Awards Archive

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19th Annual Satellite Awards (2015)

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CONGRATULATIONS to Nicola!

Nicola has received a nomination in the 2014 Satellite Awards, in the category of Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for her work on Last Tango in Halifax. Please scroll down the page to get to Nicola’s category.

We believe the nomination is for Nicola’s work on Series 1 of this show. No other cast member from the show managed to score a nomination for these awards.

Winners will be announced in Los Angeles on 15 February 2015. It is unlikely that Nicola will attend the presentation ceremony, whether or not she will win, because she will be appearing on stage at the Wyndham Theatre for A View from the Bridge.

The Satellite Awards are annual awards voted on and awarded by the International Press Academy.

The International Press Academy (IPA) is an entertainment media association with voting members worldwide who represent domestic and foreign markets via print, television, radio, blogs, and other content platforms for virtually every notable outlet.

Many thanks to members of the Academy who voted to get Nicola on the shortlist in her category.

The other nominees in Nicola’s category are :

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Ann Dowd The Leftovers HBO
Allison Tolman Fargo FX
Michelle Monaghan True Detective HBO
Sarah Paulson American Horror Story FX
Zoe Kazan Olive Kitteridge HBO

This is Nicola’s first nomination from a US awards organisation, and we are certain it won’t be her last. We are very pleased that Nicola has finally earned some recognition in North America for her work. Fingers and toes tightly crossed!

Thanks, SofieB, for the heads up on this nomination ๐Ÿ˜€

16 February 2015

The winners have been announced. Unfortunately, Nicola did not win in her category. ๐Ÿ™

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2015 Whats On Stage Awards

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Nicola has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress in a Play category in the 2015 Whats On Stage Awards, for her work in A View from the Bridge.

These awards are voted on by fans only, so get voting by going to the WhatsOnStage website. The voting period will expire on 31 January 2015. Winners will be announced on 15 February 2015.

You do not have to vote in every category although you can, if you want to. Every vote counts, but each person is only allowed to vote once – you will be asked to register an email address and their system will tag your computer and IP address to prevent multiple votes logged by the same person. There is no geographic restriction on voting – you can vote from anywhere in the world!

Whilst you are there, why not also vote for Nicola’s co-star in the same play, Mark Strong, who has been nominated in the Best Actor in a Play category.

Nicola has never before appeared on a shortlist of nominees for the Whats On Stage Awards. In 2012, she was included in the longlist of nominees for her work in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. In this Post, we urged fans to vote Nicola through to the shortlist but in the end, Nicola didn’t make it.

Good luck, Nicola! ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿ˜€

16 February 2015

The winners have been announced. Unfortunately, Nicola didn’t win in her category. ๐Ÿ™

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2014 BAFTA Nomination

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Nicola has received her first BAFTA TV Awards nomination, in the Best Supporting Actress category, for her work as Gillian in Series 2 of Last Tango in Halifax.

The following actresses are also nominated in the same category as Nicola :

Sarah Lancashire for Last Tango in Halifax
Claire Rushbrook for My Mad Fat Diary
Shirley Henderson for Southcliffe

Sarah Lancashire is Nicola’s co-star in Last Tango in Halifax. Nicola has described Claire Rushbrook as one of her best friends. Amongst other projects, Claire was in Shiner [Film] and 50 Revolutions [Stage] with Nicola. When Claire was in Collision, a candid photo showing Claire and Nicola was used as a prop – see this Fun Fact for more details.

Nicola doesn’t think she will win and is rooting for Shirley Henderson to win, since she is the only nominee she does not know personally. We hope this is merely pre-awards jitters talking.

Download the 2014 BAFTA TV Awards Full List of Nominations. The awards will be handed out in London on Sunday, 18 May 2014. Best of luck to Nicola! ๐Ÿ˜€

18 May 2014

You can read a copy of the BAFTA Awards Brochure HERE. Amongst other things, this Brochure lists the names of the members of the jury who voted on the various categories.

The Guardian thinks that Nicola should win, in her category, whilst the Telegraph doesn’t think she deserved her nomination!

We’re crossing all of our fingers and toes!!!

Red carpet interview

And the winner is …

Sarah Lancashire!

Here’s Sarah Lancashire’s acceptance speech and backstage interview :

 
 

Sarah thanked Nicola THREE times in her acceptance speech!!!
 

BAFTA Boothnation taken from wholia87.tumblr.com

BAFTA Boothnation
taken from wholia87.tumblr.com

 

Better luck next time, Nicola ๐Ÿ™

Red Carpet Report

For those of you who’ve been wondering since Awards night last Sunday, we have a red carpet report and pics HERE.

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2013 Olivier Awards

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26 March 2013 : She’s nominated!

CONGRATULATIONS to Nicola on being nominated in the category of Best Actress in a Supporting Role in the 2013 Olivier Awards!!!

Nicola has been nominated for her role as Judy, Christopher’s mother in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. She is recognised as having given a “moving and heart-wrenching performance” during the Play’s initial run at the National Theatre’s Cottesloe Theatre in 2012. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time has earned 8 nominations, the most number of nominations in the 2013 Olivier Awards. Read the press release HERE. Nicola and Luke Treadaway (as Christopher) are the only cast members who earned acting nominations. For all information which we have collected on this Play when Nicola was still involved, go HERE. You can check out a full list of the 2013 nominees in all categories HERE.

ยฉManuel Harlan / Royal National Theatre

ยฉManuel Harlan / Royal National Theatre

This is Nicola’s first nomination for an Olivier Award. Each of the four other actresses is a previous Olivier Awards nominee/winner so the competition in this category will be intense :

  • Anastasia Hille for The Effect
  • Cush Jumbo for Julius Caesar
  • Helen McCrory for The Last of the Haussmans and
  • Janie Dee for NSFW
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    The Olivier Awards are the most prestigious theatre related awards in the UK. Nicola has often said in the past that she considers herself a stage actress first who does occasional roles on TV. So this nomination must mean a lot for her. You can find out more about the history of the Olivier Awards and how the awards are voted on by going to The official Olivier Awards website.

    We have high hopes that Nicola will attend the award ceremony which will be held at the Royal Opera House, London on 28 April 2013.

    The play is still being staged at the West End. If you’re interested in going (even though Nicola is no longer involved), HERE is the theatre’s official website.

    28 April 2013 : She Won!!!

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    MANY MANY CONGRATULATIONS to Nicola. She’s won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for her performance in the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. This award must mean a lot to her since she’s always considered herself a stage actress first who dabbles in TV work on the side.

    The 2013 Olivier Awards was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2. There was no direct telecast. It is difficult for us to understand the logic (of the power-that-be) of giving coverage to an awards show which celebrates visual arts only via an audio channel! After the actual ceremony finished, iTV broadcast only an edited highlights show for general viewers which was heavy on all the musical numbers but cut all of the speeches from the winners in the Drama category, with the exception of big names like Helen Mirren. You can view the full results on the official Olivier Awards homepage. Click on each category to see the names of the nominees and the winner in that category.

    Nicola’s acceptance speech

    Nicola was presented with her award by her Spooks co-star, Rupert Penry-Jones. The Awards was a bit of a Spooks Alumni meeting, as in addition to Rupert, Lara Pulver and Anna Chancellor were also there as presenters. In addition, Suranne Jones, Nicola’s co-star from Scott & Bailey was also there as a presenter.

    In the televised version of the Awards Ceremony, Nicola was allotted only 14 seconds of screen time. A fan has very helpfully uploaded this clip onto YouTube :

     

    The ever wonderful and resourceful @SofieB_, who was on the red carpet, also filmed this clip from the outdoor broadcast.

    We managed to tape Nicola’s acceptance speech off the BBC Radio 2 broadcast and present it here for your hearing pleasure. Warning : Nicola used one word which BBC Radio 2 felt might be offensive to some listeners. If you’re the easily offended type, then don’t click on this clip. The Olivier Awards and BBC Radio 2 own the copyright in this audio clip. No infringement is intended.

    9 August 2013

    Finally!!! The Official London Theatre channel on YouTube has put the clip of Nicola accepting her award on YouTube.

     
     

    Nicola pics at the event

    You can look in HERE for 28 pics of Nicola on the red carpet and back stage. You can also see Nicola on stage in this photo from the official Oliver Awards website. For copyright reasons, we can’t present those images here.

    Nicola’s dress

    You can find more information about the dress HERE and HERE. We said it on Twitter, and we’ll say it again here : whoever helped Nicola put together her look for awards night – hair, makeup + dress, brought out the beauty that is Nicola in real life. Thank you, kind sir/madam!

    Thank you, Ruth (@theoofoof) for finding the information on the dress for us. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Turn the page to read press coverage after the awards ceremony.

     

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    2013 WOS Awards

    Please vote for Nicola, for her role in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, in the 2013 Whats on Stage Awards.

    Whats on Stage is a UK publication and website which is devoted to publicising all things relating to UK Theatre. It has been very supportive of Nicola in the past, so we should support it in its annual awards campaign. You have until end November 2012 to log nominations for the long list in various categories. The long list will be whittled down, eventually, to a short list, and the winners will be announced and awarded in a glittering ceremony held in London sometime in February 2013. This is the only awards relating to UK Theatre which is voted entirely by fans and theatre goers.

    We voted for Nicola in the Best Actress category. Just to be on the safe side, we also voted for her in the Best Supporting Actress category. Show your support for Nicola and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and get voting. Apart from the actress categories, you should also consider voting for nominations for the play in the following categories :

  • Best Actor (Luke Treadaway)
  • Best Actress / Best Supporting Actress (both Nicola, of course)
  • Best Ensemble Performance
  • Best New Play
  • Best Direction
  • Best Choreography
  • Best Music
  • Best Set Designer and
  • Best Lighting Designer
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    Voting in relation to the long list is easy and is open to all fans, wherever you are in the world. For the long list, you may be able to vote multiple times (though we wouldn’t encourage it), but do remember that once the nominees make it to the shortlist and fans are to vote again for the eventual winners, each fan can only register one vote in each category for one email address.

    Isn’t The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time one of the best plays you have ever seen? Remember how lovely Nicola looked, all dressed up, walking the red carpet in the 2012 TV BAFTAs? Don’t you want to see her walk the red carpet again? Then get voting!

    Update : 7 December 2012

    Whats On Stage have published the Short List of all nominees and you can go through the list HERE.

    Many congratulations to Luke Treadaway and the Production Team for having made the Short List in various categories. We’re very disappointed that Nicola didn’t make it in either the Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress in a Play category. No matter. Get voting now for Luke (Christopher), Marianne (the Director), Bunny (the Set Designer), Simon (the playwright), Paule (Lighting Designer) and the Ensemble in their categories. Make sure they win!!!

    Update : 17 February 2013

    Of the 6 categories the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time was nominated in, it won only “Best New Play”. You can check out the full list of winners HERE.

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    2011 BAFTA TV Nominations

    For the last few months, we have been running a poll on this fansite :

    Should Nicola Walker be nominated for a BAFTA* for her exemplary work in Spooks Series 9?

    • 92% of you said, Yes, absolutely!
    • 7% of you said, No, it was good work, but not good enough for a BAFTA yet.
    • 1% asked, What’s a BAFTA?

    (A big THANK YOU to everyone who cast a vote in this Poll!)

    The 2011 BAFTA Television Awards nominees were announced on 26 April 2011. Nicola was not named as one of the nominees. There could be several reasons for this :

    • No entry was submitted for consideration by or on behalf of Nicola for Spooks Series 9
    • An entry was submitted for consideration by or on behalf of Nicola but it did not make the shortlist in the relevant category announced today.

    To be up for consideration for a BAFTA in the performance category, an entry must be submitted by the actor/actress in question, or someone on his/her behalf, such as a Director or the production company. Whilst it is possible for a BAFTA member to originate the nomination process, this is rarely done, except perhaps in the case of the Fellowship (i.e. Lifetime Achievement) Award. These nominations are not generated by fans. For Nicola, she would have been eligible for a nomination in either the Lead Actress or Supporting Actress categories for Spooks Series 9. Unlike the Emmy Awards in the US, the TV BAFTAs do not have a category which rewards excellence as a guest performer in either a Drama or Comedy series. So Nicola’s guest appearances in Luther and Being Human would not have been eligible for consideration. As for her guest appearance in Law & Order : UK, that episode was broadcast in the UK on 21 March 2011, i.e. after the deadline was closed on 28 February 2011, so even if there was a category for guest performances, it would not have been eligible for consideration.

    Although the BAFTA rules say that there is no entry fee for the performance categories (there is a small fee payable for submitting entries in the production categories), performers and production companies must still incur considerable expense in mounting a BAFTA campaign, from the production of copies of the submitted episodes to the BAFTA voters for consideration, meeting and greeting the voters to solicit votes, to attending the actual ceremony, dressed to the nines.

    Whilst it would have been nice if Nicola did receive a nomination for her work in Spooks Series 9, we have to remember that there are many, many talented British actors and actresses who have never been nominated, or have been nominated but didn’t win an award. As long as Nicola continues to be gainfully employed, us fans would be happy for the chance to watch her on screen or listen to her dulcet tones via audio programmes.

    To understand more about the BAFTA nomination and voting process, you can download a copy of the Rules and Guidelines for the British Academy Television Awards HERE.

    You can view a full list of the nominees HERE.

    The winners will be announced at a gala event to be held on 22nd May 2011. This event is usually televised live on British TV on the day.

    *BAFTA stands for British Academy of Film and Television Arts