Video - Bittersweet moment as Bafta honours Sheridan Smith again: Nominations in full
Her performance as cancer victim Lisa Lynch in BBC1’s The C-Word won universal plaudits, but the subject of the film did not live to see it.
Mrs Lynch was the author of an irreverent blog and later a book about her experience of breast cancer. She started writing it after her diagnosis at 28 while trying to get pregnant, and before it was finished she and Miss Smith were close friends.
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Today’s accolade was the second successive Bafta nomination for Miss Smith, whose family is from Epworth, near Doncaster. Last year she was shortlisted for her portrayal of the singer Cilla Black in an ITV mini-series, and later this year she will appear in The Moorside Project, a factual drama from the same producer about the faked kidnapping of Dewsbury schoolgirl Shannon Matthews in 2008.
At this year’s Baftas, which will be presented in London on May 8, Miss Smith will face competition from Wolf Hall star Claire Foy, Doctor Foster’s Suranne Jones and Ruth Madeley, star of the BBC’s Don’t Take My Baby, a film about a disabled couple whose parenting skills are called into doubt.
Both it and The C-Word will also compete for Best Single Drama, alongside the Channel Four docu-drama Cyberbully and The Go-Between, an updated version of LP Hartley’s 1953 novel.
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Hide AdIdris Elba is in the running to pick up the Best Actor Bafta for his performance in the BBC crime series, Luther.
He is nominated alongside London Spy’s Ben Wishaw, Wolf Hall’s Mark Rylance and Stephen Graham from This Is England ’90.
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s fictionalised account of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII, was among the most-nominated productions today, with a further entry in the Best Drama Series category and a Supporting Actor nod for Anton Lesser.
Channel Four’s skinhead drama This Is England ‘90 and BBC1 comedy Peter Kay’s Car Share received three nominations each.
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Hide AdThis Is England ’90, filmed partly in Sheffield, was director Shane Meadows’ spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England, and a sequel to the TV productions This Is England ‘86 and This Is England ‘88.
Car Share’s co-star Sian Gibson was nominated for best female performance in a comedy programme, Peter Kay for male performance, and the show for Best Scripted Comedy.
The BBC’s perennial favourite, The Great British Bake Off, in which former Leeds resident Nadiya Hussain was last year crowned best amateur baker, received its fifth consecutive shortlisting in the features category, which it won in 2012 and 2013, and a further nomination for the Radio Times Audience Award.
Film and TV star Sir Ian McKellen was nominated as best supporting actor for Ronald Harwood’s play The Dresser, a previous version of which was filmed at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre.
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Hide AdThis is his first Bafta TV nomination, although he has been nominated three times for Bafta Film awards.
Michelle Gomez was recognised for her role as Missy in Doctor Who in the best supporting actress category.
Singer Adele received her first Bafta nomination, for the TV special Adele At The BBC.
The programme saw her in conversation with Graham Norton about her career and comeback, and she also performed songs from her new album, 25.
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Hide AdShe is nominated for best entertainment programme, alongside Britain’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing and Chris Evans’ TFI Friday anniversary special.
NOMINATIONS IN FULL
• Leading actor:
Ben Whishaw - London Spy
Idris Elba - Luther
Mark Rylance - Wolf Hall
Stephen Graham - This Is England ‘90
• Leading actress:
Claire Foy - Wolf Hall
Ruth Madeley - Don’t Take My Baby
Sheridan Smith - The C-Word
Suranne Jones - Doctor Foster
• Supporting actor:
Anton Lesser - Wolf Hall
Cyril Nri - Cucumber
Ian McKellen - The Dresser
Tom Courtenay - Unforgotten
• Supporting actress:
Chanel Cresswell - This Is England ‘90
Eleanor Worthington-Cox - The Enfield Haunting
Lesley Manville - River
Michelle Gomez - Doctor Who
• Entertainment performance:
Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show
Leigh Francis - Celebrity Juice
Romesh Ranganathan - Asian Provocateur
Stephen Fry - QI
• Female performance in a comedy programme:
Michaela Coel - Chewing Gum
Miranda Hart - Miranda
Sian Gibson - Peter Kay’s Car Share
Sharon Horgan - Catastrophe
• Male performance in a comedy programme:
Hugh Bonneville - W1A
Javone Prince - The Javone Prince Show
Peter Kay - Peter Kay’s Car Share
Toby Jones - Detectorists
• Single drama:
The C-Word
Cyberbully
Don’t Take My Baby
The Go-Between
• Mini-series:
Doctor Foster
The Enfield Haunting
London Spy
This Is England ‘90
• Drama series:
Humans
The Last Panthers
No Offence
Wolf Hall
• Soap and continuing drama:
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Holby City
• International:
The Good Wife
Narcos
Spiral
Transparent
• Factual series:
The Detectives
Great Ormond Street
The Murder Detectives
The Tribe
• Specialist factual:
Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
Grayson Perry’s Dream House
The Hunt
Rudolf Nureyev’s Dance To Freedom
• Single documentary:
Bitter Lake
Life After Suicide
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
My Son The Jihadi
• Features:
Back In Time For Dinner
The Great British Bake Off
Kevin McCloud: Escape To The Wild
Travel Man
• Reality and constructed factual:
First Dates
Gogglebox
I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds
• Current affairs:
Children Of The Gaza War
Escape From Isis (Dispatches)
Jihad: A British Story
Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola (This World)
• Entertainment programme:
Adele At The BBC
Britain’s Got Talent
Strictly Come Dancing
TFI Friday Anniversary Special
• Comedy and comedy entertainment programme:
Charlie Brooker’s Election Wipe
Have I Got News For You
QI
Would I Lie To You
• Scripted comedy:
Chewing Gum
Peep Show
People Just Do Nothing
Peter Kay’s Car Share
• Radio Times audience award (voted for by members of the public)
Doctor Foster
The Great British Bake Off
Humans
Making A Murderer
Peter Kay’s Car Share
Poldark