The 2012
British Academy Television Awards (formally known as the
Arqiva
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British Academy Television Awards) were held on 27 May 2012 at the
Royal Festival Hall in London.
The nominees were announced on 24 April 2012.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Leading Actor
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Dominic West
Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West (born 15 October 1969) is an English actor, director and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in HBO's ''The Wire'' (2002–2008), Noah Solloway in Showtime's '' The Affair'' (2014–2019), ...
- ''
Appropriate Adult
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'' (ITV)
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Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Oli ...
- ''
Sherlock'' (BBC One)
*
Joseph Gilgun
Joseph William Gilgun (born 9 March 1984) is an English actor known for several roles, including that of Vinnie O'Neill in the Sky One series '' Brassic'', Marcus in Hollyoaks, Eli Dingle in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'', Jamie Armstrong i ...
- ''
This Is England '88'' (Channel 4)
*
John Simm
John Ronald Simm (born 10 July 1970) is an English actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Sam Tyler in ''Life on Mars'', the Master in ''Doctor Who,'' and DS Roy Grace in ''Grace.'' His other television credits include '' S ...
- ''
Exile'' (BBC One)
Leading Actress
A leading actor, leading actress, or simply lead (), plays the role of the protagonist of a film, television show or play. The word ''lead'' may also refer to the largest role in the piece, and ''leading actor'' may refer to a person who typic ...
Emily Watson
Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of ''Twelfth Night'' and ''Uncle Vanya'' at the Donmar Wa ...
- ''Appropriate Adult'' (ITV)
*
Romola Garai
Romola Sadie Garai (; born 6 August 1982) is a British actress and film director. She appeared in ''Amazing Grace'', ''Atonement'', and '' Glorious 39'', and in the BBC series '' Emma'', '' The Hour'' and ''The Crimson Petal and the White''. I ...
- ''
The Crimson Petal and the White
''The Crimson Petal and the White'' is a 2002 novel by Michel Faber set in Victorian England.
The title is from an 1847 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson entitled " Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal", the opening line of which is "Now sleeps the cri ...
'' (BBC Two)
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Nadine Marshall
Nadine Panchita Marshall (born 30 September 1972) is an English television, stage, and radio actress.
Education and career
She studied at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and is best known for her performance as Sally in the British te ...
- ''Random'' (Channel 4)
*
Vicky McClure
Victoria Lee McClure (born 8 May 1983) is an English actress, model and presenter. She is known for her roles as Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series ''Line of Duty'' (2012–present) and Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows' film ''Thi ...
- ''This Is England '88'' (Channel 4)
Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott - ''
Sherlock'' (BBC One)
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Martin Freeman
Martin John Christopher Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Freeman's most not ...
- ''Sherlock'' (BBC One)
*
Joseph Mawle
Joseph Daniel Turner Mawle (born 21 March 1974) is an English actor. Mawle is best known for his roles as Benjen Stark in ''Game of Thrones'', Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine in '' Ripper Street'', Firebrace in '' Birdsong'', Jesus Christ in ...
- ''
Birdsong
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'' (BBC One)
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Stephen Rea - ''
The Shadow Line'' (BBC Two)
Supporting Actress
Monica Dolan
Monica Margaret Dolan (born 15 March 1969) is an English actress. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Rosemary West in '' Appropriate Adult'' (2011).
Career
Dolan was born in Middlesbrough and trained at the Gu ...
- ''Appropriate Adult'' (ITV)
*
Anna Chancellor
Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress who has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards.
Background and early life
Chancellor was born in Richmond, England to barrister John Paget Chancellor, eldest son of ...
- ''
The Hour'' (BBC Two)
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Miranda Hart
Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972) is an English actress and writer. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making appearances in va ...
- ''
Call the Midwife
''Call the Midwife'' is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and 1960s. The principal cast of the show has included Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Ha ...
'' (BBC One)
*
Maggie Smith - ''
Downton Abbey
''Downton Abbey'' is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United States o ...
'' (ITV)
Entertainment Performance
Graham Norton
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- ''
The Graham Norton Show
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'' (BBC One)
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Alan Carr
Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian, broadcaster and writer. His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the '' City Life'' Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years, Carr's career burgeon ...
- ''
Alan Carr: Chatty Man'' (Channel 4)
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Harry Hill
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- ''
Harry Hill's TV Burp
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'' (ITV)
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Dara Ó Briain
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Mock the Week
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'' (BBC Two)
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme
Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English actress, comedian, singer and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of ...
- ''
Absolutely Fabulous
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'' (BBC One)
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Olivia Colman - ''
Twenty Twelve
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'' (BBC Four)
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Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig (; born 12 July 1966) is an English actress, narrator and comedian. She played Fran Katzenjammer in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Black Books'', Dr Caroline Todd in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Green Wing'', Beverly Lincoln in ...
- ''
Friday Night Dinner'' (Channel 4)
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Ruth Jones
Ruth Alexandra Elisabeth Jones (born 22 September 1966) is a Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the award-winning BBC sitcom ''Gavin & Stacey'' (2007–2010, 2019).
Jones has also appeared in various ...
- ''
Stella'' (Sky One)
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme
Darren Boyd
Darren John Boyd (born 30 January 1971) is a British actor who starred in the Sky 1 series ''Spy'', for which he won a BAFTA Award. His work in television and film spans comedy and drama.
Early life
Boyd began acting at age 17 in amateur thea ...
- ''
Spy
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'' (Sky One)
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Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the ITV historical drama series ''Downton Abbey''. His performance on the show earned him a no ...
- ''
Twenty Twelve
''Twenty Twelve'' is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location mockumentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summ ...
'' (BBC Four)
*
Tom Hollander
Thomas Anthony Hollander (; born 25 August 1967) is an English actor. As a child Hollander trained with the National Youth Theatre and was later involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and was president of the Marlowe Soc ...
- ''
Rev.'' (BBC Two)
*
Brendan O'Carroll
Brendan O'Carroll (born 17 September 1955) is an Irish actor, comedian, director, producer and writer. He is best known for portraying foul-mouthed matriarch Agnes Brown on stage and in the BBC and RTÉ television sitcom '' Mrs. Brown's Boys''. ...
- ''
Mrs. Brown's Boys
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The series stars O'Carroll as Agnes ...
'' (BBC One)
Single Drama
''Random'' (Channel 4)
*''
Holy Flying Circus
''Holy Flying Circus'' is a 90-minute BBC television comedy film first broadcast in 2011, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.
The film is a "Pythonesque" dramatisation of events following the completion of '' Monty Python's Life ...
'' (BBC Four)
*''
Page Eight
''Page Eight'' is a 2011 British political thriller, written and directed for the BBC by the British dramatist David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film ''Strapless''. The cast includes Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambo ...
'' (BBC Two)
*''Stolen'' (BBC One)
Mini Series
''This Is England '88'' (Channel 4)
*''Appropriate Adult'' (ITV)
*''The Crimson Petal and the White'' (BBC Two)
*''
Top Boy
''Top Boy'' is a British television crime drama series, created and written by Ronan Bennett. The series is set in the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London Borough of Hackney and focuses on two drug dealers Dushane ( Ashley Walters) and ...
'' (Channel 4)
Drama Series
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''
The Fades
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History
The Fades were formed 2 ...
'' (BBC Three)
*''
Misfits
Misfits or The Misfits may refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Misfits'' (1961 film), a film starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift
* ''The Misfits'' (2011 film), a Mexican film
* ''The Misfits'' (2021 film), an American ...
'' (E4)
*''
Scott and Bailey'' (ITV)
*''
Spooks (MI-5)'' (BBC)
Soap and Continuing Drama
''
Coronation Street'' (ITV)
*''
EastEnders'' (BBC One)
*''
Holby City'' (BBC One)
*''
Shameless'' (Channel 4)
International
''
Borgen
Borgen may refer to:
Places
* Borgen, Akershus, Norway
* Borgen, Oslo, a neighborhood of Oslo, Norway
**Borgen (station)
* Borgen, Østfold, a suburb of Sarpsborg, Norway
* Borgen, Ullensaker, Norway
* ''Borgen'' ('the castle'), colloquial name ...
'' (BBC Four)
*''
The Killing'' (BBC Four)
*''
Modern Family
''Modern Family'' is an American family sitcom television series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. It ran for 11 seasons, from September 23, 2009, to April 8, 2020. It follows the lives of th ...
'' (Sky One)
*''
The Slap'' (BBC Four)
Factual Series
''Our War'' (BBC Three)
*''
The Choir: Military Wives'' (BBC Two)
*''Educating Essex'' (Channel 4)
*''Protecting Our Children: Damned If We Do, Damned If We Don't'' (BBC Two)
Specialist Factual
''Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret'' (Channel 4)
*''
British Masters
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'' (BBC Four)
*''
Frozen Planet
''Frozen Planet'' is a 2011 British nature documentary series, co-produced by the BBC and The Open University. It was filmed by the BBC Natural History Unit. The production team, which includes executive producer Alastair Fothergill and ser ...
'' (BBC One)
*''
Wonders of the Universe
''Wonders of the Universe'' is a 2011 television series produced by the BBC, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel, hosted by physicist Professor Brian Cox. ''Wonders of the Universe'' was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two from ...
'' (BBC Two)
Single Documentary
''
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die'' (BBC Two)
*''9/11: The Day That Changed the World'' (ITV)
*''The Fight of Their Lives'' (ITV)
*''
We Need To Talk About Dad'' (Channel 4)
Features
''
The Great British Bake Off
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'' (BBC Two)
*''
DIY SOS: The Big Build'' (BBC One)
*''Hairy Bikers' Meals on Wheels'' (BBC Two)
*''
Timothy Spall: Back at Sea'' (BBC Four)
Reality and Constructed Factual
''
Young Apprentice'' (BBC One)
*''
An Idiot Abroad'' (Sky One)
*''
Don't Tell the Bride'' (BBC Three)
*''
Made in Chelsea
''Made in Chelsea'' (abbreviated ''MIC'') is a British structured-reality television series broadcast by E4. ''Made in Chelsea'' chronicles the lives of affluent young people in the West London and South West areas of Belgravia, King's Road, C ...
'' (E4)
Current Affairs
''
Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed'' (BBC One)
*''
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark'' (Al Jazeera English)
*''
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields'' (Channel 4)
*''
The Truth About Adoption'' (BBC One)
News Coverage
''
Channel 4 News: Japan Earthquake'' (Channel 4)
*''
BBC News at Ten: Siege of Homs'' (BBC One)
*''
ITV News at Ten: Battle of Misrata'' (ITV)
*''
Sky News: Libya Rebel Convoy – Live'' (Sky News)
Sport and Live Event
The Royal Wedding (BBC One)
*
Frankenstein's Wedding: Live in Leeds (BBC Three)
*
2011 Rugby World Cup Final (ITV)
*
2011 Tour de France
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(ITV4)
New Media
''
Psychoville
''Psychoville'' is a British psychological horror-thriller black comedy mystery television series created and written by and starring '' The League of Gentlemen'' members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton for the BBC. It debuted on BBC T ...
'' (BBC Online)
*''
Autumnwatch
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'' (BBC Online)
*''
The Bank Job
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'' (Channel4.com)
*''Misfits'' (E4.com)
Entertainment Programme
''Derren Brown: The Experiments'' (Channel 4)
*''
Celebrity Juice'' (ITV2)
*''Harry Hill's TV Burp'' (ITV)
*''
Michael McIntyre’s Christmas Comedy Roadshow'' (BBC One)
Comedy Programme
''
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
''Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle'' is a British comedy series created by and starring Stewart Lee and broadcast on BBC Two. It features stand-up comedy and sketches united by a theme for each episode. It was script-edited by Chris Morris and was ...
'' (BBC Two)
*''
Charlie Brooker’s 2011 Wipe'' (BBC Four)
*''
Comic Strip: The Hunt for Tony Blair'' (Channel 4)
*''The Cricklewood Greats'' (BBC Four)
Situation Comedy
''Mrs. Brown's Boys'' (BBC One)
*''
Fresh Meat'' (Channel 4)
*''Friday Night Dinner'' (Channel 4)
*''Rev'' (BBC Two)
YouTube Audience Award
''Celebrity Juice'' (ITV2)
*''Educating Essex'' (Channel 4)
*''Fresh Meat'' (Channel 4)
*''Frozen Planet'' (BBC One)
*''Sherlock'' (BBC One)
*''The Great British Bake Off'' (BBC Two)
Fellowship
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
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Rolf Harris
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Special Award
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Steven Moffat
Steven William Moffat (; born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer, television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the science fiction television series ''Doct ...
See also
*
2012 British Academy Television Craft Awards
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2012 British Academy Scotland Awards
The 2012 British Academy Scotland Awards, were given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Scotland (also known as BAFTA Scotland, or BAFTA in Scotland), and honoured the best Scottish film, television and animated product ...
*
2012 British Academy Cymru Awards
References
http://www.bafta.org/television/awards/nominees-winner-2012,3256,BA.html
External links
Official site at BAFTA.org
{{BAFTA Television Awards
2012 awards in the United Kingdom
2012 in British television
British Academy Television Awards, 2012
Annual television shows
Television
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May 2012 events in the United Kingdom
Royal Festival Hall