15 September 1991 at the Dorchester Hotel, London
FILM
Screenplay
Michael Palin & Tristram Powell, AMERICAN FRIENDS
TV
Play or Film
Kevin Elyot, KILLING TIME
Situation Comedy
Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin, DROP THE DEAD DONKEY
Light Entertainment
Jennifer Saunders & Dawn French, FRENCH AND SAUNDERS
Original Drama Serial
Andrew Davies, HOUSE OF CARDS
Original Drama Series
Julian Mitchell, Alma Cullen, Danny Boyle, Peter Nichols & Geoffrey Case, INSPECTOR MORSE
Children’s
Julia Jones, EMLYN’S MOON
RADIO
Original Play
Don Haworth, MARCHING
Dramatisation
Seamus Heaney, SWEENEY ASTRAY
Comedy/Light Entertainment
Peter Tinniswood, WINSTON IN LOVE
Children
April de Angelis, THE OUTLANDER
THEATRE
West End
Brian Friel, DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Regional
Stephen Bill, OVER A BARREL
Fringe
Neil Bartlett, SARRASINE
BOOKS
Fiction
Alice Thomas Ellis, THE INN AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Non-Fiction
Carole Angier, JEAN RHYS: LIFE AND WORKS
Children
Salman Rushdie, HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES
Special Award for Contribution to Writing
William Goldman