NFTS Alumni Sweep 2026 BAFTA Television and BAFTA Television Craft Award Nominations

The nominations have been announced for the 2026 BAFTA Television and BAFTA Television Craft Awards, and the National Film and Television School is proud to see alumni names up for awards across the categories with many more working behind the scenes.

Brian Welsh, director and executive producer of What It Feels Like For A Girl has been nominated in the BAFTA Television Awards Limited Drama category and worked alongside a host of NFTS alumni behind the scenes including editor Fiona DeSouza, cinematographers Kate Reid, Neus Olle and Linda Wu and casting assistant Kerry Grainger.

Alumni also worked on nominated productions including A Real Bug’s Life, Richard Osman’s House of Games, A Thousand Blows, Last One Laughing, Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors.

Highlights of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards include NFTS alumni nominated on all four productions in the Sound: Fiction category; Kyle Pickford (Adolescence), Danny Hambrook (Andor), Stuart Hilliker (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth) and Martin Jensen, Duncan Price and Conor Thompson (Slow Horses).

NFTS editors swept the Editing categories with Paul Hammacott nominated in Editing: Factual for his work on Louis Theroux: The Settlers and Úna Ní Dhonghaíle (Prisoner 951) and Fiona Brands (Slow Horses (Episode 6)) both nominated for Editing: Fiction.

Additional congratulations go to esteemed casting director and 2026 NFTS Fellow Shaheen Baig, nominated for two out of the four productions in the Scripted Casting category.

Check out the rest of our alumni nominations below!
 

BAFTA TV Craft Nominations 2026

Children's Craft Team

The Scarecrows' Wedding
Adrian Rhodes

The Very Small Creatures
Jean-Marc Petsas
Owen Peters

Editing: Factual

Louis Theroux: The Settlers
Paul Hammacott

Editing: Fiction

Prisoner 951
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle

Slow Horses (Episode 6)
Fiona Brands

Original Music: Factual

The Sycamore Gap Mystery
Louis Dodd

Photography & Lighting: Fiction

Severance

Suzie Lavelle

Production Design

Andor
Luke Hull

Scripted Casting

Adolescence
Shaheen Baig

Get Millie Black
Shaheen Baig

Sound: Factual

The Celebrity Traitors
Sound Team (Sound Assistant Clement Harper)

Sound: Fiction

Adolescence
Kyle Pickford

Andor
Danny Hambrook

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Stuart Hilliker

Slow Horses
Martin Jensen
Duncan Price
Conor Thompson

 

The NFTS would like to congratulate all alumni on their contributions to these outstanding productions and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for the BAFTA Television Craft Awards on the 26 April and the BAFTA Television Awards on 10 May!