Coel paid particular tribute to Ita O'Brien, the show's "intimacy director".
She said O'Brien was crucial to "making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process".
The intimacy director role is "essential for every production company that wants to make work exploring themes of consent", Coel said
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The Crown empty-handed.
The fictionalised account of the modern British royal family, which swept the board at the Golden Globes earlier this year, had been nominated for four categories, including Helena Bonham Carter for best supporting actress as Princess Margaret.