This is a list of awards and nominations received by Doctor Who, a British science-fiction television series. Overall, Doctor Who has received 173 awards and 470 nominations.
Awards Anglophile Awards Year Category Nominee(s) Result 2016 Best Actor in a Television Series Peter Capaldi
Audie Awards The Audie Awards are annually presented by the American Audio Publishers Association for audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.
Year Category Nominee(s) Result 2015 Best Package Design Doctor Who: The Light at the End 2017 Best Audio Drama Doctor Who: Death and the Queen Doctor Who: The War Doctor: Only The Monstrous 2021 Doctor Who: Stranded 1
Audio and Radio Industry Awards The Audio and Radio Industry Awards are annually presented by the Radio Academy to award excellence in UK radio and audio presenting and production.
Year Category Nominee(s) Result 2021 Best Fictional Storytelling Doctor Who: Out of Time
BAFTA In 2006 Doctor Who was nominated for the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA), shortlisted in the "Drama Series" category. Doctor Who was also nominated in several other categories in the BAFTA Craft Awards, including Writer (Russell T Davies), Director (Joe Ahearne), and Break-through Talent (production designer Edward Thomas). However, it did not win any of its categories at the Craft Awards.
On 22 April 2006, the programme won five categories (out of 14 nominations) at the lower-profile BAFTA Cymru awards, given to programmes made in Wales. It won Best Drama Series, Drama Director (James Hawes), Costume, Make-up and Photography Direction. Russell T Davies also won the Siân Phillips Award for Outstanding Contribution to Network Television. At the BAFTA Cymru awards the following year the programme won eight of the 13 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Actor for David Tennant and Best Drama Director for Graeme Harper.
On 7 May 2006, the winners of the British Academy Television Awards were announced, and Doctor Who won both of the categories it was nominated for, the Best Drama Series and audience-voted Pioneer Award. Russell T Davies also won the Dennis Potter Award for Outstanding Writing for Television. Writer Steven Moffat won the Writer category at the 2008 BAFTA Craft Awards for his 2007 Doctor Who episode "Blink".
The series also won awards at the BAFTA Cymru ceremony on 27 April 2008, including "Best Screenwriter" for Steven Moffat, "Best Director: Drama" for James Strong, "Best Director Of Photography: Drama" for Ernie Vincze, "Best Sound" for the BBC Cymru Wales Sound Team and "Best Make-Up" for Barbara Southcott and Neill Gorton (of Millennium FX).
In March 2009, it was announced that Doctor Who had again been nominated in the "Drama Series" category for the British Academy Television Awards; however, it lost to the BBC series Wallander at the Awards on Sunday 26 April. The series picked up two BAFTAs at the British Academy Television Craft Awards on Sunday 17 May. Visual Effects company The Mill won the "Visual Effects" award for the episode "The Fires of Pompeii" and Philip Kloss won in the "Editing Fiction/Entertainment" category.
In 2011 Matt Smith was nominated for best television actor at the 2011 Bafta Television Awards, but eventually lost out to Daniel Rigby from Eric and Ernie. It was the first time an actor portraying the Doctor had received such a nomination.
In 2012 the production team was nominated for the BAFTA Craft Awards Visual Effects category.
BAFTA Cymru Awards Year Category Nominee(s) Result 2006 Best Drama Series/Serial Phil Collinson Best Actor Christopher Eccleston Best Actress Billie Piper Best Director – Drama James Hawes for "The Christmas Invasion" Best Screenwriter Russell T Davies Best Original Music Soundtrack Murray Gold for "The Christmas Invasion" Best Sound Paul Jefferies, Paul McFadden, Ian Richardson and Tim Ricketts Best Director of Photography – Drama Ernest Vincze for "The Christmas Invasion" Best Costume Lucinda Wright Best Make-Up Davie Jones and Neill Gorton Best Design Edward Thomas for "The Christmas Invasion" Best Graphics/Titles The Mill for "The Christmas Invasion" Siân Phillips Award for Outstanding Contribution to Network Television Russell T Davies 2007 Best Actor David Tennant for "Doomsday" Best Actress Billie Piper for "Doomsday" Best Screenplay Russell T Davies for "Doomsday" Best Director – Drama Graeme Harper for "Doomsday" Best Drama Series Phil Collinson for "Doomsday" Best Original Music Soundtrack Murray Gold for "The Impossible Planet" Best Costume Louise Page for "The Girl in the Fireplace" Best Make-Up Neill Gorton and Sheelagh Wells for "The Girl in the Fireplace" Best Design Edward Thomas for "The Girl in the Fireplace" Best Director of Photography – Drama Rory Taylor for "Tooth and Claw" Best Editor Cripspin Green for "Tooth and Claw" Best Lighting Director: Not Camera Mark Hutchings for "New Earth" 2008 Best Drama Series/Serial Phil Collinson for "Voyage of the Damned" Best Director James Strong for "Voyage of the Damned" Best Screenwriter Steven Moffat for "Blink" Best Sound BBC Wales sound team for "Voyage of the Damned" Best Director of Photography – Drama Ernest Vincze for "Voyage of the Damned" Best Costume Louise Page for "The Shakespeare Code" Best Make-Up Neill Gorton and Barbara Southcott for "The Shakespeare Code" 2009 Best Drama Series/Serial Phil Collinson Best Director – Drama Euros Lyn for "Silence in the Library" Best Screenwriter Russell T Davies for "Midnight" Best Original Music Soundtrack Murray Gold for "Midnight" Best Sound Julian Howarth, Tim Ricketts, Paul McFadden and Paul Jefferies for "Midnight" Best Director of Photography – Drama Rory Taylor for "Silence in the Library" Best Make-Up Barbara Southcott for "The Next Doctor" Best Editor Philip Kloss for "Midnight" 2010 Best Drama Series/Serial Tracie Simpson for "The End of Time: Part One" Best Make-Up Barbara Southcott for "The End of Time: Part One" Best Design Edward Thomas for "The Waters of Mars" 2011 Best Sound Tim Ricketts for "A Christmas Carol" Best Make-Up & Hair Barbara Southcott for "The Vampires of Venice" Best Editing: Fiction William Oswald for "The Time of Angels" Best Lighting Mark Hutchings for "The Eleventh Hour" 2012 Best Television Drama Marcus Wilson for "The Impossible Astronaut" Best Sound The Doctor Who sound team for "The Wedding of River Song" Best Digital Creativity & Games BBC Wales interactive team, Sumo Digital & Revolution Software for "Doctor Who: The Adventure Games – The Gunpowder Plot" 2013 Best Sound The Doctor Who sound team Best Editing William Oswald for "The Snowmen" 2014 Best Sound The Doctor Who sound team Best Special Effects The Doctor Who Effects team Best Music and Entertainment Programme Doctor Who at the Proms 2015 Best Actor Peter Capaldi for "Dark Water" Best Actress Jenna Coleman for "Kill the Moon" Best Editing Will Oswald for "Dark Water" Best Special and Visual Effects Doctor Who Production Team for "Last Christmas" Best Titles and Graphic Identity Doctor Who Production Team for "Deep Breath" 2016 Technical Achievement Commendation BBC Cymru, BBC Digital Creativity, Aardman Animations for Doctor Who Game Maker Sound & Music Commendation for Doctor Who Game Maker Best Editing Will Oswald Best Special and Visual Effects, Titles and Graphic Identity Doctor Who Production Team for "The Magician's Apprentice" 2019 Best Special and Visual Effects Doctor Who Production Team for "The Doctor Falls" Outstanding Actress Jodie Whittaker Excellence in Production Design Arwel Wyn Jones Outstanding Television Drama Doctor Who 2020 Best Director Lee Haven Jones for "Spyfall Part2" Best Editing Rebecca Trotman 2024 Actor Ncuti Gatwa Editing Tim Hodges Make-Up and Hair Claire Williams Sound Sound Team Writing Russell T Davies
BAFTA Scotland Awards Year Category Nominee(s) Result 2008 Best Writer Steven Moffat 2009 Best Actor David Tennant 2015 Best Actress Michelle Gomez Best Writer Steven Moffat 2016 Best Actor Peter Capaldi 2025 Best Actor Ncuti Gatwa Audience Award
BAFTA TV Awards Year Category Nominee(s) Result 1977 'Harlequin' (Drama/Light Entertainment) Philip Hinchcliffe 1978 Graham Williams 2006 Best Drama Series Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner Best Director Joe Ahearne Best Writer Russell T Davies Audience Award Doctor Who Break-Through Talent Edward Thomas New Media Developer Jo Pearce and Andrew Whitehouse for "Attack of the Graske" Dennis Potter Award Russell T Davies 2007 Best Editing Fiction/Entertainment Crispin Green Best Visual Effects The Mill 2008 Best Writer Steven Moffat for "Blink" Best Original Television Music Murray Gold Best Sound Fiction/Entertainment BBC Wales sound team 2009 Best Drama Series Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Susie Liggat Best Writer Russell T Davies for "Midnight" Best Editing Fiction/Entertainment Philip Kloss 2010 Best Visual Effects The Mill 2011 Best Actor Matt Smith Best Visual Effects The Mill 2012 Best Visual Effects The Mill 2013 Best Visual Effects and Graphic Design The Mill Best Original Television Music Murray Gold for "Asylum of the Daleks" 2014 Radio Times Audience Award "The Day of the Doctor" Best Special Effects Milk VFX, Real SFX, The Model Unit for "The Day of the Doctor" Best Entertainment Craft Team Alex Hartman, Saul Gittens, Dan Evans, Amer Iqbal for "Doctor Who at the Proms" 2015 Best Visual Effects Milk VFX, Real SFX, BBC Wales VFX 2016 Best Supporting Actress Michelle Gomez Best Visual Effects Milk VFX, Millennium FX, Real SFX, Molinare 2019 Virgin Media's Must-See Moment for "Rosa refuses to move" "Rosa" 2024 P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award for "Ncuti Gatwa being revealed as the 15th Doctor" "The Giggle" Titles and Graphic Identity Dan May, James Coore, Painting Practice, Realtime Visualisation for "Wild Blue Yonder"
BBC Auntie Awards In 1996, BBC television held the "Auntie Awards" as the culmination of their "TV60" series, celebrating 60 years of BBC television broadcasting, where Doctor Who was voted as the "Best Popular Drama" the corporation had ever produced, ahead of such ratings heavyweights as EastEnders and Casualty. All people involved into the last years of the series were rewarded, including actors Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor) and Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor), who became the first actors to win an award for their role as the Doctor.
Year Category Nominee(s) Result 1996 Best Popular Drama Series Doctor Who
BBC Audio Drama Awards The BBC Audio Drama Awards is an awards ceremony created by BBC Radio to recognise excellence in the radio industry, in particular in audio dramas. The first awards were presented in 2012 and the ceremony has been located at BBC Radio's home Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House. Two Doctor Who audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions have won the Best Audio Drama Award, in 2014 and 2017 respectively.
Year Category Nominee(s) Result 2014 Best Online or Non-Broadcast Drama Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 2015 Doctor Who: The Light at the End Jago & Litefoot: Encore of the Scorchies 2017 Best Online Only Audio Drama Doctor Who: Absent Friends Doctor Who: Death and the Queen 2019 Best Actor Derek Jacobi for The War Master: Beneath the Viscoid 2023 Best Podcast Audio Drama Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures
BBC's "Drama Best Of" Doctor Who was extremely popular at the BBC.co.uk's online "Best of Drama" poll and swept all the categories (except "Worst Drama") in both 2005 and 2006, the last two years it was made.
In 2005 it beat 29 other nominations with more than 50% of votes in every category, except Best Villain, especially winning Best Drama with 55.86% (ahead of the second-ranked series Bleak House with 15.95%). It also reached the second place in three categories it was nominated twice (Best Actor, Favourite Moment and Most Desirable Star, with the four highest ranks for the last one).