The British Academy Television Award for Best Current Affairs is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is "for single films, or films from a strand that are primarily concerned with unfolding current affairs"[1]
| British Academy Television Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 2002 |
| Currently held by | The Shamima Begum Story (2024) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The category has been awarded as one category merged with the Best News Coverage category under several names, from 1978 to 1985 and also in 1992 it was presented as Best Actuality Coverage while from 1993 to 1994 and then from 1998 to 2001 it was presented as Best News and Current Affairs Journalism. Finally, the category has been presented as Best Current Affairs since 2002.
Winners and nominees
edit2000s
edit| Year | Title | Episode | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Dispatches | "Beneath The Veil" | Channel 4 | |
| Endgame in Ireland | Norma Percy, Mark Anderson, Mick Gold | BBC Two | ||
| One Day of Terror: New York Witnesses | Fiona Murch, Farah Durrani, Robert Moore | |||
| Panorama | "Jeffrey Archer: A Life of Lies" | Terry Tyldesley, Michael Crick, Mike Robinson | BBC One | |
| 2003 | Young, Nazi and Proud | Steve Boulton, David Modell, Richard Fabb | Channel 4 | |
| Panorama | "Corruption of Racing" | Andy Davies, Stephen Scott, Gerry Troyna | BBC One | |
| "Licence to Murder" | Mike Robinson, Eamon Hardy, John Ware | |||
| Palestine Is Still the Issue | Christopher Martin, Tony Stark, John Pilger | ITV | ||
| 2004 | The Secret Policeman | Simon Ford, Mark Daly, Toby Sculthorpe | BBC One | |
| Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror | John Pilger, Christopher Martin, Steve Connelly | ITV | ||
| The Fall of Milosevic | Brian Lapping, Norma Percy, Dai Richards | BBC Two | ||
| Terror in Moscow | George Carey, Mark Franchetti, Dan Reed | Channel 4 | ||
| 2005 | Death in Gaza | James Miller, Saira Shah | Channel 4 | |
| Nurseries Undercover: The Real Story | BBC One | |||
| The Secret Angent | Simon Ford, Karen Wightman, Jason Gwynne | |||
| Tonight with Trevor McDonald | "Our Daughter Holly" | David Cohen, Jim Manson, Jeff Anderson | ITV | |
| 2006 | Dispatches | "Beslan" | Eamonn Matthews, Kevin Sim | Channel 4 |
| Panorama | "Undercover Nurse" | Production Team | BBC One | |
| Dispatches | "Iraq: The Reckoning" | Samir Shah, Dimitri Collingridge, James Brabazon | Channel 4 | |
| Storyville | "A Company of Soldiers" | Tom Roberts, Edward Jarvis | BBC Four | |
| 2007 | Not awarded | |||
| 2008 | Dispatches | "China's Stolen Children" | Jezza Neumann, Sky Zeh, Brian Woods, Kate Blewett | Channel 4 |
| Honour Kills | Ben Rumney, Juliette Murray-Topham, Emma Willis, Adam Kemp | BBC Three | ||
| Dispatches | "Fighting the Taliban" | Sean Langan, Julia Barron, Denman Rooke | Channel 4 | |
| Panorama | "Dog-Fighting Undercover" | Mandy Mcauley, Sandy Smith, Andrew Bell, Jeremy Adams | BBC One | |
| 2009 | Dispatches | "Saving Africa's Witch Children" | Mags Gavan, Joost Van Der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich | Channel 4 |
| Panorama | "Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told" | Sandy Smith, Brendon McCourt, John Ware, Leo Telling | BBC One | |
| Dispatches | "Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me" | Kate Blewett, Deborah Shipley, Brian Woods | Channel 4 | |
| Ross Kemp: A Kenya Special | Clive Tulloh, Ewen Thomson, Matt Bennett, Ross Kemp | Sky One | ||
2010s
edit| Year | Title | Episode | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dispatches | "Terror in Mumbai" | Dan Reed, Eamonn Matthews | Channel 4 |
| Generation Jihad | Peter Taylor, Leo Telling, Sam Bagnall | BBC Two | ||
| This World | "Gypsy Child Thieves" | Liviu Tipurita, Sam Bagnall, Lucy Hetherington | ||
| Dispatches | "Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines" | Najibullah Quraishi, Jamie Doran, John Moffat, Paul Woolwich | Channel 4 | |
| 2011 | Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children | Jezza Neumann, Xoliswa Sithole, Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley | BBC Four | |
| Panorama | "Kids in Care" | Simon Gilchrist, Roger Graef, Tom Giles, Clare Johns | BBC One | |
| Dispatches | "Lost Girls of South Africa" | Deborah Shipley, Brian Woods, Xoliswa Sithole | Channel 4 | |
| Secret Iraq | Eamonn Matthews, Sam Collyns, James Jones, Philippa Lacey | BBC Two | ||
| 2012 | Panorama | "Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed" | Joe Casey, Matthew Chapman, Paul Kenyon, Frank Simmonds | BBC One |
| Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark | Jon Blair, Tuki Laumea, Hassan Mahfood, May Ying Welsh | Al Jazeera English | ||
| Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | Callum Macrae, Chris Shaw, Jon Snow | Channel 4 | ||
| Panorama | "The Truth About Adoption" | Todd Downing, Tom Giles, Roger Graef, Clare Johns | BBC One | |
| 2013 | This World | "The Shame of the Catholic Church" | Sam Collyns, Alison Millar, Darragh MacIntyre, Seamus McCracken | BBC Two |
| Panorama | "Britain's Hidden Housing Crisis" | James Jones, Steve Hewlett, Rachel Crellin, Todd Downing | BBC One | |
| Exposure | "The Other Side of Jimmy Savile" | Mark Williams-Thomas, Lesley Gardiner, Alexander Gardiner | ITV | |
| Al Jazeera Investigates | "What Killed Arafat?" | Clayton Swisher, Adrian Billing, Naji Tamimi, Richard Belfield | Al Jazeera English | |
| 2014 | Dispatches | "Syria: Across the Lines" | Chris Swayne, Eamonn Matthews, Olly Lambert | Channel 4 |
| The Cruel Cut | Richard McKerrow, Kieran Smith, Vicki Cooper, Leyla Hussein | BBC One | ||
| Dispatches | "North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State" | David Henshaw, James Jones, Todd Downing | Channel 4 | |
| "The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs" | Anna Hall, Matt Pinder, Paddy Garrick, Tazeen Ahmad | |||
| 2015 | Dispatches | "Children on the Frontline" | Marcel Mettelsiefen, Anthony Wonke, Stephen Ellis, Chris Shaw | Channel 4 |
| Panorama | "Ebola Frontline" | Steve Grandison, Lucie Kon, Karen Edwards, Fabio Basone | BBC One | |
| This World | "Terror at the Mall" | Dan Reed, Mark Towns, Sarah Waldron, George Carey | BBC Two | |
| Al Jazeera Investigates | "Inside Kenya's Death Squads" | Simon Boazman, Kris Jepson, Chris Olivotos, Phil Rees | Al Jazeera English | |
| 2016 | This World | "Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola" | Dan Edge, Sasha Joelle Achilli, Eamonn Matthews, Sarah Waldron | BBC Two |
| Dispatches | "Escape from ISIS" | Edward Watts, Evan Williams, Sam Collyns, George Waldrum | Channel 4 | |
| Children of the Gaza War | Lyse Doucet, Lucy Hetherington, James Jones, Graham Taylor | BBC Two | ||
| Jihad: A British Story | Deeyah Khan, Darin Prindle, Andrew Smith, Kevin Thomas | ITV | ||
| 2017 | Panorama | "Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed" | Production Team | BBC One |
| Inside Obama's White House | Norma Percy, Brian Lapping, Paul Mitchell, Sarah Wallis | BBC Two | ||
| This World | "Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks" | Dan Reed, Mark Towns, Luc Hermann | ||
| "Unarmed Black Male" | James Jones, Sarah Foudy, Sarah Waldron, Sam Bagnall | |||
| 2018 | Panorama | "Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets" | Karen Wightman, Joe Plomin, Callum Tulley, Gary Beelders | BBC One |
| Raped: My Story | Catey Sexton, Jonathan Braman, Emma Wakefield, Ollie Tait | Channel 5 | ||
| Dispatches | "Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad" | Sara Afshar, Nicola Cutcher, Callum Macrae | Channel 4 | |
| Exposure | "White Right: Meeting the Enemy" | Deeyah Khan, Darin Prindle, Andrew Smith, Melanie Quigley | ITV | |
| 2019 [2] |
Dispatches | "Myanmar's Killing Fields" | Evan Williams, Patrick Wells, Eve Lucas, Dan Edge | Channel 4 |
| Exposure | "Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs" | Production Team | ITV | |
| Massacre at Ballymurphy | Callum Macrae, Gwion Owain, Mark Williams, Charlie Hawryliw | |||
| Al Jazeera Investigations | "Football's Wall of Silence" | Production Team | Channel 4 | |
2020s
edit| Year | Title | Episode | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 [3] |
Exposure | "Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag" | Robin Barnwell, David Henshaw, Guy Creasey, Gesbeen Mohammad | ITV |
| Dispatches | "Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids" | Production Team | Channel 4 | |
| Panorama | "Is Labour Anti-Semitic?" | Leo Telling, John Ware, Neil Grant, Rachel Jupp | BBC One | |
| The Hunt for Jihadi John | Anthony Wonke, Richard Kerbaj, Paul Monaghan, Jane Root | HBO/Channel 4 | ||
| 2021 [4] |
Exposure | "America's War on Abortion" | Deeyah Khan, Darin Prindle, Andrew Smith | ITV |
| Italy's Frontline: A Doctor's Diary | Sasha Joelle Achilli, Dan Edge, Ella Claire Newton, Paul van Dyck, Sarah Waldron | BBC Two | ||
| Dispatches | "The Battle for Hong Kong" | Robin Barnwell, Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, David Henshaw, Evan Williams | Channel 4 | |
| Al Jazeera Investigations | "The Cyprus Papers Undercover" | Phil Rees, Sarah Yeo, Leonidas Sofogiannis, James Kleinfeld, David Harrison, Jason Gwynne | Al Jazeera English | |
| 2022 [5] |
Exposure | "Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin" | Sarah Collinson, David Henshaw, David Alter, Sasha Odynova, Ksenia Barakovskaya | ITV |
| Four Hours at the Capitol | Jamie Roberts, Will Grayburn, Dan Reed | BBC Two | ||
| Trump Takes on the World | Norma Percy, Tim Stirzaker, Sam Collins, Tania Rakhmanova, Lucy Hetherington, Greg Sanderson | |||
| Al Jazeera Investigations | "The Men Who Sell Football" | Phil Rees, David Harrison, Jason Gwynne, Sarah Yeo, Nicholas Dove, Naji Tamimi | Al Jazeera English | |
| 2023 [6][7] |
Children of the Taliban | Marcel Mettelsiefen, Jordan Bryon, Juan Camilo Cruz, Stephen Ellis, Aman Sadat | Channel 4 | |
| Exposure | "Afghanistan: No Country for Women" | Ramita Navai, Karim Shah, Eamonn Matthews, Mark Summers, Ali Watt | ITV | |
| "The Crossing" | Handa Majed, David Modell, Ella Newton, Jamie Welham, Nechirvan Mando, Ben Ferguson | |||
| Panorama | "Mariupol: The People's Story" | Robin Barnwell, Guy Creasey, Hilary Andersson, Darren Kemp, Tom Stone, Serhiy Solodko | BBC One | |
| 2024 [8] |
This World | "The Shamima Begum Story" | Joshua Baker, Sara Obeidat, Sasha Joelle Achilli, Sarah Waldron, Simon McMahon, Mustafa Al-Ali | BBC Two |
| Storyville | "Inside Russia: Traitors and Heroes" | Paul Mitchell, Anastasia Popova, Mikhail Kozyrev, Daria Olevskaya, Monica Garnsey, Mustafa Khalili | BBC Four | |
| Putin vs the West | Norma Percy, Tim Stirzaker, Lucy Hetherington, Lotte Murphy-Johnson, Max Stern | BBC Two | ||
| Dispatches | "Russel Brand: In Plain Sight" | Production Team | Channel 4 | |
- Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.
References
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