26/11/2023
Wow, what a night! We’re still recovering from our RTS Midlands Awards. What a brilliant evening it was, celebrating the huge range of talent in our wonderful region. The standard was very high among all the nominees and we loved listening to the inspiring speeches from our winners.
Thank you to our brilliant hosts, Ed James and Summaya Mughal.
A special shout out to the recipients of our prestigious Baird Medal Awards - casting director Shaheen Baig for Off-Screen and actor Richard Armitage.
And congratulations to the winners:
Nick Owen from BBC Midlands for On-Screen Personality, sponsored by Sunbelt Rentals UK & Ireland, with a special tribute to his 50 years in broadcasting.
Barnaby Papadopulos from ITV Central for Breakthrough Off-Screen.
Jack Carson from GB News for Breakthrough On-Screen, sponsored by University of Worcester School of Arts.
Mockingbird Film CO’s Jack for Short Film.
Spark Media’s Commonwealth Games Opening Titles for Animation.
Reel Twenty Five’s Childhood for Promotional.
Gosh TV’s Building Britain’s Superhomes for Craft Production, supported by Createcentraluk.
Paul Farrer for the theme music for Late Night Lycett for Craft Post Production.
The Chair’s Award went to Birmingham Press Club.
Talisha Tee Cee Johnson’s Too Autistic for Black for Diversity Champion.
BlueBell Films, Common Ground Arts and Longwill School for Creative Community.
Darshna Soni from Channel 4 News for Journalist of the Year.
BBC East Midlands’ The Nottingham Attacks for News Programme of the Year.
Full Fat Television’s Fresh Cops for Popular Factual.
Clockwork Films’ Bend It Like Bollywood for Factual & Specialist Factual, sponsored by Clear Cut Pictures’ Nations & Regions.
LGK Productions Queens Of The Commonwealth for Documentary, sponsored by BritAsia TV.
Khurrum M Sultan for Director on Vera.
Simon Evans and Phil Glynn for Writer on Staged.
Chris Walker for Acting Performance on BBC Doctors.
Phoenix Rise for Scripted.