1990 British Academy Television Awards

Winners

• Best Actor
  • Winner: John Thaw — Inspector Morse (ITV)
  • Other nominees: Joss Ackland — First And Last; John Gielgud — Summer's Lease; Alfred Molina — The Accountant
• Best Actress
  • Winner: Diana Rigg — Mother Love
  • Other nominees: Peggy Ashcroft — She's Been Away; Judi Dench — Behaving Badly; Gwen Taylor — A Bit of a Do
• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
  • Winner: Blackadder Goes Forth
  • Other nominees: After Henry; The New Statesman; Only Fools And Horses
• Best Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner: Rowan Atkinson — Blackadder Goes Forth
  • Other nominees: Barry Humphries — The Dame Edna Experience ; David Jason — Only Fools And Horses; Victoria Wood — Victoria Wood
• Best Drama Series
  • Winner: Traffik
  • Other nominees: Inspector Morse (ITV); Mother Love; Summer's Lease
• Best Single Drama
  • Winner: The Accountant
  • Other nominees: Bomber Harris; First And Last; She's Been Away
• Best News Coverage
  • Winner: BBC News — Square Massacre
  • Other nominees: BBC Berlin Wall Coverage; BBC Nine O'Clock News — Kate Adie Secret Report from Chinese Hospital; ITN Coverage of Romania
• Best Factual Series
  • Winner: Forty Minutes
  • Other nominees: Arena (BBC / BBC2); Around the World in 80 Days; World in Action
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
  • Winner: First Tuesday — Four Hours In My Lai
  • Other nominees: Everyman: Romania — State of Fear; Lost Children of The Empire; Viewpoint '89: Cambodia — Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger
• Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
  • Winner: Omnibus: Art In The Third Reich
  • Other nominees: Arena — Tales From Barcelona (BBC / BBC2); The South Bank Show — Barry Humphries; The South Bank Show — Dustin Hoffman
• Light Entertainment Programme or Series
  • Winner: Clive James On The '80s
  • Other nominees: The Dame Edna Experience; Victoria Wood; Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Best Children's Educational Documentary Programme
  • Winner: The Really Wild Show
  • Other nominees: Blockbusters; Choices: Who'd Be a Woman; Scene: My Brother David
• Best Children's Entertainment / Drama Programme
  • Winner: Maid Marian and her Merry Men
  • Other nominees: The BFG; The Chronicles Of Narnia; Woof
• Foreign Programme Award
  • Hotel Terminus
• BAFTA Fellowship Award
  • Paul Fox, CBE

External links

• Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved 4 June 2013).
• British Academy Television Awards 1996 Archived 2008-12-31 at the Wayback Machine at the Internet Movie Database