The 2001 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday May 13 2001. The ceremony took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.Winners
- Best Actor
- *Winner: Michael Gambon — Longitude (Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Steven Mackintosh — Care (BBC One); Pete Postlethwaite — The Sins (BBC One); Ken Stott — The Vice (ITV)
- Best Actress
- *Winner: Judi Dench — Last of the Blonde Bombshells (BBC One)
- *Other nominees: Geraldine James — The Sins (BBC One); Amanda Redman — At Home with the Braithwaites (ITV); Fay Ripley — Cold Feet (ITV); Alison Steadman — Fat Friends (ITV)
- Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
- *Winner: Da Ali G Show (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned (Avalon Television / ITV); Smack the Pony (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); Victoria Wood With all the Trimmings (Good Fun / Ovation Entertainment Limited / BBC One)
- Best Comedy Performance
- *Winner: Sacha Baron Cohen — Da Ali G Show (Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Caroline Ahearne — The Royle Family (BBC One); Kathy Burke — Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC Two); Dawn French — The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One)
- Best Drama Serial
- *Winner: Longitude (Granada Television / A&E Network / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Nature Boy (BBC / BBC Two); Never Never (Company Pictures / Channel 4); This is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (Granada Television / ITV)
- Best Drama Series
- *Winner: Clocking Off (Red Production Company / BBC One)
- *Other nominees: The Cops (World Productions / BBC Two); Fat Friends (Rollem Productions / Tiger Aspect Productions / Yorkshire Television / ITV); The Sins (BBC / BBC One)
- Best Single Drama
- *Winner: Care (BBC / BBC One)
- *Other nominees: Donovan Quick (Making Waves Film & TV Limited / BBC Scotland / BBC Two); Nice Girl (BBC / BBC Two); Storm Damage (BBC / BBC Two)
- Best Soap Opera
- *Winner: Emmerdale (Yorkshire Television / ITV)
- *Other nominees: Coronation Street (Granada Television / ITV); EastEnders (BBC / BBC One); Hollyoaks (Mersey Television / Channel 4)
- Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
- *Winner: Out of Africa (Insight News Productions / CNN / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Mozambique Floods (BBC / BBC One / BBC Two); Mozambique Floods (the event and the aftermath) (ITN / ITV); Panorama — Who Bombed Omagh? (BBC / BBC One)
- Best Entertainment Performance
- *Winner: Graham Norton — So Graham Norton (Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Rory Bremner — Blair Did It All Go Wrong? (Channel 4); Angus Deayton — Have I Got News For You (BBC One / BBC Two); Paul Merton — Have I Got News For You (BBC One / BBC Two)
- Best Factual Series or Strand
- *Winner: Britain at War in Colour (TWI / Carlton Television / ITV)
- *Other nominees: Castaway 2000 (Lion TV / BBC Scotland / BBC One); Fifteen (Windfall Films / Channel 4); Horizon (BBC / BBC Two)
- Best Feature
- *Winner: The Naked Chef (Optomen / BBC Two)
- *Other nominees: Faking It (RDF Media / Channel 4); House of Horrors (Granada Television / ITV); What the Romans did for Us (BBC / BBC Two)
- Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
- *Winner: 100% White (Diverse Productions / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: The Boy David - The Return (Man Alive Group / BBC One); Endurance: Shackleton and the Antarctic (White Mountain Films / NOVA / American Museum of Natural History / Channel 4); The Man who Bought Mustique (Café Productions / Channel 4)
- Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
- *Winner: Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (Tiger Aspect Productions / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Arena — Wisconsin Death Trip (BBC / BBC Two); Elizabeth (United Productions / Channel 4); A History of Britain by Simon Schama (BBC / BBC Two)
- Entertainment Programme or Series
- *Winner: So Graham Norton (So Television / United Productions / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One / BBC Two); The Weakest Link (BBC / BBC Two); Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Celador / ITV)
- Situation Comedy Award
- *Winner: Black Books (Assembly Film & Television / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Blackadder: Back & Forth (Tiger Aspect Productions / Sky One); One Foot in the Grave (BBC / BBC One); The Royle Family (Granada Television / BBC One)
- Sport
- *Winner: Sydney Olympics 2000 (BBC / BBC One / BBC Two)
- *Other nominees: British Grand Prix 2000 (Mach1 / ITV); Test Cricket (Sunset and Vine / Channel 4); Today at the Paralympics (VTV Limited / BBC Two)
- Led Grade Audience Award as Voted by Readers of the Radio Times
- *Winner: Inspector Morse — The Remorseful Day (ITV)
- *Other nominees: Hero of the Hour (ITV); Seeing Red (ITV); A Touch of Frost (ITV); The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One)
- Innovation Award
- *Winner: Big Brother (Bazal / Channel 4)
- *Other nominees: Castaway 2000 (Lion TV / BBC Scotland / BBC One); Doctors (BBC / BBC One); Nice Girl (BBC / BBC Two)
- The Dennis Potter Award
- *Lynda La Plante
- The Alan Clarke Award
- *Ruth Caleb
- Special Award
- *Coronation Street
- *Patrick Moore
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