SEVERAL very well-known names among the country’s broadcasting, digital and filmmaking community feature in the shortlist of this year’s Scotland Awards run by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
The winners will be announced on the 16th of next month.
The shortlist reads:
ACTOR
FILM
James McAvoy – Filth
Peter Mullan – Sunshine on Leith
Jack O’Connell – Starred Up
ACTOR
TELEVISION
Mark Bonnar – Line of Duty
Douglas Henshall – Shetland
David Tennant – The Escape Artist
ACTRESS
FILM
Jane Horrocks – Sunshine on Leith
Sophie Kennedy Clark – Philomena
Freya Mavor – Sunshine on Leith
ACTRESS
TELEVISION
Laurie Brett – Waterloo Road
Shirley Henderson – Southcliffe
Sharon Rooney – My Mad Fat Diary
ANIMATION
Monkey Love Experiments – Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson, Cameron Fraser – Hopscotch Films, DigiCult, Ko-Lik, White Robot
Sea Front – Claire Lamond
Spectators – Ross Hogg
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME
All Over the Place Australia – Louise Brown, Maria Stewart – BBC Scotland/CBBC
The Dog Ate my Homework – Sara Harkins, Richard Grocock, Pati Marr – BBC Scotland/CBBC
Katie Morag – Lindy Cameron, Don Coutts, Margaret Matheson – Move on Up/CBeebies
COMEDY/ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
Limmy’s Show! Christmas Special! – Brian Limond, Jacqueline Sinclair – The Comedy Unit/BBC Two Scotland
Miller’s Mountain – Owen Bell, Matt Lipsey, Donald McLeary – BBC Scotland/BBC One Scotland
Mrs Brown’s Boys – Brendan O’Carroll, Ben Kellett, Stephen McCrum – Boc Pix, RTE, BBC Scotland/ BBC One
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Blethering Referendum – Eric Haynes, Debbie Christie, Roshan Samarasinghe – Finestripe Productions/BBC One Scotland
Dave: Loan Ranger – Eric Haynes, Ian Lilley, Katie Lander – Finestripe Productions/Channel 4
Panorama: All in a Good Cause – Ross Wilson, Marc Sigsworth, Chris Atkins – Matchlight/BBC One
DIRECTOR FILM/TELEVISION
Jon S Baird – Filth
David MacKenzie – Starred Up
Dexter Fletcher – Sunshine on Leith
FACTUAL SERIES
Britain’s Whale Hunters: The Untold Story – Tom Beard, Adam Scott, Adam Nicholson – Keo North/BBC Four
Clydebuilt: Ships that Built the Commonwealth – David Hayman, Russell Leven, Graeme Thomson – BBC Scotland/BBC Two Scotland
The Story of Women and Art – Ross Wilson, John Hodgson, Deborah Lee – Matchlight/BBC Two
FEATURE FILM
Filth – Jon S Baird, Ken Marshall, Trudie Styler – Steel Mill Pictures, Maven Pictures, Logie Pictures/Lionsgate
Starred Up – David Mackenzie, Gillian Berrie, Jonathan Asser – Sigma Films/Fox Searchlight
Sunshine on Leith – Dexter Fletcher, Stephen Greenhorn, Andrew Macdonald, Arabella Page-Croft, Allon Reich – DNA Films, Black Camel Pictures /Entertainment Film Distributors
FEATURES/FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
Dream me up Scotty – John Archer, John MacLaverty, Dhivya Kate Chetty, Jack Archer – Hopscotch Films/BBC One Scotland
I Belong to Glasgow – John Archer, John MacLaverty, Emma Lennox, Emily Rimmer – Hopscotch Films/BBC One Scotland
Location Location Location – Helen Nightingale, Gerard Costello, Emma Vulliamy – IWC Media/Channel 4
GAME
Grand Theft Auto V – Rockstar Games
Monster Legacy – Outplay Entertainment
Solar Flux HD – Firebrand Games
SHORT FILM
Colours – Graham Fitzpatrick, Sarah Drummond – Screen Productions
Exchange and Mart – Cara Connolly, Martin Clark, Phoebe Grigor, Maeve McMahon – Hopscotch Films, DigiCult
Getting on – Ewan Stewart, Liam Stewart, Maeve McMahon – Foundling Films
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY
From Scotland with Love – Grant Keir, Virginia Heath – Faction North, Crossover, National Library of Scotland/BBC Two Scotland
The Girl who Talked to Dolphins – Mark Hedgecoe, Christopher Riley – BBC Scotland/BBC Four
Keys to the Castle – Darren Hercher, Tracey Gardiner – Brakelight Films/BBC Scotland
WRITER
FILM/TELEVISION
Jonathan Asser – Starred Up
Brian Limond – Limmy’s Show! Christmas Special!
David Wolstencroft – The Escape Artist
