List of awards and nominations received by The Bill explained

The Bill
Wins:	17
Nominations:	64

The Bill is a British police procedural television series that ran from 1984 to 2010. The show, whose name is derived from "old bill"—a British slang term for police officers—was unusual among police dramas in that it focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work. The series originated in 1983 as a one-off drama titled Woodentop (another British slang term for the police, derived from the helmets worn by British police officers), written by Geoff McQueen and produced by Thames Television. ITV were sufficiently impressed with Woodentop that they commissioned a series, which started in 1984 under the title of The Bill. At the time of the series' end in August 2010, The Bill was the United Kingdom's longest-running police drama and was among the longest-running of any British television series, having run for almost 27 years.^[1]

The Bill has earned various awards and nominations during its run, with the nominations in categories ranging from Best Drama to its camera and editing work to the cast's acting performance. It received nominations for eight awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, winning Best Video Cameraman in 1990 and Best Continuing Drama in 2009—an award for which it was unsuccessfully nominated in a further three years. In addition, The Bill enjoyed success at the Inside Soap Awards, where it won Best Drama six times, including four consecutive wins, as well as a nomination in 2010—losing to Waterloo Road.^[2] Other awards include a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Soap/Continuing Drama Series in 2008, Best Serial Drama at the Digital Spy Soap Awards of the same year and a nomination for Most Popular Overseas Drama at the 2005 Logie Awards. The Bill has also received multiple nominations at the EMMAs, National Television Awards, where it won Most Popular Drama in 1996 and 2004, and six Royal Television Society award nominations, having won awards in 2006 and 2008.

Awards and nominations

British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result
1990	Best Video Cameraman	Roy Easton, Rolie Luker, Adrian J. Fearnley
	Best VTR Editor	John Beech,Ray Ball, Laurie Bunce
1991	Best Sound (Fiction)	Alan Lester, Paul Gartrell
1994	Best Drama Series	Michael Chapman (Executive Producer)
		The Bill
	Best Continuing Drama	The Bill
	Best Continuing Drama	The Bill
	Best Continuing Drama	The Bill

Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result
2002	Best TV Actress
2003		Best TV Actor
	Best TV Actress	Diane Parish as DC Eva Sharpe

National Television Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result
	Most Popular Drama^[3]	The Bill
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Most Popular Newcomer
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Most Popular Newcomer
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Most Popular Newcomer
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Most Popular Actor
	Most Popular Actress
	Most Popular Newcomer
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill
	Outstanding Drama Performance	Alex Walkinshaw as Sergeant Dale "Smithy" Smith
	Most Popular Drama	The Bill

Royal Television Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result
2004	Best Lighting, Photography and Camera – Multicamera Work	Camera team (live episode)
2006	Best Sound Drama (live episode)	Alison Davis, Donna Wiffen, Sylvie Boden, John Osborne
	Best Lighting, Photography and Camera – Multicamera Work (live episode)	Sylvie Boden, Christopher Davies, Tony Keene, Donna Wiffen
2008	Best Soap or Continuing Drama	The Bill
2009	Best Soap or Continuing Drama	The Bill
2010	Best Soap or Continuing Drama	The Bill

Inside Soap Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result
2002	Best Drama	The Bill
2003	Best Drama	The Bill
2004	Best Drama	The Bill
2006	Best Drama	The Bill
2007	Best Drama	The Bill
2008	Best Drama	The Bill
2009	Best Drama	The Bill
2010	Best Drama	The Bill

TV Quick & TV Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominee	Result
2001	Best Loved Drama	The Bill
2002	Best Loved Drama	The Bill
2004	Best Actor	Cyril Nri (Superintendent Adam Okaro)
	Best Actress	Connie Hyde (PC Cathy Bradford)
	Best Loved Drama	The Bill
2005	Best Actor	Todd Carty (PC Gabriel Kent)
	Best Actress	Lisa Maxwell (DI Samantha Nixon)
		Roberta Taylor (Gina Gold)
	Best Loved Drama	The Bill
2006	Best Actress	Roberta Taylor (Inspector Gina Gold)
	Best Loved Drama Series	The Bill
2007	Best Actor	Chris Simmons (DC Mickey Webb)
		Alex Walkinshaw (Sergeant Dale "Smithy" Smith)
	Best Actress	Lisa Maxwell (DI Samantha Nixon)
		Gillian Taylforth (Sergeant Nikki Wright)
		Roberta Taylor (Inspector Gina Gold)
	Best Loved Drama Series	The Bill

Other

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
		Most Popular Overseas Drama	The Bill
2008	Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award	Best Soap/Continuing Drama Series	The Bill
		Best Serial Drama	The Bill
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