BAFTA Cymru

BAFTA Cymru Nominations Announced

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Wales, BAFTA Cymru, has announced today the nominations for the British Academy Cymru Awards, honouring excellence in broadcasting and production within film and television in Wales. This year Awards will be presented across 21 craft, performance and production categories in film and television as well as a special award for outstanding contribution to the international film and TV industry. Details of this year’s special award recipient will be announced on 8 October.

His Dark Materials leads this year with nine nominations. The series is nominated for Television Drama while actors Dafne Keen and Ruth Wilson are nominated for Actress, with Keen receiving her first nomination for her role as Lyra Belacqua.

Feature film Eternal Beauty, shot on location in South Wales, has received five nominations – for Actress for Sally Hawkins and Costume Design for previous winner Sian Jenkins, with a first-time nomination for Director Fiction for the film’s writer/director Craig Roberts, Editing for Stephen Haren, who is also nominated for the first time for His Dark Materials, and previous winner Tim Dickel for Production Design.

BBC One Drama The Left Behind, which was filmed in Cardiff, also receives five nominations including for Television Drama and sees newcomer Sion Youngreceiving his first nomination for Actor, Alan Harris for Writer and BAFTA winner Joseph Bullman for Director: Fiction. The final nomination is Hair and Make Up for Jill Conway, who receives her first nomination.

2019 winner, In My Skin, receives four nominations – for Writer for previous Breakthrough honouree Kayleigh Llewellyn; Director: Fiction for Lucy Forbes, both of whom are nominated for the first time. The series is nominated once again in the Television Drama and in the Actress category for previous winner Gabrielle Creevy.

 

Full list of British Academy Cymru Awards Nominees 2020

 

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TELEVISION

Announced on 8 October

 

ACTOR (sponsored by AUDI)

ANTHONY HOPKINS as Pope Benedict XVI IN The Two Popes

JONATHAN PRYCE as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Pope Francis IN The Two Popes

ROB BRYDON as Rob IN The Trip to Greece

SION YOUNG as Gethin IN The Left Behind

 

ACTRESS (sponsored by Champagne Taittinger)

DAFNE KEEN as Lyra Belacqua IN His Dark Materials

GABRIELLE CREEVY as Bethan Gwyndaf IN In My Skin

RUTH WILSON as Mrs Coulter IN His Dark Materials

SALLY HAWKINS as Jane IN Eternal Beauty

 

BREAKTHROUGH (sponsored by Bad Wolf)

HANNA JARMAN & MARI BEARD for Merched Parchus

LISA WALTERS for On the Edge: Adulting

MARTIN READ for The Insomniacs

SEBASTIAN BRUUNO & DAVID BARNES The Dynamic Duo

 

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME

CIC

DEIAN A LOLI

PROJECT Z

 

COSTUME DESIGN

CAROLINE MCCALL for His Dark Materials

RAY HOLMAN for Fleabag

SIAN JENKINS for Eternal Beauty

 

DIRECTOR: FACTUAL

SIÔN AARON & TIMOTHY LYN  for Eirlys, Tim a Dementia

MARC EVANS for The Prince and the Bomber

MEI WILLIAMS for Tudur Owen: O Fôn i’r Lleuad

LAURA MARTIN ROBINSON for Warriors: Our Homeless World Cup

 

DIRECTOR: FICTION

CRAIG ROBERTS for Eternal Beauty

JOSEPH BULLMAN for The Left Behind

LEE HAVEN JONES for Doctor Who (Spyfall Part 2)

LUCY FORBES for In My Skin

EDITING (sponsored by Gorilla)

GERAINT HUW REYNOLDS for The Prince and the Bomber

NIVEN HOWIE & STEPHEN HAREN for His Dark Materials

REBECCA TROTMAN for Doctor Who

STEPHEN HAREN for Eternal Beauty

 

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

CYRN AR Y MISSISSIPPI

HENO

PRIODAS PUM MIL

THE TUCKERS

FACTUAL SERIES

CORNWALL: THE FISHING LIFE

WALES: LAND OF THE WILD / CYMRU WYLLT

WARRIORS: OUR HOMELESS WORLD CUP

YSGOL NI: MAESINCLA

 

MAKE UP AND HAIR

JILL CONWAY for The Left Behind

MELANIE LENIHAN for War of the Worlds

PAMELA HADDOCK for His Dark Materials

 

NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS (sponsored by Working Word)

FLOODING STRIKES THE SOUTH WALES VALLEYS

WALES INVESTIGATES INSIDE THE UK’S PUPPY FARM CAPITAL

Y BYD AR BEDWAR

 

ORIGINAL MUSIC (sponsored by Cardiff Council)

MARK THOMAS for Last Summer

JONATHAN HILL for The Long Song

JOHN HARDY MUSIC for Steel Country

KARL JENKINS & JODY JENKINS for Wales: Land of the Wild / Cymru Wyllt

 

PHOTOGRAPHY AND LIGHTING: FICTION (sponsored by Whitelight)

BJORN BRATBERG FNF for Bang

DAVID HIGGS for His Dark Materials

DAVID WILLIAMSON for War of the Worlds

SUZIE LAVELLE for His Dark Materials

PRESENTER (sponsored by Deloitte)

CARYS ELERI IN Carys Eleri’n Caru

ELIS JAMES IN Elis James – Funny Nation

EMMA WALFORD & TRYSTAN ELLIS-MORRIS IN Prosiect Pum Mil

HAYLEY PEARCE IN Hayley Goes…Sober

 

PRODUCTION DESIGN

ARWEL WYN JONES for Dracula

JOEL COLLINS for His Dark Materials

TIM DICKEL for Eternal Beauty

 

SHORT FILM (sponsored by Boom)

THE ARBORIST

CREEPY PASTA SALAD

PALE SAINT

SALAM

 

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY

GARETH THOMAS: HIV AND ME

THE MURDER OF JILL DANDO

THE PRINCE AND THE BOMBER

TUDUR OWEN; O FÔN I’R LLEUAD

SOUND

ALEX ASHCROFT for The Last Tree

PRODUCTION TEAM for Good Omens

PRODUCTION TEAM for Sex Education

TELEVISION DRAMA

HIS DARK MATERIALS

IN MY SKIN

THE LEFT BEHIND

UN BORE MERCHER / KEEPING FAITH

 

WRITER (sponsored by Decade 10)

ALAN HARRIS for The Left Behind

HANNA JARMAN & MARI BEARD for Merched Parchus

KAYLEIGH LLEWELLYN and In My Skin

RUSSELL T DAVIES for Years and Years