British Academy Television Awards 1999

The 1999 British Academy Television Awards were held on May 9 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.

Winners

*Best Actor
**Winner: Tom Courtenay — "A Rather English Marriage" (BBC2)
**Other nominees: Robert Carlyle — "Looking After Jo Jo" (BBC2); Albert Finney — "A Rather English Marriage" (BBC2); Timothy Spall — "Our Mutual Friend" (BBC2)
*Best Actress
**Winner: Thora Hird — "Waiting for the Telegram" (BBC2)
**Other nominees: Francesca Annis — "Reckless" (ITV); Natasha Little — "Vanity Fair" (BBC1); Joanna Lumley — "A Rather English Marriage" (BBC2)
*Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
**Winner: "Father Ted" (Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Dinnerladies" (Pozzitive TV / Good Fun / BBC1); "The Royle Family" (Granada Television / BBC1); "The Vicar of Dibley" (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC1)
*Best Comedy Performance
**Winner: Dermot Morgan — "Father Ted" (Channel 4)
**Other nominees: Caroline Aherne — "The Royle Family" (BBC1); Ardal O'Hanlon — "Father Ted" (Channel 4); Julie Walters — "Dinnerladies" (BBC1)
*Best Drama Serial
**Winner: "Our Mutual Friend" (BBC / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Amongst Women" (Parallel Film Productions Limited / BBC2); "A Respectable Trade" (BBC / BBC1); "Vanity Fair" (BBC / A&E Network / BBC1)
*Best Drama Series
**Winner: "The Cops" (World Productions / BBC2)
**Other nominees: "Jonathan Creek" (BBC / BBC1); "Playing the Field" (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC1); "Undercover Heart" (BBC / BBC1)
*Best Single Drama
**Winner: "A Rather English Marriage" (Wall to Wall Television / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "A Life For A Life – The True Story Of Stefan Kiszko" (Picture Palace Productions / ITV); "Playing Sandwiches" (Slow Motion Limited / BBC2); "Waiting for the Telegram" (Slow Motion Limited / BBC2)
*Best Soap Opera
**Winner: "EastEnders" (BBC / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Brookside" (Mersey Television / Channel 4); "Coronation Street" (Granada Television / ITV); "Hollyoaks" (Mersey Television / Channel 4)
*Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
**Winner: "Dispatches - Inside The Animal Liberation Front" (Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "Newsnight" - "Northern Ireland peace process" (BBC / BBC2); "" (BBC / BBC2); "Omagh bombing" (ITN / ITV)
*Best Light Entertainment Performance
**Winner: Michael Parkinson — "Parkinson" (BBC1)
**Other nominees: John Bird and John Fortune — "Rory Bremner - Who Else?" (Channel 4); Kathy Burke — "Harry Enfield's Yule Log Chums" (BBC1); Billy Connolly — "30 Years of Billy Connolly" (BBC1)
*Best Factual Series
**Winner: "The Human Body" (BBC / BBC1)
**Other nominees: "The Clintons - A Marriage of Power" (Channel 4); "Cold War" (Jeremy Isaacs Television Limited / Channel 4); "The Life of Birds" (BBC / BBC1)
*Best Feature
**Winner: "Back to the Floor" (BBC / BBC2)
**Other nominees: "Changing Rooms" (Bazal / BBC2); "House Doctor" (TalkBack Productions / Channel 5); "Time Team" (Videotext Communications / Channel 4)
*Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
**Winner: "After Lockerbie" (BBC2)
**Other nominees: "42 Up" (Granada Television / BBC1); "Mir Mortals"; "Tongue Tied"
*Huw Wheldon Award for the Best Arts Programme or Series
**Winner: "Arena" — "The Brian Epstein Story" (BBC / BBC2)
**Other nominees: "Arena — The Noel Coward Trilogy" (BBC / BBC2); "The Secret Art of Government"; ""
*Best Light Entertainment Programme or Series
**Winner: "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" (Celador / ITV)
**Other nominees: "Big Train" (TalkBack Productions / BBC2); "Goodness Gracious Me" (BBC / BBC2); "Rory Bremner - Who Else?" (Kudos Film & Television / Channel 4)
*Best Live Outside Broadcast Coverage
**Winner: "Derby Day" (Channel 4)
**Other nominees: "The Eurovision Song Contest" (BBC1); "Football World Cup Final Programme" (BBC1); "World Cup ’98 – England v Argentina" (ITV)
*Originality
**Winner: "The Human Body" (BBC1)
**Other nominees: "Channel 5 News" (Channel 5); "The King of Chaos"; "Lemurs"
*Best International Programme or Series
**Winner: "The Larry Sanders Show"
**Other nominees: "Ally McBeal"; "The Simpsons"; "The X-Files"
*The Lew Grade Award
**"Goodnight Mr Tom"
*The Dennis Potter Award
**David Renwick
*The Alan Clarke Award
**Jimmy Mulville
**Denise O'Donoghue
*The Richard Dimbleby Award
**Trevor McDonald
*Special Award
**Richard Curtis

References

* [http://www.bafta.org/site/page230.html Archive of winners on official BAFTA website] (retrieved February 22 2006).
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/1999#BAFTA_TV_Award British Academy Television Awards 1999] at the Internet Movie Database