British Academy Television Awards 2000

The 2000 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday May 14 2000. The ceremony was hosted by Desmond Lynam, aired on ITV, and took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.

Winners

*Best Actor
**Winner: Michael Gambon — "Wives & Daughters" (BBC1)
**Other nominees: Aidan Gillen — "Queer as Folk" (Channel 4); Pete Postlethwaite — "Lost for Words" (ITV); Timothy Spall — "Shooting the Past" (BBC2)
*Best Actress
**Winner: Thora Hird — "Lost for Words" (ITV)
**Other nominees: Francesca Annis — "Wives & Daughters" (BBC1); Lindsay Duncan — "Shooting the Past" (BBC2); Maggie Smith — "David Copperfield" (BBC1)
*Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
**Winner: "The League of Gentlemen" (BBC / BBC2)
**Other nominees: "The Best of Ali G" (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); "People Like Us" (BBC / BBC2); "Smack the Pony" (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
*Best Comedy Performance
**Winner: Caroline Aherne — "The Royle Family" (BBC1)
**Other nominees: Dawn French — "The Vicar of Dibley" (BBC1); Sue Johnston — "The Royle Family" (BBC1); Ricky Tomlinson — "The Royle Family" (BBC1)
*Best Drama Serial
**Winner: "Warriors" (BBC / Deep Indigo Productions / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Births, Marriages and Deaths" (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC2); "Kid in the Corner" (Tiger Aspect Productions / Channel 4); "Wives & Daughters" (BBC / BBC1)
*Best Drama Series
**Winner: "The Cops" (World Productions / BBC2)
**Other nominees: "Cold Feet" (Granada Television / ITV); "Playing the Field" (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC1); "Psychos" (Kudos Film & Television / Channel 4)
*Best Single Drama
**Winner: "The Murder of Stephen Lawrence" (Granada Television / Vanson Productions / ITV)
**Other nominees: "Dockers" (Parallex Pictures / Initiative Factory / Channel 4); "Lost for Words" (Yorkshire Television / ITV); "Sex 'n' Death" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC2)
*Best Soap Opera
**Winner: "EastEnders" (BBC / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Brookside" (Mersey Television / Channel 4); "Coronation Street" (Granada Television / ITV); "Emmerdale" (Yorkshire Television / ITV)
*Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
**Winner: "Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict" (BBC / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict" (Sky News / Sky News); "The Paddington Crash" (ITN / Channel 4); "Tonight with Trevor McDonald" — "Interview with the Lawrence Suspects" (Granada Television / ITV)
*Best Entertainment Performance
**Winner: Graham Norton — "So Graham Norton" (Channel 4)
**Other nominees: John Bird and John Fortune — "Bremner, Bird and Fortune" (Channel 4); Sacha Baron Cohen — "The 11 O'Clock Show" (Channel 4); Michael Parkinson — "Parkinson" (BBC1)
*Best Factual Series or Strand
**Winner: "The Mayfair Set" (BBC / BBC2)
**Other nominees: "Manhunt - The Search for the Yorkshire Ripper" (Ray Fitzwalter Associates / ITV); "The Second World War in Colour" (TWI / Carlton Television / ITV); "Shanghai Vice" (River Film Productions / Channel 4)
*Best Feature
**Winner: "Blood on the Carpet" (BBC / BBC2)
**Other nominees: "Giants with Nigel Marven" (United Productions / HTV West / ITV); "Grand Designs" (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); "The Naked Chef" (Optomen / BBC2)
*Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
**Winner: "True Stories" — "Divorce Iranian Style" (20th Century Vixen Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Gulag" (BBC / BBC2); "True Stories" — "Kosovo - The Valley" (Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions / Channel 4); "Malcolm and Barbara - A Love Story" (Granada Television / ITV)
*Huw Wheldon Award for Best Arts Programme or Series
**Winner: "This is Modern Art" (Oxford TV Company / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "The Abba Story" (Iambic Productions / ITV); "Hitchcock (Reputations) Alfred the Great / Alfred the Auteur" (BBC / BBC2); "The Hip Hop Years" (RDF / Channel 4)
*Entertainment Programme or Series
**Winner: "" (BBC / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Have I Got News For You" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC2); "Robot Wars" (Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions / BBC2); "So Graham Norton" (United Productions / Channel 4)
*Situation Comedy Award
**Winner: "The Royle Family" (Granada Television / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Dinnerladies" (Pozzitive TV / Good Fun / BBC1); "Spaced" (Paramount UK / London Weekend Television / Channel 4); "The Vicar of Dibley" (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC1)
*Sport
**Winner: "Test Cricket" (Sunset & Vine Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Interactive Live Football" (Sky Sports / Sky Sports Extra); "Formula One 1999" (Mach1 / ITV); "The Open Golf Championship 1999" (BBC / BBC1 / BBC2)
*Innovation
**Winner: "Walking with Dinosaurs" (BBC / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "The 1900 House" (Wall to Wall Television / Channel 4); "The League of Gentlemen" (BBC / BBC2); "Tina Goes Shopping" (Blast! TV / Channel 4)
*Lew Grade Audience Award as voted by readers of "Radio Times", with listeners of the "Jonathan Ross Show" on BBC Radio 2 and viewers of "GMTV"
**Winner: "A Touch of Frost" (ITV)
**Other nominees: "Dinnerladies" (BBC1); "Ground Force" (BBC1); "The Vicar of Dibley" (BBC1); "Walking with Dinosaurs" (BBC1)
*The Dennis Potter Award
**Tony Marchant
*The Alan Clarke Award
**Peter Kosminsky
*Special Award
**"The Avengers"

References

* [http://www.bafta.org/site/page230.html Archive of winners on official BAFTA website] (retrieved February 19 2006).
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/2000#BAFTA_TV_Award British Academy Television Awards 2000] at the Internet Movie Database.