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
