BAFTA TV Awards 2021: The full list of winners 🏆

Paul Mescal and Ashley Banjo were among winners at the 2021 BAFTA TV Awards held on 6 June 2021

Author: Jon JacobPublished 7th Jun 2021
Last updated 7th Jun 2021

The BAFTA TV Awards took place on Sunday 6th June, with the likes of Normal People's Paul Mescal, Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood and Diversity megastar Ashley Banjo picking up big wins. Check out the full list of winners below.

Continuing her successful run of awards, Michaela Coel added two more trophies to the list for I May Destroy You, which triumphed over the likes of Small Axe in the miniseries category, while Coel took Leading Actress for her shattering performance.

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BAFTA TV Awards 2021 Winners

Entertainment performance

Romesh Ranganathan

Entertainment programme

Life & Rhymes

Features

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace

Scripted comedy

Inside No 9

Supporting actress

Rakie Ayola in Anthony

Supporting actor

Malachi Kirby in Small Axe

Daytime

The Great House Giveaway

Male performance in a comedy programme

Charlie Cooper in This Country

Specialist factual

The Surgeon’s Cut

Female performance in a comedy programme

Aimee Lou Wood in Sex Education

Leading actor

Paul Mescal in Normal People

Leading actress

Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You

Reality and constructed factual

The School That Tried to End Racism

Miniseries

I May Destroy You

Soap and continuing drama

Casualty

Virgin Media’s must-see moment (voted for by the public)

Britain’s Got Talent Diversity perform a routine inspired by the BLM protests

Factual series

Once Upon a Time in Iraq

Live event

Springwatch 2020

Comedy entertainment programme

The Big Narstie Show

Single drama

Sitting in Limbo

Drama series

Save Me Too

Short form programme

They Saw The Sun First

Current affairs

America’s War on Abortion (Exposure)

Single documentary

Locked In: Breaking the Silence (Storyville)

International

Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge (Storyville)

Sport

England V West Indies Test Cricket

News coverage

Sky News: Inside Idlib

Lennie James' Save Me Too won over shows such as Gangs Of London and The Crown, while Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's inventive Inside No. 9 was named top of the scripted comedy category. Normal People's Paul Mescal won Leading Actor, while the comedy performances went to Charlie Cooper in This Country and Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood.

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