- British Academy Television Awards 2002
The 2002
British Academy Television Awards were held on SundayApril 21 2002 . The ceremony was hosted by thetelevision presenter Chris Tarrant , and broadcast on theITV Network.Winners
*Best Actor
**Winner:Michael Gambon — "Perfect Strangers" (BBC Two )
**Other nominees:Alan Bates — "Love in a Cold Climate " (BBC One );Timothy Spall — "Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise " (BBC Two);David Suchet — "The Way We Live Now" (BBC One)
*Best Actress
**Winner:Julie Walters — "My Beautiful Son " (ITV )
**Other nominees:Lindsay Duncan — "Perfect Strangers" (BBC Two);Sheila Hancock — "The Russian Bride " (ITV);Lesley Sharp — "Bob and Rose " (ITV)
*Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
**Winner: "The Sketch Show " (Avalon Television /Baby Cow Productions / ITV)
**Other nominees: "BrassEye Special" (TalkBack Productions /Channel 4 ); "Bremner, Bird and Fortune " (Vera Productions / Channel 4); "The Kumars at No. 42 " (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Two)
*Best Comedy Performance
**Winner:Ricky Gervais — "The Office" (BBC Two)
**Other nominees:Kathy Burke — "Gimme Gimme Gimme" (BBC Two); Robert Lindsay — "My Family " (BBC One);Joanna Lumley — "Absolutely Fabulous " (BBC One)
*Best Drama Serial
**Winner: "The Way We Live Now" (BBC / WGBH /Deep Indigo / BBC One)
**Other nominees: "Bob and Rose" (Red Production Company / ITV); "Perfect Strangers" (TalkBack Productions / BBC Two); "The Russian Bride" (Monogram Productions / ITV)
*Best Drama Series
**Winner: "Cold Feet " (Granada Television / ITV)
**Other nominees: "At Home with the Braithwaites " (Yorkshire Television / ITV); "Clocking Off " (Red Production Company / BBC One); "Tales from Pleasure Beach " (Blast Film Productions / BBC Two)
*Best Single Drama
**Winner: "When I Was 12 " (BBC / BBC Two)
**Other nominees: "My Beautiful Son" (Granada Television / ITV); "The Navigators" (Parallex Films / Channel 4); "Othello" (London Weekend Television / ITV)
*Best Soap Opera
**Winner: "EastEnders " (BBC / BBC One)
**Other nominees: "Coronation Street " (Granada Television / ITV); "Doctors" (BBC / BBC One); "Hollyoaks " (Mersey Television / Channel 4)
*Best Current Affairs
**Winner: "Dispatches — Beneath the Veil " (Hardcash Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Endgame in Ireland " (Brook Lapping / BBC Two); "" (BBC / BBC One); "One Day of Terror — New York Witnesses " (BBC / BBC Two)
*Best Entertainment Performance
**Winner:Graham Norton — "So Graham Norton " (Channel 4)
**Other nominees:Ant and Dec — "Pop Idol " (ITV);John Bird andJohn Fortune — "Bremner, Bird and Fortune" (Channel 4);Paul Merton — "Have I Got News For You " (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One)
*Best Factual Series or Strand
**Winner: "Horizon" (BBC / BBC Two)
**Other nominees: "The Blue Planet " (BBC / BBC One); "Langan Behind the Lines " (BBC / BBC Two); "Welcome to Britain " (BBC / BBC One)
*Best Feature
**Winner: "Faking It " (RDF Media / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Farmer Wants a Wife " (Thames Television / ITV); "" (Tyne Tees Television / ITV); "What Not to Wear" (BBC / BBC Two)
*Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
**Winner: "Kelly and Her Sisters " (Carlton Television / ITV)
**Other nominees: "True Stories — Battlecentre " (Diverse Productions / Channel 4); "Ellen MacArthur — Sailing Through Heaven and Hell" (BBC Wales / BBC One); "When Louis Met The Hamiltons " (BBC / BBC One)
*Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
**Winner: "Arena — The PrivateDirk Bogarde " (Various / BBC Two)
**Other nominees: "The 1940s House " (Wall to Wall / Channel 4); "The Six Wives ofHenry VIII " (Granada Television / Channel 4); "" (BBC / BBC Two)
*Best Entertainment Programme or Series
**Winner: "Pop Idol " (Thames Television / 19 TV / ITV)
**Other nominees: "Have I Got News For You" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One); "Parkinson" (BBC / BBC One); "Room 101" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Two)
*News Coverage
**Winner: "September 11 – 12" (Sky News / Sky News)
**Other nominees: "Attack on America —11 September " (ITN / Channel 4); "Attack on America —11 September " (ITN / ITV); "The BBC News Coverage of the Fall of Kabul —12 November –13 November " (BBC News / BBC One / BBC Two /BBC News 24 )
*Situation Comedy Award
**Winner: "The Office" (BBC / BBC One)
**Other nominees: "Gimme Gimme Gimme" (Tiger Aspect Productions /Hartswood Films / BBC Two); "Happiness" (BBC / BBC Two); "Spaced II" (London Weekend Television / Channel 4)
*Sport
**Winner: "Channel 4 Cricket" (Sunset + Vine / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "British Grand Prix, Silverstone 2001 — Farewell toMurray Walker " (Chrysalis Sport /Granada Sport / ITV); "FA Cup Final 2001 — Liverpool vs Arsenal" (ISN / Carlton Television / ITV); "Germany vs England" (BBC / BBC One)
*Innovation Award
**Winner: "Doubletake" (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two)
**Other nominees: "Banzai" (RDF Media / E4 / Channel 4); "The Blue Planet — The Deep" (BBC / BBC One); "BrassEye Special" (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
*Special Award
**BBC Natural History Unit
*TheAlan Clarke Award
**Verity Lambert
*TheDennis Potter Award
**Stephen Poliakoff
*Academy Fellowship
**Andrew Davies
*Special Award for Contribution to Television
**Murray Walker References
* [http://www.bafta.org/site/page230.html Archive of winners on official BAFTA website] (retrieved
February 4 2006 ).
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/2002#BAFTA_TV_Award British Academy Television Awards 2002] at theInternet Movie Database .
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