2014 British Academy Television Awards


The 60th British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 7 April 2014. The awards ceremony sponsored by Arqiva was held on 18 May 2014 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.

Winners and nominations

Winners are listed first and emboldened.
Best ActorBest Actress
Sean Harris – Southcliffe as Stephen Morton
Olivia Colman – Broadchurch as DS Ellie Miller
  • * Helena Bonham Carter – Burton & Taylor as Elizabeth Taylor
  • * Kerrie Hayes – The Mill as Esther Price
  • * Maxine Peake – The Village as Grace Middleton
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
    David Bradley – Broadchurch as Jack Marshall
  • * Jerome Flynn – Ripper Street as Detective Bennet Drake
  • * Nico Mirallegro – The Village as Joe Middleton
  • * Rory Kinnear – Southcliffe as David Whitehead
    		• Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango in Halifax as Caroline Dawson
  • * Shirley Henderson – Southcliffe as Claire Salter
  • * Claire Rushbrook – My Mad Fat Diary as Linda Earl-Bouchtat
  • * Nicola Walker – Last Tango in Halifax as Gillian Buttershaw
    • Best Male Comedy PerformanceBest Female Comedy Performance
    Richard Ayoade – The IT Crowd as Maurice Moss
  • * Mathew Baynton – The Wrong Mans as Sam Pinkett
  • * James Corden – The Wrong Mans as Phil Bourne
  • * Chris O'Dowd – The IT Crowd as Roy Trenneman
    		• Katherine Parkinson – The IT Crowd as Jen Barber
  • * Frances de la Tour – Vicious as Violet Crosby
  • * Kerry Howard – Him & Her: The Wedding as Laura Parker
  • * Doon Mackichan – Plebs as Flavia
    • Best Entertainment PerformanceBest Single Drama
    Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • * Charlie Brooker – 10 O'Clock Live
  • * Sarah Millican – The Sarah Millican Television Programme
  • * Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
    		• Complicit
  • * An Adventure in Space and Time
  • * Black Mirror : "Be Right Back"
  • * The Wipers Times
    • Best Mini-SeriesBest Drama Series
    In The Flesh
  • * The Fall
  • * The Great Train Robbery
  • * Southcliffe
    		• Broadchurch
  • * My Mad Fat Diary
  • * Top of the Lake
  • * The Village
    • Best Soap and Continuing DramaBest International Programme
    Coronation Street
  • * Casualty
  • * EastEnders
  • * Holby City
    		• Breaking Bad
  • * Borgen
  • * House of Cards
  • * The Returned
    • Best Factual Series or StrandBest Specialist Factual
    Bedlam
  • * Educating Yorkshire
  • * Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day
  • * The Route Masters: Running London's Roads
    		• David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive
  • * Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
  • * Richard III: The King in the Car Park
  • * The Story of the Jews
    • Best Single DocumentaryBest Feature
    The Murder Trial
  • * 28 Up South Africa
  • * The Day Kennedy Died
  • * The Unspeakable Crime: Rape
    		• Long Lost Family
  • * The Choir: Sing While You Work
  • * Grand Designs
  • * The Great British Bake Off
    • Best Reality and Constructed FactualBest Current Affairs
    Gogglebox
  • * The Big Reunion
  • * Dragons' Den
  • * The Undateables
    		• Syria: Across the Lines
  • * The Cruel Cut
  • * The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs
  • * North Korea: Life Inside The Secret State
    • Best News CoverageBest Sport and Live Events
    ITV News at Ten: "Woolwich Attacks"
  • * Channel 4 News: "Egypt Military Coup"
  • * BBC North West Tonight: "The Dale Cregan Verdict"
  • * ITV News Granada Reports: "The Lee Rigby Trial"
    		• The Ashes 2013 – "1st Test, Day 5"
  • * Bollywood Carmen Live
  • * Glastonbury 2013
  • * Wimbledon Men's Final
    • Best Entertainment ProgrammeBest Scripted Comedy
    Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • * Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery
  • * Dynamo: Magician Impossible
  • * Strictly Come Dancing
    		• Him & Her: The Wedding
  • * Count Arthur Strong
  • * The IT Crowd
  • * Toast of London
    • Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment ProgrammeRadio Times Audience Award
    A League of Their Own
  • * The Graham Norton Show
  • * The Revolution Will Be Televised
  • * Would I Lie to You?
    		• Doctor Who : "The Day of the Doctor"
  • * Breaking Bad
  • * Broadchurch
  • * Educating Yorkshire
  • * Gogglebox
  • * The Great British Bake Off
    • BAFTA Fellowship AwardBAFTA Special Award
    Julie WaltersCilla Black

    Programmes with multiple nominations

    Channel 4 lead the most nominations for any network with 28, 9 ahead of BBC One who had 19. Channel 4's The IT Crowd and Southcliffe as well as ITV's Broadchurch lead the nominations for programming with four nods each.
    NominationsProgramme
    4Broadchurch
    4Southcliffe
    4The IT Crowd
    3Dispatches
    3The Village
    2Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
    2Breaking Bad
    2Burton & Taylor
    2Educating Yorkshire
    2The Fall
    2Gogglebox
    2The Graham Norton Show
    2The Great British Bake Off
    2Him & Her: The Wedding
    2In The Flesh
    2Last Tango in Halifax
    2My Mad Fat Diary
    2The Wrong Mans

    NominationsNetwork
    28Channel 4
    19BBC One
    17BBC Two
    13ITV
    6BBC Three
    3BBC Four
    3Netflix
    2AMC
    2E4
    2ITV2

    Most major wins

    WinsShow
    3Broadchurch
    2Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
    2The IT Crowd
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    WinsNetwork
    8Channel 4
    8ITV
    2BBC One
    2BBC Three

    In Memoriam