BBC receives 104 BAFTA nominations

April 29, 2021

Nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards and Television Craft Awards have been announced, with the BBC securing 104 in total, 59 for Television and 45 for Craft.

Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer, said: “This is a great year for BBC television, the huge spread of BAFTA nominations reflects the incredible range and quality of genre defining, world-class programmes and contributions across the board. I would like to give a special mention to Steve McQueen’s anthology series Small Axe for receiving the most nominations with a phenomenal 15 in total, I May Destroy You with eight and Normal People with seven.

“Other notable shows with four nominations each are This Country, Once Upon a Time in Iraq and Strictly Come Dancing, whilst BBC comedy received a clean sweep of nominations in the scripted comedy and comedy writer categories. Congratulations to all the nominees recognised today, I wish them all the best on the night,” she added

Full list of BBC nominations:

British Academy Television Awards

Category name	Title	Nominee	Channel
Leading Actor	I May Destroy You	Paapa Essiedu	BBC One
Leading Actor	Normal People	Paul Mescal	BBC Three
Leading Actor	Small Axe	Shaun Parkes	BBC One
Leading Actor	Small Axe	John Boyega	BBC One
Leading Actress	Killing Eve	Jodie Comer	BBC One
Leading Actress	I May Destroy You	Michaela Coel	BBC One
Leading Actress	Normal People	Daisy Edgar-Jones	BBC Three
Leading Actress	Small Axe	Letitia Wright	BBC One
Comedy Entertainment Programme	Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe		BBC Two
Comedy Entertainment Programme	The Ranganation		BBC Two
Reality & Constructed Factual	Race Across the World		BBC Two
Reality & Constructed Factual	MasterChef: The Professionals		BBC One
Current Affairs	Italy’s Frontline: A Doctors Diary		BBC Two
Daytime	Jimmy McGovern’s Moving On		BBC One
Daytime	Richard Osman’s House of Games		BBC Two
Entertainment Performance	Strictly Come Dancing	Claudia Winkleman	BBC One
Entertainment Performance	The Graham Norton Show	Graham Norton	BBC One
Entertainment Performance	Would I Lie To You? At Christmas	David Mitchell
Entertainment Programme	Strictly Come Dancing		BBC One
Factual Series	Hospital		BBC Two
Factual Series	Once Upon A Time In Iraq		BBC Two
Features	Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing		BBC Two
Features	The Repair Shop		BBC One
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme	Famalam	Gbemisola Ikumelo	BBC Three
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme	This Country	Daisy May Cooper	BBC Three
International	Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge (Storyville)		BBC Four
Live Event	Springwatch 2020		BBC Two
Live Event	The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance		BBC One
Live Event	Life Drawing Live!		BBC Four
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme	Inside No. 9	Reece Shearsmith	BBC Two
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme	Man Like Mobeen	Guz Khan	BBC Three
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme	This Country	Charlie Cooper	BBC Three
Mini-Series	Normal People		BBC Three
Mini-Series	Small Axe		BBC One
Mini-Series	I May Destory You		BBC One
News Coverage	Newsnight		BBC Two
News Coverage	BBC News at Ten – Prime Minister admitted to intensive care		BBC One/BBC News
Scripted Comedy	Inside No. 9		BBC Two
Scripted Comedy	Man Like Mobeen		BBC Three
Scripted Comedy	This Country		BBC Three
Scripted Comedy	Ghosts		BBC One
Short Form Programme	The Main Part		BBC iPlayer
Short Form Programme	CripTales		BBC Four
Single Documentary	Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism & Me		BBC One
Single Documentary	Locked In: Breaking the Silence (Storyville)
Single Drama	Anthony		BBC One
Single Drama	Sitting in Limbo		BBC One
Single Drama	The Windermere Children		BBC Two
Soap & Continuing Drama	Casualty		BBC One
Soap & Continuing Drama	EastEnders		BBC One
Specialist Factual	Extinction: The Facts		BBC One
Specialist Factual	The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty		BBC Two
Sport	London Marathon 2020		BBC One
Supporting Actor	Small Axe	Michael Ward	BBC One
Supporting Actor	Small Axe	Malachi Kirby	BBC One
Supporting Actress	Anthony	Rakie Ayola	BBC One
Supporting Actress	I May Destroy You	Weruche Opia	BBC One
Must-See Moment	Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat	Nigella Lawson’s pronunciation of microwave	BBC Two
Must-See Moment	EastEnders	Gray kills Chantelle	BBC One

British Academy Television Craft Awards

Category name	Title	Nominee	Channel
Costume Design	Small Axe	Jacqueline Durran	BBC One
Director: Factual	Once Upon a Time in Iraq	James Bluemel	BBC Two
Director: Factual	Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line	Teresa Griffiths	BBC Two
Director: Factual	Locked In: Breaking the Silence (Storyville)	Xavier Alford	BBC Four
Director: Fiction	Normal People	Lenny Abrahamson	BBC One
Director: Fiction	Small Axe	Steve McQueen	BBC One
Director: Fiction	I May Destroy You	Michaela Coel	BBC One
Director: Multi Camera	Strictly Come Dancing	Nikki Parsons	BBC One
Director: Multi Camera	The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance	Bridget Caldwell	BBC One
Director: Multi Camera	Rugby League Challenge Cup Final	Ken Burton	BBC One
Editing: Factual	Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line	Claire Guillon	BBC Two
Editing: Factual	Once Upon A Time In Iraq (episode 2)	Will Grayburn	BBC Two
Editing: Factual	Once Upon a Time In Iraq (episode 3)	Anna Price	BBC Two
Editing: Fiction	I May Destroy You	Editing team	BBC One
Editing: Fiction	Small Axe	Chris Dickens, Steve McQueen	BBC One
Editing: Fiction	Normal People (episode 5)	Nathan Nugent	BBC One
Emerging Talent: Factual	The School that Chains Boys	Jessica Kelly (Director)	BBC News Arabic/BBC Two
Emerging Talent: Factual	Defending Digga D	Marian Mohanned (Director)	BBC Three
Emerging Talent: Fiction	Sitting in Limbo	Stephen S. Thompson (Writer)	BBC One
Emerging Talent: Fiction	Anthony	Harry Tulley (Dubbing Mixer)	BBC One
Entertainment Craft Team	Strictly Come Dancing	David Bishop, Darren Lovell, David Newton, Richard Sillitto, Andy Tapley, Catherine Land	BBC One
Entertainment Craft Team	Last Night of the Proms	David Bishop, Andy Payne, Lucy Foster	BBC One
Make Up & Hair Design	I May Destroy You	Bethany Swan	BBC One
Make Up & Hair Design	Small Axe	Jojo William	BBC One
Original Music	Roadkill	Harry Escott	BBC One
Photography & Lighting: Fiction	Small Axe	Shabier Kirchner	BBC One
Photography & Lighting: Fiction	Normal People	Suzie Lavelle	BBC One
Photography & Lighting: Fiction	Devs	Rob Hardy	BBC Two
Photography: Factual	The Great Mountain Sheep Gather	Johnny Shipley, Drone Camera Team, John Livesey	BBC Four
Production Design	Small Axe	Helen Scott	BBC One
Production Design	His Dark Materials	Joel Collins	BBC One
Scripted Casting	Small Axe	Gary Davy	BBC One
Sound: Factual	Springwatch 2020	Sound team	BBC Two
Sound: Fiction	Small Axe	Paul Cotterell, James Harrison, Ronald Bailey	BBC One
Sound: Fiction	His Dark Materials (episode 7)	Jon Thomas, Gareth Bull, James Ridgway, Dillon Bennett, Eilam Hoffman	BBC One
Sound: Fiction	Normal People	Niall O’Sullivan, Steve Fanagan, Niall Brady	BBC Three
Titles & Graphic Identity	Dracula	Peter Anderson Studio	BBC One
Titles & Graphic Identity	Devs	Matt Curtis	BBC Two
Special, Visual & Graphic Effects	His Dark Materials	Russell Dodgson, James Whitlam, Jean-Clement Soret, Robert Harrington, Dan May, Brian Fisher	BBC One
Writer: Comedy	This Country	Daisy May Cooper, Charlie Cooper	BBC Three
Writer: Comedy	Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe	Charlie Brooker	BBC Two
Writer: Comedy	Ghosts	Writing team	BBC One
Writer: Comedy	Alma’s Not Normal	Sophie Willan	BBC Two
Writer: Drama	I May Destroy You	Michaela Coel	BBC One
Writer: Drama	Small Axe	Steve McQueen	BBC One