The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects 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, this category is "for special, visual and graphic effects and recognises achievement in all of these crafts."
The category has gone through several name changes: It was first awarded with the British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Titles & Graphic Identity category under the name Best Visual Effects and Graphic Design in 2001, 2002 and 2013. In 2003 it was split presenting the Best Visual Effects category until 2012. Since 2014, the category is presented as Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects.
Winners and nominees 2000s Best Visual Effects and Graphic Design Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2001 Gormenghast BBC Two Longitude Framestore Channel 4 Private Lives of the Pharaohs Red Vision Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes Simon Edgar, Gareth Edwards, Neil Cunningham BBC Two2002 Banzai Blue Source E4 Building The Impossible: The Seven Wonders of The Ancient World Atlantic Digital BBC The Lost World William Bartlett, Virgil Manning, Darren Byford BBC One Walking with Beasts Tim Greenwood, Max Tyrie, Jez Gibson-Harris, Mike Milne
Best Visual Effects Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2003 Walking with Dinosaurs: The Giant Claw (Special) Max Tyrie, Tim Greenwood, Jez Gibson-Harris BBC One Hornblower Phil Attfield ITV Dinotopia Mike McGee, Michael Eames, Alec Knox ABC How the Twin Towers Collapsed Red Vision Discovery Channel2004 Walking with Dinosaurs: Sea Monsters (Trilogy) Max Tyrie, Tim Greenwood, Jez Gibson-Harris, Jamie Campbell BBC One Ancient Egyptians: The Battle of Megiddo Grahame Andrew, Rob Harvey, Julian Parry, Abbie Tucker-Williams Channel 4 George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Aidan Farrell, Barney Jordan BBC Two Walking with Dinosaurs: Land of The Giants (Special) Max Tyrie, George Roper, Jez Gibson-Harris, Jamie Campbell BBC One2005 Battlefield Britain Red Vision BBC Two The Brighton Bomb Steve Bowman, Mike Tucker BBC One British Isles: A Natural History David CorfieldOmagh Channel 42006 Hiroshima Red Vision, Mike Tucker, Gareth Edwards BBC One Rome Barrie Hemsley, James Madigan, Joe Pavlo BBC Two Walking with Monsters Framestore Team BBC Three/BBC One Supervolcano Lola BBC One2007 Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Simon Thomas, Oliver Money Sky1 Death of a President Lola Channel 4 Krakatoa: The Last Days Lola, The Model Unit BBC One Doctor Who The Mill2008 Fight for Life Jellyfish Pictures BBC One Primeval Matt Fox, Christian Manz, James Farrington ITV Doctor Who (for "Voyage of the Damned") The Mill BBC OneRome BBC Two2009 Doctor Who (for "The Fires of Pompeii") The Mill BBC One Primeval Christian Manz, Matt Fox, Mark Brocking ITVThe Wrong Door BBC Three The Colour of Magic Simon Thomas, Reuben Barkataki, Dave Throssell Sky1
2010s Best Visual Effects Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2010 The Day of the Triffids Tom Turnbull, Joel Collins, Rene Morel BBC One Merlin The Mill BBC One Doctor Who World War II in Colour Alan Griffiths, Matthew Barrett, Vivek Rao Channel 52011 Merlin The Mill BBC One Wonders of the Solar System Simon Clarke, Stephen Waugh BBC Two Doctor Who The Mill BBC One Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Simon Thomas, Reuben Barkataki, Zoltan Benyó Sky12012 Great Expectations BlueBolt BBC One Wonders of the Universe Burrell Durrant Hifle BBC Two Doctor Who The Mill BBC One Inside the Human Body Philip Dobree, Sophie Orde, Dan Upton
Best Visual Effects and Graphic Design Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2013 Titanic Tom Turnbull ITV Doctor Who The Mill BBC One The Psychology of Winning Robin Nurse, Julian Gibbs, Richard Gort Parade's End Rupert Ray, Benuts BBC Two
Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2014 Doctor Who (for "The Day of the Doctor") || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Milk VFX, Real SFX, The Model Unit || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|BBC One |- | David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D || Zoo, Fido, Colossus || Sky 3D |- | Peaky Blinders || BlueBolt (VFX), Rushes (Colourist) || BBC One |- | Micro Monsters with David Attenborough (for "Predator") || Hollingworth Photography, British Technical Films, Colossus || Sky One |- |rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2015 || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Doctor Who Milk VFX, Real SFX, BBC Wales VFX BBC One David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D Colossus Productions, Vision3, Zoo VFX Sky 3D Atlantis Vine FX, Colin Gorry BBC One Ripper Street Screen Scene2016 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Milk VFX BBC One Fungus the Bogeyman DNeg TV, Chris Rodgers Sky One The Last Kingdom BlueBolt BBC Two Doctor Who Milk VFX, Millennium FX, Real SFX, Molinare2017 The Crown One of Us, Molinare Netflix The Night Manager Bluebolt, Pau Costa Moeller BBC One War & Peace Bluebolt, Jens Doeldissen, Simone Grattarola Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Real SFX, Milk VFX, Kevin Horsewood Playtest (Black Mirror) Justin Hutchinson-Chatburn, Framestore, Glassworks, Baseblack Netflix The Last Dragonslayer Milk VFX, Chris Reynolds, Adam McInnes Sky One2018 Metalhead (Black Mirror) Dneg TV, Jean-Clement Soret, Russell McLean, Joel Collins Netflix Taboo BlueBolt, Colin Gorry Effects Ltd., Adam Glasman, Rob Pizzey BBC One The Crown One of Us, Asa Shoul, Christopher Reynolds Netflix Emerald City Thomas Horton, Freefolk, Double Negative, Nvizible 5Star2019 Troy: Fall of a City Adam McInnes, John Smith, Kevin Horsewood BBC One Bandersnatch (Black Mirror) Glassworks, Jean-Clement Soret, Clayton McDermott, Mark Coulier Netflix The Alienist (for "The Boy on the Bridge") Kent Houston, Peerless, Freefolk, Asa Shoul Britannia Simon Frame, Martin Oberlander, Adam Inglis Sky Atlantic
2020s Year Title Recipient(s) Broadcaster2020 His Dark Materials Framestore, Painting Practice, Real SFX, Russell Dodgson BBC One The Crown Ben Turner, Chris Reynolds, Asa Shoul Netflix Chernobyl Lindsay McFarlane, Claudius Christian Rauch, Jean-Clément Soret, DNEG Sky Atlantic Good Omens Milk Visual Effects, Gareth Spensley, Real SFX BBC Two2021 His Dark Materials Russell Dodgson, James Whitlam, Jean-Clement Soret, Robert Harrington, Dan May, Brian Fisher BBC One The Crown Ben Turner, Reece Ewing, Chris Reynolds, Asa Shoul, Framestore, Untold Studios Netflix Cursed Milk Visual Effects, DNEG TV, Freefolk, Goodbye Kansas Studios, Greg Fisher, Dave Houghton War of the Worlds Michael Illingworth, Oliver Milburn, Danny Hargreaves, Oliver Ogneux, Laura Usaite, Pedrom Dadgostar Fox2022 The Witcher (for "Episode 1") || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Dadi Einarsson, Gavin Round, Aleksandar Pejic, Oliver Cubbage, Stefano Pepin, Jet Omoshebi || style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Netflix|- | Earth At Night In Color || Adam Inglis, Tom Payne, Sam Livingstone, Silja Momsen-Livingstone || Apple TV+ |- | Intergalactic || Jean-Claude Deguara, Milk VFX, Egg VFX, Gareth Spensley, Real SFX || Sky One |- | Black Holes: Heart of Darkness || Rob Harvey, Rasik Gorecha, Sam Reed, Alex Marlow, John Kennedy, Katherine Jamieson || BBC Two |- |rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2023 || style="background:#B0C4DE;"| House of the Dragon Angus Bickerton, Nikeah Forde, Asa Shoul, Mike Dawson, MPC, Pixomondo Sky Atlantic Andor Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Richard Van Den Bergh, Jean-Clément Soret, Industrial Light & Magic Disney+ His Dark Materials Russell Dodgson, Bryony Duncan, Sam Chynoweth, Damien Stumpf, Danny Hargreaves, Eliot Gibbins BBC One The Sandman Industrial Light & Magic Netflix2024 The Witcher Tim Crosbie, Caimin Bourne, Jet Omoshebi, Dan Weir, Cinesite, David Stephens Netflix The Wheel of Time Andy Scrase, Patricia Llaguno, Beau Garcia, Oliver Winwood, Huw Evans, Jodie Davidson Prime Video The Crown Ben Turner, Reece Ewing, Framestore, Rumble VFX, Asa Shoul, Chris Reynolds Netflix Silo Daniel Rauchwerger, Stefano Pepin, Richard Stanbury, Raphael Hamm, Ian Fellows Apple TV+2025 The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Jason Smith, Richard Bain, Ryan Conder, Chris Rodgers Prime Video Silo Daniel Rauchwerger, Raphael Hamm, Stefano Pepin, Richard Stanbury, Ian Fellows, Paul Bongiovanni Apple TV+ Masters of the Air Neil Corbould, Caimin Bourne, Stuart Heath, Glen Winchester House of the Dragon Dadi Einarsson, Thomas Horton, Lev Kolobov, Mike Dawson, Asa Shoul, Pixomondo Sky Atlantic2026 Andor Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Luke Murphy, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clément Soret, Industrial Light & Magic Disney+ Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Russell Dodgson, Framestore, Andy Jones, Simon Bland, François Dumoulin, Gavin McKenzie Apple TV USS Callister: Into Infinity (Black Mirror) James MacLachlan, Josie Henwood, Union VFX, Stargate Studios Malta, Magic Lab, Sam Chynoweth Netflix The Witcher Sara Bennett, Richard Reed, David Stephens, Jet Omoshebi, Caimin Bourne, Scanline
Note: The series that don't have recipients on the table had FX Team credited as the recipients of the award or nomination.
See also Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role
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