The critically acclaimed New Zealand filmed drama Top of the Lake has been nominated for a prestigious Bafta television award.
The nomination puts the Jane Campion drama, which starred Elisabeth Moss, David Wenham and Holly Hunter, up against the hit British crime drama Broadchurch, the working-cl ass period drama The Village, and the comedy-drama My Mad Fat Diary.
Top of the Lake has won an astonishing number of awards, including AACTAs for best miniseries, cinematography and sound, an Emmy for cinematography, Critic’s Choice and Golden Globe awards for Elisabeth Moss and best television drama at the New Zealand Film Awards.
A total of 98 programs and personalities were nominated across 24 categories by the British Academy of Film and Television (Bafta).
The drama South-cliffe, about a series of shootings in a small British town, and the comedy series The IT Crowd, were the most nominated with four nominations each.
The hit series Broadchurch, which is being re-made for the US with the title Gracepoint, has three nominations: for best drama series, leading actress (for Olivia Colman) and supporting actor (for David Bradley).
The telemovie dramatisation of the creation of the hit series Doctor Who at the BBC in the 1960s, An Adventure in Space and Time, was nominated in the single drama category.
The category with the biggest programming firepower, however, is the race for best international program.
Four titanic shows are nominated: the Danish political drama Borgen, the critically exalted Netflix drama House of Cards, the much-loved US drug drama Breaking Bad and the hit French drama, Les Revenants, known in English-language markets as The Returned.
The British Academy of Film and Television Awards ceremony will take place at London’s Theatre Royal on May 18.
FULL LIST OF NOMINEES
Best Leading Actor
Jamie Dornan – The Fall
Sean Harris – Southcliffe
Luke Newberry – In the Flesh
Dominic West – Burton and Taylor
Best Leading Actress
Helena Bonham Carter – Burton and Taylor
Olivia Colman – Broadchurch
Kerrie Hayes – The Mill
Maxine Peake – The Village
Best Supporting Actor
David Bradley – Broadchurch
Jerome Flynn – Ripper Street
Nico Mirallegro – The Village
Rory Kinnear – Southcliffe
Best Supporting Actress
Shirley Henderson – Southcliffe
Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango in Halifax
Claire Rushbrook – My Mad Fat Diary
Nicola Walker – Last Tango in Halifax
Best Entertainment Performance
Ant and Dec – Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
Charlie Brooker – 10 O’Clock Live
Sarah Millican – The Sarah Millican Television Programme
Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
Best Female Performance in a Comedy Program
Frances de la Tour – Vicious
Kerry Howard – Him and Her: The Wedding
Doon Mackichan – Plebs
Katherine Parkinson – The IT Crowd
Best Male Performance in a Comedy Program
Richard Ayoade – The IT Crowd
Mathew Baynton – The Wrong Mans
James Corden – The Wrong Mans
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Chris O’Dowd – The IT Crowd
Best Drama Series
Broadchurch
My Mad Fat Diary
Top of the Lake
The Village
Single Drama
An Adventure in Space and Time
Black Mirror: Be Right Back
Complicit
The Wipers Times
Soap and Continuing Drama
Casualty
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Holby City
Best Mini-Series
The Fall
The Great Train Robbery
In the Flesh
Southcliffe
International
Borgen
Breaking Bad
House of Cards
The Returned
Best Factual Series
Bedlam
Educating Yorkshire
Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day
The Route Masters: Running London’s Roads
Best Specialist Factual
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Martin Luther King And The March On Washington
Richard III: The King in the Car Park
Story of the Jews
Best Single Documentary
28 Up South Africa
The Day Kennedy Died
The Murder Trial
The Unspeakable Crime: Rape
Best Features
The Choir: Sing While You Work
Grand Designs
The Great British Bake Off
Long Lost Family
Reality and Constructed Factual
The Big Reunion
Dragons’ Den
Gogglebox
The Undateables
Current Affairs
The Cruel Cut
The Hunt For Britain’s Sex Gangs
North Korean: Life Inside the Secret State
Syria: Across the Lines
Best News Coverage
Channel 4 News
ITV News At Ten: Woolwich Attacks
The Dale Cregan Verdict: North West Tonight Special
The Lee Rigby Trial: ITV Granada Reports
Best Sport and Live Event
Bollywood Carmen Live
Glastonbury 2013
The Ashes 2013 – 1st Test, Day Five
Wimbledon Men’s Final
Best Entertainment Programme
Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery
Dynamo: Magician Impossible
Strictly Come Dancing
Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
The Graham Norton Show
A League of their Own
The Revolution Will Be Televised
Would I Lie to You
Best Situation Comedy
Count Arthur Strong
Him and Her: The Wedding
The IT Crowd
Toast Of London
Radio Times Audience Award
Breaking Bad
Broadchurch
Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor
Educating Yorkshire
Gogglebox
The Great British Bake Off
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