| British Academy Television Craft Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 2013 |
| Currently held by | Adam Kay for This Is Going to Hurt (2023) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Writer: Drama 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. [1]
An award for the writers of a television program was existed since the creation of the BAFTA Television Awards with categories named Best Script, Best Scriptwriter and Writer being presented from the 50s to the 70s. In 2006 the category Best Writer was created, this category was awarded until 2013 when it was split into two separate categories ( Writer: Comedy and Writer: Drama) to recognise the differences in writing for comedy and drama programmes on television. [2]
Writers Award
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Iain McCormack | |
Best Scriptwriter
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Colin Morris | |
| 1957 | Spike Milligan | |
| 1958 | Colin Morris | |
| 1959 | Colin Morris | |
Best Scriptwriter
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Galton and Simpson | |
| 1961 | Alun Owen | |
Best Script
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Giles Cooper | |
| 1963 | Troy Kennedy Martin | |
| 1964 | Harold Pinter | |
| 1965 | Ken Taylor | |
| 1966 | Michael Mills and Richard Waring | The World of Wooster Marriage Lines |
| John Elliott | Mogul The Truth Game | |
| John Hopkins | Horror of Darkness Parade's End A Man Like Orpheus Fable I Took My Little World Away Z-Cars | |
| Harold Pinter | The Tea Party | |
| 1967 | Dennis Potter | |
| 1968 | John Hopkins | |
| 1969 | Marty Feldman and Barry Took | Marty |
Best Script
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten | John Terraine |
| Bird's Eye View ("Beside The Seaside", "An Englishman's Home") | John Betjeman | |
| Callan | James Mitchell | |
| Civilisation | Kenneth Clark | |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus | Writing Team | |
| The Son of Man | Dennis Potter | |
| 1971 | Slattery's Mounted Foot Say Goodnight To Your Grandma The Hallelujah Handshake Roll On 4 O'Clock | Colin Welland |
| On Trial: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial | Stuart Hood | |
| The Roads to Freedom | David Turner | |
| The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon | Rosemary Anne Sisson | |
| 1972 | The Benny Hill Show | Benny Hill |
| Act of Betrayal Cider with Rosie | Hugh Whitemore | |
| Casanova Paper Roses/Traitor | Dennis Potter | |
| Edna, The Inebriate Woman | Jeremy Sandford | |
Best Writer
| Year | Recipient(s) | Title | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Guy Hibbert | Five Minutes of Heaven | BBC Two |
| Peter Bowker | Occupation | BBC One | |
| Heidi Thomas | Cranford | ||
| Writing Team | The Thick of It | BBC Two | |
| 2011 | Peter Bowker | Eric and Ernie | BBC Two |
| Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine | Getting On | BBC Four | |
| Stephen Butchard | Five Daughters | BBC One | |
| Iain Morris, Damon Beesley | The Inbetweeners | E4 | |
| 2012 | Steven Moffat | Sherlock (for "A Scandal in Belgravia") | BBC One |
| Neil McKay | Appropriate Adult | ITV | |
| Abi Morgan | Birdsong | BBC One | |
| Jack Thorne | The Fades | BBC Three | |
Best Writer: Drama
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The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Photography: 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. According to the BAFTA website, for this category the "eligibility is limited to the director of photography."
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