2023 BAFTA TV Awards winners: ‘Bad Sisters,’ ‘Derry Girls,’ Kate Winslet, Ben Whishaw and more
BAFTA today announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises 2023 at a star-studded ceremony in London where Anne-Marie Duff won Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Grace Williams in Bad Sisters, which won for Drama Series.
Kate Winslet won the BAFTA for Leading Actress for her role in I Am Ruth, which won for Single Drama.
Celebrating the best of British and international television in 2022, the ceremony was hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan at the Royal Festival Hall in London and broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer, with further coverage on BAFTA social channels.
Ben Whishaw won Leading Actor for his portrayal of Adam Kay in autobiographical drama This is Going to Hurt. Adeel Akhtar won the BAFTA for Supporting Actor for his role in the crime drama Sherwood.
Following Lisa McGee’s win at the Television Craft Awards last month, Derry Girls won in Scripted Comedy, with Sister Michael actress Siobhán McSweeney winning for Female Performance in a Comedy Program. Lenny Rush won Male Performance in a Comedy Program for his role in Am I Being Unreasonable?
For International Series, Netflix’s Dahmer: Monster – The Jeffrey Dahmer Story won, besting The Bear, Wednesday, The White Lotus and Pachinko.
Entertainment Performance was won by Claudia Winkleman for The Traitors, which won for Reality and Constructed Factual.
The P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award, the only award at tonight’s ceremony voted for by the public, was won by Platinum Jubilee – Party at the Palace Paddington meets the Queen.
The BAFTA Special Award was presented by David Harewood to presenter, broadcaster, filmmaker, author and historian, Professor David Olusoga OBE for his outstanding contribution to the television industry and his trailblazing work in reappraising how history is told through popular culture.
The Fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA, was presented by Adrian Lester to award-winning and nationally beloved actor, screenwriter and novelist Meera Syal CBE in recognition of her exceptional contribution to television.
Here is the complete list of winners of the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards.
Drama Series
Bad Sisters – WINNER
The Responder
Sherwood
Somewhere Boy
Scripted Comedy
Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One)
Big Boys (Channel 4)
Derry Girls (Channel 4) – WINNER
Ghosts (BBC One)
Leading Actor
Ben Whishaw – This Is Going to Hurt (BBC One) – WINNER
Chaske Spencer – The English (BBC Two)
Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders (BBC One)
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
Martin Freeman – The Responder (BBC One)
Taron Egerton – Black Bird (Apple TV+)
Leading Actress
Billie Piper – I Hate Suzie Too (Sky Atlantic)
Imelda Staunton – The Crown (Netflix)
Kate Winslet – I Am Ruth (Channel 4) – WINNER
Maxine Peake – Anne (Channel 4)
Sarah Lancashire – Julia (Sky Atlantic)
Vicky McClure – Without Sin (ITVX)
Supporting Actor
Adeel Akhtar – Sherwood (BBC One) – WINNER
Jack Lowden – Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
Josh Finan – The Responder (BBC One)
Salim Daw – The Crown (Netflix)
Samuel Bottomley – Somewhere Boy (Channel 4)
Will Sharpe – The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)
Supporting Actress
Adelayo Adedayo – The Responder (BBC One)
Anne-Marie Duff – Bad Sisters (Apple TV+) – WINNER
Fiona Shaw – Andor (Disney+)
Jasmine Jobson – Top Boy (Netflix)
Lesley Manville – Sherwood (BBC One)
Saffron Hocking – Top Boy (Netflix)
Female Performance in a Comedy Program
Daisy May Cooper – Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One)
Diane Morgan – Cunk on Earth (BBC Two)
Lucy Beaumont – Meet the Richardsons (Dave)
Natasia Demetriou – Ellie & Natasia (BBC Three)
Siobhán McSweeney – Derry Girls (Channel 4) – WINNER
Taj Atwal – Hullraisers (Channel 4)
Male Performance in a Comedy Program
Daniel Radcliffe – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)
Jon Pointing – Big Boys (Channel 4)
Joseph Gilgun – Brassic (Sky Max)
Lenny Rush – Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One) – WINNER
Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows (Disney+)
Stephen Merchant – The Outlaws (BBC One)
Single Drama
I Am Ruth (Channel 4) – WINNER
The House (Netflix)
Life and Death in the Warehouse (BBC Three)
Entertainment Program
Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)
Later … With Jools Holland (BBC Two)
The Masked Singer (ITV) – WINNER
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)
International
The Bear (Disney+)
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix) – WINNER
Wednesday (Netflix)
Oussekine (Itineraire)
Pachinko (Apple TV+)
The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)
Features
Big Zuu’s Big Eats (Dave)
Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back (Channel 4) WINNER
The Martin Lewis Money Show Live (ITV1)
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (BBC Two)
Mini-series
A Spy Among Friends
Mood – WINNER
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
This Is Going to Hurt
Factual Series
Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime (Channel 4)
Libby, Are You Home Yet? (Sky Crime) – WINNER
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi (Netflix)
Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing (ITV1)
Reality and Constructed Factual
Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams (BBC One)
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (BBC Three)
The Traitors (BBC One) – WINNER
We Are Black and British (BBC Two)
Comedy Entertainment Program
Friday Night Live (Channel 4) – WINNER
The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
Taskmaster (Channel 4)
Would I Lie To You? (BBC One)
Soap and Continuing Drama
Casualty (BBC One) – WINNER
EastEnders (BBC One)
Emmerdale (ITV1)
Live Event
Concert for Ukraine (ITV1)
Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace (BBC One) – WINNER
The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II (BBC One)
Short Form Program
Always, Asifa (Together TV)
Biscuitland (All 4)
How to Be a Person (E4) – WINNER
Kingpin Cribs (YouTube/Channel 4)
Specialist Factual
Aids: The Unheard Tapes (BBC Two)
The Green Planet (BBC One)
How to Survive a Dictator With Munya Chawawa (Channel 4)
Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone (iPlayer) – WINNER
Daytime
The Chase (ITV1)
The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit (BBC One) – WINNER
Scam Interceptors (BBC One)
Sport
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (BBC One)
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 (BBC One) – WINNER
Wimbledon 2022 (BBC One)
P&O Cruises Memorable Moment
Derry Girls, The Finale – the people of Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly for peace (Channel 4)
Heartstopper – Nick and Charlie’s first kiss (Netflix)
Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace – Paddington meets the Queen (BBC One) – WINNER
Stranger Things – Max is rescued from the demonic Vecna by playing her favourite song, Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill (Netflix)
The Real Mo Farah – Sir Mo Farah reveals he was illegally trafficked to the UK (BBC One)
The Traitors – the final roundtable (BBC One)
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