Video - Bittersweet moment as Bafta honours Sheridan Smith again: Nominations in full

Her performance as cancer victim Lisa Lynch in BBC1’s The C-Word won universal plaudits, but the subject of the film did not live to see it.

Mrs Lynch was the author of an irreverent blog and later a book about her experience of breast cancer. She started writing it after her diagnosis at 28 while trying to get pregnant, and before it was finished she and Miss Smith were close friends.

When the film was screened last May, the actress tweeted: “I know she’ll be watching with us.”

Today’s accolade was the second successive Bafta nomination for Miss Smith, whose family is from Epworth, near Doncaster. Last year she was shortlisted for her portrayal of the singer Cilla Black in an ITV mini-series, and later this year she will appear in The Moorside Project, a factual drama from the same producer about the faked kidnapping of Dewsbury schoolgirl Shannon Matthews in 2008.

At this year’s Baftas, which will be presented in London on May 8, Miss Smith will face competition from Wolf Hall star Claire Foy, Doctor Foster’s Suranne Jones and Ruth Madeley, star of the BBC’s Don’t Take My Baby, a film about a disabled couple whose parenting skills are called into doubt.

Both it and The C-Word will also compete for Best Single Drama, alongside the Channel Four docu-drama Cyberbully and The Go-Between, an updated version of LP Hartley’s 1953 novel.

Idris Elba is in the running to pick up the Best Actor Bafta for his performance in the BBC crime series, Luther.

He is nominated alongside London Spy’s Ben Wishaw, Wolf Hall’s Mark Rylance and Stephen Graham from This Is England ’90.

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s fictionalised account of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII, was among the most-nominated productions today, with a further entry in the Best Drama Series category and a Supporting Actor nod for Anton Lesser.

Channel Four’s skinhead drama This Is England ‘90 and BBC1 comedy Peter Kay’s Car Share received three nominations each.

This Is England ’90, filmed partly in Sheffield, was director Shane Meadows’ spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England, and a sequel to the TV productions This Is England ‘86 and This Is England ‘88.

Car Share’s co-star Sian Gibson was nominated for best female performance in a comedy programme, Peter Kay for male performance, and the show for Best Scripted Comedy.

The BBC’s perennial favourite, The Great British Bake Off, in which former Leeds resident Nadiya Hussain was last year crowned best amateur baker, received its fifth consecutive shortlisting in the features category, which it won in 2012 and 2013, and a further nomination for the Radio Times Audience Award.

Film and TV star Sir Ian McKellen was nominated as best supporting actor for Ronald Harwood’s play The Dresser, a previous version of which was filmed at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre.

This is his first Bafta TV nomination, although he has been nominated three times for Bafta Film awards.

Michelle Gomez was recognised for her role as Missy in Doctor Who in the best supporting actress category.

Singer Adele received her first Bafta nomination, for the TV special Adele At The BBC.

The programme saw her in conversation with Graham Norton about her career and comeback, and she also performed songs from her new album, 25.

She is nominated for best entertainment programme, alongside Britain’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing and Chris Evans’ TFI Friday anniversary special.

NOMINATIONS IN FULL

• Leading actor:

Ben Whishaw - London Spy

Idris Elba - Luther

Mark Rylance - Wolf Hall

Stephen Graham - This Is England ‘90

• Leading actress:

Claire Foy - Wolf Hall

Ruth Madeley - Don’t Take My Baby

Sheridan Smith - The C-Word

Suranne Jones - Doctor Foster

• Supporting actor:

Anton Lesser - Wolf Hall

Cyril Nri - Cucumber

Ian McKellen - The Dresser

Tom Courtenay - Unforgotten

• Supporting actress:

Chanel Cresswell - This Is England ‘90

Eleanor Worthington-Cox - The Enfield Haunting

Lesley Manville - River

Michelle Gomez - Doctor Who

• Entertainment performance:

Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show

Leigh Francis - Celebrity Juice

Romesh Ranganathan - Asian Provocateur

Stephen Fry - QI

• Female performance in a comedy programme:

Michaela Coel - Chewing Gum

Miranda Hart - Miranda

Sian Gibson - Peter Kay’s Car Share

Sharon Horgan - Catastrophe

• Male performance in a comedy programme:

Hugh Bonneville - W1A

Javone Prince - The Javone Prince Show

Peter Kay - Peter Kay’s Car Share

Toby Jones - Detectorists

• Single drama:

The C-Word

Cyberbully

Don’t Take My Baby

The Go-Between

• Mini-series:

Doctor Foster

The Enfield Haunting

London Spy

This Is England ‘90

• Drama series:

Humans

The Last Panthers

No Offence

Wolf Hall

• Soap and continuing drama:

Coronation Street

EastEnders

Emmerdale

Holby City

• International:

The Good Wife

Narcos

Spiral

Transparent

• Factual series:

The Detectives

Great Ormond Street

The Murder Detectives

The Tribe

• Specialist factual:

Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners

Grayson Perry’s Dream House

The Hunt

Rudolf Nureyev’s Dance To Freedom

• Single documentary:

Bitter Lake

Life After Suicide

Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids

My Son The Jihadi

• Features:

Back In Time For Dinner

The Great British Bake Off

Kevin McCloud: Escape To The Wild

Travel Man

• Reality and constructed factual:

First Dates

Gogglebox

I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds

• Current affairs:

Children Of The Gaza War

Escape From Isis (Dispatches)

Jihad: A British Story

Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola (This World)

• Entertainment programme:

Adele At The BBC

Britain’s Got Talent

Strictly Come Dancing

TFI Friday Anniversary Special

• Comedy and comedy entertainment programme:

Charlie Brooker’s Election Wipe

Have I Got News For You

QI

Would I Lie To You

• Scripted comedy:

Chewing Gum

Peep Show

People Just Do Nothing

Peter Kay’s Car Share

• Radio Times audience award (voted for by members of the public)

Doctor Foster

The Great British Bake Off

Humans

Making A Murderer

Peter Kay’s Car Share

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