1990 British Academy Television Awards
# 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
