2010 (TV) BAFTAs: winners

UK comedy The Thick of It won three awards at the BAFTA television accolades, more than any other show.

Peter Capaldi won Male Performance in a Comedy Programme and the comedy took out the award for Situation Comedy. Rebecca Front won Best Female in a Comedy Programme.

Misfits, which has its second episode tonight on ABC2, won Best Drama series beating Being Human, Spooks and The Street.

EastEnders won the Continuing Drama title over The Bill, Casualty and Coronation Street. Producer Diederick Santer said: “Receiving this on our 25th year is the icing on the cake in what’s been a fantastic year for us.”

Julie Walters won the Leading Actress gong for Channel 4 drama Mo, in which she played the late politician Mo Mowlam. She thanked “Mo‘s family and friends who were massively supportive … and Mo, what a woman, thank you BAFTA“.

Ant and Dec broke their BAFTA jinx by finally receiving an award after 20 years in the business for best entertainment performance for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! It was the sixth time they had been nominated.

Teenage E4 show The Inbetweeners took the YouTube Audience Award, voted for by the public, dealing a blow to the likes of The One Show, Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor.

Simon Cowell was given a Special Award for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry and for the development of new talent. Cowell spoke about his next project – a global version of Britain’s Got Talent, in which the winners from every country that features the show will compete. “It’s like coming out of the Premiership into the Champions League,” he said.

“I like the idea of England taking on other countries. After the Eurovision disaster, we have got to do something about that.”

An idea already utilised by World Idol many moons ago…

Other winners included Occupation, BBC One’s post-Iraq drama, and Mad Men, the corporation’s cult drama set in a 1960s advertising agency.

Best actor
Kenneth Branagh – Wallander (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Brendan Gleeson – Into The Storm (BBC Two)
John Hurt – An Englishman In New York (ITV1)
David Oleweyo – Small Island (BBC One)

Best actress
Julie Walters – Mo (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Helena Bonham Carter – Enid (BBC Four)
Sophie Okenedo – Mrs Mandela (BBC Four)
Julie Walters – A Short Stay In Switzerland (BBC One)

Best supporting actor
Matthew Macfadyen – Criminal Justice (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Tom Hollander – Gracie! (BBC Four)
Gary Lewis – Mo (Channel 4)
Benedict Cumberbatch – Small Island (BBC One)

Best supporting actress
Rebecca Hall – Red Riding (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Sophie Okonedo – Criminal Justice (BBC One)
Lauren Socha – The Unloved (Channel 4)
Imelda Staunton – Cranford (BBC One)

Best entertainment performance
Ant and Dec – I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (ITV1)
Also nominated:
Stephen Fry – QI (BBC One)
Harry Hill – Harry Hill’s TV Burp (ITV1)
Michael McIntyre – Comedy Roadshow (BBC One)

Best male comedy performance
Peter Capaldi – The Thick of It (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
Simon Bird – The Inbetweeners(Channel Four)
Hugh Dennis – Outnumbered Christmas special (BBC One)
David Mitchell – Peep Show (Channel 4)

Best female comedy performance
Rebecca Front – The Thick of It (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
Jo Brand – Getting On (Channel Four)
Miranda Hart – Miranda (BBC Two)
Joanna Scanlon – Getting On (BBC Four)

Best single drama
The Unloved (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Five Minutes of Heaven (BBC Two)
Mo (Channel 4)
A Short Stay in Switzerland (BBC One)

Best drama serial
Occupation (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Red Riding (Channel 4)
Small Island (BBC One)
Unforgiven (ITV1)

Best drama series
Misfits (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Being Human (BBC Three)
Spooks (BBC One)
The Street (BBC One)

Best continuing drama
EastEnders (BBC One)
Also nominated:
The Bill (ITV1)
Casualty (BBC One)
Coronation Street (ITV1)

Best factual series
One Born Every Minute (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Blood, Sweat and Takeaways (BBC Three)
The Family (Channel 4)
Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC One)

Best entertainment programme
Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1)
Also nominated:
Harry Hill’s TV Burp (ITV1)
The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
Newswipe with Charlie Brooker (BBC Four)

Best situation comedy
The Thick of It (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
Miranda (BBC Two)
Peep Show (Channel 4)
The Inbetweeners (E4)

Best comedy programme
The Armstrong & Miller Show (BBC One)
Also nominated:
The Kevin Bishop Show (Channel 4)
Stweart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (BBC Two)
That Mitchell & Webb Look (BBC Two)

Audience award
The Inbetweeners (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1)
Glee (Channel 4)
The One Show (BBC One)
Unforgiven (ITV1)
The X Factor (ITV1)

Best single documentary
Wounded (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles (BBC Two)
Tsunami: Caught on Camera (Channel 4)
Katie: My Beautiful Face (Channel 4)

Best feature
Masterchef: The Professionals (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
James May’s Toy Stories (BBC Two)
Heston’s Feasts (Channel 4)
The Choir: Unsung Town (BBC Two)

Best international show
Mad Men (BBC Four)
Also nominated:
Nurse Jackie (BBC Two)
Family Guy (BBC Three)
True Blood (FX)

Best specialist factual
Inside Nature’s Giants (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Art of Russia (BBC Four)
Chemistry: A Volatile History (BBC Four)
Yellowstone (BBC Two)

Best current affairs
Terror in Mumbai – Dispatches (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines – Dispatches (Channel 4)
Generation Jihad (BBC Two)
Gypsy Child Thieves – This World (BBC Two)

Best news coverage
The Haiti Earthquake (ITV News at Ten)
Also nominated:
The Haiti Earthquake (Channel 4 News)
The Haiti Earthquake (BBC News Channel)
Pakistan: Terror’s Frontline (Sky News)

Best sport
World Athletics Championships (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
FA Cup Final (ITV1)
F1 – The Brazilian Grand Prix (BBC One)
UEFA Champions League Live (ITV1)

New Media
Virtual Revolution (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
Antony Gormley’s One & Other (Sky Arts)
Life Begins (Channel 4)
Primeval Evolved (ITV1)

Special Award
Simon Cowell

Bafta Fellowship
Melvyn Bragg

Source: Telegraph, Press Association, Mirror