1999 British Academy Television Awards

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1999 British Academy Television Awards
Date9 May 1999
Site Grosvenor House Hotel
Hosted by Michael Parkinson
Highlights
Best Comedy SeriesFather Ted
Best Drama The Cops
Best Actor Tom Courtenay
A Rather English Marriage
Best Actress Thora Hird
Waiting for the Telegram
Best Comedy Performance
Television coverage
Channel BBC One
Ratings8.84 million

The 1999 British Academy Television Awards were held on 9 May at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. It was hosted solely by Michael Parkinson, who was due to share hosting duties with Jill Dando until her murder two weeks earlier. [1]

Contents

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are listed below. [2] [3]

Best Actor award winner Tom Courtenay. Tom Courtenay Berlin 2015.jpg
Best Actor award winner Tom Courtenay.
Best Actress winner Thora Hird. Dame Thora Hird Allan Warren.jpg
Best Actress winner Thora Hird.
Best Drama SeriesBest Drama Serial
Best ActorBest Actress
Best Comedy (Programme or Series)Best Comedy Performance
Best Single DramaBest Factual Series
  • The Human Body (BBC / BBC One)
    • The Clintons - A Marriage of Power (Channel 4)
    • Cold War (Jeremy Isaacs Television Limited / Channel 4)
    • The Life of Birds (BBC / BBC One)
Best FeatureBest Soap Opera
Best Light Entertainment PerformanceBest Light Entertainment Programme or Series
Best News and Current Affairs JournalismBest Live Outside Broadcast Coverage
Flaherty Award for Single DocumentaryHuw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
  • After Lockerbie (BBC Two)
    • 42 Up (Granada Television / BBC One)
    • Mir Mortals
    • Tongue Tied
OriginalityBest International Programme or Series
  • The Human Body (BBC One)
The Lew Grade AwardThe Dennis Potter Award
The Alan Clarke AwardThe Richard Dimbleby Award

Craft Awards

Best Costume DesignBest Original Television Music
Best DesignBest Make-Up
Best Photography - FactualBest Photography and Lighting - Fiction
  • 42 Up George Jesse Turner
    • Arena The Brian Epstein Story – Luke Cardiff
    • Born to Be Wild: Operation Lemur with John Cleese – Mike Eley, Warwick Sloss, Gavin Thurston
    • The Human Body – Chris Hartley, David Barlow, Tim Shepherd, Rob Franklin
Best Editing - FactualBest Editing - Fiction/Entertainment
Best Sound - FactualBest Sound - Fiction/Entertainment
  • The Life of Birds Team
    • Omnibus: Andre Previn – Bob Blauvelt, Bill Chesneau, Steve Jankowski, Peter Davies
    • Lockerbie: A Night Remembered – David Lindsay, Matt Skilton
    • The Human Body – Team
Best Graphic Design

Special Awards

In Memoriam

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References

  1. "TV stars honour Jill Dando". BBC. 10 May 1999. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  2. "Television Craft - 1999". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  3. "Television - 1999". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 21 February 2021.