Owen Cooper continued his award-winning streak at the British Academy Television Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday.
The actor, 16, who has made history by becoming the youngest winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Emmy Awards, took home the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.
Owen said of his win: ‘Every time we are at these events and your name gets called out your mind flashes back to your first audition, the first time on set, the first time you met the cast, it’s been an unreal two years. I’m just grateful to everyone who is here today.’
When asked how it’s changed his life and what he wants to do next he said: ‘I don’t know what I want to do next. It’s changed my life because I’ve met all these beautiful people, me and my family have travelled the world, so it’s just amazing.
‘Erin [Doherty] was the first person that I ever worked with so it was a dream to film. It was hard to do, I’m not doing to stand here and say it was easy, it was hard to do that in front of a stranger I have never met but Erin and the crew were so kind.’
Meanwhile, his onscreen mum Christine Tremarco won Best Supporting Actress in a surprise result beating co-star Erin Doherty, who previously took home the Golden Globe and Emmy Award.
Owen Cooper continued his award winning streak at the British Academy Television Awards at London’s Festival Hall on Sunday
Meanwhile his onscreen mum Christine Tremarco won Best Supporting Actress in a surprise result beating co-star Erin Doherty, who previously took home the Golden Globe and Emmy
Nominations were announced in March with Stephen Graham leading the way with a total of 11 nominations for his drama, Adolescence and seven for his Disney+ series, A Thousand Blows – for which he is an executive producer.
Adolescence, which was created by actor Stephen, 52, and writer Jack Thorne, tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller, who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being sucked in by the manosphere online.
Each episode is filmed in one continuous shot and has been widely praised for addressing topics such as online radicalisation and misogyny.
It also won in the Limited Drama category, beating the shows; Fought The Law (ITV), Trespasses (Channel 4) and What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC Three).
Producer Mark Herbert of Warp films said: ‘Big thanks to Stephen Graham for bringing this gang together. The script ripped our hearts and it punched us in the guts’. He also thanked Netflix boss Anne Mensah who had picked up the project after Amazon Prime Video had passed on it.’
Amandaland starring Lucy Punch won the BAFTA for scripted comedy. The show follows the demise of Motherland’s snooty Queen Bee, who has moved from a lavish life in well-to-do Chiswick to becoming a single mother in the less-than-desirable South Harlesden – which she christens ‘SoHa’.
Writer Holly Walsh said she loved when people said they watched the show with their children.
She said: ‘We can all enjoy watching a posh woman from Chiswick getting hit in the face with a football.’
Adolescence tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller (played by Owen), who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being sucked in by the manosphere online
Amandaland’s Lucy Punch presented Owen the award
Amandaland won the BAFTA for scripted comedy but Lucy missed out on the Actress In A Comedy award
Amandaland follows the demise of Motherland’s snooty Queen Bee, who has moved from a lavish life in well-to-do Chiswick to becoming a single mother in South Harlesden
Danny Dyer and his daughter Dani presented the Reality Award, which was won by The Celebrity Traitors
Host Claudia gave a speech for the series, which attracted a staggering 15million viewers for its finale
Traitor Alan Carr, who won the show, proudly held up the gong
Steve Coogan accepts the Actor in a Comedy Award for How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Katherine Parkinson accepted the Actress In A Comedy Award for Here We Go
However, Lucy missed out on the Actress In A Comedy gong, which went to Katherine Parkinson for her performance in BBC One’s Here We Go.
Claudia Winkleman accepted the Reality Award for The Celebrity Traitors.
The host, 54, revealed she had flown down from Scotland on Saturday morning from filming the second series to collect the gong.
The Traitors host left less than half an hour after receiving the BAFTA to get back on the plane and return to Ardross Castle.
On the win, she said: ‘My favourite things when I’m told I’m taking part in the show. I couldn’t believe it in the second series that I was taking part. I love every single aspect because everybody who works on the team is obsessed by it, obsessed by the game.
‘So I love watching how the traitors behave and how the faithful behave, and I want both of both sides to win equally. So it’s confusing.
‘Social media is so important to the show, people who watch together as families is my favourite thing of all and it feels like a real communal moment.
‘We came down from Scotland this morning and I am leaving again in eight minutes.’
The Entertainment BAFTA was awarded to Last One Laughing. The show follows ten comedians competing to make each other laugh without laughing themselves.
Host Roisin Conaty said: ‘Thank you it’s such an amazing honour. This is such a beast of a show, it’s like a war room.’
Judi Love added: ‘This was a show that you can sit down and enjoy with all generations of your family and that’s what TV in the UK is about.’
Steve Coogan won a BAFTA for actor in a comedy for his performance in How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge).
He said: ‘If anyone wants to know when Alan Partridge is going to die, it’s probably about the same time as I am going to die – I will keep doing it.
‘Doing comedy in times like this is so important and it’s a privilege to make people laugh. I’m not going to be very funny because my comedy writers haven’t written anything funny for me to say.’
The actor is currently filming The White Lotus series 4 in Cannes. Before the show, he addressed the surprise exit of actress Helena Bonham Carter, who left after three days filming. He said: ‘It just went in a different direction. It was like, sometimes you find that something isn’t working the way you want it to, in terms of, like, the character and the dynamic of the whole story. So that was just a mutual decision … The whole part was rewritten from scratch.’
Katherine Parkinson won a BAFTA as best actor in a comedy for Here We Go and thanked her husband Stephen who she said: ‘wasn’t here tonight because he didn’t think I’d win.’
The Specialist Factual BAFTA was won by Simon Schama’s The Road to Auschwitz. ‘I think the BBC is the only broadcasting institution that would dare to make this kind of film,’ said the historian.
‘It’s all the more important for us as storytellers to convey as vividly and seriously without preaching the importance of not going near the possibility of that happening again. We took on the task of trying to do that description.’
Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz is a personal and harrowing BBC Two documentary which aired April 2025 and examines the Holocaust, focusing on European complicity, the “empire of plunder,” and the rapid escalation of violence from 1941.
Schama visits sites of atrocities to highlight how ordinary people participated in the genocide.
The BAFTA for factual series went to See No Evil, about the career of prolific abuser John Smyth and the 35 year cover up which led to the fall of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The BAFTA single documentary went to Grenfell: Uncovered.
Alan Carr and Oliver Savell presented the Scripted Comedy Award which was won by Amandaland
The Entertainment BAFTA was awarded to Last One Laughing with the cast of series one heading to stage to accept the gong
Tinie Tempah presented the Specialist Factual Award, which went to Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
Gabby Logan accepts the Sports Coverage Award for UEFA Women’s Euro 2025
Stephen Graham, Christine Tremarco, Stephen’s wife Hannah Walters, Owen Cooper, Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty with the Limited Drama Award
Jody Collins, Harriet Kemsley, Lou Sanders, Ben Hardy, Katy Manley, Richard Cohen, Ruth Phillips and Peter Holmes (L-R) winners of the Entertainment Award for Last One Laughing
Benedict Sanderson, Tom Cross, Katie Greening, Otto Burnham, Kira Phillips and Hamish Fergusson (left to right), winners of the Factual Series Award for See No Evil
Simon Schama (pictured) The Road to Auschwitz is a personal and harrowing BBC Two documentary which aired April 2025 and examines the Holocaust
Richard Osman and Graham Norton posed during the ceremony
Amanda Holden, Alan and Paloma Faith were all in attendance
Gladiators star Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Dame Mary Berry, who was awarded The BAFTA Fellowship, posed for a snap
The current affairs BAFTA went to the series Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. It had been commissioned by the BBC but went out on Channel 4.
The corporation paused its production following the launch of an investigation into another documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, which starred the son of a leader of Hamas – a fact that the film failed to mention.
Producer Ramita Navai spoke about the ‘medicide’ which had cost the lives of 400 doctors and said: ‘The BBC paid for the investigation but refused to show it, but we refused to be silenced and censored. We thank Channel 4 for showing this film.’
Producer Ben de Pear added: ‘Right now there are over 80 Palestinian doctors being held in detention centres and Israeli human rights groups described as torture camps, we dedicate this award to them. Just a question to the BBC – given that you dropped our film will you drop us from the BAFTA show later tonight? Thank you goodnight.’
Before the ceremony, Fleur East and Roman Kemp presented live on the red carpet on BAFTA’s YouTube.
The Celebrity Traitors’ star Cat Burns performed How To Be Human while for the In Memoriam, Norwegian singer-songwriter AURORA performed Through the Eyes of a Child from BAFTA-nominated Netflix series Adolescence.
The BAFTA Fellowship was presented to Dame Mary Berry DBE and Martin Lewis CBE received the BAFTA Television Special Award.
Dame Mary Berry DBE, said of the honour: ‘I couldn’t believe it was true, what a huge honour to be presented with the BAFTA Fellowship.
‘For over 50 years, I have enjoyed every moment of teaching my passion on television and I thank all the generous professionals along the way who have given me guidance and support – and I am still learning. This amazing BAFTA Fellowship is the icing on the cake!’
