The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction 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: Fiction Year Recipient(s) Title Broadcaster2008 John Crowley Boy A Channel 4 Otto Bathurst Five Days BBC One Marc Munden The Mark of Cain Channel 4 Adrian Shergold Persuasion ITV2009 Rowan Joffé The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall Channel 4 Otto Bathurst Criminal Justice BBC One Alex Holmes House of Saddam BBC Two Niall MacCormick Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley BBC Four
2010s Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster2010 Philip Martin Mo Channel 4 Yann Demange Criminal Justice BBC One Aisling Walsh Wallander "The Fifth Woman" James Hawes Enid BBC Four2011 Brian Percival Downton Abbey ITV1 Paul McGuigan Sherlock "A Study in Pink" BBC One Shane Meadows This Is England '86 Channel 4 Charles Sturridge The Road to Coronation Street BBC Four2012 Hugo Blick The Shadow Line BBC Two Julian Jarrold Appropriate Adult ITV John Alexander Exile BBC One Yann Demange Top Boy Channel 42013 Philippa Lowthorpe Call the Midwife BBC One Julian Jarrold The Girl BBC Two Birger Larsen Murder Hettie Macdonald Hit & Miss Sky Atlantic2014 Otto Bathurst Peaky Blinders BBC One James Strong Broadchurch "Episode One" ITV Jane Campion, Garth Davis Top of the Lake BBC Two Marc Munden Utopia Channel 42015 Julian Farino Marvellous BBC Two Euros Lyn Happy Valley BBC One Hugo Blick The Honourable Woman BBC Two Paul Andrew Williams Murdered by My Boyfriend BBC Three2016 Shane Meadows This Is England '90 Channel 4 Aisling Walsh An Inspector Calls BBC One Ben Taylor Catastrophe Channel 4 Jakob Verbruggen London Spy BBC Two2017 Marc Munden National Treasure Channel 4 Euros Lyn Damilola, Our Loved Boy BBC One Susanne Bier The Night Manager Stephen Daldry The Crown Netflix2018 Philippa Lowthorpe Three Girls BBC One Jane Campion Top of the Lake: China Girl BBC Two Mackenzie Crook Detectorists BBC Four Paul Whittington Little Boy Blue ITV2019 Stephen Frears A Very English Scandal BBC One Harry Bradbeer Killing Eve "Nice Face" BBC One Mahalia Belo The Long Song Thomas Vincent Bodyguard "Episode 1"
2020s Year Recipient(s) Title Episode Broadcaster2020 Johan Renck Chernobyl Sky Atlantic Harry Bradbeer Fleabag BBC Three Toby Haynes Brexit: The Uncivil War Channel 4 Shane Meadows The Virtues2021 Michaela Coel and Sam Miller I May Destroy You BBC One Lenny Abrahamson Normal People BBC Three Steve McQueen Small Axe BBC One Benjamin Caron The Crown "Fairytale" Netflix2022 Peter Hoar It's a Sin Channel 4 Lewis Arnold Time BBC One Marc Munden Help Channel 4 Will Sharpe Landscapers Sky Atlantic2023 William Stefan Smith Top Boy Netflix Dearbhla Walsh Bad Sisters Apple TV+ Hugo Blick The English BBC Two Lucy Forbes This Is Going to Hurt BBC One2024 Peter Hoar The Last of Us HBO / Sky Atlantic Lewis Arnold The Long Shadow "Episode 6" ITV William Stefan Smith Top Boy "If We Are Not Monsters" Netflix Joseph Bullman Partygate Channel 42025 Weronika Tofilska Baby Reindeer Netflix Nida Manzoor We Are Lady Parts Channel 4 Molly Manners One Day Netflix Peter Kosminsky Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light BBC One2026 Philip Barantini Adolescence Netflix Janus Metz Andor "Messenger", "Who Are You?" & "Welcome to the Rebellion" Disney+ Sam Donovan Severance "Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig" & "Trojan's Horse" Apple TV Dawn Shadforth Trespasses Channel 4
See also Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special
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