Andor has picked up another very deserved trophy — and this one goes straight to the people who made the galaxy feel heavy, dirty, dangerous, and beautifully expensive in all the right places. The series won Special, Visual and Graphic Effects at the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards, with BAFTA naming Mohen Leo, TJ Falls, Luke Murphy, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clément Soret, and Industrial Light & Magic as the winning team for Andor. The result is listed on BAFTA’s official Special, Visual and Graphic Effects award page. The Invisible Work That Made Andor Hit Harder This is the kind of award that fits Andor perfectly, because the show’s effects work was never about shouting, “Look, expensive pixels!” It was about texture. Imperial facilities looked cold and cruel. Ferrix felt lived-in, worn down, and politically tense. Spacecraft had weight. Cities had systems. Prisons felt industrial rather than fantastical. Even when Andor went…
