Three gongs apiece for Game of Thrones prequel and Adam Kay medical drama

House of the Dragon roared with three wins in Make-Up and Hair Design, Sound: Fiction and Special, Visual and Graphic Effects at last night’s Bafta Craft Awards.

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This is Going to Hurt

The Game of Thrones prequel led the pack alongside This is Going to Hurt, which is a frontrunner for the 2023 Bafta TV Awards - having received the most nominations, alongside The Responder.

Like House of the Dragon, This is Going to Hurt picked up three prizes, with Adam Kay’s first Bafta for Writer: Drama, as well as scooping wins in Editing: Fiction and Scripted Casting categories.

Meanwhile, the coverage of The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II won in two categories, with Sound: Factual and the directing team picking up a gong for Director: Multi-Camera.

New Faces

In the Emerging Talent Categories, Pete Jackson scooped the prize for The Emerging Talent: Fiction, telling Broadcast that the award “proves whatever weird, long journey you take to picking up a pen, it is the right journey. If I can do it, anyone can do it.”

Jackson was up against Lynette Linton, Jack Rooke and Nicole Lecky in the category, with Rooke and Lecky both up for multiple awards in their first Bafta nominations, of which Lecky scooped Original Music: Fiction for her series Mood.

Charlie Melville won the Bafta for Emerging Talent: Factual for her work in John and Joe Bishop: Life After Deaf. While taking on the project Melville learned level one British Sign Language.

Other first Bafta Craft winners were Lisa McGee for the final series of Hat Trick/Channel 4 comedy series Derry Girls, which won the Writer: Comedy award, Felicity Morris in the Director: Factual category for The Tinder Swindler, and William Stefan Smith in Director: Fiction for Top Boy.

Also Jane Petrie took Costume Design in The Essex Serpent, Jessica Jones, Original Music: Factual for Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, Chas Appeti for Photography & Lighting: Fiction on Jungle and and Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling won Production Design for Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.

Meanwhile Alison Barnett picked up the Television Craft Special Award for her work as the first female head of production in the UK TVindustry. She is the first head of production to receive a Bafta honorary award.

In addition, Editing: Factual was won by Rupert Houseman for Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes; Entertainment Craft Team was won by Catherine Land, David Bishop, Patrick Doherty, Richard Sillitto, David Newton and Joe Phillips for Strictly Come Dancing.

Photography: Factual was won by Marcel Mettelsiefen and Jordan Bryon for Children of the Taliban and Peter Anderson Studio won Titles and Graphic Identity for Bad Sisters.

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