2002 British Academy Television Awards
The 2002 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 21 April 2002. The ceremony was hosted by the television presenter Chris Tarrant and broadcast on ITV the following day.
Winners
- Best Actor
- *Winner: Michael Gambon - Perfect Strangers
- *Other nominees: Alan Bates - Love in a Cold Climate ; Timothy Spall - Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise ; David Suchet - The Way We Live Now
- Best Actress
- *Winner: Julie Walters - My Beautiful Son
- *Other nominees: Lindsay Duncan - Perfect Strangers ; Sheila Hancock - The Russian Bride ; Lesley Sharp - Bob & Rose
- Best Comedy
- *Winner: The Sketch Show
- *Other nominees: BrassEye Special ; Bremner, Bird and Fortune ; The Kumars at No. 42
- Best Comedy Performance
- *Winner: Ricky Gervais - The Office
- *Other nominees: Kathy Burke - Gimme Gimme Gimme ; Robert Lindsay - My Family ; Joanna Lumley - Absolutely Fabulous
- Best Drama Serial
- *Winner: The Way We Live Now
- *Other nominees: Bob and Rose ; Perfect Strangers ; The Russian Bride
- Best Drama Series
- *Winner: Cold Feet
- *Other nominees: At Home with the Braithwaites ; Clocking Off ; Tales from Pleasure Beach
- Best Single Drama
- *Winner: When I Was 12
- *Other nominees: My Beautiful Son ; The Navigators ; Othello
- Best Soap Opera
- *Winner: EastEnders
- *Other nominees: Coronation Street ; Doctors ; Hollyoaks
- Best Current Affairs
- *Winner: Dispatches - Beneath the Veil
- *Other nominees: Endgame in Ireland ; ' ; One Day of Terror - New York Witnesses
- Best Entertainment Performance
- *Winner: Graham Norton - So Graham Norton
- *Other nominees: Ant and Dec - Pop Idol ; John Bird and John Fortune - Bremner, Bird and Fortune ; Paul Merton - Have I Got News For You
- Best Factual Series or Strand
- *Winner: Horizon
- *Other nominees: The Blue Planet ; Langan Behind the Lines ; Welcome to Britain
- Best Feature
- *Winner: Faking It
- *Other nominees: Farmer Wants a Wife ; ' ; What Not to Wear
- Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
- *Winner: Kelly and Her Sisters
- *Other nominees: True Stories - Battlecentre ; Ellen MacArthur - Sailing Through Heaven and Hell ; When Louis Met The Hamiltons
- Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
- *Winner: Arena - The Private Dirk Bogarde
- *Other nominees: The 1940s House ; The Six Wives of Henry VIII ; '
- Best Entertainment Programme or Series
- *Winner: Pop Idol
- *Other nominees: Have I Got News For You ; Parkinson ; Room 101
- News Coverage
- *Winner: September 11 - 12
- *Other nominees: Attack on America - 11 September ; Attack on America - 11 September ; The BBC News Coverage of the Fall of Kabul - 12 November - 13 November
- Situation Comedy Award
- *Winner: The Office
- *Other nominees: Gimme Gimme Gimme ; Happiness ; Spaced II
- Sport
- *Winner: Channel 4 Cricket
- *Other nominees: British Grand Prix, Silverstone 2001 - Farewell to Murray Walker ; FA Cup Final 2001 - Liverpool vs Arsenal ; Germany vs England
- Innovation Award
- *Winner: Doubletake
- *Other nominees: Banzai ; The Blue Planet - The Deep ; BrassEye Special
- Special Award
- *BBC Natural History Unit
- The Alan Clarke Award
- *Verity Lambert
- The Dennis Potter Award'''
- *Stephen Poliakoff
- Academy Fellowship
- *Andrew Davies
- Special Award for Contribution to Television
- *Murray Walker