Women make up 20 per cent of Bafta Craft Awards nominations

 

Just two female directors, Aisling Walsh for BBC One's An Inspector Calls, and Ursula McFarlane for the More4 documentary Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris, are listed in all three directing categories. Victoria Boydell, who edited London Spy, and Alex Mackie, who worked with Walsh on An Inspector Calls, are the only women of the nine nominees listed in the two editing categories.  

Women are better represented in the Writer, Comedy category, with Julia Davis and Barunka O'Shaugnessy both nominated for Sky Atlantic's award-winning sit-com Hunderby and Sian Gibson and Sharon Horgan receiving nods for Peter Kay's Car Share and Catastrophe, respectively. 

However, no women have been nominated alongside Mike Bartlett (Doctor Foster), Neil Cross (Luther), Peter Straughan (Wolf Hall) and Russell T Davies (Cucumber) in the Writer, Drama category. 

 

 

Rising star Michaela Coel has been nominated for her writing of comedy Chewing Gum, in which she stars, but she is the only woman recognised in the Breakthrough Talent category, alongside DC Moore (Not Safe for Work), Guillem Morales (Inside No 9) and Marcus Plowright (Muslim Drag Queens).  In contrast, two thirds of the 2015 Breakthrough Brit honorees, which celebrates young acting talent, were women.

The 19.7 per cent of named women nominees is an increase on the 17 per cent nominated in the Craft Awards last year. 

Although of the technical categories, such as Special and Visual Effects and Sound Fiction, nominated teams of people, rather than individuals, meaning that more women were potentially involved, the awards reflect the diminishing role women are playing in the TV industry. In 2014, a study released by Directors UK showed that only eight per cent of the UK's entertainment and comedy programmes were directed by women between 2011-12, a 12 per cent decrease since 2002. 

In the film industry, women are similarly poorly represented behind the camera.  A study, also published in 2014, showed that, on average, women made up less than a quarter of film crew staff, and there were fewer women working behind the scenes in 2013 than in 1994.

Bafta's policy is not to comment on nomination statistics.

One third of the organisation's scholarship programme, which launched in 2012, are women, who have been supported in roles such as digital effects and animation, where the lack of gender balance is particularly acute. However, Bafta have been working alongide the Inspiring Women campaign to advise young girls who may be considering a career in film, TV or games.  

Ali Bailey, head of campaigns at Directors UK, told The Telegraph: "This year's nominations provide yet another stark reminder as to the true scale and depth of the gender inequality facing directors working in television production.

"Only through systemic, lasting change to the television industry's culture will gender inequality begin to be dismantled. Broadcasters and production companies have to look at how they hire and who they hire. In reality this all boils down to unconscious bias that adversely impacts freelance women directors at every stage in their career, but it is within the industry's power to change this.”

 

The Bafta TV Craft Awards nominations in full

 

Breakthrough Talent

DC MOORE (Writer) Not Safe for Work – Clerkenwell Films/Channel 4
GUILLEM MORALES (Director) Inside No. 9 – The 12 Days of Christine – BBC Productions/BBC Two
MARCUS PLOWRIGHT (Director) Muslim Drag Queens – Swan films/Channel 4
MICHAELA COEL (Writer) Chewing Gum – Retort/E4

 

Costume Design

BARBARA KIDD Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Cuba Pictures/Feel Films/BBC One
FOTINI DIMOU The Dresser – Playground Television UK Limited, Sonia Friedman Productions, Altus Productions, Prescience/BBC Two
JOANNA EATWELL Wolf Hall – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures/BBC Two
MARIANNE AGERTOFT Poldark – Mammoth Screen Limited/BBC One
 

Digital Creativity

ATHENA WITTER, BARRY HAYTER, TERESA PEGRUM, LIAM DALLEY I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – ITV Consumer Ltd
DEVELOPMENT TEAM Humans – Persona Synthetics – 4creative, OMD, Microsoft, Fuse, Rocket, Supernatural GABRIEL BISSET-SMITH, RACHEL DE-LAHAY, KENNY EMSON, ED SELLEK The Last Hours of Laura K – BBC MIKE

 

Director, Factual

ADAM JESSEL Professor Green: Suicide and Me – Antidote Productions/Globe Productions/BBC Three
DAVE NATH The Murder Detectives – Films of Record/Channel 4
JAMES NEWTON The Detectives – Minnow Films/BBC Two
URSULA MACFARLANE Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris – Films of Record/More4

 

Director, Fiction

AISLING WALSH An Inspector Calls – Drama Republic/BBC One
EN TAYLOR Catastrophe – Avalon Television/Birdbath Productions/Merman Films/Channel 4
JAKOB VERBRUGGEN London Spy – Working Title TV, BBC/BBC Two
SHANE MEADOWS This Is England ’90 – Warp Films/Channel 4

 

Director, Multi-Camera

CHRIS POWER Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway – ITV Studios and Mitre Television Co-Production/ITV
JOHN ANDERSON Coronation Street – ITV Studios/ITV
JOHN WATTS Rugby World Cup Final: New Zealand v Australia – ITV Sport/ITV

 

Editing, Factual

BEN BROWN The Murder Detectives – Films of Record/Channel 4
DOMINIC LESTER Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough – Atlantic Productions/BBC One
JAMES CLARKSON LYON Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris – Films of Record/More4
SIMON MCMAHON My Son The Jihadi – True Vision/Channel 4

 

Editing, Fiction

ALEX MACKIE An Inspector Calls – Drama Republic/BBC One
DANIEL GREENWAY Humans – Kudos/Channel 4
DAVID BLACKMORE Wolf Hall – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures/BBC Two
MATTHEW GRAY This Is England ’90 – Warp Films/Channel 4
VICTORIA BOYDELL London Spy – Working Title TV, BBC/BBC Two

 

Entertainment Craft Team

ANDREW NOTGATE, AIDEN SPACKMAN, KEVIN DAY, KEVIN DUFF A League of their Own – CPL Productions/Sky1 JAMES CLARKE, MARK OWEN, JOHN FEATHERSTONE, IAN HUGHES The Apprentice – Boundless (part of FremantleMediaUK)/BBC One

JASON GILKISON, MARK KENYON, TONY REVEL, DAVE NEWTON Strictly Come Dancing – BBC Productions/BBC One
ZAC NICHOLSON, TOMAS BURTON, EDWARD K. GIBBON, JACQUETTA LEVON The Sound of Music Live! – ITV Studios Entertainment/ITV

 

Make Up and Hair Design

ÃMILIE GAUTHIER, JOYCE DEAN Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Cuba Pictures/Feel Films/BBC One ENZO MASTRANTONIO, NICK DUDMAN, FERDINANDO MEROLLA Penny Dreadful – Neal Street Productions, Desert Wolf Productions/Sky Atlantic
JENNY SHIRCORE The Dresser – Playground Television UK Limited, Sonia Friedman Productions, Altus Productions, Prescience/BBC Two
ROSEANN SAMUEL Wolf Hall – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures/BBC Two

 

Original Music

ANNE DUDLEY Poldark – Mammoth Screen Limited/BBC One

BEN FOSTER, NICK FOSTER Thunderbirds Are Go – ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures/CITV OLAFUR ARNAULDS Broadchurch – Kudos/ITV

STEVEN PRICE The Hunt – Atlantic Productions/BBC One

 

Photography, Factual

ANDREW MUGGLETON Handmade: Metal – BBC/BBC Four BEN STEELE The Children Who Beat Ebola – Blakeway Productions/Channel 4
CAMERA TEAM The Hunt – Silverback Films/BBC One
PETE HAYNS, MARK PAYNE-GILL, LUKE BARNETT Big Cats: An Amazing Animal Family – Offspring Films/Sky1

 

Photography and Light, Fiction

GAVIN FINNEY Wolf Hall – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures/BBC Two
IAN MOSS The Frankenstein Chronicles – Rainmark Films/ITV Encore
JOHN CONROY Fortitude – Fifty Fathoms Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions/Sky Atlantic
LAURIE ROSE London Spy – Working title TV, BBC/BBC Two

 

Production Design

DAVID ROGER Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Cuba Pictures/Feel Films/BBC One
GEMMA JACKSON Fortitude – Fifty Fathoms Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions/Sky Atlantic
JANEY LEVICK This Is England ’90 – Warp Films/Channel 4
MICHAEL RALPH Dickensian – Red Planet Pictures/BBC One

 

Sound, Factual

ANDY JAMES, ANDY PAYNE, ANDY GROVES, JULIAN PASQUA VE Day 70: The Nation Remembers – BBC Events Production/BBC One
DANIEL JONES, GARETH MALONE, CONRAD FLETCHER, MAT WOOD The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone – Twenty Twenty Television/BBC Two
JOHN ROGERSON, RICHARD ADDIS, RYAN TWYMAN, FREDDIE CLAIRE Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough – Atlantic Productions/BBC One
MATT SKILTON, MIKE HATCH, TONY BURKE La Traviata: Love, Death and Divas – Reef Television/BBC Two

 

Sound, Fiction

ADRIAN RHODES, JAMIE RODEN, ANTONY BAYMAN The Enfield Haunting – Eleven Film/Sky Living
KEVIN DUFF, ANDY DEACON, SALLY HESKETH, BEN MILTON The Sound of Music Live! – ITV Studios Entertainment/ITV
RUDI BUCKLE, PHIL BARNES, BLAIR JOLLANDS, HOWARD BARGROFF Fortitude – Fifty Fathoms Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions/Sky Atlantic
SCOTT JONES, ROB BRAZIER, JOSEPH STRACEY, IAN VOIGT London Spy – Working Title Television/BBC Two SOUND TEAM Wolf Hall – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures/BBC Two
STUART HILLIKER, JIM GODDARD, BILLY QUINN, TOM DEANE Doctor Foster – Drama Republic/BBC One

 

Special, Visual and Graphics Effects

BLUEBOLT The Last Kingdom – Carnival Films/BBC Two
DNEG TV, COLIN RODGERS Fungus the Bogeyman – The Imaginarium Studios/Sky1
MILK VFX Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Cuba Pictures/Feel Films/BBC One
MILK VFX, MILLENNIUM FX, REAL SFX, MOLINARE Doctor Who – BBC Wales/BBC One

 

Titles and Graphic Identity

EDWARD TRACY Murder In Successville – Tiger Aspect Ltd Productions/BBC Three
MOMOCO Fortitude – Fifty Fathoms Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions/Sky Atlantic
NIC BENNS, MIKI KATO Luther – BBC Drama Production London/BBC One
PAUL MCDONNELL, BEN HANBURY, HUGO MOSS The Last Kingdom – Carnival Films/BBC Two

 

Writer, Comedy

JESSE ARMSTRONG, SAM BAIN Peep Show – Objective Productions/Channel 4
JULIA DAVIS, BARUNKA O’SHAUGHNESSY Hunderby – Baby Cow Productions/Sky Atlantic
PETER KAY, PAUL COLEMAN, SIAN GIBSON Peter Kay’s Car Share – Goodnight Vienna Productions/BBC iPlayer ROB DELANEY, SHARON HORGAN Catastrophe – Avalon Television/Birdbath Productions/Merman Films/Channel 4

 

Writer, Drama

MIKE BARTLETT Doctor Foster – Drama Republic/BBC One NEIL CROSS Luther – BBC Drama Production London/BBC One
PETER STRAUGHAN Wolf Hall – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures/BBC Two
RUSSELL T DAVIES Cucumber – Red Production Company/Channel 4