Dramas It’s a Sin, Landscapers and A Very British Scandal and comedy We Are Lady Parts lead the way in this year’s Bafta TV Craft Awards nominations.
Russell T Davies is up for best drama writer for his Channel 4 series It’s a Sin, which has also scored nods for directing, editing, make-up and hair design.
Sky drama series Landscapers also has five nominations in directing, editing, production design, photography and lighting and original music.
BBC1’s A Very British Scandal has four nominations: costume design, editing, make-up & hair design and sound. Nida Manzoor, creator of Channel 4 comedy We Are Lady Parts has secured her first nod for writing and is also on the emerging talent (fiction) shortlist. The show is also in the running for costume design and scripted casting.
Emerging talent
The emerging talent nominated in the factual space are Adam Brown, who helmed Raw TV’s BBC Storyville doc Into the Storm: Surfing to Survive; producer Hugh Davies for BBC1’s Football’s Darkest Secret: The End of Silence; Poppy Begum, director of Acme Films’ Channel 4 doc Queens of Rap; and Sophie Cunningham, whose debut feature-length documentary as producer/director, Top Hat Productions’ Look Away, aired on Sky Documentaries.
Joining Manzoor in the fiction emerging talent are Adjani Salmon, writer and star of Big Deal Films’ BBC3 comedy Dreaming Whilst Black; Nathan Bryon, writer of Roughcut TV’s Sky comedy Bloods; and Runyararo Mapfumo, a director on Eleven Film’s Netflix smash Sex Education.
Meanwhile two craft nominees have notched up two nominations in the same category.
Factual director James Newton is in the running for both BBC Studios’ Channel 4 doc Grenfell: the Untold Story and Wonderhood Studios’ BBC2 series Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles, going up against Arthur Cary for Top Hat Productions’ BBC2 doc Surviving 9/11 and Jamie Roberts, for Amos Pictures’ Four Hours at the Capital, also for BBC2.
Meanwhile, production designer Cristina Casali is up for her work on two dramas: Sister’s Sky series Landscapers, and BBC1’s The Pursuit of Love from Open Book Productions and Moonage Pictures. She faces creatives on two BBC1 dramas: Francois-Renaud Labarthe for Mammoth Screen’s The Serpent, and Tom Sayer for World Productions’ submarine drama Vigil.
Including the main Bafta awards, It’s a Sin leads the way with 11 nominations, followed by Landscapers with seven. We Are Lady Parts, Channel 4 drama Help and BBC1 drama series Time each have six.
See the full list of nominees here
