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- EastEnders is a British soap opera that has aired on BBC One since 19 February 1985. It has been nominated for a variety of different awards including 21 British Academy Television Awards (ten wins), 13 Royal Television Society Programme Awards (four wins), 27 Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards (17 wins) and 332 British Soap Awards (84 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 ten times, in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2019, with a further eight nominations (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2015), and Best Drama Series once, in 1997. The show has received 21 nominations in the Most Popular Serial Drama category at the National Television Awards, which it has won 12 times. It has also won Best Soap at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards four times, in 2002, 2009, 2010 and 2011, with further nominations in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. At The British Soap Awards, it has won Best British Soap 11 times, Best Storyline four times and Best Single Episode three times. 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, from 2008 to 2012, and in 2014. In the TV Choice awards, it won Best Soap in 1999, from 2001 to 2003, in 2006, from 2008 to 2012, in 2014 and 2015. 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, TV Choice 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. (en)
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