British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Writer: Drama

British Academy Television Craft Award
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	2013
Currently held by	Adam Kay for This Is Going to Hurt (2023)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Writer: Drama is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.^[1]

An award for the writers of a television program was existed since the creation of the BAFTA Television Awards with categories named Best Script, Best Scriptwriter and Writer being presented from the 50s to the 70s. In 2006 the category Best Writer was created, this category was awarded until 2013 when it was split into two separate categories (Writer: Comedy and Writer: Drama) to recognise the differences in writing for comedy and drama programmes on television.^[2]

Winners and nominees

1950s

Writers Award

Year	Recipient(s)	Title
1955	Iain McCormack

Best Scriptwriter

Year	Recipient(s)	Title
1956	Colin Morris
1957	Spike Milligan
1958	Colin Morris
1959	Colin Morris

1960s

Best Scriptwriter

Year	Recipient(s)	Title
1960	Galton and Simpson
1961	Alun Owen

Best Script

Year	Recipient(s)	Title
1962	Giles Cooper
1963	Troy Kennedy Martin
1964	Harold Pinter
1965	Ken Taylor
1966	Michael Mills and Richard Waring	The World of Wooster Marriage Lines
	John Elliott	Mogul The Truth Game
	John Hopkins	Horror of Darkness Parade's End A Man Like Orpheus Fable I Took My Little World Away Z-Cars
	Harold Pinter	The Tea Party
1967	Dennis Potter
1968	John Hopkins
1969	Marty Feldman and Barry Took	Marty

1970s

Best Script

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1970	The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten	John Terraine
	Bird's Eye View ("Beside The Seaside", "An Englishman's Home")	John Betjeman
	Callan	James Mitchell
	Civilisation	Kenneth Clark
	Monty Python's Flying Circus	Writing Team
	The Son of Man	Dennis Potter
1971	Slattery's Mounted Foot Say Goodnight To Your Grandma The Hallelujah Handshake Roll On 4 O'Clock	Colin Welland
	On Trial: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial	Stuart Hood
	The Roads to Freedom	David Turner
	The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon	Rosemary Anne Sisson
1972	The Benny Hill Show	Benny Hill
	Act of Betrayal Cider with Rosie	Hugh Whitemore
	Casanova Paper Roses/Traitor	Dennis Potter
	Edna, The Inebriate Woman	Jeremy Sandford

2000s

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Broadcaster
2006	Peter Kosminsky	The Government Inspector	Channel 4
	Andrew Davies	Bleak House	BBC One
	Russell T Davies	Doctor Who
	Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant	Extras	BBC Two
2007	Peter Morgan	Longford	Channel 4
	Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant	Extras	BBC Two
	Matthew Graham	Life on Mars	BBC One
	Frank Deasy	Prime Suspect: The Final Act	ITV
2008	Steven Moffat	Doctor Who (for "Blink")	BBC One
	Tony Marchant	The Mark of Cain	Channel 4
	Jimmy McGovern	The Street	BBC One
	Heidi Thomas	Cranford
2009	Peter Moffat	Criminal Justice	BBC One
	Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong	Peep Show	Channel 4
	Simon Block	The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
	Russell T Davies	Doctor Who (for "Midnight")	BBC One

2010s

Best Writer

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Broadcaster
2010	Guy Hibbert	Five Minutes of Heaven	BBC Two
	Peter Bowker	Occupation	BBC One
	Heidi Thomas	Cranford
	Writing Team	The Thick of It	BBC Two
2011	Peter Bowker	Eric and Ernie	BBC Two
	Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine	Getting On	BBC Four
	Stephen Butchard	Five Daughters	BBC One
	Iain Morris, Damon Beesley	The Inbetweeners	E4
2012	Steven Moffat	Sherlock (for "A Scandal in Belgravia")	BBC One
	Neil McKay	Appropriate Adult	ITV
	Abi Morgan	Birdsong	BBC One
	Jack Thorne	The Fades	BBC Three

Best Writer: Drama

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Broadcaster
2013	Sally Wainwright	Last Tango in Halifax	BBC One
	Gwyneth Hughes	The Girl	BBC Two
	Tom Stoppard	Parade's End
	Shaun Duggan, Jimmy McGovern	Accused (for "Tracie's Story")	BBC One
2014	Dominic Mitchell	In The Flesh	BBC Three
	Chris Chibnall	Broadchurch	ITV
	Sally Wainwright	Last Tango in Halifax	BBC One
	Dennis Kelly	Utopia	Channel 4
2015	Sally Wainwright	Happy Valley	BBC One
	Peter Bowker	Marvellous	BBC Two
	Jed Mercurio	Line of Duty
	Dennis Kelly	Utopia	Channel 4
2016	Russell T Davies	Cucumber	Channel 4
	Mike Bartlett	Doctor Foster	BBC One
	Neil Cross	Luther
	Peter Straughan	Wolf Hall	BBC Two
2017	Sally Wainwright	Happy Valley	BBC One
	Peter Morgan	The Crown	Netflix
	Levi David Addai	Damilola, Our Loved Boy	BBC One
	Simon Nye	The Durrells	ITV
2018 [3]	Nicole Taylor	Three Girls	BBC One
	Charlie Brooker	Hang the DJ (Black Mirror)	Netflix
	Peter Morgan	The Crown
	Steven Knight	Peaky Blinders	BBC Two
2019 [4]	David Nicholls	Patrick Melrose	Sky Atlantic
	Lennie James	Save Me	Sky Atlantic
	Phoebe Waller-Bridge	Killing Eve	BBC One
	Russell T. Davies	A Very English Scandal

2020s

Year	Recipient(s)	Title	Broadcaster
2020 [5]	Jesse Armstrong	Succession	Sky Atlantic
	Charlie Covell	The End of the F***ing World	Channel 4
	Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne	The Virtues
	Craig Mazin	Chernobyl	Sky Atlantic
2021 [6]	Michaela Coel	I May Destroy You	BBC One
	Lucy Kirkwood	Adult Material	Channel 4
	Alastair Siddons and Steve McQueen	Small Axe	BBC One
	Lucy Prebble	I Hate Suzie	Sky Atlantic
2022 [7][8]	Kayleigh Llewellyn	In My Skin	BBC Three
	Jack Thorne	Help	Channel 4
	Russell T Davies	It's a Sin
	Jesse Armstrong	Succession	HBO/Sky Atlantic
2023 [9][10]	Adam Kay	This Is Going to Hurt	BBC One
	Alice Oseman	Heartstopper	Netflix
	Tony Schumacher	The Responder	BBC One
	Pete Jackson	Somewhere Boy	Channel 4
2024 [11]	Charlie Brooker, Bisha K. Ali	Black Mirror: "Demon 79"	Netflix
	Jesse Armstrong	Succession	HBO / Sky Atlantic
	Sally Wainwright	Happy Valley	BBC One
	Sarah Phelps	The Sixth Commandment

See also

• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special

References

1. "Craft Awards: Ten Years of Talent". www.bafta.org. 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
2. "British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2013: Winners Announced". www.bafta.org. 2013-04-28. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
3. "Nominations Announced for the British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2018". Bafta. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
4. "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
5. "Bafta TV Awards: Richard Ayoade to host socially-distanced delayed ceremony". bbc. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
6. "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
7. Ritman, Alex (30 March 2022). "BAFTA TV Awards: Russell T. Davies' 'It's a Sin' Dominates Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
8. Ritman, Alex (April 24, 2022). "BAFTA TV Craft Awards: 'Landscapers,' 'We Are Lady Parts' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
9. Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
10. Ravindran, Manori (23 April 2023). "'House of the Dragon,' 'This Is Going to Hurt' Lead Winners at BAFTA TV Craft Awards". Variety. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
11. Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

External links

• Official website