Last night, Apple TV was recognized with two wins at the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards, as Will Smith landed Writer: Drama for “Slow Horses” and Rob Coldstream earned Director: Factual for “Vietnam: The War That Changed America.” The BAFTA Television Awards recognize the best British programs, performances and productions each year. Additional winners of the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards will be presented on Sunday, May 10, in London.
This year, Apple landed 15 nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards, including International category nods for “Pluribus,” “Severance” and “The Studio”; a Specialist Factual nomination for “Vietnam: The War That Changed America”; and a Factual Entertainment nod for “Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars”; as well as outstanding performance nominations for Leading Actor Taron Egerton in “Smoke” and Supporting Actor Fehinti Balogun in “Down Cemetery Road.”
These wins mark the latest recognition from the BAFTA Television Awards for Apple, following four wins in 2025 including Editing: Fiction and Sound: Fiction for “Slow Horses,” Original Music: Fiction for “Bad Sisters” and Children’s Craft Team for “The Velveteen Rabbit”; four wins in 2024 including Editing: Fiction and Sound: Fiction for “Slow Horses,” as well as Production Design and Original Music: Fiction for world-building hit “Silo.” “Bad Sisters” earned a Titles & Graphic Identity win in 2023, as well as a Drama Series win and a Supporting Actress win for series star Anne-Marie Duff at the BAFTA Television Awards. The celebrated limited series “The Essex Serpent” landed a Costume Design win for first-time BAFTA winner Jane Petrie in 2023, and in 2022, “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” won Editing: Factual, and “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” won Sound: Factual.
To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 800 wins and 3,431 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning and history-making comedies “The Studio” and “Ted Lasso,” global cultural phenomenon “Severance,” Apple’s most-viewed drama “Pluribus,” Academy Award Best Picture winner “CODA” and Academy Award winner “F1,” the highest-grossing sports feature of all time.
Apple landed two wins for the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards, including:
“Slow Horses”
Writer: Drama — Will Smith
“Vietnam: The War That Changed America”
Director: Factual — Rob Coldstream
Apple’s additional nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards, to be presented on Sunday, May 10 in London, include:
“Pluribus”
International
“Severance”
International
“The Studio”
International
“Vietnam: The War That Changed America”
Specialist Factual
“Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars”
Factual Entertainment
“Smoke”
Leading Actor — Taron Egerton
“Down Cemetery Road”
Supporting Actor — Fehinti Balogun
All titles are now streaming globally on Apple TV.
“Pluribus”
“Pluribus” is a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
“Severance”
In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself. In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.
“The Studio”
In “The Studio,” Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes movies, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.
“Vietnam: The War That Changed America”
Ethan Hawke narrates this deeply profound look at what it was like to live through one of history’s longest wars, as told through first-person accounts and rarely seen footage.
“Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars”
Experience thrilling highs and crushing lows as the world’s best chefs pursue the ultimate accolade: a Michelin Star. These anonymous inspectors have never let anyone in on their mysterious ways, until now.
“Smoke”
Inspired by true events, “Smoke” follows an arson investigator who begrudgingly teams up with a police detective as their race to stop two arsonists ignites a twisted game of secrets and suspicions.
“Down Cemetery Road”
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Trafford (Ruth Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Emma Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
“Slow Horses”
This darkly funny espionage drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Academy Award winner Sir Gary Oldman), they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Apple TV offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut.
MacDailyNews Take: Congrats to all of the casts and crews of BAFTA nominated and winning productions!
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