Adolescence made by Sheffield film producction company Warp makes Bafta history after clean-sweep award season

Hit Netflix drama Adolescence by Sheffield production company Warp Films has made Bafta history after a sunning awards season.

The harrowing drama about a teenage boy accused of murdering a school girl claimed four awards, the most won by a single TV series in the main ceremony.

It was the latest project from Warp Films, based at Park Hill in Sheffield, whose other TV shows and movies include This is England, Four Lions, Submarine, and Reunion.

It was named best limited drama, while stars Stephen Graham, Christine Tremarco and Owen Cooper all won awards.

Graham was named best leading actor, Tremarco won the supporting actress prize and Cooper took supporting actor.

Graham, who co-wrote the script with Jack Thorne, has won a string of awards for his performance in the Netflix series, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe, but had never won a Bafta.

Speaking on stage, he said: "I might take my time. I've been nominated eight times and this is the first time I've won.

"Nice one Bafta, this is lovely.

"When I was a kid, I watched a telly programme called Scully, written by Alan Bleasdale , and it had the wonderful Drew Schofield in it and he lived across the road from my nana's house, so he showed me that I could be on the telly.

"He was my inspiration. So for any other young kid, no matter where you're from, anything is possible.

"We are all people that have done that, we get to do what we love, which is different.

"We're not digging holes, we're not digging ditches, we're not saving lives, but we have the opportunity to tell the human condition, and we have the obligation to tell beautiful stories and we need to keep that going."

Cooper, 16, who has also proved unbeatable through awards season, won the first prize of the night and said: "A year ago, I was presenting an award and now I'm collecting one. This is a bit mad.

"In the words of John Lennon, you won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

"So in my eyes, I think you only need three things to succeed: one, you need an obsession; two, you need a dream; and three, you need The Beatles."

Graham echoed this sentiment in his speech when he said: "The kid's already said it, but in the words of The Beatles, all we need is love, namaste."

Tremarco was named best supporting actress for playing Cooper's mother.

She said: "I feel so privileged to be standing up here holding this Bafta. I feel so honoured to be part of Adolescence.

"I hold this Bafta high."

The show also won two prizes at the Bafta Craft Awards last weekend for directing and sound.

Adolescence was filmed at Production Park studios in Wakefield and some of the external shots, including those set at the fictional Bruntwood Academy, were filmed at Minsthorpe Community College, in the West Yorkshire town of South Elmsall, and in the car park of the nearby Minsthorpe Leisure Centre.

Adolescence shows how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller, played by Owen Cooper, is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school.