2009 British Academy Scotland Awards

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The 2009 British Academy Scotland Awards were held on 8 November 2009 at the Glasgow Science Centre, honouring the best Scottish film and television productions of 2009.^[1] Presented by BAFTA Scotland, accolades are handed out for the best in feature-length film that were screened at British cinemas during 2008. The Nominees were announced on 17 October 2009.^[2] The list caused some controversy for the lack of film actresses making the nominations.^[3] The ceremony was hosted by Lorraine Kelly.^[4]

Bill Forsyth, Jeremy Isaacs, David Jones and Patrick Doyle were honoured with Outstanding Contribution awards at this ceremony.^[5]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Feature Film	Best Director in Film/Television
Crying With Laughter Kurdi New Town Killers	Armando Iannucci – In the Loop Richard Jobson – New Town Killers Caroline Paterson & Stuart Davids – Wasted
Best Acting Performance (Film)	Best Short Film
*Peter Capaldi – In the Loop* as Malcolm Tucker** Stephen McCole – Crying With Laughter as Joey Frisk James Anthony Pearson – New Town Killers as Sean MacDonald	Life of a Pigeon – Billy Campbell The Bedfords – Henry Coombes Little Red Hooide – Joern Utkilen Peter in Radioland - Johanna Wagner
Best Actor (Television)	Best Actress (Television)
*Robert Carlyle – The Unloved* as Father** Bill Paterson – Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen as Niven David Tennant – Doctor Who as The Doctor	*Daniela Nardini – New Town* as Meredith McIlvanney** Lindsay Duncan – Margaret as Margaret Thatcher Stella Gonet – Holby City as Jayne Grayson
Best Writer Film/Television	Best Entertainment Programme
Armando Iannucci – In the Loop Annie Griffin – New Town Ed McCardie – Shameless Justin Molotnikov - Crying With Laughter	Rab C Nesbitt – (BBC Scotland), (The Comedy Unit) Cowards – (BBC Four) No Holds Bard – (BBC Scotland) Shrink Rap - (Channel 4)
Best Factual Series	Best Factual Programme
Terry Pratchett: Living With Alzheimer's – (BBC Two) Girls Behind Bars – (BBC Scotland)	Sighthill Stories – (BBC) Dave Kidney Superstar – (BBC Scotland) In Shackleton's Footsteps – (BBC)
Best Television Drama	Best Interactive
New Town – (BBC Scotland) Eadar-Chluich – (BBC Alba) Eilbheas – (BBC Alba) River City – (BBC Scotland)	Cybraphon – Found British Music Experience – ISO The Lost Book – Binary Fable
Best Current Affairs	Best Children's Programme
Panorama: Britain's Homecare Special – (BBC Scotland) BBC Scotland Investigates: Scotland's Brand New Bank – (BBC Scotland) Eorpa – (BBC Scotland)	KNTV - The Act of Sex – (Channel 4) Ooglies – (CBBC), (BBC Scotland)
Best Game	Best Animation
Flock – Proper Games Ltd Championship Manager 2010 – Dynamo Games Low Grav Racer – Cobra Mobile	The Happy Duckling – Gili Dolev Astronaut – Jamie Stone, Anders Jedenfors
Best Web
Blipfoto.com – Channel 4 BBC China Stories Website – (BBC Scotland) BBC Robert Burns Website – (BBC Scotland) The Big Plus - Work Skills Academy – (Screen Media)

Outstanding Contribution to Film

Bill Forsyth

Outstanding Contribution to Craft (In Memory of Robert McCann)

Patrick Doyle

Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting

Jeremy Isaacs

Outstanding International Achievement (Digital Media)

David Jones

References

^ British Academy Scotland Awards Full List of Winners & Nominations 2009
^ STV Online Article on 2009 Nominations
^ Scotsman Newspaper Article: 'Bafta Scotland: Stars line up but women are missing'
^ Broadcast Magazine Article: 'Ianucci wins Bafta Scotland awards'
^ Scotsman Newspaper Article: 'In The Loop scoops Scottish Baftas hat-trick'