Uganda Film Festival Award for Best Television Drama explained

Uganda Film Festival Award for Best Television Drama
Awarded For:	Excellence in Cinematic Television Production Achievement
Presenter:	Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)
Country:	Uganda
Year:	2016

The Uganda Film Festival Award for Best Television Drama is an award presented annually by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) at the Uganda Film Festival Awards. The award which was introduced in 2016 to include television categories, is given in honor of a television producer who has exhibited outstanding production for television series.

Winners and nominees

The table shows the winners and nominees for the Best Television Drama award.

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Year	Television	Producer(s)
2016	Coffee Shop	Mukeera Dennis Joshia
Deception	George Khihumba
It Can’t Be	Richard Mulindwa
Taste of Time	Paul Mugisha
2017	Yat Madit	Irene Kulabako Kakembo	^[1]
Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa
The Honourables	John Ssegawa
Coffee Shop	Davidson Mugume
Second Chance	Phad Mutumba
2018	Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa	^[2]
Live Your Dreams
Anti Kale
Taste of Time
2019	Family	Mathew Nabwiso
The Honourables	John Ssegawa
Game of Lies
Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa
2021	Prestige
Sanyu
Mistakes Girls Do	Richard Mulindwa
What If
Chapters
2022	Prestige
Sanyu
Kyaddala
What If
Loving Tyra

Multiple wins and nominations

By A Television Drama

No Television drama has won this award multiple times. However, several television dramas have received multiple nominations for this award over years as seen below;

Nominations	Television Drama
4	Mistakes Girls Do
2	The Honourables
	Taste of Time
	Coffee Shop

By a Producer

No producer has received multiple wins for this award. Some producers have received multiple nominations for their television series. Richard Mulindwa received nominations for different television series.

Nominations	Producer
6	Richard Mulindwa ^[3]
2	John Ssegawa

Records

• In 2017, Irene Kulabako Kakembo was the first female producer whose television drama series (Yat Madit) was nominated for the award, and became the first female producer to win the award with the same series that same year.

Notes and References

1. Web site: OFFICIAL NOMINEES LIST FOR THE UGANDA FILM FESTIVAL 2017 . UFF . 13 March 2020.
2. Web site: UCC releases list of movies nominated for Uganda Film Festival awards . Sqoop . 13 March 2020.
3. News: Andrew Kaggwa . Mulindwa tops Uganda Film festival nominees . 13 March 2020 . Observer.