2018 British Academy Television Awards


The 2018 British Academy Television Awards took place on 13 May 2018 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
The nominations were announced on 4 April, with Line of Duty leading with four awards. Black Mirror, The Crown and Three Girls followed with three nominations.
The 2018 British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 22 April 2018.

Winners and nominees

Best Drama SeriesBest Mini-Series

  • Three Girls
  • *Howards End
  • *The Moorside
  • *The State
    • Best Single DramaBest Soap and Continuing Drama
  • Murdered for Being Different
  • *Against the Law
  • *Hang the DJ (Black Mirror)
  • *King Charles III
  • Casualty
  • *Coronation Street
  • *Emmerdale
  • *Hollyoaks
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Sean Bean – Broken as Father Michael Kerrigan
  • *Joe Cole – Hang the DJ (Black Mirror) as Frank
  • *Tim Pigott-Smith – King Charles III as King Charles III
  • *Jack Rowan – Born to Kill as Sam Woodford
  • Molly Windsor – Three Girls as Holly Winshaw
  • *Claire Foy – The Crown as Queen Elizabeth II
  • *Sinead Keenan – Little Boy Blue as Melanie Jones
  • *Thandie Newton – Line of Duty as Detective Chief Inspector Roseanne "Roz" Huntley
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Brían F. O'Byrne – Little Boy Blue as Steve Jones
  • *Adrian Dunbar – Line of Duty as Superintendent Ted Hastings
  • *Anupam Kher – The Boy with the Topknot as Sathnam's Father
  • *Jimmi Simpson – USS Callister (Black Mirror) as James Walton
  • Vanessa Kirby – The Crown as Princess Margaret
  • *Anna Friel – Broken as Christina Fitzsimmons
  • *Julie Hesmondhalgh – Broadchurch as Trish Winterman
  • *Liv Hill – Three Girls as Ruby Bowen
    • Best Male Comedy PerformanceBest Female Comedy Performance
  • Toby Jones – Detectorists as Lance Stater
  • *Rob Brydon – The Trip to Spain as himself
  • *Asim Chaudhry – People Just Do Nothing as Chabuddy G/Charlie
  • *Samson Kayo – Famalam as Various Characters
  • Daisy May Cooper – This Country as Kerry Mucklowe
  • *Sian Gibson – Peter Kay's Car Share as Kayleigh Kitson
  • *Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe as Sharon Morris
  • *Anna Maxwell Martin – Motherland as Julia
    • Best Scripted ComedyBest Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
    This Country
  • *Catastrophe
  • *Chewing Gum
  • *Timewasters
  • Murder in Successville
  • *Taskmaster
  • *The Last Leg
  • *Would I Lie to You?
    • Best Entertainment PerformanceLew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme
  • Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
  • *Adam Hills – The Last Leg
  • *Michael McIntyre – Michael McIntyre's Big Show
  • *Sandi Toksvig – QI
  • Britain's Got Talent
  • *Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • *Michael McIntyre's Big Show
  • *The Voice UK
    • Best Factual Series or StrandHuw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
  • Ambulance
  • *Catching a Killer
  • *Drugsland
  • *Hospital
  • Basquiat: Rage to Riches
  • *Blitz: the Bombs That Changed Britain
  • *Blue Planet II
  • *Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents
    • Robert Flaherty Award for Single DocumentaryBest Feature
  • Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad
  • *Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me
  • *Louis Theroux, Talking to Anorexia
  • *One Deadly Weekend in America
  • Cruising with Jane McDonald
  • *Antiques Roadshow
  • *No More Boys And Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?
  • *The Secret Life of the Zoo
    • Best Reality and Constructed FactualBest Live Event
  • Love Island
  • *Celebrity Hunted
  • *Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds
  • *The Real Full Monty
  • World War One Remembered: Passchendaele
  • *ITV News Election 2017 Live: the Results
  • *One Love Manchester
  • *Wild Alaska Live
    • Best News CoverageBest Current Affairs
  • Sky News: The Rohingya Crisis
  • *Sky News: The Battle for Mosul
  • *Channel 4 News: The Grenfell Tower Fire
  • *ITV News at Ten: The Grenfell Tower Fire
  • Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets – Panorama
  • *Raped : My Story
  • *Syria's Disappeared: the Case against Assad – Dispatches
  • *White Right: Meeting the Enemy – Exposure
    • Best SportBest Short Form Programme
  • The Grand National
  • *Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko
  • *Six Nations: Wales v. England
  • *UEFA Women's Euro Semi-final – England V Netherlands
  • Morgana Robinson's Summer
  • *Britain's Forgotten Men
  • *Eating with My Ex
  • *Pls Like
    • Best International ProgrammeVirgin TV’s Must-See Moment
  • The Handmaid's Tale /
  • *Big Little Lies /
  • *Feud: Bette and Joan /
  • *The Vietnam War /
  • Blue Planet II – "Mother Pilot Whale Grieves"
  • *Doctor Who – "The Thirteenth Doctor Revealed"
  • *Game of Thrones – "Viserion is Killed by the Night King"
  • *Line of Duty – "Huntley’s Narrow Escape"
  • *Love Island – "Stormzy Makes a Surprise Appearance"
  • *One Love Manchester – "Ariana Grande Sings ‘One Last Time’"

    • Programmes with multiple nominations

    NominationsProgramme
    4Line of Duty
    3Black Mirror
    3The Crown
    3Three Girls
    2Blue Planet II
    2Broken
    2Catastrophe
    2King Charles III
    2Little Boy Blue
    2Love Island
    2Michael McIntyre's Big Show
    2One Love Manchester
    2The Last Leg
    2This Country

    NominationsNetwork
    27BBC One
    19BBC Two
    14Channel 4
    13ITV
    10BBC Three
    6Netflix
    3Sky Atlantic
    3ITV2
    2Sky News
    2Channel 5
    2BBC Four
    2HBO
    2-
    2-
    2-
    2-
    2-
    2-

    Most major wins

    WinsShow
    2This Country
    2Three Girls
    2-
    2-
    2-

    WinsNetwork
    9BBC One
    4BBC Three
    3BBC Two
    3ITV

    In Memoriam