Ben Whishaw, Kate Winslet and Lenny Rush win big at the 2023 TV BAFTAs

On Sunday 14 May 2023, London’s Southbank Centre played host to the 2023 BAFTA Television Awards. Hosted by British comedy favourites, Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett, the illustrious award ceremony welcomed both cast and creatives from some of the biggest television achievements of the last 12 months. From drama series, soap operas and comedy shows to live events, sports, and news, the best of the best came together to celebrate television’s biggest moments of the year.

Highlights of the night included Spotlight members Ben Whishaw and Kate Winslet winning the leading performance categories, and Spotlight member Lenny Rush picking up the win for ‘Male Performance in a Comedy Programme’. Apple TV+’s original drama Bad Sisters also picked up multiple awards, including ‘Scripted Casting’.

Comedy legend, Meera Syal, was presented with the BAFTA Fellowship Award from actor, Adrian Lester, for her work and contribution to comedy and performance for her 40+ year career.

See the full list of winners and nominees below:

Drama Series 

• Bad Sisters (WINNER) 
• Sherwood 
• Somewhere Boy 
• The Responder 

Entertainment Performance

• Claudia Winkleman – The Traitors (WINNER)
• Big Zuu – Big Zuu’s Big Eats 
• Lee Mack – The 1% Club 
• Mo Gilligan – The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan 
• Rosie Jones – Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard 
• Sue Perkins – Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal 

Entertainment Programme 

• The Masked Singer (WINNER)
• Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 
• Later… With Jools Holland: Jool’s 30th Birthday Bash 
• Strictly Come Dancing

Female Performance in a Comedy Programme 

• Siobhán McSweeney – Derry Girls (WINNER) 
• Daisy May Cooper – Am I Being Unreasonable?
• Diane Morgan – Cunk on Earth 
• Lucy Beaumont – Meet the Richardsons 
• Natasia Demetriou – Ellie & Natasia 
• Taj Atwal – Hullraisers

Leading Actor

• Ben Whishaw – This Is Going to Hurt (WINNER)
• Chaske Spencer – The English
• Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders
• Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
• Martin Freeman – The Responder
• Taron Egerton – Black Bird

Leading Actress 

• Kate Winslet – I Am Ruth (WINNER)
• Billie Piper – I Hate Suzie Too 
• Imelda Staunton – The Crown
• Maxine Peake – Anne
• Sarah Lancashire – Julia
• Vicky McClure – Without Sin

Male Performance in a Comedy Programme 

• Lenny Rush – Am I Being Unreasonable? (WINNER)
• Daniel Radcliffe – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
• Jon Pointing – Big Boys
• Joseph Gilgun – Brassic
• Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows
• Stephen Merchant – The Outlaws

Mini-Series 

• Mood (WINNER)
• A Spy Among Friends 
• The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe 
• This Is Going to Hurt

Scripted Comedy 

• Derry Girls (WINNER)
• Am I Being Unreasonable? 
• Big Boys 
• Ghosts

Single Drama 

• I Am Ruth (WINNER) 
• Life and Death in the Warehouse 
• The House 

Soap & Continuing Drama 

• Casualty (WINNER) 
• EastEnders 
• Emmerdale

Supporting Actor

• Adeel Akhtar – Sherwood (WINNER) 
• Jack Lowden – Slow Horses 
• Josh Finan – The Responder 
• Salim Daw – The Crown 
• Samuel Bottomley – Somewhere Boy 
• Will Sharpe – The White Lotus 

Supporting Actress 

• Anne-Marie Duff – Bad Sisters (WINNER)
• Adelayo Adedayo – The Responder 
• Fiona Shaw – Andor
• Jasmine Jobson – Top Boy 
• Lesley Manville – Sherwood 
• Saffron Hocking – Top Boy 

Scripted Casting 

• Nina Gold & Martin Ware – This Is Going to Hurt (Winner)
• Des Hamilton & Elan Jones – Top Boy 
• Julie Harkin – Am I Being Unreasonable? 
• Nina Gold & Lucy Amos – Bad Sisters

Comedy Entertainment Programme 

• Friday Night Live (WINNER) 
• The Graham Norton Show
• Taskmaster 
• Would I Lie To You? 

Current Affairs 

• Children of the Taliban (WINNER)
• Afghanistan: No Country For Women: Exposure 
• The Crossing: Exposure 
• Mariupol: The People’s Story (Panorama)

Daytime 

• The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit (WINNER)
• The Chase 
• Scam Interceptors 

Factual Series 

• Libby, Are You Home Yet? (WINNER)
• Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime 
• Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
• Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing 

Features 

• Joe Lycett vs. Beckham: Got Your Back at Xmas (WINNER)
• Big Zuu’s Big Eats 
• The Martin Lewis Money Show Live 
• The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan 

International 

• Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (WINNER)
• The Bear 
• Wednesday 
• Oussekine 
• Pachinko 
• The White Lotus 

Live Event 

• Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace (WINNER)
• Concert for Ukraine 
• The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II

News Coverage 

• Channel 4 News: Live in Kyiv (WINNER)
• BBC News at 10: Russia Invades Ukraine 
• Good Morning Britain: Boris Johnson Interview 

Reality & Constructed Factual 

• The Traitors (WINNER)
• Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams 
• RuPaul’s Drag Race UK 
• We Are Black and British 

Short Form Programme 

• How to Be a Person (WINNER)
• Always, Asifa 
• Biscuitland 
• Kingpin Cribs 

Single Documentary 

• The Real Mo Farah (WINNER)
• Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes 
• Escape From Kabul Airport 
• Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story 

Specialist Factual 

• Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone (WINNER)
• Aids: The Unheard Tapes 
• The Green Planet 
• How to Survive a Dictator With Munya Chawawa

Sport

• UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 (WINNER) 
• Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games 
• Wimbledon 2022 

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment 

• Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace, BBC One (WINNER)
• Derry Girls, Channel 4
• Heartstopper, Netflix
• Stranger Things, Netflix
• The Real Mo Farah, BBC One
• The Traitors, BBC One

Costume Design 

• Jane Petrie – The Essex Serpent (WINNER)
• Amy Roberts – The Crown
• Becky Sloan & Joe Pelling – Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 
• Phoebe De Gaye – The English

Director: Factual 

• Felicity Morris – The Tinder Swindler (WINNER) 
• Emma Cooper – The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe 
• James Jones – Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes 
• Sophie Robinson – My Dead Body 

Director: Fiction 

• William Stefan Smith – Top Boy (WINNER)
• Dearbhla Walsh – Bad Sisters 
• Hugo Blick – The English 
• Lucy Forbes – This Is Going to Hurt 

Director: Multi-Camera 

• Directing Team – The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II (WINNER)
• Janet Fraser Crook – Glastonbury 2022 
• Julia Knowles – Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace 
• Nikki Parsons – Strictly Come Dancing 

Editing: Factual 

• Rupert Houseman – Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (WINNER)
• Ben Brown – Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story 
• Doug Bryson – Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 
• Mark Summers – Afghanistan: No Country for Women: Exposure 

Editing: Fiction 

• Selina Macarthur – This Is Going to Hurt (WINNER)
• Celia Haining – The Crown
• Frances Parker – Andor 
• Katie Weiland – Slow Horses

Emerging Talent: Factual 

• Charlie Melville (Producer/Director) (WINNER) 
• Helen Hobin (Photography)
• Jason Osborne (Director)
• Joy Ash (Series Producer)

Emerging Talent: Fiction 

• Pete Jackson (Writer) (WINNER)
• Jack Rooke (Writer)
• Lynette Linton (Director)
• Nicôle Lecky (Writer)

Entertainment Craft Team 

• Catherine Land, David Bishop, Patrick Doherty, Richard Sillitto, David Newton & Joe Phillips – Strictly Come Dancing (WINNER)
• Andy Devonshire, James Dillon, Dru Masters & Rebecca Bowker – Taskmaster
• Jen Bollom, Gareth Iles, Tim Routledge, Steve Sidwell, Richard Valentine & Chris Vaughan – Concert for Ukraine
• Tom Bairstow, Nigel Catmur, Andy Deacon, Kevin Duff, Simon Haw & Steve Sidwell – Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace

Make Up & Hair Design 

• Amanda Knight, Barrie Gower & Rosalia Culora – House of the Dragon (WINNER)
• Daniel Parker, Deborah Kenton, Claudia Stolze, Jovana Jovanovic, Wayne Fitzsimmons & Jana Radilová – Dangerous Liaisons 
• Helen Speyer – Gangs of London 
• Tara McDonald – Wednesday

Original Music: Factual 

• Jessica Jones – Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Show (WINNER)
• Andrew Phillips – House of Maxwell 
• Jessica Jones – The Tinder Swindler 
• Max de Wardener – The Elon Musk Show 

Original Music: Fiction 

• Nicole Lecky, Bryan Senti & Kwame ‘KZ’ Kwei-Armah Jr – Mood (WINNER)
• Daniel Pemberton & Mick Jagger – Slow Horses
• Federico Jusid – The English
• Matthew Herbert – The Responder

Photography: Factual 

• Marcel Mettelsiefen & Jordan Bryon – Children of the Taliban (WINNER) 
• Steve Jamison & Jean-Charles Granjon – Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive
• Sue Gibson, Robin Cox, Florian Schulz & Will Nicholls – Predators 
• Tim Shepherd, Oliver Mueller, Todd Kewley, Jessica Mitchell & Sam Lewis – Green Planet 

Photography & Lighting: Fiction 

• Chas Appeti – Jungle (WINNER)
• Anthony Dod Mantle – Pistol 
• Ben Wheeler – The Tourist 
• Rachel Clark – I Am Ruth 

Production Design 

• Becky Sloan & Joe Pelling – Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (WINNER)
• Alice Normington & Lucy Eyre – The Essex Serpent 
• Chris Roope – The English
• Kave Quinn, Tim Blake, Stella Fox, Penny Crawford & Emily Norris – Pistol

Sound: Factual 

• Peter Bridges, Matthew Charles, Conrad Fletcher, Julian Gough, Andy James & Andy Payne – The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II (WINNER)
• Doug Dreger, Andrew Yarme, Nick Fry, Steve Speed, James Evans & Hugh Dwan – Formula 1: Drive to Survive
• Kate Hopkins, Tim Owens & Graham Wild – Frozen Planet II 
• Tudor Davies – Later… With Jools Holland 

Sound: Fiction 

• Alastair Sirkett, Doug Cooper, Martin Seeley, Paula Fairfield, Tim Hands & Adele Fletcher – House of the Dragon (WINNER) 
• Judi Lee Headman, Nigel Squibbs, Tony Gibson, Darren McQuade & Lewis Todd – SAS Rogue Heroes
• Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Craig Butters, Sarah Elias & Andrew Sissons – Slow Horses 
• Sound Team – The Crown

Special, Visual and Graphic Effects 

• Angus Bickerton, Nikeah Forde, Asa Shoul, Mike Dawson, MPC & Pixomondo – House of the Dragon (WINNER) 
• Industrial Light & Magic – The Sandman
• Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Richard Van Den Bergh, Jean-Clément Soret & Industrial Light & Magic – Andor
• Russell Dodgson, Damien Stumpf, Painting Practice, Bryony Duncan, Sam Chynoweth & Real SFX – His Dark Materials

Titles & Graphic Identity 

• Peter Anderson Studio – Bad Sisters (WINNER)
• Balázs Simon, BBC Creative & Gas Music – Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
• Hingston Studio – Life After Life 
• YU+CO – The Essex Serpent 

Writer: Comedy 

• Lisa McGee – Derry Girls (WINNER)
• Jack Rooke – Big Boys
• Nancy Harris – The Dry
• Sharon Horgan, Barunka O’Shaughnessy, Helen Serafinowicz & Holly Walsh – Motherland 

Writer: Drama 

• Adam Kay – This Is Going to Hurt (WINNER) 
• Alice Oseman – Heartstopper
• Pete Jackson – Somewhere Boy 
• Tony Schumacher – The Responder 

From all of us at Spotlight, we want to wish a huge congratulations to all the winners!

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