2009 British Academy Television Awards
The 2009 British Academy Television Awards were held on 26 April at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The event was broadcast live on BBC One and was hosted by Graham Norton. The nominations were announced on 24 March. Winners in bold.
Nominations
- Best Actor
- *Stephen Dillane – The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
- *Jason Isaacs – The Curse of Steptoe
- *Ken Stott – Hancock and Joan
- *Ben Whishaw – Criminal Justice
- Best Actress
- *June Brown – EastEnders
- *Anna Maxwell Martin – Poppy Shakespeare
- *Maxine Peake – Hancock and Joan
- *Andrea Riseborough – Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
- Best Entertainment Performance
- *Stephen Fry – QI
- *Harry Hill – Harry Hill's TV Burp
- *Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
- *Jonathan Ross – Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
- Best Comedy Performance
- *Rob Brydon – Gavin & Stacey
- *Sharon Horgan – Pulling
- *David Mitchell – Peep Show
- *Claire Skinner – Outnumbered
- Best Single Drama
- *Einstein and Eddington
- *Hancock and Joan
- *The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
- *White Girl
- Best Drama Serial
- *Criminal Justice
- *Dead Set
- *The Devil's Whore
- *House of Saddam
- Best Drama Series
- *Doctor Who
- *Shameless
- *Spooks
- *Wallander
- Best Continuing Drama
- *The Bill
- *Casualty
- *EastEnders
- *Emmerdale
- Best Factual Series
- *Amazon with Bruce Parry
- *Blood, Sweat and T-shirts
- *The Family
- *Ross Kemp in Afghanistan
- Best Entertainment Programme
- *The Friday/Sunday Night Project
- *Harry Hill's TV Burp
- *QI
- *The X Factor
- Best Situation Comedy
- *The Inbetweeners
- *The IT Crowd
- *Outnumbered
- *Peep Show
- Best Comedy Programme
- *Harry and Paul
- *The Peter Serafinowicz Show
- *Star Stories
- *That Mitchell and Webb Look
- Best Single Documentary
- *A Boy Called Alex
- *Chosen
- *The Fallen
- *Thriller in Manila
- Best Feature
- *The Apprentice
- *Celebrity Masterchef
- *The Choir: Boys Don't Sing
- *Top Gear
- Best International Show
- *The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- *Dexter
- *Mad Men
- *The Wire
- Best Specialist Factual
- *Life in Cold Blood
- *Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
- *Lost Land of the Jaguar
- *Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press: The Machine That Made Us
- Best Current Affairs
- *Dispatches – Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me
- *Dispatches – Saving Africa's Witch Children
- *Panorama – Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told
- *Ross Kemp: A Kenya Special
- Best News Coverage
- *Channel 4 News
- *News at Ten – 2008 Sichuan earthquake
- *Sky News – Canoe Man
- *Sky News – 2008 Mumbai attacks
- Best Sport
- *Cheltenham Gold Cup – Denman vs Kauto Star
- *ITV F1 – 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix
- *2008 Summer Olympic Games –
- *Wimbledon – The Men's Final
- Best Interactivity
- *Embarrassing Bodies Online
- *Bryony Makes a Zombie Movie
- *Merlin
- *2008 Summer Olympic Games
- Phillips Audience Award
- *Skins
- *The Apprentice
- *Coronation Street
- *Outnumbered
- *Wallander
- *The X Factor
- BAFTA Fellowship
- *Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders