- British Academy Television Awards 2000
The 2000
British Academy Television Awards were held on SundayMay 14 2000 . The ceremony was hosted byDesmond Lynam , aired onITV , and took place at theGrosvenor House Hotel inPark 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 andJohn 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" onBBC 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)
*TheDennis Potter Award
**Tony Marchant
*TheAlan 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 theInternet Movie Database .
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