BAFTA Cymru 2024- all you need to know

Best Actor went to Ncuti Gatwa for Doctor Who and Best Actress was awarded to Annes Elwy for Bariau.

The coveted 'Sian Philips Award' for devotion to the film and TV industry went to actor Mark Lewis Jones.
Author: George SymondsPublished 21st Oct 2024

There was a total of 23 BAFTA Cymru awards given out at the ceremony at the ICC in Newport, with Best Actor going to Ncuti Gatwa for Doctor Who and Best Actress for Annes Elwy for Bariau.

Best Writer went to Matthew Barry for Men Up.

BAFTA Cymru’s Outstanding Contribution Award was presented to Doctor Who Producer and Bad Wolf co-founder Julie Gardner.

The Awards were hosted by BBC Radio 2’s Owain Wyn Evans for the first time.

The coveted 'Sian Philips Award' for devotion to the film and TV industry went to actor Mark Lewis Jones.

He told us that Wales is getting more recognition within the film and television industry.

"People are recognising that Wales is the place to be, and I don't say that flippantly" he said.

"I think it's taken a lot of hard work for people to sell Wales and for people to come down the M4 and realise we have everything here."

Euros Lyn won the Director for Fiction award for television programme Heartstopper.

Director Russell T Davies said Cardiff is becoming an epicentre for media and film production:

"It's a great, big, throbbing hub and I'm very very proud of that, I'm immensely proud of that."

"It shows Wales as an absolute creative hub of the world, so thrilled."

BAFTA Cymru extends BAFTA’s charitable mission across the UK in support of Wales’ creative communities by highlighting the production industry in Wales, identifying and supporting the next generation of talent, and bringing work in Welsh film, games and television to public attention globally.

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