2020 British Academy Television Awards
66th British Academy Television Awards | |
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Date | 31 July 2020 |
Site | Television Centre, London |
Hosted by | Richard Ayoade |
Highlights | |
Best Comedy Series | Stath Lets Flats |
Best Drama | The End of the F***ing World |
Best Actor | Jared Harris Chernobyl |
Best Actress | Glenda Jackson Elizabeth Is Missing |
Best Comedy |
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Most awards | The End of the F***ing World; Stath Lets Flats; Chernobyl (2) |
Most nominations | Fleabag (4) |
Television coverage | |
Channel | BBC One |
Duration | 90 minutes |
The 2020 British Academy Television Awards were held on 31 July 2020, hosted by British director and comic actor Richard Ayoade.
The nominations for the jury awards were announced on 4 June 2020, whilst the nominees for the audience award, "Virgin TV's Must-See Moments", were announced on 3 June 2020.[1] The End of the F***ing World, Stath Lets Flats and Chernobyl each won two awards, with The End of the F***ing World taking home the Best Drama mask and Stath Lets Flats winning Best Scripted Comedy. In the news coverage awards, ITV won two masks.
The 2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards had been held on 17 July 2020. Both ceremonies were held during the COVID-19 pandemic with social distancing practices. The Craft Awards event was entirely virtual, while much of the Television Awards ceremony was connected by video call, though it was hosted and presented from an audience-less Television Centre in London. Combining wins from both events, Chernobyl set a new record for total BAFTA wins in one year, taking home nine masks from fourteen nominations. The Special Award was presented to Idris Elba.
Winners and nominees
Winners will be listed first and highlighted in boldface.[2]
Best Drama Series | Best Mini-Series |
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Best Single Drama | Best Soap and Continuing Drama |
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Best Actor | Best Actress |
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Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
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Best Male Comedy Performance | Best Female Comedy Performance |
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Best Scripted Comedy | Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme |
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Best Entertainment Performance | Lew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme |
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Best Factual Series or Strand | Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual |
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Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary | Best Feature |
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Best Reality and Constructed Factual | Best Live Event
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Best News Coverage | Best Current Affairs |
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Best Sport
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Best Short Form Programme |
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Best International Programme | Virgin TV's Must-See Moment
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Programmes with multiple nominations
The following is a list of programmes and networks with multiple nominations at both the 2020 British Academy Television Awards and the 2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards.[4]
Nominations | Programme |
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14 | Chernobyl |
7 | The Crown |
Fleabag | |
6 | Giri/Haji |
5 | His Dark Materials[a] |
The Virtues
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4 | Killing Eve |
Sex Education | |
Top Boy | |
3 | Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer |
The End of the F***ing World | |
Glastonbury 2019 | |
Leaving Neverland | |
Our Planet[a][b] | |
Seven Worlds, One Planet[a] | |
Stath Lets Flats | |
2 | A Confession
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Brexit: The Uncivil War | |
Catherine the Great[a] | |
Coronation Street | |
Elizabeth Is Missing | |
Game of Thrones | |
Gentleman Jack | |
The Graham Norton Show | |
The Last Survivors | |
Love Island | |
Responsible Child | |
The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance[a]
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Strictly Come Dancing | |
Succession | |
"Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag" (Exposure episode) | |
Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein[a] |
Nominations | Network |
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41 | BBC One |
33 | Netflix |
31 | Channel 4 |
26 | BBC Two |
25 | HBO |
21 | Sky Atlantic |
17 | ITV
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12 | BBC Three |
7 | Sony Pictures Television |
3 | BBC Four |
2 | Channel 5
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Most major wins
The following is a list of programmes and networks with multiple wins at both the 2020 British Academy Television Awards and Television Craft Awards.[4]
Wins | Show |
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9 | Chernobyl |
3 | Stath Lets Flats |
2 | The End of the F***ing World |
The Last Survivors | |
Strictly Come Dancing |
Wins | Network |
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10 | BBC One |
Sky Atlantic | |
8 | Channel 4 |
5 | BBC Two |
4 | Netflix |
3 | ITV |
2 | BBC Three |
Ceremony
Nominations for the 2020 British Academy Television Awards were announced on 4 June 2020.[4] Fleabag, Chernobyl, Giri/Haji and The Crown had the most nominations.[6] The ceremony had originally been scheduled for 17 May 2020; though it was postponed, the qualification dates for eligible programming were not changed.[5] Krishnendu Majumdar, the chair of BAFTA since June 2020, gave an announcement that it was important to celebrate the importance of television during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
The ceremony was held on 31 July 2020 from 19:00
Surprise results included both the Best Drama and Best Scripted Comedy winners: The End of the F***ing World won drama over favourite The Crown (both Netflix), while Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4) won comedy instead of the much-celebrated Fleabag (BBC Three). Additionally, Phoebe Waller-Bridge lost Best Female Comedy Performance to her Fleabag co-star Sian Clifford.[2][8] The two Fleabag stars watched the ceremony together at Waller-Bridge's house but separated on video for their nominations to prevent audio feedback. After Clifford won the award, Waller-Bridge presented her with a statuette of the "Godmother", an item in the show. During her acceptance speech, Clifford confirmed that the jury discussions for the year's awards were also done via video calls, and – speaking in the virtual backstage after winning – Clifford joked with Allen about the BAFTA award, a mask, being used as a facemask in public. Fleabag won only one award from the four for which it was nominated.[9][10][11]
The
In Memoriam
- Nicholas Parsons
- Sheila Mercier
- Gay Byrne
- Leah Bracknell
- Bob Angell
- Tony Britton
- Peter Sissons
- Louis Mahoney
- James Cellan Jones
- Caroline Flack
- Joe Longthorne
- Tony Garnett
- William Simons
- Derek Fowlds
- Michael Angelis
- Eddie Large
- Honor Blackman
- Jean Fergusson
- Earl Cameron
- David Bellamy
- Jill Gascoine
- Diarmuid Lawrence
- Tazeen Ahmad
- Roy Hudd
- Lynn Shelton
- Clive James
- Margarita Pracatan
- Gary Rhodes
- Lynn Faulds Wood
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Dame Vera Lynn
Sydney Lotterby, who died a few days before the ceremony, was not included in the montage but was named by Ayoade afterwards. The In Memoriam segment covered deaths in the 15 months since the last ceremony. A further "In Memory Of..." list, including international figures, was included on the BAFTA website.[13]
See also
- 2020 in television
- 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards
- 73rd British Academy Film Awards
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television
Notes
References
- ^ "Vote for this year's BAFTA Must See Moment". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Kanter, Jake (31 July 2020). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ a b c "Glenda Jackson 'stunned' by Bafta TV triumph". BBC News. 31 July 2020. Archived from the original on 31 July 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ a b c "BAFTA TV 2020: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy TV Craft Awards". BAFTA. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Richard Ayoade to host socially-distanced TV Baftas". BBC News. 29 May 2020. Archived from the original on 31 May 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d Ramachandran, Naman (31 July 2020). "BAFTA Television Award Winners List: Live Updates". Variety. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ Harp, Justin (31 July 2020). "Those BAFTA TV Awards celeb acceptance speeches were mostly taped". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ^ a b "BAFTA Television Award Winners 2020: The Full List". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ^ Edwards, Chris; Robinson, Abby (31 July 2020). "Exclusive: Fleabag's Sian Clifford says Phoebe Waller-Bridge gave her Godmother statue when she won her BAFTA". Digital Spy. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ BBC (31 July 2020). Sian Clifford wins Female Performance In A Comedy BAFTA | The BAFTA TV Awards 2020 - BBC. Retrieved 1 August 2020 – via YouTube.
- ^ BBC (31 July 2020). Phoebe Waller-Bridge Crashes Sian Clifford's Post-Award Interview | BAFTA TV Awards 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2020 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b "BAFTA TV Awards 2020: Jared Harris hails 'amazing' wins as Chernobyl breaks BAFTA record". Radio Times. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ "In memory of... 2020 | BAFTA". BAFTA. Archived from the original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.