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.
| British Academy Television Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 1983 |
| Currently held by | I Am... Ruth (2023) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
Winners and nominees
edit1970s
edit1980s (as Best Single Play)
edit| 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
edit1990s
edit2000s
edit2010s
edit| 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 | |
| The Hollow Crown: "Richard II" | 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 | ||
| Black Mirror: "Be Right Back" | 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 | ||
| Black Mirror: "Hang the DJ" | 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 |
| Black Mirror: "Bandersnatch" | 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
edit| 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 | |
| 2022 [5] |
Together | BBC Two | |
| Help | Channel 4 | ||
| I Am... Victoria | Dominic Savage, Krishnendu Majumdar, Richard Yee, Suranne Jones, Josh Hyams, David Charap | ||
| Death of England: Face to Face | Clint Dyer, Dixie Linder, David Sabel, Rufus Norris, Christine Schwarzman, Roy Williams | Sky Arts | |
| 2023 [6][7] |
I Am... Ruth | Dominic Savage, Krishnendu Majumdar, Josh Hyams, Kate Winslet, Richard Yee, David Charap | Channel 4 |
| The House | Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels, Charlotte Bavasso, Christopher O'Reilly | Netflix | |
| Life and Death in the Warehouse | Joseph Bullman, Helen Black, Tracie Simpson, Aysha Rafaele, Tim Hodges, Steve Lawes | BBC Three | |
- Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.
References
edit- ^ "Rules and Guidelines" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
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- ^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
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