The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Writer: Drama is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.
An award for the writers of a television program was existed since the creation of the BAFTA Television Awards with categories named Best Script, Best Scriptwriter and Writer being presented from the 50s to the 70s. In 2006 the category Best Writer was created, this category was awarded until 2013 when it was split into two separate categories (Writer: Comedy and Writer: Drama) to recognise the differences in writing for comedy and drama programmes on television.
Winners and nominees 1950s Writers Award Year Recipient(s) Title1955 Iain McCormack
Best Scriptwriter Year Recipient(s) Title1956 Colin Morris1957 Spike Milligan1958 Colin Morris1959 Colin Morris
1960s Best Scriptwriter Year Recipient(s) Title1960 Galton and Simpson1961 Alun Owen
Best Script Year Recipient(s) Title1962 Giles Cooper1963 Troy Kennedy Martin1964 Harold Pinter1965 Ken Taylor1966 Michael Mills and Richard Waring The World of WoosterMarriage Lines John Elliott MogulThe Truth Game John Hopkins Horror of DarknessParade's EndA Man Like OrpheusFableI Took My Little World AwayZ-Cars Harold Pinter The Tea Party1967 Dennis Potter1968 John Hopkins1969 Marty Feldman and Barry Took Marty
1970s Best Script Year Title Recipient(s)1970 The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten John Terraine Bird's Eye View ("Beside The Seaside", "An Englishman's Home") John Betjeman Callan James Mitchell Civilisation Kenneth Clark Monty Python's Flying Circus Writing Team The Son of Man Dennis Potter1971 Slattery's Mounted FootSay Goodnight To Your GrandmaThe Hallelujah HandshakeRoll On 4 O'Clock Colin Welland On Trial: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial Stuart Hood The Roads to Freedom David Turner The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon Rosemary Anne Sisson1972 The Benny Hill Show Benny Hill Act of BetrayalCider with Rosie Hugh Whitemore CasanovaPaper Roses/Traitor Dennis Potter Edna, The Inebriate Woman Jeremy Sandford
2000s Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster2006 Peter Kosminsky The Government Inspector Channel 4 Andrew Davies Bleak House BBC One Russell T Davies Doctor Who Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant Extras BBC Two2007 Peter Morgan Longford Channel 4 Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant Extras BBC Two Matthew Graham Life on Mars BBC One Frank Deasy Prime Suspect: The Final Act ITV2008 Steven Moffat Doctor Who (for "Blink") || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|BBC One |- | Tony Marchant || The Mark of Cain || Channel 4 |- | Jimmy McGovern || The Street || rowspan="2"|BBC One |- | Heidi Thomas || Cranford |- |rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2009 || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Peter Moffat || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Criminal Justice BBC One Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong Peep Show Channel 4 Simon Block The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall Russell T Davies Doctor Who (for "Midnight") BBC One
2010s Best Writer Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster2010 Guy Hibbert Five Minutes of Heaven BBC Two Peter Bowker Occupation BBC One Heidi Thomas Cranford Writing Team The Thick of It BBC Two2011 Peter Bowker Eric and Ernie BBC Two Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine Getting On BBC Four Stephen Butchard Five Daughters BBC One Iain Morris, Damon Beesley The Inbetweeners E42012 Steven Moffat Sherlock (for "A Scandal in Belgravia") BBC One Neil McKay Appropriate Adult ITV Abi Morgan Birdsong BBC One Jack Thorne The Fades BBC Three
Best Writer: Drama Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster2013 Sally Wainwright Last Tango in Halifax BBC One Gwyneth Hughes The Girl BBC TwoTom Stoppard Parade's End Shaun Duggan, Jimmy McGovern Accused (for "Tracie's Story") BBC One2014 Dominic Mitchell In The Flesh BBC Three Chris Chibnall Broadchurch ITV Sally Wainwright Last Tango in Halifax BBC One Dennis Kelly Utopia Channel 42015 Sally Wainwright Happy Valley BBC One Peter Bowker Marvellous BBC Two Jed Mercurio Line of Duty Dennis Kelly Utopia Channel 42016 Russell T Davies Cucumber Channel 4 Mike Bartlett Doctor Foster BBC One Neil Cross Luther Peter Straughan Wolf Hall BBC Two2017 Sally Wainwright Happy Valley BBC One Peter Morgan The Crown Netflix Levi David Addai Damilola, Our Loved Boy BBC One Simon Nye The Durrells ITV2018 Nicole Taylor Three Girls BBC One Charlie Brooker Hang the DJ (Black Mirror) Netflix Peter Morgan The Crown Steven Knight Peaky Blinders BBC Two2019 David Nicholls Patrick Melrose Sky Atlantic Lennie James Save Me Sky Atlantic Phoebe Waller-Bridge Killing Eve BBC One Russell T. Davies A Very English Scandal
2020s Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster2020 Jesse Armstrong Succession Sky Atlantic Charlie Covell The End of the F***ing World Channel 4 Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne The Virtues Craig Mazin Chernobyl Sky Atlantic2021 Michaela Coel I May Destroy You BBC One Lucy Kirkwood Adult Material Channel 4 Alastair Siddons and Steve McQueen Small Axe BBC One Lucy Prebble I Hate Suzie Sky Atlantic2022 Kayleigh Llewellyn In My Skin BBC Three Jack Thorne Help Channel 4 Russell T Davies It's a Sin Jesse Armstrong Succession HBO/Sky Atlantic2023 Adam Kay This Is Going to Hurt BBC One Alice Oseman Heartstopper Netflix Tony Schumacher The Responder BBC One Pete Jackson Somewhere Boy Channel 42024 Charlie Brooker, Bisha K. Ali Black Mirror: "Demon 79" || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Netflix|- | Jesse Armstrong || Succession || HBO / Sky Atlantic |- | Sally Wainwright || Happy Valley || rowspan="2"| BBC One |- | Sarah Phelps || The Sixth Commandment |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2025 || style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Richard Gadd || style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Baby Reindeer Netflix Mickey Down, Konrad Kay Industry BBC One Nicole Taylor One Day Netflix Gwyneth Hughes Mr Bates vs The Post Office ITV12026 Will Smith Slow Horses Apple TV Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham Adolescence Netflix Ailbhe Keogan Trespasses Channel 4 Paris Lees What It Feels Like for a Girl BBC Three
See also Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special
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