Earlier this year, Idris Elba and Mark Rylance faced off at the movie night of the BAFTAs with Rylance’s eventual Oscar-winning performance in Bridge of Spies beating out Elba’s in Beasts of No Nation. They’re up against each other again for the TV portion in the Leading Actor category with Rylance nominated for Wolf Hall and Elba getting his first TV BAFTA nod for Luther. (They also faced off for both of those roles at the Golden Globes, where both lost.) It’s like the Martina Navratilova vs. Chris Evert! The Red Sox vs. the Yankees! Coke vs. Pepsi!
Overall Rylance has the edge, with Wolf Hall leading the nominations with four and Peter Kay’s Car Share and This Is England ‘90 right behind with three each. Elsewhere, Sir Ian McKellen gets his first BAFTA TV nomination for The Dresser, and that darling show The Great British Bake Off snags its fifth consecutive nomination in the features category. Bake!
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 program
Michaela Coel – Chewing Gum
Miranda Hart – Miranda
Sian Gibson – Peter Kay’s Car Share
Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Male performance in a comedy program
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 – 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
News coverage
BBC News at Six: Paris Attacks Special
Channel 4 News: Paris Massacre
ITV News at 10: Refugee Crisis
Sky News: From Turkey to Greece
Sport
The Ashes
The Grand National
MOTD Live: FA Cup Final
Six Nations – Final Day
Live Event
Big Blue Live
The Sound of Music Live!
Stargazing Live: Brit in Space, Tim Peake Special
The Vote
Entertainment program
Adele at the BBC
Britain’s Got Talent
Strictly Come Dancing
TFI Friday anniversary special
Scripted comedy
Chewing Gum
Peep Show
People Just Do Nothing
Peter Kay’s Car Share
Comedy and comedy entertainment program
Charlie Brooker’s Election Wipe
Have I Got News for You
QI
Would I Lie To You
Radio Times audience award
Doctor Foster
The Great British Bake Off
Humans
Making a Murderer
Peter Kay’s Car Share
Poldark
