Awards From start to fi nish, 2005 was a record year for awards won by Channel 4 and our many supplier companies. To put it in context – Channel 4 won as many BAFTAs (the gold standard for British TV awards), as all the other broadcasters put together. Channel 4’s best year ever of awards success *Note: names in brackets next to the programme denote the relevant production company January — RTS Journalism Awards The Oscars – Black Books – Channel 4 News – The Motorcycle Diaries (Assembly Film & Television) Broadcast Awards Television Journalist of the Year Music (Song) Sitcom – Brat Camp (Twenty Twenty) (Lindsey Hilsum) Wasp – Green Wing Best Documentary Series – Short Film (Live Action) Pioneer Audience Award – Shameless (Company) March — – Jon Snow Best Drama Series Philadelphia Film Festival Richard Dimbleby Award Business Journalist Of The – Me & You & Everyone We Know – Omagh Dance on Camera Festival Year Awards Archie Award for Best First Film Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding – DV8 The Cost of Living (DV8 Films) – Channel 4 News Contribution to Television Jury Prize Best Broadcast Story Reims Film & Television Festival (Paul Greengrass) (Liam Halligan on Pensions) – Sex Traffi c Halloween Short Film Festival (Granada co-produced with the B-EST International Film Festival – Monsters EU Awards (Northern Ireland) Canadian Broadcasting Corp) – Hamburg Cell (Mentorn Prods) Audience Award 2005 – Sarah Moves On First Prize – Series/Serial category Best Director (Antonia Bird), (Westway Film Productions) Jury’s Award, Critic’s Award, South Bank Awards Achievements in Peace RTS Programme Awards Best Actor (Karim Salah) – Dead Man’s Shoes and Reconciliation – Shameless Best Film Drama Series, Writer (Paul Abbott) Broadcasting Press Guild Awards House Beautiful Awards – Sex Traffi c – Shameless Sundance Film Festival – Location Location Location Drama Serial, Actor Female Best Drama Series, Best Writer – Me & You & Everyone We Know (Ideal World Productions) (Anamaria Marinca) (Paul Abbott), Best Actress Special Jury Prize for Originality – Omagh (Anne-Marie Duff) of Vision Indie Awards (Tiger Aspect/Hells Kitchen Prod) – Omagh – Wasp – Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Actor Male (Gerald McSorley) Best Single Drama Short Filmmaking Award (Optomen) – Green Wing (Talkback Thames) (International) Best Programme offering Advice, Comedy Performance Campaign Magazine Awards Information or Instruction Award (Tamsin Greig) – Friends (Warner Bros) Workworld Media – The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off – Supernanny (Ricochet South) Press – Best Advertisement – Channel 4 News (ITN) (Yipp Films) Features and Factual in Consumer Magazines, Press – TV Programme Award Best Contemporary Documentary Entertainment Best Media & Entertainment (Business & Economics team) – Shameless – The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off Advertisement (Ends Fri) Best Drama Award, Network Newcomer – Behind the February — London Studios Indie Screen (Patrick Collerton) Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film – That’ll Teach ‘Em (Twenty Twenty) BAFTA Film Awards – Sopranos (HB0) Festival Reality Award – The Motorcycle Diaries RTS International Award – Me & You & Everyone We Know – What We Still Don’t Know Film Not in the English Language; Golden Thumb (Darlow Smithson) Film Music April — Science, Technology/Natural Voice of the Listener Awards History Award BAFTA Television Awards BAFTA Interactive Awards – Bremner Bird & Fortune – Peter Kay Live at Manchester Arena – Shameless – IDEASFACTORY West Midlands (Vera Productions) (Phil McIntyre/Goodnight Drama Series New Talent Award (Dan Jones) Best Television Programme Vienna Prods) – Sex Traffi c Scripted Comedy Award Drama Serial, Actress Evening Standard Awards May — (Anamaria Marinca) – Dead Man’s Shoes Learning on Screen Awards – Omagh BAFTA Craft Awards Best Actor (Paddy Considine) – Bricking It (IWC Media) Single Drama – Sex Traffi c Broadcast Award – Graphics – Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Editing Fiction/Entertainment London Critics’ Circle Film Awards – Karbala website Features (Mark Day), Make Up & Hair – Enduring Love Interactive Multimedia Award – – Death In Gaza (Frostbite Films) Design (Caroline Noble), Original British Actor of the Year Lifelong Learning Current Affairs Television Music (Jonathan (Daniel Craig) – Not Only But Always (Company) Goldsmith), Photography & – The Motorcycle Diaries Actor (Rhys Ifans) Lighting Fiction/Entertainment Foreign Language Film of the Year 28 Review Awards (Chris Seager), Production Design Cinedans (Amsterdam) Campaign Magazine Awards Gemini Awards (Candida Otton), Sound Fiction – DV8 – The Cost of Living – Shameless – Sex Traffi c (Simon Okin, Jane Tattersall, Audience Award Posters – Best 96 Sheet Poster Best Costume Design, Best David McCallum, Lou Solakofski) (Lost Supper) Dramatic Mini-Series, Best – The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off Monte Carlo Television Festival Supporting Actress (Anamaria New Director Factual (Patrick – Omagh Mental Health Media Awards Marinca), Best Production Design Collerton), Editing Factual Best Television Film, Best – Make Me Normal (Century) (Nick Fenton) Performance by an Actor (Gerald Best Television Documentary Glenfi ddich Spirit of Scotland Awards McSorley), Best Performance – A-Z Of Your Head (Lambent Prods) – Stuart Cosgrove Cannes (Critics Week) by an Actress (Michelle Forbes), Best Children & Youth Programme Broadcaster of the Year – Me & You & Everyone We Know Signis Prize – Channel 4 News Critic’s Week Grand Prize, Camera – Sex Traffi c Making a Difference Award Grierson Awards d’Or Cannes, Youth Jury Prize Best Performance by an Actress – Channel 4 News – Sisters in Law (Anamaria Marinca) Best News Category (for an item Best Documentary on a Cannes 2005 (Director’s Fortnight) – The Illustrated Mum dealing with prison suicides) Contemporary Issue – Sisters In Law (Vixen Films) (Granada Kids) Prix Art Et Essai Prize of the Monaco Red Cross National Television Awards Promax UK – Six Feet Under (HBO) – Jamie’s School Dinners Channel 4 received a record 26 D&AD Awards 2005 Outstanding Actor of the Year Best Popular Factual Programme, awards (11 Gold and 15 Silver). – Channel 4 Identity (Michael C. Hall) Special Recognition Award Including Gold Awards for: Television & Cinema Graphics (Jamie Oliver) – Jamie’s School Dinners & Idents – Brand Identity – August — – Big Brother 6 Best Television Campaign Gold Award, Television & (Endemol Entertainment) – Desperate Housewives Multi-Cultural Scotland Awards Cinema Advertising Crafts – Best Reality Programme Best Launch – Channel 4 Special Effects – Silver Award – Shameless Multi-Culturism in the Media Award Remploy Leading the Way Awards Best Print and Poster Rose D’or (Lucerne) – Channel 4 TV Quick/TV Choice Awards – Supernanny (Ricochet Prods) Taking the Initiative Award RTS Craft and Design Awards – Jamie’s School Dinners Reality Programme – Sex Traffi c (Fresh One Prods) – Max & Paddy’s Road to Nowhere RTS Midlands Awards Tape and Film Editing (Mark Day), Best Factual Show (Ovation Ent.) – IDEASFACTORY West Midlands Production Design – Drama – Desperate Housewives (Disney) Sitcom Performance (Peter Kay) Best Creative Innovation (Candida Otton) Best New Drama – DV8 – The Cost of Living – Cocaine (October Films) Arts & Specials November — Tape and Film Editing – September — – Green Wing Documentary/Factual ANNA’s Female Comedy Performance Clarion Awards (Brand Thumim), Music – Original – The Queen’s Sister (Pippa Heywood) – Sarah Moves On Score (Jonathan Whitehead) (Commemorative plate) Television Award – Playing It Straight Press Ad of the Month RTS Sports Television Awards (Lion TV Productions) – Freesports on 4 Emmy News & Documentary Awards Music – Original Title Music BAFTA Children’s Programmes (Boomerang Prods) – DNA: The Human Race (Jamie Forsyth and Brian Beacock) Awards Sports Show or Series (Windfall Films) – Life Before Birth (Pioneer Film and – School of Hard Knocks (UMTV) – Channel 4 Racing Outstanding Science & Television Productions) Schools Factual Secondary Award (Highfl yer Prods) Technology Programme Visual Effect – Special Effects Sports Pundit Award (Toby MacDonald, David Barlow BAFTA Scotland Awards (John Francome) Primetime Emmys and Artem) – Location Location Location – Lost (Disney) Anatomy for Beginners Best Factual Show – June — Drama Series (Firefl y Film and Television) – Festival (Pirate Productions) – Desperate Housewives Graphic Design – Programme, Annecy Animation Festival Best Actor (Chris O’Dowd), Direction, Actress Comedy Series Content Sequences – City Paradise (Gaelle Denis) Best Director (Annie Griffi n) (Felicity Huffman) (Juliet Percival and Nick Curwin Special Distinction Award – Channel 4 Cricket (Sunset & Vine) BIFAs Prix Italia Judges Award BANFF Television Awards – Festival – Sex Traffi c – Not Only But Always Best Debut Director Drama RTS Regional Awards Best Made-For-TV Movie – Six Shooter – DV8 – The Cost of Living – Why Men Wear Frocks Best British Short Performing Arts (TwoFour Prods) One World Media Awards Best Network Programme – Death in Gaza British Comedy Awards Royal Anthropological Institute Children’s Rights Award – Shameless 2 Film Festival, Oxford Screen Nation Awards Best Comedy Drama – Sisters In Law – Last Rights RTS Educational Television Awards – The Simpsons (20th Century Fox) Audience Award Best Film (Touchpaper Television) – Howard Goodall’s 20th Century Best International Comedy Best Drama Television & Film, Best Greats – Lennon & McCartney – Festival virtualfestivals.com Awards Leading Male (Ashley Walters) (Tiger Aspect) Best Comedy Film – T4 on the Beach (Done