Host of Wins for NFTS Graduates at TV BAFTA Awards

The BAFTA Television Awards took place on Sunday 12 May following the BAFTA Television Craft Awards which were celebrated last month, rounding up a host of wins for National Film and Television School (NFTS) graduates and their productions.

The dedicated Top Boy production team which includes Director Myriam Raja, Editor Matteo Bini and Executive Producer Yann Demange won the award for Drama Series. Eurovision Song Contest 2023 production team which involved Researcher Vicki Swain took home the BAFTA for Live Event Coverage. Ellie Simmonds: Finding my Secret Family, directed by Jasleen Sethi and edited by David Thompson won in the Single Documentary category and White Nanny, Black Child, edited by Ross Leppard was awarded Specialist Factual. Casualty, with a host of graduates on the production team including directors Suri Krishnamma and Vicki Kisner won the BAFTA for Soap.

The craft category successes included Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, edited by Simon Sykes winning for Editing: Factual and the Slow Horses sound team which included over eight graduates was awarded Sound: Fiction. Stephen Pehrsson took home the BAFTA for Photography and Lighting: Fiction for his work on Black Mirror episode Demon 79.

The National Film and Television School would like to offer a huge congratulations to the outstanding graduates involved in this year’s award-winning productions.

See the full list of credits

BAFTA TELEVISION AWARDS

DRAMA SERIES | TOP BOY
Production Team including Abigail McKenzie - post coordinator/post-production coordinator, Alexandra Toomey - production designer, Cristina Palmer-Romero - post production supervisor/post-production supervisor, Matteo Bini - editor, Melina Veropoulou - assistant art director, Myriam Raja - director, Stephanie Okoye - casting associate, Yann Demange - executive producer

LIVE EVENT COVERAGE | EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2023
Production Team including Vicky Swain - Researcher

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY | ELLIE SIMMONDS: FINDING MY SECRET FAMILY
Jasleen Sethi - Director, David Thompson - Editor

SOAP | CASUALTY
Production Team including Kai Langford-Do - script supervisor, Suri Krishnamma - director, Vicki Kisner - director

SPECIALIST FACTUAL | WHITE NANNY, BLACK CHILD
Ross Leppard - Editor

BAFTA TELEVISION CRAFT AWARDS

EDITING: FACTUAL | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Editing Team including Simon Sykes - Editor

PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING: FICTION | STEPHAN PEHRSSON (Demon 79)

SOUND: FICTION | Slow Horses
Sound Team including Conor Thompson - sound effects editor, Duncan Price - dialogue editor, Hosea Ntaborwa - Second sound assistant, Joanna Andrews - Boom operator: dailies, Jonny Willett - Second Assistant Sound: dailies, Marios Themistocleous - Foley Editor, sound effects editor, Martin Jensen - re-recording mixer, Sam Jenkins - second assistant sound: dailies