- British Academy Television Awards 2001
The 2001
British Academy Television Awards were held on SundayMay 13 2001 . The ceremony took place at theGrosvenor House Hotel inPark Lane ,London .Winners
*Best Actor
**Winner:Michael Gambon — "Longitude" (Channel 4 )
**Other nominees:Steven Mackintosh — "Care" (BBC One );Pete Postlethwaite — "The Sins " (BBC One);Steve McFadden — "EastEnders " (BBC )
*Best Actress
**Winner:Judi Dench — "Last of the Blonde Bombshells " (BBC One)
**Other nominees:Geraldine James — "The Sins" (BBC One);Amanda Redman — "At Home with the Braithwaites " (ITV);Fay Ripley — "Cold Feet " (ITV);Alison Steadman — "Fat Friends " (ITV)
*Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
**Winner: "Da Ali G Show " (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned " (Avalon Television / ITV); "Smack the Pony " (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); "Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings " (Good Fun /Ovation Entertainment Limited / BBC One)
*Best Comedy Performance
**Winner:Sacha Baron Cohen — "Da Ali G Show" (Channel 4)
**Other nominees:Caroline Aherne — "The Royle Family " (BBC One);Kathy Burke — "Gimme Gimme Gimme" (BBC Two );Dawn French — "The Vicar of Dibley " (BBC One)
*Best Drama Serial
**Winner: "Longitude" (Granada Television /A&E Network / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Nature Boy " (BBC / BBC Two); "Never Never " (Company Pictures / Channel 4); "" (Granada Television / ITV)
*Best Drama Series
**Winner: "Clocking Off " (Red Production Company / BBC One)
**Other nominees: "The Cops" (World Productions / BBC Two); "Fat Friends " (Rollem Productions /Tiger Aspect Productions /Yorkshire Television / ITV); "The Sins" (BBC / BBC One)
*Best Single Drama
**Winner: "Care" (BBC / BBC One)
**Other nominees: "Donovan Quick " (Making Waves Film & TV Limited /BBC Scotland / BBC Two); "Nice Girl " (BBC / BBC Two); "Storm Damage " (BBC / BBC Two)
*Best Soap Opera
**Winner: "Emmerdale " (Yorkshire Television / ITV)
**Other nominees: "Coronation Street " (Granada Television / ITV); "EastEnders " (BBC / BBC One); "Hollyoaks " (Mersey Television / Channel 4)
*Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
**Winner: "Out of Africa" (Insight News Productions /CNN / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Mozambique Floods" (BBC / BBC One / BBC Two); "Mozambique Floods (the event and the aftermath)" (ITN / ITV); "Panorama — Who Bombed Omagh?" (BBC / BBC One)
*Best Entertainment Performance
**Winner:Graham Norton — "So Graham Norton " (Channel 4)
**Other nominees:Rory Bremner — "Blair Did It All Go Wrong? " (Channel 4);Angus Deayton — "Have I Got News For You " (BBC One / BBC Two);Paul Merton — "Have I Got News For You" (BBC One / BBC Two)
*Best Factual Series or Strand
**Winner: "Britain at War in Colour " (TWI /Carlton Television / ITV)
**Other nominees: "Castaway 2000 " (Lion TV / BBC Scotland / BBC One); "Fifteen" (Windfall Films / Channel 4); "Horizon" (BBC / BBC Two)
*Best Feature
**Winner: "The Naked Chef " (Optomen / BBC Two)
**Other nominees: "Faking It " (RDF Media / Channel 4); "House of Horrors " (Granada Television / ITV); "What the Romans Did for Us " (BBC / BBC Two)
*Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
**Winner: "100% White " (Diverse Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "The Boy David - The Return " (Man Alive Group / BBC One); "" (White Mountain Films /NOVA /American Museum of Natural History / Channel 4); "The Man who Bought Mustique " (Café Productions / Channel 4)
*Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
**Winner: "Howard Goodall's Big Bangs " (Tiger Aspect Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Arena — Wisconsin Death Trip" (BBC / BBC Two); "Elizabeth" (United Productions / Channel 4); "A History of Britain by Simon Schama " (BBC / BBC Two)
*Entertainment Programme or Series
**Winner: "So Graham Norton" (So Television / United Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Have I Got News For You" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One / BBC Two); "The Weakest Link " (BBC / BBC Two); "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" (Celador / ITV)
*Situation Comedy Award
**Winner: "Black Books " (Assembly Film & Television / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "" (Tiger Aspect Productions /Sky One ); "One Foot in the Grave " (BBC / BBC One); "The Royle Family" (Granada Television / BBC One)
*Sport
**Winner: "Sydney Olympics 2000" (BBC / BBC One / BBC Two)
**Other nominees: "British Grand Prix 2000" (Mach1 / ITV); "Test Cricket" (Sunset and Vine / Channel 4); "Today at the Paralympics" (VTV Limited / BBC Two)
*Led Grade Audience Award as Voted by Readers of the "Radio Times "
**Winner: "Inspector Morse — The Remorseful Day" (ITV)
**Other nominees: "Hero of the Hour " (ITV); "Seeing Red " (ITV); "A Touch of Frost" (ITV); "The Vicar of Dibley" (BBC One)
*Innovation Award
**Winner: "Big Brother" (Bazal / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Castaway 2000" (Lion TV / BBC Scotland / BBC One); "Doctors" (BBC / BBC One); "Nice Girl" (BBC / BBC Two)
*TheDennis Potter Award
**Lynda La Plante
*TheAlan Clarke Award
**Ruth Caleb
*Special Award
**"Coronation Street "
**Patrick Moore References
* [http://www.bafta.org/site/page230.html Archive of winners on official BAFTA website] (retrieved
February 5 2006 ).
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/2001#BAFTA_TV_Award British Academy Television Awards 2001] at theInternet Movie Database .
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