The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Production Design 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. According to the BAFTA website, for a programme to be eligible to this category it "should contain a significant amount of original design."
The category was gone through some name changes: From 1955 to 1965, an individual award named Best Designer was presented. From 1966 to 2000 it was presented as Best Design. Since 2001 it has been presented as Best Production Design.
Winners and nominees 1950s Best Designer Year Recipient(s) Title1955 Michael Yates1956 Bruce Angrave1957 Reece Pemberton1958 Stephen Taylor1959 Stephen Bundy
1960s Best Designer Year Recipient(s) Title1960 Clifford Hatts1961 Frederick Pusey1962 Voytek1963 Eileen Diss1964 Richard Henry1965 Richard Wilmot
Best Design Year Title Recipient(s)1966 The Tea PartyProgress To The ParkSummer Of The 17th DollThe Tap On The ShoulderAshes To AshesAuto Stop Eileen Diss The BachelorsGiants on SaturdayNo Baby, No Baby At AllThe Rules of the Game John Clements The IncidentThe Importance of Being EarnestHothouseThe Gaming BookThe HunterTime and Mr Maddingly Assheton Gorton Parade's End (Trilogy)Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode)The NavigatorsNo Trams to Lime StreetThe Kidders Richard Wilmot1967 Tony Abbott1968 Julia Trevelyan Oman1969 The Portrait of a Lady Roy Oxley
1970s Year Title Recipient(s)1970 OtelloRembrandtThe Vortex Tony Abbott The Borderers Colin Shaw LouiseBetter DeadCharley's AuntThe Marquise Eileen Diss This Is Tom Jones Brian Bartholomew1971 The Six Wives Of Henry VIIIBiography: BeethovenBiography: I Measured The Skies - KeplerPut Out More Flags Peter Seddon Germinal Don Homfray The Roads to Freedom Spencer Chapman Uncle Vanya Eileen Diss1972 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Design Team Die FledermausCider With Rosie Eileen Diss The Onedin Line Oliver Bayldon Tartuffe Fanny Taylor1973 War and Peace Don Homfray The Onedin Line Oliver Bayldon and the Design Team Upstairs, Downstairs John Clements1974 An Afternoon At The FestivalNow She Lies TherePygmalionAlice Through The Looking GlassTrouble In Tahiti Eileen Diss The Bröntes of Haworth Alan Pickford Country Matters Design Team Vienna 1900 Don Homfray1975 The Stanley Baxter Big Picture Show Bill McPhersonJennie Frederick Pusey, Mike Hall Jane Robinson, Jill Silverside The Pallisers Raymond Cusick, Tim Harvey1976 Edward VII Henry Graveney, Anthony Waller Days of Hope Martin Johnson The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show Part III Bill McPherson Upstairs, Downstairs Sheila Jackson1977 I, Claudius Tim Harvey The Duchess of Duke Street Raymond Cusick, Paul Joel Rock Follies Rod Stratford, Alex Clarke When the Boat Comes In Richard Morris, Bernard Lloyd-Jones, Sue Spence, Oliver Bayldon, Peter Brachacki1978 Hard Times Roy Stonehouse The Duchess of Duke Street Raymond Cusick, Victor Meredith, Tony Thorpe Love for Lydia John Clements, Frank Nerini The Muppet Show David Chandler, Bryan Holgate1979 Edward & Mrs. Simpson Allan Cameron, Martyn Hebert Lillie Bryan Bagge, Richard Dunn, Roger Hall Pennies from Heaven Tim Harvey, Bruce Macadie The Voyage of Charles Darwin Colin Shaw
1980s Year Title Recipient(s)1980 Testament of Youth Sally Hulke Crime and Punishment Tony Abbott Prince Regent Barry Newbury, Barrie Dobbins Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Austen Spriggs1981 Thérèse Raquin David Myerscough-Jones Blade on the Feather Andrew Drummond Cream in My Coffee John Emery Love in a Cold Climate David Marshall, Robert Ide1982 Brideshead Revisited Peter Phillips PygmalionMiss Morison’s GhostsThe Potting Shed Eileen Diss The Borgias Tim Harvey Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Roger Murray-Leach1983 Barchester ChroniclesThe Bell Chris Pemsel The Red SignalThe Agatha Christie Hour: The Girl in the TrainA Voyage Round My Father David Marshall Nicholas Nickleby John Napier Smiley's People Austen Spriggs1984 An Englishman Abroad Stuart Walker Reilly, Ace of Spies Roger Hall Saigon: Year of the Cat David Marshall, Robin Parker Waters of the MoonThe Blue DressFarmers Arms Geoff Powell1985 Threads Christopher Robilliard The Far Pavilions Robert Laing Tenko Ken Ledsham The Jewel in the Crown Alan Pickford, Vic Symonds Doctor Fischer Of Geneva Austen Spriggs1986 Bleak House Tim Harvey Tender is the Night Derek Dodd Silas Marner Gerry Scott Edge of Darkness Graeme Thomson1987 The Insurance Man Geoff Powell The Singing Detective Jim Clay Hotel Du Lac Barbara Gosnold The Monocled Mutineer Christopher Robilliard Lost Empires Roy Stonehouse, David Buxton The Return of Sherlock Holmes Tim Wilding1988 Fortunes of War Tim Harvey Vanity Fair Gavin Davies Porterhouse Blue Eileen Diss Tutti Frutti Bob Smart Blackadder the Third Antony Thorpe1989 Christabel Jim Clay Talking Heads Tony Burrough A Very British Coup Grant Hicks Tumbledown Geoff Powell
1990s Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster1990 Traffik Martyn Herbert, Hans Zillman Channel 4 The Ginger Tree Michael Young BBC One The Woman in Black Jon Bunker ITV Agatha Christie's Poirot (for "Episodes 1,2,5,8 & 10") Rob Harris The Chronicles of Narnia Alan Spalding BBC1991 Portrait of a Marriage Stuart Walker BBC Two House of Cards Ken Ledsham BBC One Jeeves and Wooster Eileen Diss ITV The Chronicles of Narnia Alan Spalding BBC1992 Jeeves and Wooster Eileen Diss ITV Jim Henson's Greek Myths John Beard Channel 4 Clarissa Gerry Scott BBC Prime Suspect Roy Stonehouse ITV1993 Screen Two: Memento Mori Oliver Bayldon BBC Two Hostages Stephen Fineren ITV The Borrowers Sophie Becher BBC Two The Vampyr: A Soap Opera Jim Grant1994 The Buddha of Suburbia Roger Cann BBC Two Prime Suspect 3 Chris Truelove ITV The Borrowers Sophie Becher BBC Two Scarlet and Black Stuart Walker BBC One1995 Dandelion Dead Voytek ITV Seaforth Chris Edwards BBC One A Dark-Adapted Eye Paul Munting1996 Persuasion William Dudley, Brian Sykes BBC Two The Buccaneers Tony Burrough ITV The Hanging Gale Tim Hutchinson BBC One Cold Comfort Farm Malcolm Thornton BBC1997 Gulliver's Travels Roger Hall Channel 4 Rhodes Maurice Cain BBC One The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Sarah Greenwood The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Stephen Fineren ITV1998 The Woman in White Alice Normington BBC One A Dance to the Music of Time Eileen Diss Channel 4 Jonathan Creek John Asbridge, Jonathan Taylor BBC One Tom Jones Roger Cann1999 Our Mutual Friend Malcolm Thornton BBC Two Hornblower: The Even Chance Andrew Mollo ITV Far from the Madding Crowd Adrian Smith BBC Two Alice Through the Looking Glass Anne Tilby Channel 4
2000s Best Design Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2000 Wives and Daughters Gerry Scott BBC One Hornblower Rob Harris ITV Great Expectations Alice Normington BBC Two Warriors Phil Roberson BBC One
Best Production Design Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2001 Longitude Eileen Diss, Chris Lowe Channel 4 The Scarlet Pimpernel Maurice Cain BBC One Anna Karenina Rob Harris Channel 4 Gormenghast Christopher Hobbs BBC Two2002 The Way We Live Now Gerry Scott BBC One The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby James Merifield Channel 4 Love in a Cold Climate Gerry Scott BBC One Othello Malcolm Thornton ITV2003 The Gathering Storm Luciana Arrighi BBC Two Foyle’s War Claire Kenny, Maurice Cain ITV Shackleton Michael Howells Channel 4 White Teeth Alice Normington2004 The Lost Prince John-Paul Kelly BBC One The Forsyte Saga Stephen Fineren ITV Charles II: The Power and the Passion Sarah Greenwood BBC One Cambridge Spies Mike Gunn BBC Two2005 Sex Traffic Candida Otton Channel 4 North and South Simon Elliott BBC One Spooks Stevie Herbert, Robert Foster Blackpool Grenville Horner2006 Bleak House Simon Elliott BBC One Rome Joseph Bennett BBC Two To the Ends of the Earth Donal Woods Elizabeth I Eve Stewart Channel 42007 An Audience with Take That... Live! Bill Laslett ITV Longford Michael Pickwoad Channel 4 Jane Eyre Grenville Horner BBC One Life on Mars Brian Sykes2008 Cranford Donal Woods BBC One My Boy Jack Dave Arrowsmith ITV Life on Mars Matthew Gant BBC One Britz Pat Campbell Channel 42009 Wallander Jacqueline Abrahams BBC One The Curse of Steptoe Patrick Bill BBC Four The Devil's Whore Rob Harris Channel 4 Little Dorrit James Merifield BBC One
2010s Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2010 Gracie! Claire Kenny BBC Four Wallander Jacqueline Abrahams BBC One Red Riding 1974 Christina Casali Channel 4 An Englishman in New York Beth Mickle ITV2011 Misfits Tom Bowyer E4 Sherlock: A Study in Pink Arwel Wyn Jones BBC One Eric and Ernie Pat Campbell BBC Two Downton Abbey Donal Woods ITV2012 Great Expectations David Roger BBC One Appropriate Adult Pat Campbell ITV Downton Abbey Judy Farr, Donal Woods Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits Joel Collins, Daniel May Channel 42013 The Girl Darryl Hammer BBC Two Downton Abbey Donal Woods ITV The Hour Eve Stewart BBC Two Parade's End Martin Childs2014 Ripper Street Mark Geraghty BBC One Broadchurch Catrin Meredydd ITV Burton and Taylor John Stevenson BBC Four Peaky Blinders Grant Montgomery BBC Two2015 Penny Dreadful Jonathan Mckinstry, Philip Murphy Sky Atlantic Peaky Blinders Grant Montgomery BBC Two That Day We Sang Tom Burton Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This Candida Otton ITV2016 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell David Roger BBC One Fortitude Gemma Jackson Sky Atlantic This Is England '90 Janey Levick Channel 4 Dickensian Michael Ralph BBC One2017 War & Peace Chris Roope BBC One The Crown Martin Childs Netflix Rillington Place Pat Campbell BBC One The Night Manager Tom Burton, Barbara H. Skelding2018 Game of Thrones Deborah Riley, Rob Cameron HBO USS Callister (Black Mirror) Joel Collins, Phil Sims Netflix The Crown Martin Childs, Alison Harvey The State Pat Campbell Channel 42019 Patrick Melrose Tom Burton Sky Atlantic A Very English Scandal Helen Scott BBC One Killing Eve Kristian Milsted The Little Drummer Girl Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
2020s Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2020 Chernobyl Luke Hull, Claire Levinson-Gendler Sky Atlantic Killing Eve Laurence Dorman, Linda Wilson BBC One The Crown Martin Childs, Alison Harvey Netflix Sex Education Samantha Harley, Miri Katz2021 Small Axe Helen Scott BBC One Gangs of London Matt Gant and Megan Bosaw Sky Atlantic Sex Education Samantha Harley and Alexandra Slade Netflix His Dark Materials Joel Collins BBC One2022 Landscapers Cristina Casali Sky Atlantic Vigil Tom Sayer BBC One The Pursuit of Love Cristina Casali The Serpent François-Renaud Labarthe2023 Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling Channel 4 The Essex Serpent Alice Normington Apple TV+ The English Chris Roope BBC Two Pistol Kave Quinn, Tim Blake, Stella Fox, Penny Crawfold, Emily Norris Disney+2024 Silo Gavin Bocquet, Amanda Bernstein Apple TV+ Nolly Ben Smith ITVX The Long Shadow Anna Higginson ITV Black Mirror: "Demon 79" Udo Kramer Netflix2025 Rivals Dominic Hyman Disney+ Masters of the Air Chris Seagers Apple TV+ Breathtaking Ashleigh Jeffers ITV1 The Day of the Jackal Richard Bullock Sky Atlantic2026 Juice Philippa Mumford BBC Three Andor Luke Hull, Rebecca Alleway, Toby Britton Disney+ A Thousand Blows Tom Burton, Grant Bailey, Barbara Herman-Skelding Trespasses Gillian Devenney Channel 4
See also Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More)
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