The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the winners of tonight’s British Academy Television Craft Awards, celebrating the very best behind-the-scenes talent in 2016.
Four programs won two BAFTAs each. Historical drama The Crown, starring Claire Foy and Matt Smith, was successful in Costume Design and Special, Visual & Graphic Effects. Espionage thriller The Night Manager, adapted from John le Carré’s novel, won in Editing: Fiction and Sound: Fiction. National Treasure won for Director: Fiction and Original Music. Planet Earth II (Cities) received the Photography: Factual and Sound Factual awards.
Further cementing her status as one of the UK’s foremost writers, Sally Wainwright won Writer: Drama for Happy Valley, her third BAFTA to date in this category and her fifth overall. In Writer: Comedy, Stefan Golaszewski took home the second BAFTA of his career, for Mum.
James Friend won the BAFTA for Photography & Lighting: Fiction for Rillington Place. Tanya Lodge won Make Up & Hair Design for San Junipero (Black Mirror) and Chris Roope fought off stiff competition in Production Design, winning for War & Peace.
BAFTA continues to shine a spotlight on the very best emerging talent in the industry with its Breakthrough Talent category, won this year by director Mahalia Belo for Ellen.
The award for Digital Creativity, which rewards excellence and innovation through a multi-platform television experience, was won by David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef Dive, while the BAFTA for Titles & Graphic Identity went to Paralympics 2016. The award for Entertainment Craft Team was presented to the BBC Studios team for Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance 2016, which paid tribute to victims of war and conflict.
First-time winners included Andy Worboys in Editing: Factual for Hillsborough, James Bluemel in Director: Factual for Exodus: Our Journey to Europe, and Chris Power in Director: Multi-Camera for Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, the show’s sixth BAFTA in four years.
Industry-renowned prop master Bobby Warans was presented with the BAFTA Special Award for his outstanding contribution to the industry. In a craft that is thoroughly integral to the success of a show, Warans has worked on nearly 100 of the best-loved British television programs of the past 40 years, spanning a number of genres including live events, entertainment, talk shows, sitcoms and comedy sketch shows including Absolutely Fabulous, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Episodes, French and Saunders, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, The Morecambe and Wise Show, Noel’s House Party, Strictly Come Dancing and The Two Ronnies. The award was presented to him by Paul Merton.
The ceremony was hosted by Stephen Mangan at The Brewery, City of London, where presenters included Adeel Akhtar, Ross Kemp, Naga Munchetty, Joel Dommett, Wunmi Mosaku and Joan Bakewell.
Here’s a full rundown of winners:
SPECIAL AWARD
Bobby Warans
BREAKTHROUGH TALENT
MAHALIA BELO (Director) Ellen – Touchpaper Television/Channel 4
COSTUME DESIGN
MICHELE CLAPTON The Crown – Left Bank Pictures/Netflix
DIGITAL CREATIVITY
ALCHEMY VR, ATLANTIC DIGITAL David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef Dive – Atlantic Productions/BBC One
DIRECTOR: FACTUAL
JAMES BLUEMEL Exodus: Our Journey to Europe – KEO Films/BBC Two
DIRECTOR: FICTION
MARC MUNDEN National Treasure – The Forge/Channel 4
DIRECTOR: MULTI-CAMERA
CHRIS POWER Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway – ITV Studios/Mitre Television/ITV
EDITING: FACTUAL
ANDY WORBOYS Hillsborough – Very Much So Productions/BBC Two
EDITING: FICTION
BEN LESTER The Night Manager – The Ink Factory/Demarest/Character Seven/BBC One
ENTERTAINMENT CRAFT TEAM
BERNIE DAVIS, DAVID COLE, KEVIN DUFF, PATRICK DOHERTY Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance 2016 – BBC Studios/BBC One
MAKE UP & HAIR DESIGN
TANYA LODGE San Junipero (Black Mirror) – House of Tomorrow/Netflix
ORIGINAL MUSIC
CRISTOBAL TAPIA DE VEER National Treasure – The Forge/Channel 4
PHOTOGRAPHY: FACTUAL
JOHN AITCHISON, ROB WHITWORTH, MARK MACEWEN Planet Earth II (Cities) – BBC Studios/BBC Natural History Unit/BBC America/ZDF/France Television/BBC One
PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING: FICTION
JAMES FRIEND Rillington Place – BBC Studios/Bandit Television/BBC One
PRODUCTION DESIGN
CHRIS ROOPE War & Peace – BBC Studios/BBC Wales/Lookout Point/TWC/BBC One
SOUND: FACTUAL
GRAHAM WILD, KATE HOPKINS, TIM OWENS Planet Earth II (Cities) – BBC Studios/BBC Natural History Unit/BBC America/ZDF/France Television/BBC One
SOUND: FICTION
AITOR BERENGUER, HOWARD BARGROFF, ALEX SAWYER, ADAM ARMITAGE The Night Manager – The Ink Factory/Demarest/Character Seven/BBC One
SPECIAL, VISUAL & GRAPHIC EFFECTS
ONE OF US, MOLINARE The Crown – Left Bank Pictures/Netflix
TITLES & GRAPHIC IDENTITY
RICHARD NORLEY, LEE JACOBS, CALLUM O’REILLY Paralympics 2016 – Sunset + Vine/Channel 4
WRITER: COMEDY
STEFAN GOLASZEWSKI Mum – Big Talk Productions/BBC Two
WRITER: DRAMA
SALLY WAINWRIGHT Happy Valley – Red Production Company/BBC One
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
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