Normal People Garners 7 BAFTA and BAFTA Craft Award nominations, including Best Mini-Series
Posted: 28th April 2021
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate the creative team behind Normal People for its 7 BAFTA Television and BAFTA Craft Award nominations today, including Best Mini-Series. The awards reward the very best in television craft and television programmes broadcast in the UK in 2020.
The show - which was previously nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as two Golden Globes since its release - garnered three BAFTA Television Award nominations for Best Mini-Series and both Best Actor and Actress categories for Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones. The BAFTA Craft Awards, which celebrate technical and behind the scenes categories, nominated Lenny Abrahamson for Director: Fiction, Suzie Lavelle for Photography and Lighting: Fiction, and Niall O'Sullivan, Steve Fanagan, Niall Brady for Sound: Fiction.
The Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 6 June on BBC One and BBC One HD, and the British Academy Television Craft Awards will be streamed on BAFTA’s social channels on Monday 24 May.
Normal People is an Element Pictures production for Hulu and BBC Three, adapted from the award-winning novel by Sally Rooney. The series has been a record-breaking hit for both its UK and Irish broadcast, with over 2.5 million views on RTÉ and 38 million requests on BBC iPlayer in the UK, the most successful show for BBC Three to date. The series is funded under Screen Ireland’s first TV Drama Production fund, which aims to drive the expansion of the indigenous TV drama production sector in Ireland.
Normal People is an adaptation of Sally Rooney's bestselling novel of the same name and garnered strong critical acclaim when it was broadcast on BBC3, Hulu and RTÉ in April 2020. The series follows two young people navigating adulthood in contemporary Ireland, and their complicated relationship from the end of their school days in Sligo to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.