19 September 1993 at the Dorchester Hotel, London
FILM
Screenplay
Neil Jordan, THE CRYING GAME
TV
Play or Film
Jack Rosenthal, BYE BYE BABY
Situation Comedy
Jennifer Saunders, ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS
Light Entertainment
Victoria Wood, VICTORIA WOOD’S ALL DAY BREAKFAST
Original Drama Serial
Glenn Chandler, Barry Appleton, Stuart Hepburn & John Milne, TAGGART
and Paul Abbott, Martin Allen, Ken Blakeson, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Tom Elliott,
Barry Hill, Stephen Mallatratt, Julian Roach, Adele Rose, Patrea Smallacombe,
John Stevenson, Peter Whalley, Mark Wadlow & Phil Woods, CORONATION STREET
Dramatised Serial
Deborah Moggach, GOGGLE EYES
Original Drama Series
JC Wilsher, Rob Heyland, Russell Lewis, Steve Trafford & Michael Russell, BETWEEN THE LINES
Children’s
Richard Cooper, EYE OF THE STORM
RADIO
Original Play
Roy Kendall, MARLOWE’S DIARIES
Dramatisation
Rene Basilico, THE COMEDIANS
Comedy/Light Entertainment
Lucy Flannery, RENT
Children
Chris Allen, LUCK DE LUXE AND THE FLYING SHEDS
THEATRE
West End
Frank McGuinness, SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME
Regional
Philip Osment, THE DEARLY BELOVED
Fringe
Jonathan Lewis, OUR BOYS
BOOKS
Fiction
Edna O’Brien, TIME AND TIDE
Non-Fiction
Margaret Foster, DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Children
Terry Pratchett, JOHNNY AND THE DEAD
Lifetime Achievement Award
Alan Ayckbourn