Record Number of NFTS Graduates Nominated For BAFTA Television And BAFTA TV Craft Awards

This week the nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards and the BAFTA Television Craft Awards were announced and the National Film and Television School is proud to see a record number of graduates named across the categories including Limited Drama, Single Documentary, Director: Fiction, Original Music: Fiction and Photography: Factual.

Two directing graduates were nominated in the Limited Drama category; Toby Haynes for Black Mirror episode Demon 79 and Lewis Arnold for The Long Shadow. In Single Documentary, director Jasleen Sethi and editor David Thompson were nominated for Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family and in Specialist Factual, editor Ross Leppard was named for his work on White Nanny, Black Child. In the Craft Award nominations, Lewis Arnold picked up a second nomination, this time in the Director: Fiction category.

Two editing graduates were named in the Editing: Fiction category; Alex Mackie for his work on Time and Zsófia Tálas for Slow Horses. Two graduates were also nominated in the Emerging Talent categories; Ben Cheetham (Pete Doherty, Who Killed My Son?) for Factual and Haolu Wang (Bodies) for Fiction. Once again doubling up in a category, both Adiescar Chase and Natalie Holt were nominated for Music: Fiction for Heartstopper and Loki respectively.

Other NFTS alumni nominations include Jean-Louis Schuller in Photography: Factual for The Man Who Played With Fire, Stephan Pehrsson in Photography and Lighting: Fiction for Demon 79 and Stuart Hilliker and Martin Jensen for their work on The Crown.

Many production teams nominated across the categories included a raft of National Film and Television School graduate names. Take a look below to see the full list of alumni:
 

BAFTA TELEVISION AWARD NOMINATIONS

DRAMA SERIES

THE GOLD Production Team
Aneil Karia - director, Caroline Singh - sound recordist, Celia Barnett - specialist researcher,
Elena Storozheva-Golovushkina - production secretary, Lluc Mestre Mas - camera trainee: dailies, Nicolas Chaudeurge - editor, Rhiannon Forsyth - script editor, Stuart Bentley - cinematographer

TOP BOY Production Team
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

FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT

PORTRAIT ARTIST OF THE YEAR Production Team
Freddie Finn - assistant camera

FACTUAL SERIES

ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN IRELAND Production Team 
Donna Wade - cinematographer, Simon Sykes - editor

INTERNATIONAL

THE LAST OF US Production Team
James O'Donnell - 2nd Assistant Accountant, Jeremy Webb - director, Victor Almela - digital compositor: Rise Visual Effects Studios

SUCCESSION Production Team
Francesca Gardiner - consulting producer,

LIMITED DRAMA

BEST INTERESTS Production Team
Chris Hopper - production coordinator, Clare Winkworth - Graphic designer, Jonny Willett - 2nd Assistant Sound: Dailies, Karolina Jarosinska - production accountant, Nicholas A Ager - 2nd assistant sound, Steven Granger - art director

DEMON 79 (BLACK MIRROR) Toby Haynes - Director

THE LONG SHADOW Lewis Arnold - Director, Exec Producer

LIVE EVENT COVERAGE

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2023 Production Team
Vicky Swain - Researcher

REALITY

BANGED UP Production Team
Yulia Martynova - editor

SCRIPTED COMEDY

EXTRAORDINARY Production Team
Carlos Catalan - cinematographer, Caroline Singh - sound recordist, Charlotte Serena Cooper - dailies, Dan Stafford Clark - cinematographer, Darryl O'Donovan - music editor, Howard Peryer - boom operator, Hugh Howlett - Assistant colourist, Assistant Colourist: Company 3 London, Hussain Casey-Ahmed - Production Executive: for Disney +, Josh Bamford - boom operator,

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY

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

SOAP

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

EASTENDERS Production Team
Emily Priestnall - script editor, Georgia Redman - script supervisor, Hannah Pigott - script supervisor, assistant script editor, Lorraine Newman - written by, Matthew Evans - director, Vicki Kisner - director

SPECIALIST FACTUAL

WHITE NANNY, BLACK CHILD Ross Leppard - Editor

BAFTA TELEVISION CRAFT AWARD NOMINATIONS

DIRECTOR: FICTION

LEWIS ARNOLD The Long Shadow (Episode 6)

EDITING: FACTUAL

EDITING TEAM Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Simon Sykes - Editor

EDITING: FICTION

ALEX MACKIE Time
ZSÓFIA TÁLAS Slow Horses (Episode 6)

EMERGING TALENT: FACTUAL

BEN CHEETHAM (DIRECTOR) Pete Doherty, Who Killed My Son?

EMERGING TALENT: FICTION

HAOLU WANG (DIRECTOR) Bodies

ORIGINAL MUSIC: FICTION

ADIESCAR CHASE Heartstopper

NATALIE HOLT Loki

PHOTOGRAPHY: FACTUAL

JEAN-LOUIS SCHULLER The Man Who Played With Fire

PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING: FICTION

STEPHAN PEHRSSON Demon 79

SCRIPTED CASTING

Special NFTS Mention JINA JAY Demon 79 (Black Mirror)

SOUND: FICTION

STUART HILLIKER, MARTIN JENSEN The Crown

SOUND TEAM Slow Horses
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

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The National Film and Television School is so proud of all alumni involved in these productions, showcasing the very best of TV of 2023. The BAFTA Television Awards, hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, will take place on Sunday 12 May. The BAFTA Television Craft Awards take place on Sunday 28 April.