Janis Pugh’s CHUCK CHUCK BABY is a winner at the 2024 BAFTA Cymru Awards!
Winners announced for the 2024 BAFTA Cymru Awards
Chuck Chuck Baby, Steeltown Murders and Strike! The Women Who Fought Back win two awards each
Annes Elwy and Ncuti Gatwa among first-time BAFTA Cymru winners
View the full winners list here
The winners of the 33rd BAFTA Cymru Awards have been announced this evening at a special ceremony at the ICC Wales in Newport, hosted by Welsh TV presenter Owain Wyn Evans. The BAFTA Cymru Awards are the biggest annual celebration of creative excellence across film and television in Wales.
Chuck Chuck Baby received two awards, Feature/TV Film and Janis Pugh winning the Breakthrough Cymru award for her work on the film. Steeltown Murders won Television Drama with Dawn Thomas-Mondo receiving the Costume Design award.
Strike! The Women Who Fought Back scooped two awards with Jess Howe winning Director Factual and the programme receiving the award for Single Documentary.
Annes Elwy won her first BAFTA Cymru award for Actress for her performance in Bariau and Ncuti Gatwa received his first BAFTA Cymru Award for Actor in Doctor Who. Joining first time winners is Matthew Barry who received the Writer award for Men Up.
Entertainment Programme went to Max Boyce at 80 and Factual series was won by Y Frwydr: Stori Anabledd in which last year’s Breakthrough winner actress Mared Jarman goes on a journey to learn about the history of disability in Wales.
Euros Lyn won Director: Fiction for Heartstopper, Bryan Gavigan received the Photography & Lighting: Fiction for his work on Passenger and the Sound Team for Wolfreceived the Sound award.
Photography: Factual was awarded to Theo Tennant for the short film Frontier Town, Children’s Programme went to Ser Steilio and the Short Film category was won by Smile.
Producer, Julie Gardner MBE was awarded the Outstanding Contribution award presented by Executive Producer and co-founder of Bad Wolf, Jane Tranter. Further details, as previously announced, can be found here.
Actress Nia Roberts awarded Mark Lewis Jones with the Siân Phillips Award. Further information about this award, one of BAFTA’s highest honours, and Mark Lewis Jones is found here.
21 competitive awards in total were presented across the evening as well as two BAFTA special awards. The ceremony was broadcast on BAFTA's YouTube channel and is available to watch here.
The BAFTA Cymru Awards’ partners and supporters are BBC Cymru Wales, Champagne Taittinger, Coco & Cwtsh, Creative Wales, Deloitte, EE, Executive Cars Wales, Gorilla, Hildon Natural Mineral Water, Lancôme, S4C, Villa Maria and Welsh Government via Creative Wales.
Source: BAFTA - Full Story Here