Winners announced for the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards
- Lost Boys And Fairies scoops five awards at this year’s ceremony
- The Golden Cobra and Mr Burton win two awards each
- View the full list of winners here
The winners of the 34th BAFTA Cymru Awards have been announced this evening at a special ceremony at the ICC Wales in Newport, hosted by Welsh TV presenter Owain Wyn Evans. The BAFTA Cymru Awards are the biggest annual celebration of creative excellence across film and television in Wales.
Congratulations to Stuart Biddlecome BSC who won the award for Photography & Lighting Fiction for Mr Burton.
Russell T Davies accepts the Outstanding Contribution to Television Award on stage during the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards at the International Convention Centre Wales on October 05, 2025 in Newport, Wales. (Photo by Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)
Lost Boys And Fairies receive five awards including Television Drama. Sion Daniel Young wins for Actor, Danielle Palmer for Editing, Daf James for Writer and James Kent for Director Fiction.
The Golden Cobra wins the Entertainment Programme award with writers Adam Llewellyn, James Prygodzicz, and Thomas Rees also winning the Breakthrough Cymru award.
NEWPORT, WALES – OCTOBER 05: Daf James accepts the Writer Award for ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’ during the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards at the International Convention Centre Wales on October 05, 2025 in Newport, Wales. (Photo by Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)
Feature film, Mr Burton takes home two awards with the Sound Team winning the Sound award and Stuart Biddlecombe winning the Photography and Lighting: Fiction award.
Anna Maxwell Martin won her first BAFTA Cymru award for Actress for her performance in Until I Kill You. Joining first-time winners is Daf James, who received the Writer award for Lost Boys and Fairies and Bethan Rhys Roberts for Presenter.
NEWPORT, WALES – OCTOBER 05: Anna Maxwell Martin attends the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards at the International Convention Centre Wales on October 05, 2025 in Newport, Wales. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)
Marw gyda Kris won Factual Series and Helmand: Tour Of Duty received the Single Documentary award.
The Short Film category was won by Mauled By A Dog, and the Children’s Programme went to Deian a Loli, which marks the fourth win for the series since 2017.
NEWPORT, WALES – OCTOBER 05: Sion Thomas and production team pose with the Short Film Award for ‘Mauled By A Dog’ during the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards at the International Convention Centre Wales on October 05, 2025 in Newport, Wales. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)
Writer, show runner and producer, Russell T Davies OBE was awarded the Outstanding Contribution award, one of BAFTA’s highest honours, and was presented by actress, Ruth Madeley. Further details, as previously announced, can be found here.
Presenter Jason Mohammad awarded journalist Bethan Rhys Roberts with the Siân Phillips Award. Further information about this award, can be found here.
NEWPORT, WALES – OCTOBER 05: Brychan Davies and Magi John Jones pose with the Children’s Programme Award for ‘Deian A Loli’ during the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards, held at the ICCW on October 5, 2025 in Newport, Wales. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)
In total, 17 competitive awards in total were presented across the evening as well as two BAFTA Special Awards.
Event sponsors and partners are as BBC Cymru Wales, bottlegreen, Casillero del Diablo, Champagne Taittinger, Creative Wales, Deloitte, EE, Executive Cars Wales, Gorilla, Hildon, ICC Wales, Lancôme, Samsung and S4C.
