Craft & Design Awards 2017
Awards Ceremony
Monday, 27 November, 2017
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 RTS Craft & Design Awards
The Awards celebrate excellence in broadcast television and aim to recognise the huge variety of skills and processes involved in programme production.
Awards are presented in 11 categories including: Design, Make Up Design, Costume Design, Production Design, Effects, Directors, Photography, Lighting and Multicamera, Sound, Editing and Music. In addition, there are three awards given at the discretion of the Judges: Design & Craft Innovation, Judges’ and Lifetime Achievement Awards. Entries are not accepted for these categories but the RTS welcomes suggestions.
The ceremony took place on Monday 27 November 2017 at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
Winners
Costume Design - Drama: Joanna Eatwell
Title: Taboo
Production Company: Scott Free London and Hardy, Son and Baker
Broadcaster: BBC One and FX
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Costume Design - Entertainment and Non Drama: Caroline Pitcher
Title: White Gold
Production Company: Fudge Park Productions
Broadcaster: BBC Two
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Design - Programme Content Sequences: Made in Colour
Title: Finding My Family - Partition
Production Company: Made in Colour
Broadcaster: CBBC
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Design - Titles: Huge Designs - Hugo Moss, Paul McDonnell & Ben Hanbury
Title: Fearless
Production Company: Mammoth Screen
Broadcaster: ITV
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Design - Trails & Packaging: Rob Heath, John Cryer, Shizuka Hata & Rachel Warr
Title: Film Fear
Production Company: Platform Post & 4Creative
Broadcaster: Film4
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Director - Comedy Drama / Situation Comedy: Damon Beesley
Title: White Gold
Production Company: Fudge Park Productions
Broadcaster: BBC Two
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Director - Documentary/Factual & Non Drama: Dan Edge & Lauren Mucciolo
Title: Last Days of Solitary
Production Company: Mongoose Pictures and Frontline PBS
Broadcaster: BBC Four
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Director - Drama: Julian Jarrold
Title: The Witness for the Prosecution
Production Company: Mammoth Screen & Agatha Christie Productions
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Editing - Documentary / Factual: Sam Santana
Title: Bring Me Back to Life
Production Company: The Garden Productions
Broadcaster: Channel 4
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Editing - Drama: Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
Title: Three Girls
Production Company: BBC Studios in association with Studio Lambert
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Editing - Entertainment and Comedy: Editing Team
Title: Love Island - Series 3
Production Company: ITV Studios / Motion Content Group
Broadcaster: ITV2
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Editing - Sport: Matt Roberts, Kevin Evans, Jordan Buckingham & Scott Deaming
Title: UEFA Champions League final 2017 - Real Madrid v Juventus
Broadcaster: BT Sport
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Effects - Digital: The Digital Effects Team, One of Us
Title: The Crown
Production Company: Left Bank Pictures
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Effects - Special: Real SFX
Title: Sherlock
Production Company: Hartswood Films / Masterpiece
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Lighting for Multicamera: Nigel Catmur
Title: World War One Remembered: Passchendaele - For The Fallen
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One and BBC Two
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Make Up Design - Drama: Erika Okvist, Jan Archibald & Audrey Doyle
Title: Taboo
Production Company: Scott Free London and Hardy, Son and Baker
Broadcaster: BBC One and FX
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Make Up Design - Entertainment and Non Drama: Siobhán Harper-Ryan
Title: The Drug Trial: Emergency at the Hospital
Production Company: Raw TV
Broadcaster: BBC Two
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Multicamera Work: Richard Valentine & Matt Ingham
Title: One Love Manchester
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Multicamera Work - Sport: Helen Kuttner, Tim Moses, Mark Dennis & Camera Team
Title: 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championship
Production Company: Sunset+Vine (Host Broadcaster)
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Music - Original Score: Dru Masters
Title: Damilola, Our Loved Boy
Production Company: Minnow Films
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Music - Original Title: Martin Phipps
Title: Victoria - Series 1
Production Company: Mammoth Screen
Broadcaster: ITV
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Photography - Documentary / Factual & Non Drama: Production Team
Title: Planet Earth II
Production Company: BBC Studios, Natural History Unit
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Photography - Drama & Comedy: Matt Gray BSC
Title: Three Girls
Production Company: BBC Studios in association with Studio Lambert
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Picture Enhancement: Dan Gill
Title: Hospital - Series 2
Production Company: Label 1
Broadcaster: BBC Two
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Production Design - Drama: Joel Collins & James Foster
Title: Black Mirror: Nosedive
Production Company: House of Tomorrow
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Production Design - Entertainment & Non Drama: Florian Wieder
Title: Britain's Got Talent
Production Company: Thames SYCO
Broadcaster: ITV
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Sound - Drama: Sound Team
Title: Taboo
Production Company: Scott Free London and Hardy, Son and Baker
Broadcaster: BBC One and FX
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Sound - Entertainment and Non-Drama: Sound Team
Title: World War One Remembered: Passchendaele
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One and BBC Two
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Craft and Innovation Award 2017: Planet Earth II
Production Company: BBC Studios, The Natural History Unit
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
“The award this year goes to a documentary series that was simply gorgeous to look at – watching it was to marvel at how those images could even exist. It brought us a world of wildlife drama bigger and better than ever before, clearer, brighter and more comprehensive. From their home in Bristol, the brilliant programme makers behind this show have, for over half a century, pioneered the use of ground-breaking technical and creative innovation to open our eyes to the wonders of the natural world. But technology can only take us so far. Like all great programmes, it needs dedicated, talented professionals across the whole production. One reviewer summed it up perfectly when they said… “It has become predictable to heap superlatives upon the BBC Natural History Unit and wax lyrical about Attenborough’s status. But both institutions should be treasured while we’re lucky enough to still have them.””
Judges Award 2017: World War One Remembered: Passchendaele
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One and BBC Two
Nominees:
“The Judges’ Award goes to a live event that whilst being incredibly complex and ambitious was nevertheless delivered with a flawless brilliance. It was a true collaboration of content and technology working seamlessly as one to enable the history of the First World War to be brought to a LIVE television audience in an innovative and original way. From the incredible projection mapping to the detailed and emotive storytelling, together with orchestras, military bands, choral music, never seen before archive, global stars, and not least a team of hugely talented people. These elements all came together to tell the tragic story of one of the most horrific battles of the First World War in the place where it happened, a century on… A truly memorable and engaging piece of television.”
Lifetime Achievement Award 2017: Tony Revell
Nominees:
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award deservedly goes to a sound supervisor who for more than 30 years has been at the very top of his game. From Top of the Pops to Only Fools and Horses, from The Eurovision Song Contest to Strictly Come Dancing, on every type of programme imaginable, his contribution to television has been, and continues to be immense.
It’s in LIVE situations where he raises the bar, sets the standard for others to follow, whether its BBC’s Millennium Night Celebrations, over 48 hours of live global television, or Children in Need, Comic Relief, The Voice, Eurovision, and of course Strictly… in fact the list of his achievements is so long we’d be here until tomorrow… In short then, he is a hugely talented, and yet incredibly modest man, whose impressive career is one to be proud of. He is quite simply one of the good guys, and if the rumours are true that he is retiring at the end of the year, then it’ll be a great loss to the industry.”