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1999 British Academy Television Awards

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1999 British Academy Television Awards
Date9 May 1999
SiteGrosvenor House Hotel
Hosted byMichael Parkinson
Highlights
Best Comedy SeriesFather Ted
Best DramaThe Cops
Best ActorTom Courtenay
A Rather English Marriage
Best ActressThora Hird
Waiting for the Telegram
Best Comedy Performance
Television coverage
ChannelBBC One
Ratings8.84 million

The 1999 British Academy Television Awards were held on 9 May at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. It was hosted solely by Michael Parkinson, who was due to share hosting duties with Jill Dando until her murder two weeks earlier.[1]

Winners and nominees

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Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are listed below.[2][3]

Best Actor award winner Tom Courtenay.
Best Actress winner Thora Hird.
Best Drama Series Best Drama Serial
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Comedy (Programme or Series) Best Comedy Performance
Best Single Drama Best Factual Series
  • The Human Body (BBC / BBC One)
    • The Clintons - A Marriage of Power (Channel 4)
    • Cold War (Jeremy Isaacs Television Limited / Channel 4)
    • The Life of Birds (BBC / BBC One)
Best Feature Best Soap Opera
Best Light Entertainment Performance Best Light Entertainment Programme or Series
Best News and Current Affairs Journalism Best Live Outside Broadcast Coverage
Flaherty Award for Single Documentary Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
  • After Lockerbie (BBC Two)
    • 42 Up (Granada Television / BBC One)
    • Mir Mortals
    • Tongue Tied
Originality Best International Programme or Series
  • The Human Body (BBC One)
The Lew Grade Award The Dennis Potter Award
The Alan Clarke Award The Richard Dimbleby Award

Craft Awards

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Best Costume Design Best Original Television Music
Best Design Best Make-Up
Best Photography - Factual Best Photography and Lighting - Fiction
  • 42 UpGeorge Jesse Turner
    • ArenaThe Brian Epstein Story – Luke Cardiff
    • Born to Be Wild: Operation Lemur with John Cleese – Mike Eley, Warwick Sloss, Gavin Thurston
    • The Human Body – Chris Hartley, David Barlow, Tim Shepherd, Rob Franklin
Best Editing - Factual Best Editing - Fiction/Entertainment
Best Sound - Factual Best Sound - Fiction/Entertainment
  • The Life of BirdsTeam
    • Omnibus: Andre Previn – Bob Blauvelt, Bill Chesneau, Steve Jankowski, Peter Davies
    • Lockerbie: A Night Remembered – David Lindsay, Matt Skilton
    • The Human Body – Team
Best Graphic Design

Special Awards

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In Memoriam

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References

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  1. ^ "TV stars honour Jill Dando". BBC. 10 May 1999. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Television Craft - 1999". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Television - 1999". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
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