National Television Awards 2018 Nominations List
The full nominations list for this year’s National Television Awards have been announced. Scattered amongst the usual assortment of popular soaps, daytime TV staples and reality shows are best performance nods for Tom Hardy, David Tennant and Sherdian Smith. Perpetual winners Ant & Dec have once again made the shortlist twice, giving the diminutive double act the chance to add to their vast haul of previous awards. The NTAs will be broadcast by ITV on 23 January and presented by Dermot O’Leary. Till then check out the nominations list in full below:
Drama
Call The Midwife
Casualty
Doctor Foster
Game Of Thrones
Liar
Talent show
Britain’s Got Talent
Strictly Come Dancing
The Voice UK
The X Factor
Challenge show
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
Love Island
MasterChef
The Great British Bake Off
Crime drama
Broadchurch
Line Of Duty
Little Boy Blue
Sherlock
TV presenter
Ant & Dec
Bradley Walsh
Holly Willoughby
Phillip Schofield
Factual entertainment
Ambulance
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life And Legacy
Gogglebox
Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs
Drama performance
David Tennant, DI Alec Hardy, Broadchurch
Jenna Coleman, Queen Victoria, Victoria
Sheridan Smith, Julie Bushby, The Moorside
Suranne Jones, Gemma Foster, Doctor Foster
Tom Hardy, James Keziah Delaney, Taboo
The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award
All Round To Mrs Brown’s
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
Celebrity Juice
The Graham Norton Show
Serial drama
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Hollyoaks
Serial drama performance
Barbara Knox, Rita Tanner, Coronation Street
Danny Miller, Aaron Dingle, Emmerdale
Lacey Turner, Stacey Fowler, EastEnders
Lucy Fallon, Bethany Platt, Coronation Street
Comedy
Benidorm
Peter Kay’s Car Share
Still Open All Hours
The Big Bang Theory
Newcomer
Danny Walters, Keanu Taylor, EastEnders
Nathan Morris, Milo Entwistle, Hollyoaks
Ned Porteous, Tom Waterhouse, Emmerdale
Rob Mallard, Daniel Osbourne, Coronation Street
Daytime
Loose Women
The Chase
The Jeremy Kyle Show
This Morning
TV judge
David Walliams, Britain’s Got Talent
Paul Hollywood, The Great British Bake Off
Simon Cowell, Britain’s Got Talent / The X Factor
will.i.am, The Voice UK / The Voice Kids
Golden Globes 2018 Review
The Golden Globes officially kicked off the awards season of 2018 last night in Hollywood, with plenty of deserving winners and more than a few memorable moments. Mariah Carey mistakenly stole Meryl Streep’s seat, James Franco literally gave Tommy Wiseau an on stage facepalm and every man woman & child diligently wore black this year. Other than that it was a fairly typical night of celebration for some of the best work on the big and small screen.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the most easily identifiable ‘big winner’ of the night in the film categories. In addition to a best motion picture win, Frances McDormand scooped a predictable best actress award, with supporting actor Sam Rockwell and Martin McDonagh’s screenplay also winning.
Thanks to the golden globes unique division between drama and comedy categories, Greta Gerwig’s much hyped Ladybird also managed to take home a best picture win and a best actress award for Saoirse Ronan. It will be interesting to see how the two film’s fair when forced to compete more directly against each other in all the other awards seasons encounters. Mcdormand looks set to prevail in future best actress category but best picture could still prove to be a far more open contest.
Gary Oldman collected best actor for his prosthetic clad turn as wartime icon Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, while James Franco collected the comedic award for playing a very different type of icon Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. We’ll never know what Wiseau would have said had Franco permitted him to speak during his acceptance speech, but perhaps it’s more fun to wonder…
On that note, the supporting acting awards were won by two scene stealing turns from previously mentioned Sam Rockwell and Alison Janey. Janey’s delightfully foul mouthed portrayal of infamous skater Tonya Harding’s ruthlessly belligerent mother in I, Tonya alongside Margot Robbie could easily see her collect more statues as awards season progresses.
Best director was won by Guillermo Del Toro a man who’s impressively unique vision is matched only by his affable warmth in real life. Seeing him collect another prize for his darkly romantic fairytale The Shape Of Water is a welcome sight for all those who have had the privilege of being in his presence.
Rounding out the film categories Disney’s Coco picked up best animated film while In The Fade won in the best foreign language category. Hugh Jackman musical The Greatest Showman at least took home a token best song win, having arguabl missed it’s best chance of awards season in the comedy/musical categories.
In the television categories The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo and Big Little Lies largely divided honours amongst themselves. Rachel Brosnahan, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Elizabeth Moss on the various best actress categories while Ewan Mcgregor, Aziz Ansari, Alexander Skarsgard and Sterling K Brown took home the best actor awards.
Check Out Video Interviews below with Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, James Franco, Sam Rockwell, Alison Janey, Martin McDonagh and Guillermo Del Toro.