Warp Films’ drama Adolescence has continued its dominance of the international awards circuit, scooping the most nominations for the UK’s Bafta TV and Television Craft Awards.
The Jack Thorne-penned drama secured 11 nods, ahead of the eight handed to last year’s leader, Baby Reindeer, also for Netflix.
Adolescence follows in the footsteps of its Netflix sibling in capturing the most nominations for a single show for the streamer, ahead of rival Disney+’s A Thousand Blows (seven nominations) and sci-fi title Andor (six).
Adolescence is in the running for best limited series with ITV1’s I Fought The Law, C4’s Trespasses and BBC3 series What It Feels Like for A Girl.
It also scored nominations for leading actor (Stephen Graham), supporting actor (Ashley Walters and Owen Cooper), and supporting actress (Christine Tremarco and Erin Doherty).
Across craft, Thorne and Graham scored nods in the writing category, Philip Barantini is nominated for director – fiction, Matthew Lewis in photography and lighting, Shaheen Baig for scripted casting, and James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McManus, Kyle Pickford and Adam Méndez for sound – fiction.
Period boxing drama A Thousand Blows, which also stars Graham and Doherty, is in contention for best drama series, with ITV1’s Deaf drama Code Of Silence and BBC1 crime drama This City Is Ours. Doherty secured her second nomination for leading actress.
The BBC comfortably led nominations overall with 73 across both craft and TV categories.
Bafta TV nominations
(Selected categories)
Limited drama
- Adolescence - Warp Films, Matriarch Productions, Plan B / Netflix
- I Fought The Law - Hera Pictures / ITV1
- Trespasses - Wildgaze Films / Channel 4
- What It Feels Like For A Girl - Hera Pictures / BBC Three
Drama series
- A Thousand Blows - The Story Collective, Matriarch Productions, Water & Power Productions / Disney+
- Blue Lights - Two Cities Television, Gallagher Films / BBC One
- Code Of Silence - Mammoth Screen / ITV1
- This City Is Ours - Left Bank Pictures / BBC One
International
- The Bear - FX Productions / Disney+
- The Diplomat - Let’s not turn this into a whole big production / Netflix
- Pluribus - Sony Pictures Television / Apple TV
- Severance - Fifth Season / Apple TV
- The Studio - Lionsgate Television / Apple TV
- The White Lotus - HBO, Rip Cord, MC Pictures / Sky Atlantic
Leading actor
- Colin Firth, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
- Ellis Howard, What it Feels Like for a Girl
- James Nelson-Joyce, This City is Ours
- Matt Smith, The Death Of Bunny Munro
- Stephen Graham, Adolescence
- Taron Egerton, Smoke
Leading actress
- Aimee Lou Wood, Film Club
- Erin Doherty, A Thousand Blows
- Jodie Whittaker, Toxic Town
- Narges, Rashidi, Prisoner 951
- Sheridan Smith, I Fought The Law
- Sian Brooke, Blue Lights
Supporting actor
- Ashley Walters, Adolescence
- Fehinti Balogun, Down Cemetery Road
- Joshua McGuire, The Gold
- Owen Cooper, Adolescence
- Paddy Considine, MobLand
- Rafael Mathé, The Death of Bunny Munro
Supporting actress
- Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
- Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
- Chyna McQueen, Get Millie Black
- Emilia Jones, Task
- Erin Doherty, Adolescence
- Rose Ayling-Ellis, Reunion
A version of this story first appeared on Screen’s sister site Broadcast.
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