British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

Annual award for performance in British TV

British Academy Television Award

2024 winner Timothy Spall

Country| United Kingdom
Presented by| British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded| 1955
Currently held by| Timothy Spall for The Sixth Commandment (2024)
Website| http://www.bafta.org/

This is a list of the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor. The Best Actor award was initially given as an "individual honour", without credit to a particular performance, until 1962, when Rupert Davies won for his performance in Maigret. Since 1970, nominees have been announced in addition to the winner. The Actor category was split into Leading Actor and Supporting Actor starting in 2010.

Michael Gambon holds the record of most wins in this category with four, including three consecutive wins, followed by Robbie Coltrane with three, all of them also being consecutive. Benedict Cumberbatch has received the most nominations for this award, with six.

## Winners and nominees

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Paul Rogers (left) was the first recipient of the award.

### 1950s

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1955
Paul Rogers
1956
Peter Cushing
1957
Michael Gough
1958
Michael Hordern
1959
Donald Pleasence

### 1960s

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Rupert Davies was the first actor to receive this award for a specific work, winning for Maigret. Year  | Actors  | Work

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1960
Patrick McGoohan
1961
Lee Montague
1962
Rupert Davies | Maigret
1963
Harry H. Corbett | Steptoe and Son
1964
Alan Badel
1965
Patrick Wymark
1966
Alan Badel | The Count Of Monte Cristo; Meeting Point; A Couple of Dry Martinis; Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life; Famous Gossips
Richard Briers | Simon and Laura; Marriage Lines; Points of View; Present Laughter - Excerpt; Charley's Aunt; To You At Home Today
Ian Carmichael | Simon and Laura; The World of Wooster
Patrick Wymark | The Plane Makers; Crime and Punishment; Once a Jolly Swagman; Malatesta; Sherlock Holmes; I Remember the Battle; Four of Hearts – Tilt
1967
Warren Mitchell | Till Death Us Do Part
1968
Eric Porter | The Forsyte Saga
1969
Roy Dotrice | Brief Lives

### 1970s

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Keith Michell won the award in 1971. Sir Anthony Hopkins won for War and Peace in 1973 John Hurt won for The Naked Civil Servant (1976) Sir Derek Jacobi won the award for I, Claudius in 1977 Edward Fox won the award in 1979 for Edward & Mrs. Simpson. Year  | Actors  | Work

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1970
Edward Woodward | Callan
John Alderton | Please Sir!
Colin Blakely | Son of Man, The Way We Live Now
Arthur Lowe | Dad's Army
1971
Keith Michell | The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Michael Bryant | The Roads to Freedom
Anthony Hopkins | The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens, Uncle Vanya, Hearts and Flowers, Danton
Michael Jayston | Charles Dickens, Mad Jack, Beethoven
Freddie Jones | Germinal/Omnibus: John Clare "I Am..."/Sweeney Todd/Uncle Vanya/Menace: The Straight And Narrow
1972
John Le Mesurier | Traitor
Alfred Burke | Public Eye
Frank Finlay | Casanova
Kenneth Haigh | Search for the Nile, Man at the Top
1973
Anthony Hopkins | War and Peace
Michael Bryant | The Duchess of Malfi, Colditz
Nicol Williamson | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1974
Frank Finlay | The Adventures of Don Quixote; Candide; The Death of Adolf Hitler
Michael Crawford | Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Bernard Hepton | The Adventures of Don Quixote, Colditz
Laurence Olivier | Long Day's Journey Into Night
1975
Peter Barkworth | Crown Matrimonial
Michael Bryant | Mr Axelford's Angel
Gordon Jackson | Upstairs, Downstairs
Arthur Lowe | Microbes and Men, David Copperfield
1976
John Hurt | The Naked Civil Servant
Alan Bates | Plaintiffs and Defendants, Two Sundays
Tony Britton | The Nearly Man
Timothy West | Edward the Seventh
1977
Derek Jacobi | I, Claudius
James Bolam | When the Boat Comes In
Tom Conti | The Glittering Prizes
Jack Shepherd | Bill Brand, Ready When You Are Mr McGill
1978
Peter Barkworth | Professional Foul
James Bolam | When the Boat Comes In
Derek Jacobi | Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Robert Powell | Jesus of Nazareth
1979
Edward Fox | Edward and Mrs Simpson
Tom Bell | Out
Ian Holm | Night School, Flayed, Mirage, The Lost Boys
Bob Hoskins | Pennies From Heaven

### 1980s

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Alec Guinness has won twice, for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1980) and Smiley's People (1983). Anthony Andrews won the award for Brideshead Revisited in 1982. Alan Bates won in 1984. Michael Gambon won in 1987. Gambon holds the record of most wins in this category with four, including three consecutive wins. Year  | Actors  | Work

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1980
Alec Guinness | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Robert Hardy | Speed King & All Creatures Great and Small
Leo McKern | Rumpole of the Bailey
Timothy West | Churchill and the Generals; Henry VIII; Crime and Punishment; Timothy West as Beecham
1981
Denholm Elliott | Gentle Folk; In Hiding; Blade on the Feather; The Stinker (Tales of the Unexpected)
Trevor Howard | The Shillingbury Blowers; Staying On
Leo McKern | Rumpole's Return
Sam Waterston | Oppenheimer
1982
Anthony Andrews | Brideshead Revisited
Robert Hardy | Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years; Fothergill
John Gielgud | Brideshead Revisited
Nickolas Grace
Jeremy Irons
1983
Alec Guinness | Smiley's People
George Cole | Minder
Bernard Hill | Boys from the Blackstuff
Laurence Olivier | A Voyage Round My Father
1984
Alan Bates | An Englishman Abroad
Leo McKern | Rumpole of the Bailey; Reilly, Ace of Spies
Ronald Pickup | Orwell on Jura; Waters of the Moon
Martin Sheen | Kennedy
1985
Tim Pigott-Smith | The Jewel In The Crown
George Cole | Minder
Charles Dance | The Jewel In The Crown
Art Malik
1986
Bob Peck | Edge of Darkness
Alec Guinness | Monsignor Quioxte
Joe Don Baker | Edge of Darkness
Ben Kingsley | Silas Marner
1987
Michael Gambon | The Singing Detective
Colin Blakely | Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Denholm Elliott | Hotel du Lac
Paul McGann | The Monocled Mutineer
Patrick Malahide | The Singing Detective
David Threlfall | Paradise Postponed
1988
David Jason | Porterhouse Blue
Kenneth Branagh | Fortunes of War; The Lady's Not for Burning
Ray McAnally | A Perfect Spy; Scout
Robbie Coltrane | Tutti Frutti
1989
Ray McAnally | A Very British Coup
Alan Bennett | A Chip in the Sugar
Colin Firth | Tumbledown
Ian Holm | Game, Set and Match

### 1990s

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Ian Richardson won in 1991 for his role as Francis Urquhart in House of Cards. Robbie Coltrane won the award three consecutive times for his role as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in Cracker in 1994, 1995, and 1996 Simon Russell Beale won in 1998 for A Dance to the Music of Time. Tom Courtenay won in 1999 for A Rather English Marriage. Year  | Actors  | Work  | Character  | Network

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1990
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV
Joss Ackland | First and Last | Alan Holly  | BBC One
Alfred Molina | The Accountant | Lionel Ellerman
John Gielgud | Summer's Lease | Haverford Downs  | BBC Two
1991
Ian Richardson | House of Cards | Francis Urquhart | BBC
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV
David Suchet | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hercule Poirot
Albert Finney | The Green Man | Maurice Allington  | BBC One
1992
Robert Lindsay | G.B.H. | Michael Murray | Channel 4
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV
Tom Bell | Prime Suspect | Bill Otley
Michael Palin | G.B.H. | Jim Nelson  | Channel 4
1993
John Thaw | Inspector Morse | Endeavour Morse | ITV
Alan Bates | Unnatural Pursuits | Hamish Partt  | BBC Two
Brian Cox | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin
Ian Richardson | An Ungentlemanly Act | Rex Hunt
1994
Robbie Coltrane | Cracker | Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald | ITV
Michael Kitchen | To Play the King | The King  | BBC
Ian Richardson | Francis Urquhart
Neil Pearson | Between the Lines | Tony Clark  | BBC One
1995
Robbie Coltrane | Cracker | Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald | ITV
Pete Postlethwaite | Martin Chuzzlewit | Montague Tigg  | BBC Two
Paul Scofield | Old Martin Chuzzlewitt
Tom Wilkinson | Seth Pecksniff
1996
(42nd)
Robbie Coltrane | Cracker | Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald | ITV
Colin Firth | Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Darcy | BBC One
Benjamin Whitrow | Mr. Bennet
Robert Lindsay | Jake's Progress | Jamie Diadoni  | Channel 4
Ian Richardson | The Final Cut | Francis Urquhart | BBC
1997
(43rd)
Nigel Hawthorne | The Fragile Heart | Edgar Pascoe | Channel 4
Albert Finney | Cold Lazarus / Karaoke | Daniel Feeld  | BBC One / Channel 4
Christopher Eccleston | Our Friends in the North | Dominic 'Nicky' Hutchinson  | BBC Two
Peter Vaughan | Felix Hutchinson
1998
(44th)
Simon Russell Beale | A Dance to the Music of Time | Kenneth Widmerpool | Channel 4
Derek Jacobi | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | BBC
Robert Carlyle | Hamish Macbeth | Hamish Macbeth  | BBC One
Tom Wilkinson | Cold Enough for Snow | Hugh Lloyd
1999
(45th)
Tom Courtenay | A Rather English Marriage | Roy Southgate | BBC
Robert Carlyle | Looking After Jo Jo | John Joe "Jo Jo" McCann  | BBC Two
Timothy Spall | Our Mutual Friend | Mr. Venus
Albert Finney | A Rather English Marriage | Reggie Conyngham-Jervis  | BBC

### 2000s

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Albert Finney received the award in 2003 for The Gathering Storm, he also won a Primetime Emmy Award for the film. Bill Nighy won for State of Play in 2004. Mark Rylance has won twice, for The Government Inspector (2006) and Wolf Hall (2016). Jim Broadbent won for Longford in 2007 Andrew Garfield won for Boy A (2009 Year  | Actors  | Work  | Character  | Network

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2000
(46th)
Michael Gambon | Wives and Daughters | Squire Hamley | BBC One
Aidan Gillen | Queer as Folk | Stuart Alan Jones  | Channel 4
Pete Postlethwaite | Lost for Words | Deric Longden  | ITV
Timothy Spall | Shooting the Past | Oswald Bates  | BBC Two
2001
(47th)
Michael Gambon | Longitude | John Harrison | Channel 4
Steven Mackintosh | Care | Davy Younger  | BBC One
Pete Postlethwaite | The Sins | Len Green
Ken Stott | The Vice | Pat Chappel  | ITV
2002
(48th)
Michael Gambon | Perfect Strangers | Raymond Symon | BBC Two
Alan Bates | Love in a Cold Climate | Matthew Alconleigh  | BBC One
David Suchet | The Way We Live Now | Augustus Melmotte
Timothy Spall | Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise | Tommy Rag  | BBC Two
2003
(49th)

Albert Finney | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill | BBC
James Nesbitt | Bloody Sunday | Ivan Cooper | ITV
Kenneth Branagh | Conspiracy | Reinhard Heydrich | BBC Two/HBO
Shackleton | Ernest Shackleton | Channel 4
2004
(50th)

Bill Nighy | State of Play | Cameron Lloyd | BBC One
Christopher Eccleston | The Second Coming | Steven Baxter  | ITV
Jim Broadbent | The Young Visiters | Alfred Salteena  | BBC One
David Morrissey | State of Play | Stephen Collins
2005
(51st)

Rhys Ifans | Not Only But Always | Peter Cook | Channel 4
Benedict Cumberbatch | Hawking | Stephen Hawking | BBC Two
Mark Strong | The Long Firm | Harry Starks
Michael Sheen | Dirty Filthy Love | Mark Furness  | ITV
2006
(52nd)

Mark Rylance | The Government Inspector | Dr. David Kelly | Channel 4
Denis Lawson | Bleak House | John Jarndyce  | BBC One
Rufus Sewell | ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio
Bernard Hill | A Very Social Secretary | David Blunkett | Channel 4
2007
(53rd)

Jim Broadbent | Longford | Frank Pakenham | Channel 4
John Simm | Life on Mars | Sam Tyler | BBC One
Andy Serkis | Longford | Ian Brady | Channel 4
Michael Sheen | Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! | Kenneth Williams | BBC Four
2008
(54th)

Andrew Garfield | Boy A | Jack Burridge / Eric Wilson | Channel 4
Tom Hardy | Stuart: A Life Backwards | Stuart Shorter  | BBC Two
Matthew MacFadyen | Secret Life | Charlie Webb  | Channel 4
Antony Sher | Primo | Primo Levi  | BBC Four
2009
(55th)

Stephen Dillane | The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall | Anthony Hurndall | Channel 4
Jason Isaacs | The Curse of Steptoe | Harry H. Corbett | BBC Four
Ken Stott | Hancock & Joan | Tony Hancock
Ben Whishaw | Criminal Justice | Ben Coulter  | BBC One

### 2010s

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Kenneth Branagh won for Wallander in 2010, he also won an International Emmy Award for the role in 2017. Dominic West won for Appropriate Adult in 2012. Ben Whishaw won twice for The Hollow Crown in 2013, and This Is Going to Hurt in 2023 Sean Bean won in 2018 for Broken. Benedict Cumberbatch won for Patrick Melrose in 2019; this was his sixth nomination in this category and first win. Year  | Actors  | Work  | Character  | Network

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2010
(56th)

Kenneth Branagh | Wallander | Kurt Wallander | BBC One
Brendan Gleeson | Into the Storm | Winston Churchill | BBC
John Hurt | An Englishman in New York | Quentin Crisp | ITV
David Oyelowo | Small Island | Gilbert Joseph  | BBC One
2011
(57th)

Daniel Rigby | Eric and Ernie | Eric Morecambe | BBC Two
Jim Broadbent | Any Human Heart | Logan Mountstuart  | Channel 4
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | BBC One
Matt Smith | Doctor Who | The Doctor
2012
(58th)

Dominic West | Appropriate Adult | Fred West | ITV
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | BBC One
John Simm | Exile | Tom Ronstadt
Joseph Gilgun | This Is England '88 | Richard Woodford  | Channel 4
2013
(59th)

Ben Whishaw | The Hollow Crown | Richard II | BBC Two
Sean Bean | Accused | Simon/Tracie  | BBC One
Derek Jacobi | Last Tango in Halifax | Alan Buttershaw
Toby Jones | The Girl | Alfred Hitchcock | BBC Two
2014
(60th)

Sean Harris | Southcliffe | Stephen Morton | Channel 4
Jamie Dornan | The Fall | Paul Spector  | BBC Two
Luke Newberry | In the Flesh | Kieren Walker  | BBC Three
Dominic West | Burton & Taylor | Richard Burton  | BBC Four
2015
(61st)

Jason Watkins | The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies | Christopher Jefferies | ITV
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | BBC One
James Nesbitt | The Missing | Tony Hughes
Toby Jones | Marvellous | Neil Baldwin | BBC Two
2016
(62nd)

Mark Rylance | Wolf Hall | Thomas Cromwell | BBC Two
Stephen Graham | This is England '90 | Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne  | Channel 4
Idris Elba | Luther | John Luther  | BBC One
Ben Whishaw | London Spy | Daniel Holt  | BBC Two
2017
(63rd)

Adeel Akhtar | Murdered by My Father | Shahzad Khan | BBC Three
Babou Ceesay | Damilola, Our Loved Boy | Richard Taylor  | BBC One
Robbie Coltrane | National Treasure | Paul Finchley  | Channel 4
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Richard III | BBC Two
2018
(64th)

Sean Bean | Broken | Michael Kerrigan | BBC One
Jack Rowan | Born to Kill | Sam Woodford  | Channel 4
Joe Cole | Black Mirror | Frank  | Netflix
Tim Pigott-Smith | King Charles III | King Charles III | BBC Two
2019
(65th)

Benedict Cumberbatch | Patrick Melrose | Patrick Melrose | Sky Atlantic
Hugh Grant | A Very English Scandal | Jeremy Thorpe | BBC One
Lucian Msamati | Kiri | Tobi Akindele  | Channel 4
Chance Perdomo | Killed by My Debt | Jerome Rogers  | BBC Three

### 2020s

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Jared Harris won for Chernobyl in 2020. Paul Mescal won for Normal People in 2021. Year  | Actors  | Work  | Character  | Network

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2020
(66th)
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Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | Sky Atlantic
Stephen Graham | The Virtues | Joseph Lowery  | Channel 4
Takehiro Hira | Giri/Haji | Kenzo Mori  | BBC Two
Callum Turner | The Capture | Shaun Emery  | BBC One
2021
(67th)
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Paul Mescal | Normal People | Connell Waldron | BBC Three
John Boyega |  Small Axe: Red, White and Blue | Leroy Logan | BBC One
Paapa Essiedu | I May Destroy You | Kwame
Shaun Parkes |  Small Axe: Mangrove | Frank Crichlow
Josh O'Connor | The Crown | Charles, Prince of Wales | Netflix
Waleed Zuaiter |  Baghdad Central | Muhsin al-Khafaji  | Channel 4
2022
(68th)
[3]
Sean Bean | Time | Mark Cobden | BBC One
Samuel Adewunmi | You Don't Know Me | Hero  | BBC One
David Thewlis | Landscapers | Christopher Edwards  | Sky Atlantic
Olly Alexander | It's a Sin | Ritchie Tozer  | Channel 4
Stephen Graham | Help | Tony
Hugh Quarshie | Stephen | Neville Lawrence  | ITV
2023
(69th)
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Ben Whishaw | This Is Going to Hurt | Adam Kay | BBC One
Taron Egerton | Black Bird | James "Jimmy" Keene Jr. | Apple TV+
Gary Oldman | Slow Horses | Jackson Lamb
Martin Freeman | The Responder | Chris Carson | BBC One
Cillian Murphy | Peaky Blinders | Tommy Shelby
Chaske Spencer | The English | Sgt. Eli Whipp / Wounded Wolf | BBC Two
2024
(70th)
[6]
Timothy Spall | The Sixth Commandment | Peter Farquhar | BBC One
Brian Cox | Succession | Logan Roy | Sky Atlantic / HBO
Dominic West | The Crown | Prince Charles | Netflix
Kane Robinson | Top Boy | Gerard "Sully" Sullivan
Paapa Essiedu | The Lazarus Project | George | Sky Max
Steve Coogan | The Reckoning | Jimmy Savile | BBC One

## Actors with multiple wins and nominations

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### Multiple wins

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The following people have been awarded the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:

4 wins

* Michael Gambon

3 wins

* Robbie Coltrane

2 wins

* Alan Badel
* Peter Barkworth
* Sean Bean
* Alec Guinness
* Mark Rylance
* John Thaw
* Ben Whishaw

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### Multiple nominations

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The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:

6 nominations

* Benedict Cumberbatch

5 nominations

* Robbie Coltrane

4 nominations

* Alan Bates
* Kenneth Branagh
* Albert Finney
* Michael Gambon
* Derek Jacobi
* Ian Richardson
* Timothy Spall
* John Thaw
* Ben Whishaw

3 nominations

* Sean Bean
* Jim Broadbent
* Michael Bryant
* Stephen Graham
* Alec Guinness
* Leo McKern
* Pete Postlethwaite
* Michael Sheen
* Dominic West

2 nominations

* Alan Badel
* Peter Barkworth
* Tom Bell
* Colin Blakely
* James Bolam
* Robert Carlyle
* George Cole
* Brian Cox
* Christopher Eccleston
* Denholm Elliott
* Paapa Essiedu
* Frank Finlay
* Colin Firth
* John Gielgud
* Robert Hardy
* Bernard Hill
* Ian Holm
* Anthony Hopkins
* John Hurt
* Toby Jones
* Robert Lindsay
* Ray McAnally
* James Nesbitt
* Laurence Olivier
* Tim Pigott-Smith
* Mark Rylance
* John Simm
* Ken Stott
* David Suchet
* Timothy West
* Tom Wilkinson

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## References

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1. ^ "Television - 2020". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
2. ^ "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.
3. ^ "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
4. ^ Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
5. ^ "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
6. ^ "BAFTA TV Awards 2024: Nominations". BBC. Retrieved March 20, 2024.

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