Uganda Film Festival Award for Best Television Drama

Uganda Film Festival Award for Best Television Drama
Awarded for	Excellence in Cinematic Television Production Achievement
Country	Uganda
Presented by	Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)
First award	2016

The Uganda Film Festival Award for Best Television Drama is an award presented annually by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) at the Uganda Film Festival Awards. The award which was introduced in 2016 to include television categories, is given in honor of a television producer who has exhibited outstanding production for television series.

Winners and nominees

The table shows the winners and nominees for the Best Television Drama award.

Table key

indicates the winner

Year	Television	Producer(s)	Ref.
2016 (4th)	Coffee Shop	Mukeera Dennis Joshia
	Deception	George Khihumba
	It Can’t Be	Richard Mulindwa
	Taste of Time	Paul Mugisha
2017 (5th)	Yat Madit	Irene Kulabako Kakembo	[1]
	Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa
	The Honourables	John Ssegawa
	Coffee Shop	Davidson Mugume
	Second Chance	Phad Mutumba
2018 (6th)	Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa	[2]
	Live Your Dreams
	Anti Kale
	Taste of Time
2019 (7th)	#Family	Mathew Nabwiso
	The Honourables	John Ssegawa
	Game of Lies	Bwanika Baale Felix
	Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa
2021 (8th)	Prestige
	Sanyu
	Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa
	What If
	Chapters
2022 (9th)	Prestige
	Sanyu
	Kyaddala
	What If
	Loving Tyra

Multiple wins and nominations

By A Television Drama

No Television drama has won this award multiple times. However, several television dramas have received multiple nominations for this award over years as seen below;

Nominations	Television Drama
4	Mistakes Girls Do
2	The Honourables
	Taste of Time
Coffee Shop

By a Producer

No producer has received multiple wins for this award. Some producers have received multiple nominations for their television series. Richard Mulindwa received nominations for different television series.

Nominations	Producer
6	Richard Mulindwa [3]
2	John Ssegawa

Records

• In 2017, Irene Kulabako Kakembo was the first female producer whose television drama series (Yat Madit) was nominated for the award, and became the first female producer to win the award with the same series that same year.

References

1. "OFFICIAL NOMINEES LIST FOR THE UGANDA FILM FESTIVAL 2017" (PDF). UFF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
2. "UCC releases list of movies nominated for Uganda Film Festival awards". Sqoop. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
3. Andrew Kaggwa. "Mulindwa tops Uganda Film festival nominees". Observer. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2020.