2020 British Academy Television Awards

The 2020 British Academy Television Awards was held on 31 July 2020, hosted by British director and comic actor Richard Ayoade.

66th British Academy Television Awards
Date31 July 2020
SiteTelevision Centre, London
Hosted byRichard Ayoade
Highlights
Best Comedy SeriesStath Lets Flats
Best DramaThe End of the F***ing World
Best ActorJared Harris
Chernobyl
Best ActressGlenda Jackson
Elizabeth Is Missing
Best Comedy Performance
Most awardsThe End of the F***ing World;
Stath Lets Flats;
Chernobyl (2)
Most nominationsFleabag (4)
Television coverage
ChannelBBC One
Duration90 minutes

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
Best Actor award winner Jared Harris. In his acceptance speech, he said the first choice for his role had actually been Daniel Day-Lewis.[2]
Best Actress winner Glenda Jackson, photographed in 1971. Her previous BAFTA was awarded 27 years prior.[3]

Winners will be listed first and highlighted in boldface.[2]

Best Drama Series Best Mini-Series
Best Single Drama Best Soap and Continuing Drama
  • The Left Behind (BBC Three)
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Male Comedy Performance Best Female Comedy Performance
Best Scripted Comedy Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
Best Entertainment Performance Lew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme
Best Factual Series or Strand Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
  • Leaving Neverland (Channel 4)
    • Crime and Punishment (Channel 4)
    • Don't F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer (Netflix)
    • Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure (BBC One)
  • Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story (BBC Four)
Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary Best Feature
  • The Last Survivors (BBC Two)
    • The Abused (Channel 5)
    • David Harewood: Psychosis and Me (BBC Two)
    • The Family Secret (Channel 4)
  • The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (BBC Two)
    • Joe Lycett's Got Your Back (Channel 4)
    • Mortimer & Whitehouse (BBC Two)
    • Snackmasters (Channel 4)
Best Reality and Constructed Factual Best Live Event
Best News Coverage Best Current Affairs
  • Hong Kong Protests (Sky News)
    • ITV News at Ten: Election Results (ITV)
    • Prince Andrew & The Epstein Scandal (BBC Two)
    • Victoria Derbyshire: Men Who Lost Loved Ones to Knife Crime (BBC Two)
  • Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag (Exposure) (ITV)
    • Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids (Dispatches) (Channel 4)
    • The Hunt for Jihadi John (HBO/Channel 4)
    • Is Labour Anti-Semitic? (Panorama) (BBC/BBC One)
Best Sport Best Short Form Programme
  • Brain in Gear (BBC iPlayer)
    • Anywhere but Westminster (The Guardian)
    • Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle (BBC Four)
    • Toni with an I (BBC Four)
Best International Programme Virgin TV's Must-See Moment

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]

Programmes that received multiple nominations
Nominations Programme
14 Chernobyl
7 The Crown
Fleabag
6 Giri/Haji
5 His Dark Materials[lower-alpha 1]
The Virtues
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[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]
Seven Worlds, One Planet[lower-alpha 1]
Stath Lets Flats
2 A Confession
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Catherine the Great[lower-alpha 1]
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[lower-alpha 1]
Strictly Come Dancing
Succession
"Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag" (Exposure episode)
"Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein"[lower-alpha 1]
Networks that received multiple nominations
Nominations Network
41 BBC One
33 Netflix
31 Channel 4
26 BBC Two
25 HBO
21 Sky Atlantic
17 ITV
12 BBC Three
7 Sony Pictures Television
3 BBC Four
2 Channel 5
ITV2

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]

Shows that received multiple awards
Wins Show
9 Chernobyl
3 Stath Lets Flats
2 The End of the F***ing World
The Last Survivors
Strictly Come Dancing
Wins by Network
Wins Network
10 BBC One
Sky Atlantic
8 Channel 4
5 BBC Two
4 Netflix
3 ITV
2 BBC Three

Ceremony
Richard Ayoade hosted the ceremony; announced in May 2020, he joked that he was "as surprised as you are that this is still going ahead".[5]

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 BST, the first major award show since the start of the pandemic. It was hosted by Richard Ayoade from a studio in Television Centre, London. Several performers presented individual awards in-studio, while other presenters and all the winners and nominees contributed over video either live or pre-recorded. This led to the interesting acceptance speech of Naomi Ackie, whose immediate reaction was to text people while live on video call – something for which she was humorously berated by presenter Himesh Patel. Other presenters at the ceremony included Aisling Bea, Greg Davies, Stacey Dooley, Jessica Hynes, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jeff Goldblum, Ruth Madeley, Paul Mescal, Chris O'Dowd, Billy Porter, Michael Sheen, Nina Sosanya, David Tennant, and Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. Tim Minchin composed two original comedy musical numbers, which he performed at the start and end of the ceremony. An hour-long pre-show hosted by Tom Allen had been streamed on social media prior to the ceremony.[2][3][6][7] Rotten Tomatoes' editorial on the event wrote that the ceremony "held all the drama of regular awards shows, regardless of location, mostly due to some big surprises".[8]

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 HBO/Sky Atlantic drama Chernobyl won for two of its three nominations, having won many awards in the BAFTA Television Craft Awards held virtually earlier in the month. The two wins on top of seven at the Craft Awards increased the show's BAFTA total to a new record of nine in one year. The Best Actor winner for his role in Chernobyl, Jared Harris, said to reporters in the 'backstage' video call after his win: "[it is] incredibly generous of BAFTA, to award that many. I mean, one of the things that I've noticed about the BAFTA awards over the years is, they're pretty judicious about spreading the love".[12] The Best Soap and Continuing Drama award was won by Emmerdale, with its executive producer Jane Hudson saying in her acceptance speech that all the soaps deserved recognition as they had already restarted shooting by the summer of 2020.[12] As Best Actress, Glenda Jackson won her second BAFTA, having taken home her first over 25 years ago. Other winners were notably diverse, with first-time winners Will Sharpe and Naomi Ackie being named Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. The BAFTA Special Award was presented to Idris Elba for his contributions in creating opportunities in the industry; the award was introduced by Taraji P. Henson, Matthew McConaughey, Ruth Wilson, and Grace Fori-Attah.[2][3][6]

In Memoriam

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]

gollark: https://xkcd.com/2347/
gollark: If I was making stuff people actually *depended* on in large quantities I would probably want cashmoney, in order to be able to keep it maintained and all.
gollark: Or, well, things which are practical enough that multiple people are likely to use them for serious purposes.
gollark: If I was actually making some sort of useful thing or something which might be a component of some important systems, I might GPLv3 it and try and sell commercial licenses, but... I don't make useful things.
gollark: My stuff is all just shoved under the MIT license because honestly who cares.

See also

Notes
  1. All Craft Award nominations.
  2. Three different episodes each received one nomination.

References
  1. "Vote for this year's BAFTA Must See Moment". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. 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. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  3. "Glenda Jackson 'stunned' by Bafta TV triumph". BBC News. 31 July 2020. Archived from the original on 31 July 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  4. "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.
  5. "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.
  6. Ramachandran, Naman (31 July 2020). "BAFTA Television Award Winners List: Live Updates". Variety. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  7. Harp, Justin (31 July 2020). "Those BAFTA TV Awards celeb acceptance speeches were mostly taped". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  8. "BAFTA Television Award Winners 2020: The Full List". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. BBC (31 July 2020). Phoebe Waller-Bridge Crashes Sian Clifford's Post-Award Interview | BAFTA TV Awards 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2020 – via YouTube.
  12. "BAFTA TV Awards 2020: Jared Harris hails 'amazing' wins as Chernobyl breaks BAFTA record". Radio Times. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  13. "In memory of... 2020 | BAFTA". BAFTA. Archived from the original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
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