The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Factual 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.
In 2006 and 2007 there was only on category for directors but in 2008 the category was split in three separate categories to recognize directing for different programming, first creating Best Director: Factual and Best Director: Fiction and then in 2011 Best Director: Multi-Camera.
Winners and nominees 2000s Best Director Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster2006 Brian Percival Much Ado About Nothing BBC One Simon Cellan Jones The Queen's Sister Channel 4 Joe Ahearne Doctor Who BBC One Justin Chadwick Bleak House2007 Edmund Coulthard Soundproof BBC Two Tom Hooper Longford Channel 4 Adrian Shergold Low Winter Sun Bharat Nalluri Life on Mars BBC One
Best Director: Factual Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster2008 Jezza Neumann Dispatches "China’s Stolen Children" Channel 4 Annabel Gillings Earth: The Power of the Planet "Atmosphere" BBC Two Livia Russell Grand Designs Channel 4 Joseph Bullman The Seven Sins of England 2009 Morgan Matthews The Fallen BBC Two Amanda Blue Prescott: The Class System and Me BBC Two Jonathan Smith The Family Channel 4 Stephen Walker A Boy Called Alex
2010s Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster2010 Patrick Forbes The Force Channel 4 Annabel Gillings How Earth Made Us "Water" BBC Two Nick Read Dispatches "The Slumdog Children of Mumbai" Channel 4 Dan Reed "Terror in Mumbai"2011 Dan Reed Dispatches "The Battle for Haiti" Channel 4 Gideon Bradshaw, Paul Olding Wonders of the Solar System "Empire of the Sun" BBC Two Chris Holt "The Thin Blue Line" Nicolas Brown Human Planet "Arctic" BBC One2012 David Clews Educating Essex Channel 4 Vanessa Berlowitz, Chadden Hunter, Kathryn Jeffs Frozen Planet "To the Ends of the Earth" BBC One Sacha Mirzoeff Protecting Our Children BBC Two Charlie Russell Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die2013 Ben Chanan The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes Channel 4 Katharine English Our War BBC Three John Dower Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow Sky Atlantic Ben Anthony 7/7 One Day in London BBC Two2014 Nick Holt The Murder Trial Channel 4 Lee Phillips Her Majesty's Prison Aylesbury ITV David Brindley, Grace Reynolds Educating Yorkshire Channel 4 Sara Hardy, Blue Ryan The Unspeakable Crime: Rape BBC One2015 Dan Reed The Paedophile Hunter Channel 4 Ben Anthony Life and Death Row "Execution" BBC Three Alisa Pomeroy 24 Hours in Police Custody Channel 4 Neil Crombie Grayson Perry: Who Are You?2016 Dave Nath The Murder Detectives Channel 4 Adam Jessel Professor Green: Suicide and Me BBC Three James Newton The Detectives BBC Two Ursula Macfarlane Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris Channel 42017 James Bluemel Exodus: Our Journey to Europe BBC Two Anna Hall Behind Closed Doors BBC One Daniel Gordon Hillsborough BBC Two Peter Beard Gender Clinic: Kids on the Edge Channel 42018 Charlie Russell Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me BBC Two Anna Hall Catching a Killer "The Search for Natalie Hemming" Channel 4 Will Yapp The Real Full Monty ITV Xavier Alford Drugsland "Heroin Love Story" BBC Three2019 Ben Anthony Grenfell BBC One David Soutar, Joe Pearlman Bros: After the Screaming Stops BBC Four James Rogan Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation BBC One Paddy Wivell Prison Channel 4
2020s Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster2020 Arthur Cary, Morgan Matthews, Katherine Anstey, Joby Gee The Last Survivors BBC Two Dan Reed Leaving Neverland Channel 4 Mark Lewis Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer Netflix Robin Barnwell Exposure "Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag" ITV2021 Teresa Griffiths Lee Miller – A Life on the Front Line BBC Two Xavier Alford Storyville "Locked in: Breaking the Silence" BBC Four James Bluemel Once Upon a Time in Iraq BBC Two Deeyah Khan Exposure "America's War on Abortion" ITV2022 James Newton Grenfell: The Untold Story Channel 4 Arthur Cary Surviving 9/11 BBC Two Jamie Roberts Four Hours at the Capitol James Newton Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles Channel 42023 Felicity Morris The Tinder Swindler Netflix James Jones Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes Sky Documentaries Emma Cooper The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes Netflix Sophie Robinson My Dead Body Channel 42024 Peter Beard, Bruce Fletcher Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story Sky Documentaries James Bluemel Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland BBC Two John Dower Lockerbie Sky Documentaries Gesbeen Mohammad Exposure "Inside Iran: The Fight for Freedom" ITV2025 Charlie Hamilton-James Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story National Geographic Natasha Cox Storyville "Life and Death in Gaza" BBC Two Colette Camden Lucan Tom Green, Tommy Forbes Me and the Voice in My Head Channel 42026 Rob Coldstream Vietnam: The War That Changed America Apple TV Karim Shah Gaza: Doctors Under Attack Channel 4 Olaide Sadiq Grenfell: Uncovered Netflix Benedict Sanderson See No Evil Channel 4
See also Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program
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