1996 British Academy Television Awards

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1996 British Academy Television Awards
Date21 April 1996
Site Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Highlights
Best Comedy Series Father Ted
Best Drama Cracker
Best Actor Robbie Coltrane
Cracker
Best Actress Jennifer Ehle
Pride and Prejudice
Best Comedy Performance

The 1996 British Academy Television Awards were held on 21 April 1996 at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane followed by dinner in The Great Room, Grosvenor House Hotel, as a joint ceremony with the British Academy Film Awards.

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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are listed below. [1] [2]

Best Actor award winner Robbie Coltrane. This was his third consecutive victory in this category after winning in 1994 and 1995. Robbiecoltranecrop.jpg
Best Actor award winner Robbie Coltrane. This was his third consecutive victory in this category after winning in 1994 and 1995.
Best Actress winner Jennifer Ehle. Jennifer Ehle (30443863926).jpg
Best Actress winner Jennifer Ehle.
Best Comedy Performance winner Martin Clunes. Martin Clunes.jpg
Best Comedy Performance winner Martin Clunes.
Best Drama SeriesBest Drama Serial
Best ActorBest Actress
Best Comedy (Programme or Series)Best Comedy Performance
Best Single DramaBest Factual Series
Best Light Entertainment PerformanceBest Light Entertainment Programme or Series
Best News CoverageBest Talk Show
  • Channel 4 News Coverage Of War Crimes In Former YugoslaviaProduction Team
    • BBC1 News Coverage On Bosnia – Martin Bell
    • BBC2 Newsnight – Peter Horrocks
    • ITN Coverage Of The War In Chechnya – Production Team
Flaherty Award for Single DocumentaryHuw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
  • Children of the Revolution – John Wyver, David Hinton
    • Arena – Peter Lydon
    • The Homecoming – Archie Baron
    • A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies – Florence Dauman
Best Sports / Events Coverage in Real TimeForeign Programme Award
  • Peter Hylton Cleaver, Neil Eccles and Philip S. Gilbert and Team – VE Day Coverage (BBC)
    • Jane Garrod – Cheltenham Gold Cup
    • Andy Melvin, Tony Mills – Super Sunday - The Final Day Of The Premiership
    • Neil Eccles, Simon Betts, Philip S Gilbert – VJ-50 Live: The Final Tribute
Best Children's Programme - FactualBest Children's Programme - Fiction or Entertainment
  • Coping with ChristmasSue Nott, Dan Zeff, Peter Corey
    • Byker Grove – Matthew Robinson, Tim Leandro, Brian B Thompson
    • Jackanory – Maggie Barbour
    • The Ward – Kieran Roberts, Beryl Richards
The Lew Grade AwardThe Dennis Potter Award
The Alan Clarke AwardThe Richard Dimbleby Award
Lloyds Bank People's Vote For The Most Popular Television ProgrammeOriginality

Craft Awards

Best Costume DesignBest Original Television Music
Best DesignBest Make-Up
Best Photography - FactualBest Photography and Lighting - Fiction
  • True Stories: The BetrayedJacek Petrycki
    • Wildlife: Great White Shark - The True Story Of Jaws (Special) – Paul Atkins, Peter, Scoones, Doug Allen
    • Secret Asia: The Dying Rooms – Peter Hugh, Brian Woods
    • The Homecoming – Jacek Petrycki
Best Editing - FactualBest Editing - Fiction/Entertainment
Best Sound - FactualBest Sound - Fiction/Entertainment
  • The Beatles Anthology Howie Nicol, Richard King, Andy Matthews, Danny Longhurst
    • HMS Brilliant – Adrian Bell, Tony Anscombe, Trish Stephenson, Gary McIntyre
    • True Stories: The Betrayed – Patrick Bolland, Michael Narduzzo
    • The Private Life of Plants – Trevor Gosling, Lucy Rutherford, Martin Harries, Peter Hicks
  • Love Bites: Loved UpJohn Taylor, Craig Irving, Tim Hudnott, Pete Collins, Chris Graver
    • Four Goes To Glyndebourne: Ermione – John Middleton, Andy Rose
    • The Choir – Derek Norman, Chris Graver, Keith Marriner
    • Prime Suspect – Nick Steer, John Rutherford, John Senior, John Whitworth
Best Graphic Design
  • BBC2 Christmas AnimationsIain Greenway, Jane Wyatt
    • BBC1 Winter Animations – Mark Chaudoir, Paula Williams
    • Have I Got News For You – Tim Searle
    • American Football: Blitz – Susan Young Limited

Special Awards

Footnotes

  1. Judging by the synopsis and character list on IMDb, [4] a combination of Shakespeares's Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 .

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References

  1. "Television Craft - 1996". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  2. "Television - 1996". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  3. "Television: Talk Show in 1996". British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  4. Performance: Henry IV at IMDb