| British Academy Television Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Award for best non-British programme |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 2007 |
| Currently held by | Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2023) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme, or BAFTA TV Award for Best International, is an award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, according to BAFTA the category is for "a single programme or series of any genre acquired from the international marketplace". [1]
From 1964 to 1998 the category was awarded individually and not all years as Best Foreign Television Programme, after 1999 it started having a set of nominees and a winner under the name of Best International Programme.
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | L'Aiguille Du Midi | Alexandre Tarta |
| 1965 | President Kennedy's Funeral | |
| 1966 | Living Camera | Robert Drew Associates |
| 1967 | Not awarded | |
| 1968 | The Anderson Platoon | Pierre Schoendoerffer |
| 1969 | Czechoslovak Television Service | |
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | The First Television Pictures From The Moon | Neil Armstrong and Everyone Associated |
| 1971 | Not awarded | |
| 1972 | The Sorrow and the Pity | Marcel Ophuls |
| 1973 | Deutsche Olympische Zentrum (Munich Olympic Games) | |
| 1974 | Not awarded | |
| 1975 | Not awarded | |
| 1976 | The Magic Flute | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1977 | Edvard Munch | Peter Watkins |
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Sweden: The Miracle of Life | Lennart Nilsson |
| 1984 | Not awarded | |
| 1985 | Das Boot | |
| 1986 | Not awarded | |
| 1987 | Heimat | Edgar Reitz |
| 1988 | Lowest of the Low (Ganz Unten) | Günter Walraff, Joerg Gfrörer |
| 1989 | Tanner | Robert Altman |
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Hotel Terminus | |
| 1991 | The Ten Commandments | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 1992 | The Civil War | Ken Burns, Hugh Purcell |
| 1993 | Tosca | Andrea Andermann, Brian Large |
| 1994 | The Oprah Winfrey Show | |
| 1995 | NYPD Blue | |
| 1996 | ER | |
| 1997 | Murder One | |
| 1998 | Friends | |
| 1999 | The Larry Sanders Show | Garry Shandling, Dennis Klein |
| Ally McBeal | David E. Kelley | |
| The Simpsons | Matt Groening | |
| The X-Files | Chris Carter | |
| Year | Series | Producers | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Entourage | Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson | ITV2 |
| House | David Shore | Five | |
| Lost | J. J. Abrams, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender | Channel 4 | |
| My Name Is Earl | Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Bobby Bowman | ||
| 2008 | Heroes | Tim Kring, Joe Pokaski, Paul Edwards, Dennis Hammer | BBC Two |
| Californication | Tom Kapinos, David Duchovny, Scott Winant | Five | |
| Family Guy | Seth MacFarlane, David A Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith | BBC Three | |
| My Name Is Earl | Greg Garcia, Bobby Bowman, Henry Lange Jr, Marc Buckland | E4 | |
| 2009 | Mad Men | Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher | BBC Four |
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Chuck O'Neil, Rich Blomquist, Scott Jacobson, Jon Stewart | More4 | |
| Dexter | John Goldwyn, Sara Colleton, Clyde Philips, Robert Lloyd Lewis | ITV1 | |
| The Wire | David Simon, Ed Burns, Nina K. Noble, Joe Chappelle | BBC Two | |
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