RTS Midlands Awards 2020

Awards Ceremony

Wednesday, 25 November, 2020

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Winners announced for the RTS Midlands Awards 2020. 

Sponsoring this year's Awards Ceremony are Film Birmingham, Create Central, BBC and Channel 4.

Click here for the Awards Programme.

Winners

Acting Performance - Female: Dúaa Karim

Title: Man Like Mobeen
Production Company: Tiger Aspect Productions
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
Jill Halfpenny - Dark Money
Bharti Patel - Doctors

Acting Performance - Male: Adrian Lewis Morgan

Title: Doctors
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Guz Khan - Man Like Mobeen
Babou Ceesay - Dark Money

Animation

Title: Flesh
Production Company: Anna Campbell and Rural Media, supported by Arts Council England
Broadcaster: BBC Arts, BBC Four and BBC online platforms
Nominees:
Mirakin: The Picture Pixies
Da Vinci Learning Channel Idents
Roads from the Past
A Scribbled Memory

Breakthrough (Off Screen): Luke Collins

Production Company: Rural Media
Broadcaster: BBC
Nominees:
Talisha ‘Tee Cee’ Johnson
Scarlett Kefford
Bhulla Beghal
Cree-Summer Haughton

Breakthrough (On Screen): Oloni

Title: My Mate's A Bad Date
Production Company: BBC Three
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
Max Fincham - Dark Money
Pablo Taylor
Sideman - Strictly Sideman
Dr Angela Moran - A Very British History: Birmingham Irish I Am

Craft - Post Production

Title: Da Vinci Learning Channel Idents
Production Company: Second Home Studios
Nominees:
Affixxius Films - Run - Trent Bridge
Chris Polding - Evil Up Close: Kim Edwards & Lewis Markham
Editing Team - My Mate's A Bad Date
Paul Farrer - Red Dwarf - The Promised Land

Digital Creativity

Title: Strictly Sideman
Production Company: BBC Three
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
BBC Three Edit Hub
Home Time
ITV News Central
People Just Do Nothing Watching People Just Do Nothing. Kurupt FM: LIVE

Documentary

Title: Life & Birth
Production Company: Dragonfly Film & TV
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
A Very British History: Birmingham Irish I Am
A Very British History: Whatever Happened to the Boat People?
Cops Like Us
Return to Auschwitz

Craft - Production (sponsored by Create Central)

Title: Man Like Mobeen
Production Company: Tiger Aspect Productions
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
Affixxius Films - Sedbergh School - The Spirit of Sedbergh
Bhulla Beghal - Home Time and A Scribbled Memory
Lewis Arnold - Dark Money
Lina Hashweh

Drama (sponsored by Film Birmingham)

Title: Doctors
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Dark Money
Father Brown
Shakespeare and Hathaway – Private Investigators

Factual and Specialist Factual

Title: The Lady Killers
Production Company: FirstLookTV
Broadcaster: Quest Red
Nominees:
A Very British History: Birmingham Irish I Am
Cops Like Us
GPs Behind Closed Doors
Soul Boy

Factual Entertainment / Popular Factual Series

Title: The Rap Game UK
Production Company: Naked
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
Canal Boat Diaries
Houseshare
Paul Hollywood Eats Japan
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Krakow

Journalist of the Year: Darshna Soni

Production Company: ITN
Broadcaster: Channel 4 News
Nominees:
Charlotte Cross
Jonathan Gibson
Simon Ward
Yasmin Bodalbhai

News Programme of the Year

Title: Nottinghamshire Child Abuse Scandal
Production Company: ITV News Central (East)
Broadcaster: ITV
Nominees:
BBC East Midlands Today - Leicester Lockdown
BBC Midlands Today
Floods 2020: Uncharted Territory
HS2 - Still on Track?

On Screen Personality: Oloni

Title: My Mate's A Bad Date
Production Company: BBC Three
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
Craig Charles - The Gadget Show
Guy Martin
Nick Owen - BBC Midlands Today
Sameena Ali-Khan - ITV News Central

Promotional

Title: Confetti Fields
Production Company: Conteur
Broadcaster: The Real Flower Petal Confetti Company
Nominees:
Formula One Autocentres
Contraption
Sky - Step up, Speak Up
The Comeback

Short Form

Title: BBC New Creatives
Production Company: Rural Media supported by Arts Council England
Broadcaster: BBC Arts, BBC Four and BBC online platforms
Nominees:
Legacy
Poet off the Ends
The Comeback
Unbreakable

Writer: Guz Khan and Andy Milligan

Title: Man Like Mobeen
Production Company: Tiger Aspect Productions
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
James Graham - Quiz
Kit Lambert - Father Brown
Will Hanrahan - Kids Who Kill: Aaron Campbell