The Responder and This is Going To Hurt, BBC dramas are in the nominations lead for this year’s BAFTA Craft and BAFTA TV awards with six nominations each. Martin Freeman and Ben Wishaw have received the thumbs up in the leading actor category for their performances.
Recommissioned for a second series Dancing Ledge’s The Responder makes the best drama series list, while Sister’s This is Going To Hurt is up for the best drama mini-series. Between these two dramas, the BBC achieved 81 nominations, 34 BAFTA Craft, and 47 BAFTA TV nominations.
The BBC scored more than twice as many nods as the runner-up channels with:
- Channel 4 = 33
- Netflix = 24
- ITV = 19
- Apple TV+ = 15
- Sky = 14
- Disney+ = 8
Slow Horses, The English, The Crown, and Bad Sisters follow closely behind with five nominations each.
BAFTA Awards 2023 Lead Nominations
Sunday, 14 May, the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards will take place at London’s Royal Festival Hall and will be hosted by comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett and broadcast on BBC1. While on April 23, the BAFTA TV Craft Awards at The Brewery in London.
Drama Series Nominations:
- The Responder – Dancing Ledge /BBC One: Rebecca Ferguson, Chris Carey, Tony Schumacher, Laurence Bowen, Tim Mielants, Toby Bruce
- Bad Sisters – Merman, ABC Signature/Apple TV+: Dearbhla Walsh, Sharon Horgan, Faye Dorn, Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Johann Knobel
- Somewhere Boy – Clerkenwell Films/Channel 4: Emily Harrison, Pete Jackson, Alex Winckler, Petra Fried, Gavin O’Grady
- Sherwood – House Productions/BBC One: Harriet Spencer, James Graham, Tessa Ross, Lewis Arnold, Rebecca Hodgson, Juliette Howell
International Nominations:
- Wednesday – MGM Television/Netflix: Production Team
- The Bear – FX Productions/Disney+: Josh Senior, Christopher Storer, Hiro Murai, Joanna Calo
- Pachinko – Media Res, Blue Marble Pictures/Apple TV+: Lindsey Springer, Soo Hugh, Richard Middleton, Michael Ellenberg, Theresa Kang, Kogonada
- Dahmer – Ryan Murphy Productions/Netflix: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- The White Lotus – HBO, Rip Cord, The District/Sky Atlantic: Mark Kamine, Mike White, John Valerio, David Bernad, Heather Persons
- Oussekine – Itinéraire Productions/Disney+: Juliette Lassalle, Anthony Lancret, Kevin Deysson, Pierre Laugier, Pauline Dauvin, Antoine Chevrollier
Leading actress
- Kate Winslet – Me+You Productions, Juggle Productions/Channel 4 I Am Ruth
- Billie Piper – Bad Wolf/Sky Atlantic I Hate Suzie Too
- Sarah Lancashire – Lionsgate Television, Mad Ben Productions, Modern O Productions, Inc., 3Arts Entertainment, HBO Max /Sky Atlantic Julia
- Imelda Staunton – Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television/Netflix The Crown
- Vicky McClure – Left Bank Pictures/ITVX Without Sin
- Maxine Peak – World Productions/ITV1 Anne
Leading actor
- Gary Oldman – See-Saw Films/Apple TV+ Slow Horses
- Martin Freeman – Dancing Ledge/BBC One The Responder
- Ben Whishaw – SISTER, Terrible Productions/BBC One This Is Going To Hurt
- Cillian Murphy – Caryn Mandabach Productions/BBC One Peaky Blinders
- Chaske Spencer – Drama Republic, Eight Rooks/ BBC Two The English
- Taron Egerton – Apple Studios/Apple TV+ Black Bird
Supporting actress
- Fiona Shaw – Lucasfilm/Disney+ Andor
- Adelyao Adedayo – Dancing Ledge/BBC One The Responder
- Saffron Hocking – Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew, SpringHill Entertainment/Netflix Top Boy
- Lesley Manville – House Productions/BBC One Sherwood
- Anne-Marie Duff – Merman, ABC Signature/Apple TV+ Bad Sisters
- Jasmine Jobson – Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew, SpringHill Entertainment/Netflix Top Boy
Supporting actor
- Josh Finan – Dancing Ledge/BBC One The Responder
- Adeel Akhtar – House Productions/BBC One Sherwood
- Samuel Bottomley – Clerkenwell Films/Channel 4 Somewhere Boy
- Jack Lowden – See-Saw Films/Apple TV+ Slow Horses
- Will Sharpe – HBO, Rip Cord, The District/Sky Atlantic, The White Lotus
- Salim Daw – Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television/Netflix The Crown
Single drama
- Life And Death In The Warehouse – BBC Studios/BBC Three – Joseph Bullman, Tracie Simpson, Helen Black, Aysha Rafaele, Steve Lawes, Tim Hodges
- The House – Nexus Studios/Netflix – Christopher O’Reilly, Paloma Baeza, Charlotte Bavasso, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Marc James Roels, Emma de Swaef
- I Am Ruth – Me+You Productions, Juggle Productions/Channel 4 – Kate Winslet, Dominic Savage, Josh Hyams, Richard Yee, David Charap, Krishnendu Majumdar
Director: fiction
- Lucy Forbes, SISTER, Terrible Productions/BBC One This Is Going to Hurt
- Dearbhla Walsh, Merman, ABC Signature/Apple TV+ Bad Sisters
- William Stefan Smith, Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew, SpringHill Entertainment/Netflix Top Boy
- Hugo Blick, Drama Republic, Eight Rooks/BBC Two The English
Writer: Drama
- Tony Schumacher, Dancing Ledge/BBC One The Responder
- Adam Kay, SISTER, Terrible Productions/BBC One This Is Going to Hurt
- Pete Jackson, Clerkenwell Films/Channel 4 Somewhere Boy
- Alice Oseman, See-Saw Films/Netflix Heartstopper
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme
- Natasia Demetriou Ellie & Natasia
- Daisy May Cooper Am I Being Unreasonable?
- Lucy Beaumont Meet The Richardsons
- Diane Morgan Cunk On Earth
- Siobhán Mcsweeney Derry Girls
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme
- Matt Berry What We Do In The Shadows
- Lenny Rush Am I Being Unreasonable?
- Daniel Radcliffe Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- Joseph Gilgun Brassic
- Stephen Merchant The Outlaws
- Jon Pointing Big Boys
