.
  • In 2006, those categories were transformed into one category that was presented until 2020, Best Breakthrough Talent.
  • Also, in 2006 the Anthony Asquith Award for New Composer was presented.

In 2020 it was announced that the category would be split once again for the 2021 ceremony, creating Best Emerging Talent: Fiction and Best Emerging Talent: Factual.[2]

Winners and nominees

2000s

Best New Writer

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2001 Ed McCardie Tinsel Town BBC Two
David Nicholls Cold Feet ITV
Damian Wayling The Bill (for "A Girl's Best Friend")
Martin McCardie Tinsel Town BBC Two
2002 Rob Dawber The Navigators Channel 4
Daniel Brocklehurst Clocking Off BBC One
Richard Cottan Men Only Channel 4
Rowan Joffé Gas Attack
2003 Anna Maloney Falling Apart Channel 4
Matt Greenhalgh Clocking Off BBC One
Charlie Martin Teachers Channel 4
Ed Roe
2004 Rosemary Kay This Little Life BBC One
Helen Blakeman Pleasureland Channel 4
Terry Cafolla Holy Cross BBC One
Jack Lothian Teachers Channel 4
2005 Brian Dooley The Smoking Room BBC Three
Brian Hill Bella and the Boys BBC One
Kwame Kwei-Armah Elmina's Kitchen BBC Four
Derren Litten, Catherine Tate The Catherine Tate Show BBC Two

Best New Director: Factual

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2001 Sarah MacDonald Newsnight: A Family Affair (Special) BBC Two
Lucy Carter Britain at War in Colour ITV
Jonah Weston Anatomy of Disgust Channel 4
Frances Byrnes Picture This: The Pavlov Ballet BBC Two
2002 Donovan Wylie Witness: The Train Channel 4
Marc Issacs Alt TV: Lift Channel 4
Penny Jagessar Me and My Dad
Carol Morley The Alcohol Years
2003 Alice Yglesias Death Channel 4
Giles Llewellyn-Thomas The Mystery of the Three Kings BBC Two
Mark Elliott Barbarians: Secrets of the Dark Ages Channel 4
Jamie O'Leary Teenage Dwarf
2004 Oli Barry The Nine Lives of Alice Martineau BBC Three
Will Anderson Surviving Extremes: The Swamp Channel 4
Paul Berczeller Alt TV: This is a True Story
Jamie Jay Johnson Alt TV: Holidays Around My Bedroom
2005 Patrick Collerton The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off Channel 4
James Brabazon This World: "Holidays in the Danger Zone: Violent Coast" BBC Two
Julia Black My Foetus Channel 4
Krishnendu Majumdar Who You Callin' a Nigger?

Best New Director: Fiction

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2001 Dominic Savage Nice Girl BBC Two
Chris Morris Jam Channel 4
Caroline Aherne The Royle Family BBC One
Jon Jones Cold Feet ITV
2002 Edmund Coulthard Tales from Pleasure Beach BBC Two
Richard Dale Teachers Channel 4
Brian Kirk Hearts and Bones BBC One
David Morrissey Sweet Revenge
2003 Brian Hill Falling Apart Channel 4
Giacamo Campiotti Dr Zhivago ITV
Mark Nunneley 15 Storeys High BBC Three
Minkie Spiro HOLBY CI+Y BBC One
2004 Sarah Gavron This Little Life BBC One
Andrew Lincoln Teachers Channel 4
Tim Supple Twelfth Night
Gabriel Range The Day Britain Stopped BBC Two
2005 Daniel Percival Dirty War BBC One
Angus Jackson Elmina's Kitchen BBC Four
Paul King The Mighty Boosh BBC Three
Sarah Lancashire The Afternoon Play: Viva Las Blackpool BBC One

Anthony Asquith Award for New Composer

Year Recipient(s) Title Company
2005 Jane Antonia Cornish Five Children and It Jim Henson Company
David Gray A Way of Life Tantrum Films
Andrew Hewitt Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Channel 4
Paul Leonard Fallen ITV

Best Breakthrough Talent

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2006 Lee Phillips How to Start Your Own Country BBC Two
Edward Thomas Doctor Who BBC One
Dan Edge Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace BBC Two
Misha Manson-Smith High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman BBC Three
2007 Sharon Foster Shoot the Messenger BBC Two
Neil Biswas Bradford Riots Channel 4
Brian Fillis Fear of Fanny BBC Four
Nick Holt Guys and Dolls BBC One
2008 Jezza Neumann Dispatches: "China's Stolen Children (Special)" Channel 4
Writing Team Skins E4
Mark O’Rowe Boy A Channel 4
Patrick Reams A Very British Sex Scandal
2009 Daniel Vernon Wonderland: The Man Who Eats Badgers BBC Two
Charlie Brooker Dead Set E4
Alison Millar The Father, The Son and The Housekeeper BBC Four
Tony Saint Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

2010s

Best Breakthrough Talent

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2010 Jessie Versluys The Hospital
Katie: My Beautiful Face		 Channel 4
Ed Hime Skins E4
Matt Rudge The Autistic Me BBC Three
Ed Wardle Alone in the Wild Channel 4
2011 Jon Brown Mongrels BBC Three
Caroline Skinner Five Days BBC One
Dave Whyte Pete Versus Life Channel 4
Aaron Young Battle of Britain: The Real Story BBC Two
2012 Kwadjo Dajan Appropriate Adult ITV
Tom Basden Fresh Meat Channel 4
Stefan Golaszewski Him & Her BBC Three
Clare Johns Panorama: "The Truth About Adoption" BBC One
2013 Tim Whitnall (Writer) Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story BBC Four
Mike Bartlett (Writer) The Town ITV
Julie Gearey (Writer) Prisoners' Wives BBC One
Rhys Thomas (Director) Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (Director’s Cut)
2014 Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan, Marlon Smith Run Channel 4
Nancy Harris Dates Channel 4
Dan Smith David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D Sky 3D
Sam Leifer, Teddy Leifer PLEBS ITV2
2015 Marc Williamson The Last Chance School Channel 4
Chris Lunt Prey ITV
Marcel Mettelsiefen Dispatches: "Children on the Frontline" Channel 4
Regina Moriarty Murdered by My Boyfriend BBC Three
2016 Michaela Coel Chewing Gum E4
D. C. Moore Not Safe for Work Channel 4
Marcus Plowright Muslim Drag Queens
Guillem Morales Inside No. 9 BBC Two
2017
[3]		 Mahalia Belo Ellen Channel 4
Vinay Patel Murdered by My Father BBC Three
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fleabag
Crashing Channel 4
Sarah Quintrell Ellen
2018
[4]		 Daisy May Cooper, Charlie Cooper This Country BBC Three
Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty Arena American Epic The Sessions BBC One
Charlotte Wolf Inspector George Gently (for "Episode 1")
Tom Pursey Fighting Cancer: My Online Diary Channel 4
2019
[5]		 Akemnji Ndifornyen (composer, producer and writer) Famalam BBC Three
Dawn Shadforth (director) Trust (for "Silenzio") BBC Two
Lizzie Kempton (director) Manchester Bomb: Our Story BBC Three
Georgia Christou (writer) Through the Gates (for "On the Edge") Channel 4

2020s

Best Breakthrough Talent

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2020
[6][7]		 Aisling Bea (Writer) This Way Up Channel 4
Aneil Karia (Director) Pure (for "Episode 3") Netflix
Laurie Nunn (Writer) Sex Education
Sean Buckley (Writer) Responsible Child BBC Two

Best Emerging Talent: Fiction

Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster
2021
[8]		 Georgi Banks-Davies (director) I Hate Suzie Sky Atlantic
Harry Tulley (dubbing mixer) Anthony BBC One
Stephen S. Thompson (writer) Sitting in Limbo
William Stefan Smith (director) On the Edge: BBW Channel 4
2022
[9][10]		 Adjani Salmon (Writer) Dreaming Whilst Black BBC Three
Nathan Bryon (Writer) Bloods Sky One
Nida Manzoor (Writer/Director) We Are Lady Parts Channel 4
Runyararo Mapfumo (Director) Sex Education Netflix
2023
[11][12]		 Pete Jackson (Writer) Somewhere Boy Channel 4
Jack Rooke (Writer) Big Boys Channel 4
Nicôle Lecky (Writer) Mood BBC Three
Lynette Lindon (Director) My Name is Leon BBC Two
2024
[13]		 Andrew Bogle (Writer) Kirkmoore BBC Three
Kat Sadler (Writer) Such Brave Girls
Mawaan Rizwan (Writer) Juice
Haolu Wang (Director) Bodies Netflix

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Bafta sets out changes to TV, TV Craft Awards". Televisual. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
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