Autumn 1996 at the Intercontinental Hotel, London
FILM
Screenplay
Emma Thompson, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
TV
Play or Film
Ariel and Rodrigo Dorfman, PRISONERS IN TIME
Situation Comedy
Graham Linehan & Arthur Mathews, FATHER TED
Light Entertainment
Geoff Atkinson, John Bird, Rory Bremner, John Fortune, Sean Hardie & John Langdon, RORY BREMNER…WHO ELSE?
Original Drama Serial
Peter Flannery, OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH
Original Drama Series
Jimmy McGovern & Paul Abbott, CRACKER III
Dramatised Serial
Andrew Davies, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Children’s
Peter Corey, COPING WITH CHRISTMAS
RADIO
Original Play
Shelagh Stephenson, FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE
Dramatisation
Mike Walker, THE TIN DRUM
Comedy/Light Entertainment
John Morton, PEOPLE LIKE US
Children
Shaun Prendergast, TRAVELLING LIGHT
THEATRE
West End
Alan Ayckbourn, COMMUNICATING DOORS
Regional
Peter Whelan, THE DIVINE RIGHT/ THE HERBAL BED
Fringe
Martin McDonagh, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE
BOOKS
Fiction
Jane Rogers, PROMISED LANDS
Non-Fiction
Francis Spufford, I MAY BE SOME TIME: ICE AND THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION
Children
Michael Morpurgo, THE BUTTERFLY LION
Ted Willis Lifetime Achievement Award
Wole Soyinka
The Writers’ Guild Award
The Arvon Foundation
New Writer of the Year
Diran Adebayo, SOME KIND OF BLACK
Non English Language Award
John Owen, YN GYMYSG OLL I GYD