The Royal Lancaster Hotel in London held host to this year's British Television Craft Awards on Monday evening, which saw Frank Budgen's Mountain spot for Sony PlayStation 2 take Best Crafted Commercial of the year.
The ad, created by TBWALondon, also led Budgen, who is repped by Gorgeous Enterprises, to win the VFG Award for Best Camera Operator and the Soho Images Award for Best Director.
In addition to Budgen's success, its stunt director, Paul Shapcott, collected the award for Best Stunts for the epic amount of stunt work involved in the spot. Over 700 stunt man days were involved, and 1,700 extras were used to create the mountain of people. Possibly the most audacious stunt of all was to build the top of a mountain on the roof of the second highest skyscraper in Rio de Janeiro, and film 200 stunt men swarming and tumbling on it, using a helicopter and a crane.
The ad also won Best Video Post Production for Barnsley, Jeff Robins, Richard Betts, Daniel Morris, Jordi Bares and Ben Smith at The Mill, and Best Use of Recorded Music for Peter Raeburn of Soundtree Studios.
Other winners on the night were as follows:
Kodak Award for Best Cinematography: Alwin Kuchler for VW Golf, A Life in a Day
Beam.TV Award for Best Editing: Russell Icke for Nike, Musical Chairs
Mint Source Award, sponsored by Bartle Bogle Hegarty, for Best New Director: James Rouse, for Trojan, Weightlifting
Tape Gallery Award for Best Original Music: Fatboy Slim for O2, Digital Music Player
Pinewood Shepparton Award for Best Production Design: Brian Morris for VW Golf, A Life in A Day
Best Animation: Smith and Foulkes, Nexus Productions for The Observer Music Monthly, Abba to Zappa
Best Casting: Rachel Freck for The Times/BFI London Film Festival, Director
Best Colourist: Jean Clement-Soret for John Lewis, Autumn
Best Computer Animation: Scott Pleydell-Pearce for Robinsons, Boogie
Best Costume: Joanna Johnston for VW Golf, A Life in a Day
Best Live Action Special Effects: Mark Ward and Kamil Jafar for Right Guard, Wrecking Ball; Ringan Ledwidge for Dept of Transport, Crash
Best Model Making: Kate McConnell for Ford Fiesta, Pinball
Best Performance by an Actor: Giles New for The Times/BFI London Film Festival, Director
Best Performance by an Actress: Jayd Johnston for AOL, Vanessa
Best Sound Design: Aaron Reynolds and Warren Hamilton for Honda, Everyday; Nigel Crowley for VW Golf, A Life in a Day
Also recognised on the night was the guest of honour, John Webster, executive creative director of DDB London. Webster has been a creative director at DDB London for almost forty years.
For more info on the awards, visit http://www.btaa.co.uk.
