British Academy Television Awards 1990

1990 British Academy Television Awards
Highlights
Best Comedy	Blackadder Goes Forth
Best Drama	Traffik
Best Actor	John Thaw Inspector Morse
Best Actress	Diana Rigg Mother Love

Winners

• Best Actor
  • Winner: John Thaw — Inspector Morse (ITV)
  • Other nominees: Joss Ackland — First And Last; John Gielgud — Summer's Lease; Alfred Molina — The Accountant
• Best Actress
  • Winner: Diana Rigg — Mother Love
  • Other nominees: Peggy Ashcroft — She's Been Away; Judi Dench — Behaving Badly; Gwen Taylor — A Bit of a Do
• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
  • Winner: Blackadder Goes Forth
  • Other nominees: After Henry; The New Statesman; Only Fools And Horses
• Best Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner: Rowan Atkinson — Blackadder Goes Forth
  • Other nominees: Barry Humphries — The Dame Edna Experience ; David Jason — Only Fools And Horses; Victoria Wood — Victoria Wood
• Best Drama Series
  • Winner: Traffik
  • Other nominees: Inspector Morse (ITV); Mother Love; Summer's Lease
• Best Single Drama
  • Winner: The Accountant
  • Other nominees: Bomber Harris; First And Last; She's Been Away
• Best News Coverage
  • Winner: BBC News — Square Massacre
  • Other nominees: BBC Berlin Wall Coverage; BBC Nine O'Clock News — Kate Adie Secret Report from Chinese Hospital; ITN Coverage of Romania
• Best Factual Series
  • Winner: Forty Minutes
  • Other nominees: Arena (BBC / BBC2); Around the World in 80 Days; World in Action
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
  • Winner: First Tuesday — Four Hours In My Lai
  • Other nominees: Everyman: Romania — State of Fear; Lost Children of The Empire; Viewpoint '89: Cambodia — Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger
• Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
  • Winner: Omnibus: Art In The Third Reich
  • Other nominees: Arena — Tales From Barcelona (BBC / BBC2); The South Bank Show — Barry Humphries; The South Bank Show — Dustin Hoffman
• Light Entertainment Programme or Series
  • Winner: Clive James On The '80s
  • Other nominees: The Dame Edna Experience; Victoria Wood; Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Best Children's Educational Documentary Programme
  • Winner: The Really Wild Show
  • Other nominees: Blockbusters; Choices: Who'd Be a Woman; Scene: My Brother David
• Best Children's Entertainment / Drama Programme
  • Winner: Maid Marian and her Merry Men
  • Other nominees: The BFG; The Chronicles Of Narnia; Woof
• Foreign Programme Award
  • Hotel Terminus
• BAFTA Fellowship Award
  • Paul Fox, CBE

References

• Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved 4 June 2013).
• British Academy Television Awards 1996 at the Internet Movie Database