NFTS Graduates proved to be big winners at the British Academy Television Awards with three graduates winning BAFTAs and a further 8 being involved in key roles on BAFTA-winning programmes.
Directing Fiction graduate Aisling Walsh and Screenwriting graduate Amanda Coe won Best Mini-series for their work on Room at the Top adapted from the novel by John Braine and broadcast on BBC4.
Directing Documentary graduate Alison Millar (pictured above) went on to win Best Current Affairs for her film The Shame of the Catholic Church part of the ‘This World’ series and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.
HBO’s Game of Thrones won the BAFTA Audience Award; among our graduates on the series are William Quinn (Sound FX Recordist), Max Berman (Concept Artist) and Emmy-winning cinematographer David Katznelson BSC has recently shot some of season three.
The BAFTA for Best Single Documentary went to 7/7: One Day in London which featured Producing graduate Hussain Ahmed as its Production Co-ordinator.
The BAFTAs for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor were taken home by Ben Whishaw and Simon Russell Beale respectively for their work on The Hollow Crown trilogy. NFTS Sound graduate Adrian Rhodes won the BAFTA for Best Sound for his work on The Hollow Crown at the BAFTA Craft Awards earlier in the month.
Olivia Coleman won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Accused (Mo’s Story), which features the work of graduate Stuart Hilliker who was nominated for Best Sound at the BAFTA Craft Awards earlier in the month.
BAFTA gave the Award for Best Sports and Live Event to the Channel 4 team of The London 2012 Paralympic Games, on which NFTS graduate Abigail Dankwa participated as Stage Manager for the Closing Ceremony. The team, which included many reporters and presenters with disabilities, were trained by thinkBIGGER! using NFTS facilities as part of a bespoke Short Course.
NFTS Director Nik Powell said: “This again shows the range of talent coming out of the NFTS and how NFTS graduates are taking up key roles in BAFTA winning television and film productions. Congratulations to all of our winners and nominees."
Other recent graduates nominated for awards include 2013 Directing Animation MA graduate Ana Caro and her crew whose charcoal animated film The Magnificent Lion Boy is in Cinefondacion at the Cannes Film Festival and Director Kristina Yee's stop-frame animated film Miss Todd has just been selected as a winner in the Oscar-qualifying Student Academy Awards.
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The deadline to apply for our documentary directing short course SummerDocs in partnership with DocHouse is May 23.
