1990 British Academy Television Awards

Winners

 * Best Actor
 * Winner: John Thaw &mdash; Inspector Morse (ITV)
 * Other nominees: Joss Ackland &mdash; First And Last; John Gielgud &mdash; Summer's Lease; Alfred Molina &mdash; The Accountant
 * Best Actress
 * Winner: Diana Rigg &mdash; Mother Love
 * Other nominees: Peggy Ashcroft &mdash; She's Been Away; Judi Dench &mdash; Behaving Badly; Gwen Taylor &mdash; 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 &mdash; Blackadder Goes Forth
 * Other nominees: Barry Humphries &mdash; The Dame Edna Experience ; David Jason &mdash; Only Fools And Horses; Victoria Wood &mdash; 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 &mdash; Square Massacre
 * Other nominees: BBC Berlin Wall Coverage; BBC Nine O'Clock News &mdash; 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 &mdash; Four Hours In My Lai
 * Other nominees: Everyman: Romania &mdash; State of Fear; Lost Children of The Empire; Viewpoint '89: Cambodia &mdash; 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 &mdash; Tales From Barcelona (BBC / BBC2); The South Bank Show &mdash; Barry Humphries; The South Bank Show &mdash; 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