1990 British Academy Television Awards

Winners

• Best Actor
• *Winner: John Thaw — Inspector Morse
• *Other nominees: Joss Ackland — First And Last; John Gielgud — Summer's Lease; Alfred Molina — The Accountant
• Best Actress
• *Winner: Diana Rigg — Mother Love
• *Other nominees: Peggy Ashcroft — She's Been Away; Judi Dench — Behaving Badly; Gwen Taylor — A Bit of a Do
• Best Comedy
• *Winner: Blackadder Goes Forth
• *Other nominees: After Henry; The New Statesman; Only Fools And Horses
• Best Light Entertainment Performance
• *Winner: Rowan Atkinson — Blackadder Goes Forth
• *Other nominees: Barry Humphries — The Dame Edna Experience; David Jason — Only Fools And Horses; Victoria Wood — Victoria Wood
• Best Drama Series
• *Winner: Traffik
• *Other nominees: Inspector Morse ; Mother Love; Summer's Lease
• Best Single Drama
• *Winner: The Accountant
• *Other nominees: Bomber Harris; First And Last; She's Been Away
• Best News Coverage
• *Winner: BBC News — Square Massacre
• *Other nominees: BBC Berlin Wall Coverage; BBC Nine O'Clock News — Kate Adie Secret Report from Chinese Hospital; ITN Coverage of Romania
• Best Factual Series
• *Winner: Forty Minutes
• *Other nominees: Arena ; Around the World in 80 Days; World in Action
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
• *Winner: First Tuesday — Four Hours In My Lai
• *Other nominees: Everyman: Romania — State of Fear; Lost Children of The Empire; Viewpoint '89: Cambodia — Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger
• Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
• *Winner: Omnibus: Art In The Third Reich
• *Other nominees: Arena — Tales From Barcelona ; The South Bank Show — Barry Humphries; The South Bank Show — Dustin Hoffman
• Light Entertainment Programme or Series
• *Winner: Clive James On The '80s
• *Other nominees: The Dame Edna Experience; Victoria Wood; Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Best Children's Educational Documentary Programme
• *Winner: The Really Wild Show
• *Other nominees: Blockbusters; Choices: Who'd Be a Woman; Scene: My Brother David
• Best Children's Entertainment / Drama Programme
• *Winner: Maid Marian and her Merry Men
• *Other nominees: The BFG; The Chronicles Of Narnia; Woof
• Foreign Programme Award
• *Hotel Terminus
• BAFTA Fellowship Award
• *Paul Fox, ''CBE''