List of Awards and Nominations Received By East Enders

List Of Awards And Nominations Received By East Enders

EastEnders is a British soap opera series that has aired on BBC One since 19 February 1985. It has been nominated for a variety of different awards including 15 British Academy Television Awards (eight wins), 10 Royal Television Society Programme Awards (four wins), 18 Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards (12 wins) and 243 British Soap Awards (69 wins). Its first award, for Favourite Programme, was given by the Anna Scher Theatre on 24 January 1986.

At the British Academy Television Awards, EastEnders has won the Best Soap or Best Continuing Drama Award seven times, in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2013, with a further seven nominations (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012), and Best Drama Series once, in 1997. The show has received 17 nominations in the Most Popular Serial Drama category at the National Television Awards, which it has won 10 times. It has also won Best Soap at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards four times, in 2002, 2009, 2010 and 2011, with a further five nominations in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012 and 2013.

At The British Soap Awards, it has won Best British Soap ten times (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; also nominated in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2013), Best Storyline three times (1999 for the storyline for when Tiffany Mitchell discovers her mother's affair with her husband Grant, 2008 for the aftermath of Max Branning and Stacey Slater's affair and 2010 for "Who Killed Archie?"), and Best Single Episode three times (in 2006 for an Armistice Day episode, 2002 for the episode where Zoe Slater learns that Kat is her mother and 2010 for "EastEnders Live"). In 2013, Adam Woodyatt won a lifetime achievement award for his portrayal of Ian Beale.

The show has won Inside Soap's Best Soap Award every year from 1996 to 2006, and again every year from 2008 to 2012. In the TVChoice awards, it won Best Soap in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

In March 2009, EastEnders won its third TRIC award in the category TV Soap of the Year, having also won similar categories at the British Soap Awards, National Television Awards, TVChoice Awards, and Inside Soap Awards within 10 months. EastEnders' Executive Producer Diederick Santer commented that this was due to having "the most talented cast and crew in the business, and the most fantastic and dedicated audience."

Several different EastEnders actors have received acting award nominations for their performances in the show. June Brown is the only EastEnders actor to receive a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and Patsy Palmer is the only one to be nominated in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Simon May won a TRIC award in 1986 for the EastEnders theme tune. Co-creator Tony Holland and writer Tony Jordan have also been honoured. As of March 2011, EastEnders has been nominated for over 800 awards and won more than 290.