Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
1983 |
The Ballroom of Romance |
Pat O'Connor |
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang |
Michael Apted |
A Voyage Round My Father |
Alvin Rakoff |
Walter |
Stephen Frears |
1984 |
An Englishman Abroad |
John Schlesinger |
The Country Girls |
Desmond Davis |
Orwell On Jura |
John Glenister |
Saigon: Year of the Cat |
Stephen Frears |
To The Lighthouse |
Colin Gregg |
1985 |
Threads |
Mick Jackson |
Doctor Fischer of Geneva |
Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
The Ebony Tower |
Robert Knights |
Oxbridge Blues |
James Cellan Jones |
1986 |
Shadowlands |
Norman Stone, David M. Thompson |
The Browning Version |
Michael Simpson, Shaun Sutton |
Monsignor Quixote |
Rodney Bennett, Christopher Neame |
Silas Marner |
Giles Foster, Louis Marks |
1987 |
Hotel du Lac (Screen Two) |
Sue Birtwistle, Giles Foster |
Drums Along Balmoral Drive |
Brenda Reid, Jane Howell |
The Good Doctor Bodkin Adams |
Innes Lloyd, Richard Stroud |
The Insurance Man (Screen Two) |
Innes Lloyd, Richard Eyre |
London's Burning |
Paul Knight, Les Blair |
Past Caring |
Kenith Trodd, Richard Eyre |
1988 |
Lifestory |
Mick Jackson |
After Pilkington (Screen Two) |
Christopher Morahan, Kenith Trodd |
Blunt |
John Glenister, Martin Thompson |
East of Ipswich (Screen Two) |
Tristram Powell, Innes Lloyd |
1989 |
Tumbledown |
Charles Wood, Richard Broke, Richard Eyre |
Bed Among the Lentils (Talking Heads) |
Alan Bennett, Innes Lloyd |
A Lady of Letters (Talking Heads) |
Alan Bennett, Innes Lloyd, Giles Foster |
Sweet As You Are (Screen Two) |
William Nicholson, Ruth Caleb, Angela Pope |
Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
1990 |
The Accountant (Screen One) |
Geoffrey Case, Paul Knight, Les Blair |
Bomber Harris |
Don Shaw, Innes Lloyd, Michael Darlow |
First and Last |
Michael Frayn, Michael Wearing, Alan Dossor |
She's Been Away (Screen One) |
Stephen Poliakoff, Kenith Trodd, Peter Hall |
1991 |
News Hounds (Screen One) |
Les Blair, Sarah Curtis |
Old Flames (Screen Two) |
Simon Gray, Kenith Trodd, Christopher Morahan |
Can You Hear Me Thinking? (Screen One) |
Monty Haltrecht, Beverley Marcus, Ruth Caleb, Christopher Morahan |
Shoot to Kill |
Michael Eaton, Nigel Stafford-Clark, Peter Kosminsky |
The Widowmaker |
Jeremy Brock, Deirdre Keir, John Madden |
1992 |
A Question of Attribution (from Screen One) |
Alan Bennett, Innes Lloyd, John Schlesinger |
102 Boulevard Haussmann (Screen Two) |
Alan Bennett, Innes Lloyd, Udayan Prasad |
Hancock (from Screen One) |
William Humble, Paul Marcus, Tony Smith |
The Trials of Oz |
Geoffrey Robertson, Simon Curtis, Sheree Folkson |
1993 |
An Ungentlemanly Act |
Bradley Adams, Stuart Urban |
A Doll's House |
Simon Curtis, David Thacker, Joan Tindale |
The Grass Arena (Screen Two) |
Ruth Baumgarten, Gillies MacKinnon, Frank Deasy |
Memento Mori (Screen Two) |
Louis Marks, Jack Clayton, Alan Kelley, Jeanie Sims |
1994 |
Safe (from ScreenPlay) |
David M. Thompson, Antonia Bird, Al Ashton |
The Clothes in the Wardrobe (Screen Two) |
Norma Heyman, Waris Hussein, Martin Sherman |
The Snapper (Screen Two) |
Lynda Myles, Stephen Frears, Roddy Doyle |
Wide-Eyed and Legless (Screen One) |
David Lascelles, Richard Loncraine, Jack Rosenthal |
1995 |
Skallagrigg (Screen Two) |
John Chapman, Richard Spence, Nigel Williams |
The Dying of the Light |
Peter Kosminsky, Hossein Amini |
A Breed of Heroes (Screen One) |
Andrée Molyneux, Diarmuid Lawrence, Charles Wood |
Pat and Margaret (Screen One) |
Ruth Caleb, Gavin Millar, Victoria Wood |
Stages: Suffer the Little Children |
Jack Emery, Betsan Morris-Evans |
1996 |
Persuasion (Screen Two) |
Fiona Finlay, Roger Michell, Nick Dear |
Eleven Men Against Eleven |
Jimmy Mulville, Andy Hamilton |
Go Now |
Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom, Paul Henry Powell, Jimmy McGovern |
Heroes And Villains: The Last Englishman |
Sue Vertue, John Henderson, Anthony Horowitz |
1997 |
Hillsborough |
Nicola Shindler, Charles McDougall, Jimmy McGovern, Katy Jones |
Crossing The Floor (Screen Two) |
Guy Jenkin, Lissa Evans |
The Precious Blood (Screen Two) |
Robert Cooper, Anthony Rowe, John Woods, Graham Reid |
Some Kind of Life |
Bill Boyes, Julian Jarrold, Kay Mellor |
1998 |
No Child of Mine |
Peter Kosminsky, Guy Hibbert |
Breaking the Code |
Jack Emery, Herbert Wise, Hugh Whitemore |
Bumping the Odds |
Ian Madden, Rob Rohrer, Rona Munro |
The Granton Star Cause (The Acid House) |
David Muir, Alex Usbourne, Paul McGuigan, Irvine Welsh |
1999 |
A Rather English Marriage |
Joanna Willett, Paul Seed, Andrew Davies |
A Life For A Life - The True Story Of Stefan Kiszko |
Malcolm Craddock, Stephen Whittaker, Peter Berry |
Playing Sandwiches (Talking Heads) |
Mark Shivas, Udayan Prasad, Alan Bennett |
Waiting for the Telegram (Talking Heads) |
Mark Shivas, Stuart Burge, Alan Bennett |
Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
Broadcaster |
2000 |
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence |
Mark Redhead, Paul Greengrass |
ITV |
Dockers |
Sally Hibbin, Bill Anderson, Jimmy McGovern |
Channel 4 |
Lost for Words |
Sita Williams, Alan JW Bell, Deric Longden |
ITV |
Sex 'N' Death |
Jane Featherstone, Guy Jenkin |
BBC One |
2001 |
Care |
Kieran Prendiville, Antonia Bird, Louise Panton, Ruth Caleb |
BBC One |
Donovan Quick |
Sue Austen, David Blair, Donna Franceschild |
BBC Two |
Nice Girl |
Ruth Caleb, Dominic Savage |
Storm Damage |
Ian Madden, Simon Cellan Jones, Lennie James |
2002 |
When I Was 12 |
Ruth Caleb, Dominic Savage |
BBC Two |
My Beautiful Son |
Jeff Pope, Bob Mills, Paul Seed, Tim Kazurinsky |
ITV |
Othello |
Anne Pivcevic, Julie Gardner, Geoffrey Sax, Andrew Davies |
The Navigators |
Rebecca O’Brien, Ken Loach, Rob Dawber |
Channel 4 |
2003 |
Conspiracy |
BBC Two/HBO |
Bloody Sunday |
Mark Redhead, Paul Greengrass |
ITV |
Flesh and Blood |
Derek Wax, Julian Farino, Peter Bowker |
BBC Two |
Tomorrow La Scala! |
Ruth Caleb, Chris Collins, Francesca Joseph |
2004 |
The Deal |
Christine Langan, Stephen Frears, Peter Morgan |
Channel 4 |
The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath |
Kate Bartlett, Andy De Emmony, Sally Wainwright |
BBC One |
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness |
ITV |
This Little Life |
Stewart Mackinnon, Sarah Gavron, Rosemary Kay |
BBC Two |
2005 |
Omagh |
Ed Guiney, Paul Greengrass, Pete Travis, Guy Hibbert |
Channel 4 |
Dirty Filthy Love |
Christine Langan, Adrian Shergold, Jeff Pope, Ian Puleston-Davies |
ITV |
Hawking |
Jessica Pope, Peter Moffat, Philip Martin |
BBC Two |
Not Only But Always |
Alison Jackson, Terry Johnson, Charles Pattinson, George Faber |
Channel 4 |
2006 |
The Government Inspector |
David Aukin, Jonathan Curling, Peter Kosminsky |
Channel 4 |
Much Ado About Nothing (ShakespeaRe-Told) |
Diederick Santer, Brian Percival, David Nicholls |
BBC One |
The Queen's Sister |
Kath Mattock, Simon Cellan Jones, Craig Warner |
Channel 4 |
Red Dust |
BBC Two |
2007 |
Housewife, 49 |
Victoria Wood, Piers Wenger, Gavin Millar, David Threlfall |
ITV |
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! |
Andy De Emmony, Ben Evans, Martyn Hesford |
BBC Four |
Longford |
Peter Morgan, Tom Hooper, Helen Flint, Andy Harries |
Channel 4 |
The Road to Guantánamo |
Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross |
2008 |
The Mark of Cain |
Tony Marchant, Nicola Shindler, Lynn Horsford, Marc Munden |
Channel 4 |
Boy A |
John Crowley, Lynn Horsford, Mark O'Rowe |
Channel 4 |
Coming Down the Mountain |
Greg Brenman, Roanna Benn, Mark Haddon, Julie Anne Robinson |
BBC One |
The Trial of Tony Blair |
Alistair Beaton, Simon Cellan Jones, Hal Vogel, David Aukin |
More4 |
2009 |
White Girl |
Hettie Macdonald, Abi Morgan, Andrew Woodhead |
BBC Two |
Hancock and Joan |
Richard Cottan, Richard Laxton, Simon Heath |
BBC Four |
Einstein and Eddington |
George Faber, Mark Pybus, Peter Moffat, Philip Martin |
BBC Two |
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall |
Simon Block, Rowan Joffé, Barney Reisz, Charles Furneaux |
Channel 4 |
Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
Broadcaster |
2010 |
The Unloved |
Samantha Morton, Tony Grisoni, Kate Ogborn, Andrew Eaton |
Channel 4 |
Five Minutes of Heaven |
Guy Hibbert, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Eoin O'Callaghan, Stephen Wright |
BBC Two |
Mo |
Jeff Pope, Neil McKay, Lisa Gilchrist, Philip Martin |
Channel 4 |
A Short Stay in Switzerland |
Liz Trubridge, Simon Curtis, Frank McGuinness, Ruth Caleb |
BBC One |
2011 |
The Road to Coronation Street |
BBC Four |
Eric and Ernie |
Victoria Wood, Peter Bowker, Tim Bricknell, Jonny Campbell |
BBC Two |
I Am Slave |
Andrea Calderwood, Gabriel Range, Jeremy Brock |
Channel 4 |
The Special Relationship |
BBC Two |
2012 |
Random |
Polly Leys, Kate Norrish, Debbie Tucker Green |
Channel 4 |
Holy Flying Circus |
Owen Harris, Polly Leys, Kate Norrish, Tony Roche |
BBC Four |
Page Eight |
David Barron, David Hare, David Heyman, Bill Nighy |
BBC Two |
Stolen |
Stephen Butchard, Justin Chadwick, Rebecca Hodgson, Sita Williams |
BBC One |
2013 |
Murder |
Robert Jones, Birger Larsen, Kath Mattock |
BBC Two |
Everyday |
Michael Winterbottom, Melissa Parmenter, Laurence Coriat, Andrew Eaton |
Channel 4 |
The Girl |
Julian Jarrold, Gwyneth Hughes, Amanda Jenks, Leanne Klein |
BBC Two |
Richard II (The Hollow Crown) |
Rupert Goold, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, Rupert Ryle-Hodges |
2014 |
Complicit |
Guy Hibbert, Niall MacCormick, Kevin Toolis, Jolyon Symonds |
Channel 4 |
The Wipers Times |
David Parfitt, Andy De Emmony, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman |
BBC Two |
An Adventure in Space and Time |
Mark Gatiss, Matt Strevens, Terry McDonough, Caroline Skinner |
Be Right Back (Black Mirror) |
Barney Reisz, Charlie Brooker, Owen Harris, Annabel Jones |
Channel 4 |
2015 |
Marvellous |
Peter Bowker, Julian Farino, Katie Swinden, Patrick Spence |
BBC Two |
Common |
Jimmy McGovern, David Blair, Colin McKeown, Donna Molloy |
BBC One |
Murdered by My Boyfriend |
Pier Wilkie, Regina Moriarty, Paul Andrew Williams, Darren Kemp |
BBC Three |
A Poet in New York |
Aisling Walsh, Ruth Caleb, Andrew Davies, Griff Rhys Jones |
BBC Two |
2016 |
Don't Take My Baby |
Jack Thorne, Ben Anthony, Pier Wilkie, Aysha Rafaele |
BBC Three |
The C Word |
Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis, Nicole Taylor, Tim Kirkby |
BBC One |
The Go-Between |
Claire Bennett, Susan Hogg, Adrian Hodges, Pete Travis |
Cyberbully |
Richard Bond, Ben Chanan, David Lobatto, Leah Cooper |
Channel 4 |
2017 |
Damilola, Our Loved Boy |
Levi David Addai, Euros Lyn, Susan Horth, Colin Barr |
BBC One |
Murdered by My Father |
Bruce Goodison, Toby Welch, Vinay Patel, Aysha Rafaele |
BBC Three |
Aberfan: The Green Hollow |
Pip Broughton, Bethan Jones, Jenna Robbins, Owen Sheers |
BBC One |
NW |
BBC Two |
2018 |
Murdered for Being Different |
Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Paul Andrew Williams, Nick Leather |
BBC Three |
Against the Law |
Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Fergus O'Brien, Brian Fillis |
BBC Two |
King Charles III |
Mike Bartlett, Greg Brenman, Rupert Goold, Simon Maloney |
Hang the DJ (Black Mirror) |
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Tim Van Patten, Nick Pitt |
Netflix |
2019[2] |
Killed by My Debt |
Joseph Bullman, Tahsin Guner, Chris Clough, Aysha Rafaele |
BBC Three |
Bandersnatch (Black Mirror) |
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, David Slade, Russell McLean |
Netflix |
Care |
Donna Molloy, Colin McKeown, Gillian Juckes, David Blair |
BBC One |
Through the Gates (On The Edge) |
Lisa Walters, Stella Corradi, Georgia Christou, Ben Bickerton |
Channel 4 |