British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama
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| British Academy Television Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 1983 |
| Currently held by | Sitting in Limbo (2021) |
| Official website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "a single, self-contained drama.", this "includes single films which form part of an anthology series, where each episode has a self-contained story. The same characters cannot appear in a later episode."[1] It was awarded as Best Single Play from 1973 to 1983. Prior to that, there was a sole category for Drama Production.
Contents
Winners and nominees
1970s
1980s (as Best Single Play)
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Blue Remembered Hills | Brian Gibson |
| Churchill and the Generals | Alan Gibson | |
| The Knowledge | Bob Brooks | |
| Suez 1956 | Michael Darlow | |
| 1981 | Caught on a Train | Peter Duffell |
| Blade on the Feather | Richard Loncraine | |
| Cream In My Coffee | Gavin Millar | |
| Staying On | Silvio Narizzano | |
| 1982 | Going Gently | Stephen Frears |
| A Sense of Freedom | John Mackenzie | |
| The Potting Shed | David Cunliffe | |
| United Kingdom | Roland Joffé |
1980s
1990s
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | The Accountant (Screen One) | Geoffrey Case, Paul Knight, Les Blair |
| Bomber Harris | Don Shaw, Innes Lloyd, Michael Darlow | |
| First and Last | Michael Frayn, Michael Wearing, Alan Dossor | |
| She's Been Away (Screen One) | Stephen Poliakoff, Kenith Trodd, Peter Hall | |
| 1991 | News Hounds (Screen One) | Les Blair, Sarah Curtis |
| Old Flames (Screen Two) | Simon Gray, Kenith Trodd, Christopher Morahan | |
| Can You Hear Me Thinking? (Screen One) | Monty Haltrecht, Beverley Marcus, Ruth Caleb, Christopher Morahan | |
| Shoot to Kill | Michael Eaton, Nigel Stafford-Clark, Peter Kosminsky | |
| The Widowmaker | Jeremy Brock, Deirdre Keir, John Madden | |
| 1992 | A Question of Attribution (from Screen One) | Alan Bennett, Innes Lloyd, John Schlesinger |
| 102 Boulevard Haussmann (Screen Two) | Alan Bennett, Innes Lloyd, Udayan Prasad | |
| Hancock (from Screen One) | William Humble, Paul Marcus, Tony Smith | |
| The Trials of Oz | Geoffrey Robertson, Simon Curtis, Sheree Folkson | |
| 1993 | An Ungentlemanly Act | Bradley Adams, Stuart Urban |
| A Doll's House | Simon Curtis, David Thacker, Joan Tindale | |
| The Grass Arena (Screen Two) | Ruth Baumgarten, Gillies MacKinnon, Frank Deasy | |
| Memento Mori (Screen Two) | Louis Marks, Jack Clayton, Alan Kelley, Jeanie Sims | |
| 1994 | Safe (from ScreenPlay) | David M. Thompson, Antonia Bird, Al Ashton |
| The Clothes in the Wardrobe (Screen Two) | Norma Heyman, Waris Hussein, Martin Sherman | |
| The Snapper (Screen Two) | Lynda Myles, Stephen Frears, Roddy Doyle | |
| Wide-Eyed and Legless (Screen One) | David Lascelles, Richard Loncraine, Jack Rosenthal | |
| 1995 | Skallagrigg (Screen Two) | John Chapman, Richard Spence, Nigel Williams |
| The Dying of the Light | Peter Kosminsky, Hossein Amini | |
| A Breed of Heroes (Screen One) | Andrée Molyneux, Diarmuid Lawrence, Charles Wood | |
| Pat and Margaret (Screen One) | Ruth Caleb, Gavin Millar, Victoria Wood | |
| Stages: Suffer the Little Children | Jack Emery, Betsan Morris-Evans | |
| 1996 | Persuasion (Screen Two) | Fiona Finlay, Roger Michell, Nick Dear |
| Eleven Men Against Eleven | Jimmy Mulville, Andy Hamilton | |
| Go Now | Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom, Paul Henry Powell, Jimmy McGovern | |
| Heroes And Villains: The Last Englishman | Sue Vertue, John Henderson, Anthony Horowitz | |
| 1997 | Hillsborough | Nicola Shindler, Charles McDougall, Jimmy McGovern, Katy Jones |
| Crossing The Floor (Screen Two) | Guy Jenkin, Lissa Evans | |
| The Precious Blood (Screen Two) | Robert Cooper, Anthony Rowe, John Woods, Graham Reid | |
| Some Kind of Life | Bill Boyes, Julian Jarrold, Kay Mellor | |
| 1998 | No Child of Mine | Peter Kosminsky, Guy Hibbert |
| Breaking the Code | Jack Emery, Herbert Wise, Hugh Whitemore | |
| Bumping the Odds | Ian Madden, Rob Rohrer, Rona Munro | |
| The Granton Star Cause (The Acid House) | David Muir, Alex Usbourne, Paul McGuigan, Irvine Welsh | |
| 1999 | A Rather English Marriage | Joanna Willett, Paul Seed, Andrew Davies |
| A Life For A Life - The True Story Of Stefan Kiszko | Malcolm Craddock, Stephen Whittaker, Peter Berry | |
| Playing Sandwiches (Talking Heads) | Mark Shivas, Udayan Prasad, Alan Bennett | |
| Waiting for the Telegram (Talking Heads) | Mark Shivas, Stuart Burge, Alan Bennett |
2000s
2010s
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Unloved | Samantha Morton, Tony Grisoni, Kate Ogborn, Andrew Eaton | Channel 4 |
| Five Minutes of Heaven | Guy Hibbert, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Eoin O'Callaghan, Stephen Wright | BBC Two | |
| Mo | Jeff Pope, Neil McKay, Lisa Gilchrist, Philip Martin | Channel 4 | |
| A Short Stay in Switzerland | Liz Trubridge, Simon Curtis, Frank McGuinness, Ruth Caleb | BBC One | |
| 2011 | The Road to Coronation Street | BBC Four | |
| Eric and Ernie | Victoria Wood, Peter Bowker, Tim Bricknell, Jonny Campbell | BBC Two | |
| I Am Slave | Andrea Calderwood, Gabriel Range, Jeremy Brock | Channel 4 | |
| The Special Relationship | BBC Two | ||
| 2012 | Random | Polly Leys, Kate Norrish, Debbie Tucker Green | Channel 4 |
| Holy Flying Circus | Owen Harris, Polly Leys, Kate Norrish, Tony Roche | BBC Four | |
| Page Eight | David Barron, David Hare, David Heyman, Bill Nighy | BBC Two | |
| Stolen | Stephen Butchard, Justin Chadwick, Rebecca Hodgson, Sita Williams | BBC One | |
| 2013 | Murder | Robert Jones, Birger Larsen, Kath Mattock | BBC Two |
| Everyday | Michael Winterbottom, Melissa Parmenter, Laurence Coriat, Andrew Eaton | Channel 4 | |
| The Girl | Julian Jarrold, Gwyneth Hughes, Amanda Jenks, Leanne Klein | BBC Two | |
| Richard II (The Hollow Crown) | Rupert Goold, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, Rupert Ryle-Hodges | ||
| 2014 | Complicit | Guy Hibbert, Niall MacCormick, Kevin Toolis, Jolyon Symonds | Channel 4 |
| The Wipers Times | David Parfitt, Andy De Emmony, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman | BBC Two | |
| An Adventure in Space and Time | Mark Gatiss, Matt Strevens, Terry McDonough, Caroline Skinner | ||
| Be Right Back (Black Mirror) | Barney Reisz, Charlie Brooker, Owen Harris, Annabel Jones | Channel 4 | |
| 2015 | Marvellous | Peter Bowker, Julian Farino, Katie Swinden, Patrick Spence | BBC Two |
| Common | Jimmy McGovern, David Blair, Colin McKeown, Donna Molloy | BBC One | |
| Murdered by My Boyfriend | Pier Wilkie, Regina Moriarty, Paul Andrew Williams, Darren Kemp | BBC Three | |
| A Poet in New York | Aisling Walsh, Ruth Caleb, Andrew Davies, Griff Rhys Jones | BBC Two | |
| 2016 | Don't Take My Baby | Jack Thorne, Ben Anthony, Pier Wilkie, Aysha Rafaele | BBC Three |
| The C Word | Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis, Nicole Taylor, Tim Kirkby | BBC One | |
| The Go-Between | Claire Bennett, Susan Hogg, Adrian Hodges, Pete Travis | ||
| Cyberbully | Richard Bond, Ben Chanan, David Lobatto, Leah Cooper | Channel 4 | |
| 2017 | Damilola, Our Loved Boy | Levi David Addai, Euros Lyn, Susan Horth, Colin Barr | BBC One |
| Murdered by My Father | Bruce Goodison, Toby Welch, Vinay Patel, Aysha Rafaele | BBC Three | |
| Aberfan: The Green Hollow | Pip Broughton, Bethan Jones, Jenna Robbins, Owen Sheers | BBC One | |
| NW | BBC Two | ||
| 2018 | Murdered for Being Different | Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Paul Andrew Williams, Nick Leather | BBC Three |
| Against the Law | Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Fergus O'Brien, Brian Fillis | BBC Two | |
| King Charles III | Mike Bartlett, Greg Brenman, Rupert Goold, Simon Maloney | ||
| Hang the DJ (Black Mirror) | Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Tim Van Patten, Nick Pitt | Netflix | |
| 2019[2] | Killed by My Debt | Joseph Bullman, Tahsin Guner, Chris Clough, Aysha Rafaele | BBC Three |
| Bandersnatch (Black Mirror) | Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, David Slade, Russell McLean | Netflix | |
| Care | Donna Molloy, Colin McKeown, Gillian Juckes, David Blair | BBC One | |
| Through the Gates (On The Edge) | Lisa Walters, Stella Corradi, Georgia Christou, Ben Bickerton | Channel 4 | |
2020s
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[3] | The Left Behind | Alan Harris, Joseph Bullman, Aysha Rafaele, Tracie Simpson | BBC Three |
| Brexit: The Uncivil War | Channel 4 | ||
| Elizabeth is Missing | Andrea Gibb, Aisling Walsh, Sarah Brown, Chrissy Skinns | BBC One | |
| Responsible Child | BBC Two | ||
| 2021 [4] |
Sitting in Limbo | BBC One | |
| BBW (On the Edge) | Ben Bickerton, Philip Trethowan, Lisa Walters, William Stefan Smith, Yolanda Mercy | Channel 4 | |
| Anthony | Jimmy McGovern, Colin McKeown, Donna Molloy, Terry McDonough | BBC One | |
| The Windermere Children | Eleanor Greene, Leanne Klein, Tim Rostock, Simon Block, Michael Samuels, Alison Sterling | BBC Two | |
- Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.
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