2015 British Academy Television Awards


The 61st British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 8 April 2015.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and emboldened.
Best ActorBest Actress

  • Georgina Campbell – Murdered by My Boyfriend as Ashley Jones
  • *Keeley Hawes – Line of Duty as DI Lindsay Denton
  • *Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley as Catherine Cawood
  • *Sheridan Smith – Cilla as Cilla Black
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman as Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle
  • *Adeel Akhtar – Utopia as Wilson Wilson
  • *James Norton – Happy Valley as Tommy Lee Royce
  • *Ken Stott – The Missing as Ian Garrett
  • Gemma Jones – Marvellous as Mary Baldwin
  • *Vicky McClure – Line of Duty as DS Kate Fleming
  • *Amanda Redman – Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This as Gwen Cooper
  • *Charlotte Spencer – Glue as Tina Fallon
    • Best Male Comedy PerformanceBest Female Comedy Performance
  • Matt Berry – Toast of London as Steven Toast
  • *Hugh Bonneville – W1A as Ian Fletcher
  • *Tom Hollander – Rev. as Alex Smallbone
  • *Brendan O'Carroll – Mrs. Brown's Boys : The Christmas Special as Agnes Brown
  • Jessica Hynes – W1A as Siobhan Sharpe
  • *Olivia Colman – Rev. as Alex Smallbone
  • *Tamsin Greig – Episodes as Beverly Lincoln
  • *Catherine Tate – Catherine Tate's Nan as Joanie "Nan" Taylor
    • Best Entertainment PerformanceBest Single Drama
  • Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • * Leigh Francis – Celebrity Juice
  • *Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
  • * Claudia Winkleman – Strictly Come Dancing
  • Marvellous
  • *A Poet in New York
  • *Common
  • *Murdered by My Boyfriend
    • Best Mini-SeriesBest Drama Series
  • The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
  • * Cilla
  • * Our World War
  • * Prey
  • Happy Valley
  • * Line of Duty
  • * The Missing
  • * Peaky Blinders
    • Best Soap and Continuing DramaBest International Programme
  • Coronation Street
  • *Casualty
  • *EastEnders
  • *Hollyoaks
  • True Detective
  • *The Good Wife
  • *House of Cards
  • *Orange is the New Black
    • Best Factual Series or StrandBest Specialist Factual
  • Life and Death Row
  • * 15,000 Kids and Counting
  • * Educating the East End
  • * Protecting Our Parents
  • Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
  • * David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D
  • * The Great War: The People's Story
  • * Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
    • Best Single DocumentaryBest Features
  • The Paedophile Hunter
  • * Baby P: The Untold Story
  • * Children of Syria
  • * The Miners Strike and Me
  • Grand Designs
  • * George Clarke's Amazing Spaces
  • * The Great British Bake Off
  • * Long Lost Family
    • Best Reality and Constructed FactualBest Current Affairs
  • The Island with Bear Grylls
  • * The Apprentice
  • *I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
  • * The Undateables
  • Children on the Frontline
  • * Ebola Frontline
  • * Inside Kenya's Death Squads
  • * Terror at the Mall
    • Best News CoverageBest Sport and Live Events
  • Sky News Live at Five: Ebola
  • * BBC News at Ten
  • * Channel 4 News - Inside Gaza: Children Under Fire
  • * ITV News at Ten - Iraq Crisis
  • WW1 Remembered - From the Battlefield & Westminster Abbey
  • * 2014 FA Cup Semi-Final: Hull City vs. Sheffield United
  • * Monty Python Live (Mostly)
  • * 2014 Tour de France: Stage 1
    • Best Entertainment ProgrammeBest Scripted Comedy
  • Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • * Dynamo: Magician Impossible
  • * Strictly Come Dancing
  • * The Voice
  • Detectorists
  • * Harry & Paul's Story Of The Twos
  • * Moone Boy
  • * The Wrong Mans
    • Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment ProgrammeRadio Times Audience Award
  • The Graham Norton Show
  • * Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
  • * Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
  • * Would I Lie to You?
  • Sherlock
  • * Cilla
  • * EastEnders
  • * Game of Thrones
  • * The Great British Bake Off
  • * The Missing
  • * Strictly Come Dancing
    • BAFTA Fellowship AwardBAFTA Special Award
  • Jon Snow
  • Clive James
  • Jeff Pope

    • Programmes with multiple nominations

    NominationsProgramme
    4The Missing
    3Cilla
    3Happy Valley
    3Line of Duty
    3Marvellous
    3Strictly Come Dancing
    2Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
    2EastEnders
    2Murdered by My Boyfriend
    2Rev
    2Sherlock
    2The Graham Norton Show
    2The Great British Bake Off
    2The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
    2W1A

    NominationsNetwork
    28BBC One
    22BBC Two
    14Channel 4
    8ITV
    4BBC Three
    2HBO
    2Netflix
    2Sky Atlantic
    2-
    2-
    2-
    2-
    2-

    Most major wins

    WinsShow
    2Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
    2Marvellous
    2The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
    2-
    2-

    WinsNetwork
    6Channel 4
    5BBC Two
    5ITV
    3BBC One
    2BBC Three

    In Memoriam