And the final award – for leading actor, goes to…published at 20:00 BST 10 May
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Spoiler alert
In another win for Adolescence, Stephen
Graham scoops best actor for his role in the Netflix four-part series – which he also co-created, co-wrote and co-produced.
He plays the father of a teen murder
suspect, grappling with the enormity of events as they unfold while realising how little he knows about his son, and his lack of control over the events surrounding the killing.
Graham hugs his wife Hannah Walters, who executive produced and co-created the show, before bowing down to the cast and crew sitting around him.
“I’ve been nominated eight times and this is the first time I’ve won,” he says, smiling as he is hugged on stage by last year’s winner Lennie James.
“Uncle Lennie just said ‘well done son’, so that’s it for me,” he says.
“When I was a kid, I watched Scully by Alan Bleasdale with the wonderful Drew Schofield,” he says, explaining that the actor “lived opposite my nana’s house – so he showed me I could be on the telly”.
“So for any other young kids – no matter when you’re from, anything is possible,” he says to the audience.
He adds that “we have the obligation to tell the human condition… to tell beautiful stories”, before accidentally swearing, and then swearing again as he chastises himself for his language, which raises quite a laugh.
“I had this sorted but now it’s just gone to pot,” he says, before signing off, saying:
“In the words of The Beatles – All You Need is Love.”
