RTS Craft & Design Awards 2024
Awards Ceremony
Monday, 2 December, 2024
The winners of the RTS Craft & Design Awards 2024 have been announced.
The ceremony took place this evening at the London Hilton on Park Lane, hosted by Charlotte Hawkins from ITV’s Good Morning Britain and ITV Racing.
Across 29 competitive categories, the awards celebrate the vast variety of skills and processes involved in programme making. The BBC led the way with 10 awards, including two of the three Director awards: Janet Fraser Crook won Director – Multicamera for her work on Coldplay at Glastonbury 2024, and Paddy Wivell’s Hell Jumper took home the Director – Non-scripted award.
Netflix followed closely with seven awards, including the Sound – Scripted award for its global sensation Baby Reindeer. Psychological thriller series Eric, produced by SISTER and Little Chick for Netflix, received the highest number of wins (three) for a single programme, including Effects – SFX, Photography – Scripted, and Picture Enhancement.
The newly established Multicamera Work – Sport category went to Sean Randle for Sky Sports’ World Darts Championship Final 2024 broadcast. The jurors said it required a high standard of skill to bring the excitement and atmosphere of the sporting event to life.
Presented at the discretion of the RTS, the RTS Special Award for 2024 was awarded to three organisations who are helping to alleviate the ongoing challenges that TV freelancers are facing: The TV Collective, The Film and TV Charity and TV Mindset. The Outstanding Contribution Award was presented to the award-winning producer, writer and director Peter Kosminsky, whose illustrious career spans all of journalism, documentary and drama, and who recently directed the highly-anticipated second and final series of the BBC’s Wolf Hall adaptation.
Emma Gormley, Chair of RTS Craft & Design, said: “It has been a privilege to witness the level of talent that is evident across the UK television landscape. After what has been a difficult year for many in the industry, the RTS Craft & Design Awards provide a moment for us to come together as a community to celebrate successes but also to acknowledge these challenges and share our thoughts on how we move forward. The winners we’re highlighting this evening are exemplary leaders in the UK creative industry, and are instrumental in producing - mostly against the odds - the outstanding programming we’ve all enjoyed this year. A huge congratulations to all our winners and nominees!”
Please see below the full list of winners and nominees:
Winners
Casting Award: Rosalie Clayton
Title: Boarders
Production Company: Studio Lambert
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
Costume Design - Scripted: Orla Smyth-Mill
Title: The Long Shadow
Production Company: New Pictures
Broadcaster: ITV1
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Design - Titles: Intermission Film
Title: Boiling Point (Series 1)
Production Company: Ascendant Fox, Matriarch Productions and It's All Made Up Productions
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Design – Programme Content Sequences: Oliver Smyth
Title: The Battle To Beat Malaria
Production Company: Wingspan Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Arte France
Broadcaster: BBC Two
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Director - Multicamera: Janet Fraser Crook
Title: Coldplay at Glastonbury 2024
Production Company: BBC Studios Music Production
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Director - Non-scripted: Paddy Wivell
Title: Hell Jumper
Production Company: Expectation TV
Broadcaster: BBC Two
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Director - Scripted: Molly Manners
Title: One Day
Production Company: Drama Republic Production with Universal International Studios and Focus Features
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Editing - Sport: Nicholas Perry & Mandii Kuller
Title: Andy Murray: Will to Win
Production Company: BBC Sport
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Editing - Entertainment and Comedy: Gareth Heal
Title: Peacock (Series 2)
Production Company: Big Talk Studios in association with Bullion
Broadcaster: BBC Three
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Editing - Non-scripted: Otto Burnham
Title: Atomic People
Production Company: Minnow Films
Broadcaster: BBC Two
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Editing - Scripted: Mark Sanger
Title: Masters of the Air
Production Company: Apple Studios with Amblin Television / Playtone
Broadcaster: Apple TV+
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Effects - SFX: Becky Johnson & Paul Vincett (Stitches & Glue)
Title: Eric
Production Company: SISTER / Little Chick
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Effects - VFX: Alan Church, Simon Giles, David Schneider & James Hattsmith
Title: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Production Company: Synchronicity Films in association with Sky Studios and All3Media International
Broadcaster: Sky
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Lighting for Multicamera: Nigel Catmur, Joe Phillips, Oliver Lifely & Martin Higgins
Title: Gladiators
Production Company: Hungry Bear Media and MGM Alternative UK
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Make Up Design - Non-scripted: Suzi Battersby & Megan Thomas
Title: Secrets of the Neanderthals
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Make Up Design - Scripted: Sharon Miller, Kym Menzies-Foster & Kelly Taylor
Title: Three Little Birds
Production Company: Tiger Aspect Productions / Douglas Road Productions
Broadcaster: ITVX / ITV1
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Multicamera Work: Camera Team
Title: Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins (Series 5)
Production Company: Minnow Films
Broadcaster: Channel 4
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Multicamera Work - Sport: Sean Randle
Title: World Darts Championship Final 2024
Production Company: Sky Sports / EMG
Broadcaster: Sky Sports
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Music Original Score - Non-scripted: Morgan Kibby
Title: Queens
Production Company: Wildstar Films & National Geographic
Broadcaster: Disney+
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Music Original Score - Scripted: Shez Manzoor, Nida Manzoor, Sanya Manzoor & Benjamin Fregin
Title: We Are Lady Parts (Series 2)
Production Company: Working Title Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group
Broadcaster: Channel 4
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Photography - Non-scripted: Photography Team
Title: Earthsounds
Production Company: Offspring Films in association with Apple
Broadcaster: Apple TV+
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Photography - Scripted: Benedict Spence BSC
Title: Eric
Production Company: SISTER / Little Chick
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Picture Enhancement: Toby Tomkins
Title: Eric
Production Company: SISTER / Little Chick
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Production Design - Non-scripted: Natalie O'Connor
Title: The Enfield Poltergeist
Production Company: MetFilm / Concordia Studio in association with Apple
Broadcaster: Apple TV+
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Production Design - Scripted: Phil Sims
Title: Doctor Who
Production Company: Bad Wolf a co-production with BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One
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Production Management Award: The Production Management Team
Title: Squid Game: The Challenge
Production Company: Studio Lambert and The Garden
Broadcaster: Netflix
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Sound - Non-scripted: Nick Ryan, Ben Baird and Sound Team
Title: The Enfield Poltergeist
Production Company: MetFilm / Concordia Studio in association with Apple
Broadcaster: Apple TV+
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Sound - Scripted: James Ridgway, Matt Skelding, Jake Whitelee & Tom Jenkins
Title: Baby Reindeer
Production Company: Clerkenwell Films
Broadcaster: Netflix
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RTS Special Award: The TV Collective, The Film and TV Charity and The TV Mindset
Nominees:
“As everyone here knows the last 12 months have been especially challenging for television freelancers.
The latest figures from BECTU suggest that just over half the UK’s film and TV workforce are still out of work.
So, this year the RTS has decided to recognise three organisations who are helping alleviate the difficulties TV freelancers are facing.
The TV Collective is a community of networking TV professionals of colour; connecting its members to paid opportunities, the industry and each other.
The Film and TV Charity provides practical support with mental and physical health and financial wellbeing, as well as working to bring greater equity and inclusion to the industry.
And The TV Mindset aims to provide professional and peer support for freelancers, particularly with mental health, as well as bringing meaningful change to working practices in the industry.
All three share this award in recognition of the important work they are doing in support of the very hard-pressed freelance sector.”
Outstanding Contribution Award: Peter Kominsky
Nominees:
“The Outstanding Contribution Award is exactly that. An award for an outstanding contribution of creative craft or design in the industry.
This year it goes to a producer, writer, and director. He began as a current affairs journalist and documentary maker but made his name by telling contemporary social and political stories through television drama.
His work has covered a multitude of challenging subjects including Northern Ireland, British soldiers in Bosnia, the death of Dr David Kelly, the radicalization of British Islamists.
After studying Chemistry at Oxford, he became a BBC general trainee before moving to Yorkshire TV and eventually establishing himself as an independent.
He says he favours doing drama because – in his words - you get a much bigger audience and a much more competitive slot on terrestrial television for a high-profile drama than you would for a documentary on a similar subject.
The size of the audience, he says, is important if you are interested in alerting people to things they might not know about, and perhaps changing minds.
He should certainly be satisfied with the ratings for his most recent work which focuses on the politics of the sixteenth century - the third part of Hilary Mantell’s Wolf Hall, the Mirror and the Light. This year’s RTS Outstanding Contribution award goes to Peter Kosminsky."