| British Academy Television Craft Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First award | 1981 |
| Currently held by | Fiction:Bad Sisters –Tim Phillips,PJ Harvey Factual:Rage Against the Regime: Iran – Noor Khaleghi (2025) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
TheBritish Academy Television Craft Award for Best Original Music is one of the categories presented by theBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within theBritish 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.
It was first awarded in 1981, according to theBAFTA website, a programme will be eligible to this category if "more than 50% of its music is original composition created specifically for it."[1]
In 2023, the category was split into two categories: Original Music: Fiction and Original Music: Factual.[2]
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 [6][7] | Chernobyl | Hildur Guðnadóttir | Sky Atlantic |
| Killing Eve | David Holmes,Keefus Ciancia | BBC One | |
| Giri/Haji | Adrian Johnston | BBC Two | |
| War in the Blood | Andrew Phillips | ||
| 2021 [8] | Roadkill | Harry Escott | BBC One |
| The Third Day (for "Sunday – The Ghost") | Cristobal Tapia de Veer | Sky Atlantic | |
| Baghdad Central | H. Scott Salinas | Channel 4 | |
| The Crown | Martin Phipps | Netflix | |
| 2022 [9][10] | Landscapers | Arthur Sharpe | Sky Atlantic |
| Line of Duty | Carly Paradis | BBC One | |
| The Outsiders | Jonathan "Elevated" Olorunfemi | YouTube | |
| Loki | Natalie Holt | Disney+ |
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 [11][12] | Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story | Jessica Jones | Netflix |
| House of Maxwell | Andrew Phillips | BBC Two | |
| The Elon Musk Show | Max de Wardener | ||
| The Tinder Swindler | Jessica Jones | Netflix | |
| 2024 [13] | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland | Simon Russell | BBC Two |
| Wild Isles | George Fenton | BBC One | |
| A Time to Die | Simon Rogers | ITV | |
| Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story | Ed Harcourt | Sky Documentaries | |
| 2025 [14][15] | Rage Against the Regime: Iran | Noor Khaleghi | BBC Two |
| Exposure: "Israel & Gaza: Into the Abyss" | Tandis Jenhudson | ITV1 | |
| American Nightmare | Jessica Jones | Netflix | |
| Tiger | Nitin Sawhney | Disney+ |