2018 British Academy Television Awards

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64th British Academy Television Awards
Date13 May 2018
Site Royal Festival Hall
Hosted by Sue Perkins
Highlights
Best Comedy Series Murder in Successville
Best Drama Peaky Blinders
Best Actor Sean Bean
Broken
Best Actress Molly Windsor
Three Girls
Best Comedy Performance
Most awards This Country / Three Girls (2)
Most nominations Line of Duty (4)
Television coverage
Channel BBC One
Duration2 hours

The 2018 British Academy Television Awards took place on 13 May 2018 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Contents

The nominations were announced on 4 April, with Line of Duty leading with four awards. Black Mirror , The Crown and Three Girls followed with three nominations. [1]

The 2018 British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 22 April 2018. [2] [3] [4]

Winners and nominees

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Sean Bean, Best Actor winner
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This Country, Best Scripted Comedy winner
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Vanessa Kirby, Best Supporting Actress winner
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Toby Jones, Best Male Comedy Performance winner
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Graham Norton, Best Entertainment Performance winner
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Kate Adie, BAFTA Fellowship Award winner
Best Drama Series Best Mini-Series
Best Single Drama Best Soap and Continuing Drama
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Male Comedy Performance Best Female Comedy Performance
Best Scripted Comedy Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
Best Entertainment Performance Lew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme
Best Factual Series or Strand Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
  • Ambulance (BBC One)
    • Catching a Killer (BBC Two)
    • Drugsland (BBC Three)
    • Hospital (BBC Two)
Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary Best Feature
  • Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad (BBC One)
    • Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me (BBC Two)
    • Louis Theroux, Talking to Anorexia (BBC Two)
    • One Deadly Weekend in America (BBC Three)
Best Reality and Constructed Factual Best Live Event
  • World War One Remembered: Passchendaele (BBC Two)
    • ITV News Election 2017 Live: the Results (ITV)
    • One Love Manchester (BBC One)
    • Wild Alaska Live (BBC One)
Best News Coverage Best Current Affairs
  • Sky News: The Rohingya Crisis (Sky News)
    • Sky News: The Battle for Mosul (Sky News)
    • Channel 4 News: The Grenfell Tower Fire (Channel 4)
    • ITV News at Ten: The Grenfell Tower Fire (ITV)
  • Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets – Panorama (BBC One)
    • Raped : My Story (Channel 5)
    • Syria's Disappeared: the Case against Assad – Dispatches (Channel 4)
    • White Right: Meeting the Enemy – Exposure (ITV)
Best Sport Best Short Form Programme
  • Morgana Robinson's Summer (Sky Arts)
    • Britain's Forgotten Men (BBC Three)
    • Eating with My Ex (BBC Three)
    • Pls Like (BBC Three)
Best International Programme Virgin TV’s Must-See Moment

Programmes with multiple nominations

Programmes that received multiple nominations
NominationsProgramme
4 Line of Duty
3 Black Mirror
The Crown
Three Girls
2 Blue Planet II
Broken
Catastrophe
King Charles III
Little Boy Blue
Love Island
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
One Love Manchester
The Last Leg
This Country
Networks that received multiple nominations
NominationsNetwork
27 BBC One
19 BBC Two
14 Channel 4
13 ITV
10 BBC Three
6 Netflix
3 Sky Atlantic
ITV2
2 Sky News
Channel 5
BBC Four
HBO

Most major wins

Shows that received multiple awards
WinsShow
2 This Country
Three Girls
Wins by Network
WinsNetwork
9 BBC One
4 BBC Three
3 BBC Two
ITV

In Memoriam

Notes

Related Research Articles

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The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Original Music is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories. It was first awarded in 1981, according to the BAFTA website, a programme will be eligible to this category if "more than 50% of its music is original composition created specifically for it."

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Titles & Graphic Identity is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories. According to the BAFTA website, this category is "to recognise originality and excellence within the title sequence and graphic identity of a programme.", also stating that "the same title sequence may not be entered more than once. The same programme may be entered in consecutive years, but only if it has new titles."

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Sound: Factual is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Editing: Factual is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.

The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Emerging Talent: Factual is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories. According to the BAFTA website, the category is "designed to recognise potential, awarding those who have begun to capture the attention of their peers through demonstrating exceptional talent and ambition within their craft for the first time in factual programming."

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The 23rd Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 24 April 2022, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize technical achievements in British television of 2021. The nominees were announced on 30 March 2022 alongside the nominations for the 2022 British Academy Television Awards.

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