The 2002 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 21 April 2002. The ceremony was hosted by the television presenter Chris Tarrant and broadcast on ITV the following day.

• Best Actor
  • Winner: Michael Gambon – Perfect Strangers (BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Alan Bates – Love in a Cold Climate (BBC One); Timothy Spall – Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (BBC Two); David Suchet – The Way We Live Now (BBC One)
• Best Actress
  • Winner: Julie Walters – My Beautiful Son (ITV)
  • Other nominees: Lindsay Duncan – Perfect Strangers (BBC Two); Sheila Hancock – The Russian Bride (ITV); Lesley Sharp – Bob & Rose (ITV)
• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
  • Winner: The Sketch Show (Avalon Television / Baby Cow Productions / ITV)
  • Other nominees: BrassEye Special (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Vera Productions / Channel 4); The Kumars at No. 42 (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Two)
• Best Comedy Performance
  • Winner: Ricky Gervais – The Office (BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Kathy Burke – Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC Two); Robert Lindsay – My Family (BBC One); Joanna Lumley – Absolutely Fabulous (BBC One)
• Best Drama Serial
  • Winner: The Way We Live Now (BBC / WGBH / Deep Indigo / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Bob and Rose (Red Production Company / ITV); Perfect Strangers (TalkBack Productions / BBC Two); The Russian Bride (Monogram Productions / ITV)
• Best Drama Series
  • Winner: Cold Feet (Granada Television / ITV)
  • Other nominees: At Home with the Braithwaites (Yorkshire Television / ITV); Clocking Off (Red Production Company / BBC One); Tales from Pleasure Beach (Blast Film Productions / BBC Two)
• Best Single Drama
  • Winner: When I Was 12 (BBC / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: My Beautiful Son (Granada Television / ITV); The Navigators (Parallex Films / Channel 4); Othello (London Weekend Television / ITV)
• Best Soap Opera
  • Winner: EastEnders (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Coronation Street (Granada Television / ITV); Doctors (BBC / BBC One); Hollyoaks (Mersey Television / Channel 4)
• Best Current Affairs
  • Winner: Dispatches: Beneath the Veil (Hardcash Productions / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Endgame in Ireland (Brook Lapping / BBC Two); Panorama - Jeffrey Archer: A Life of Lies (BBC / BBC One); One Day of Terror – New York Witnesses (BBC / BBC Two)
• Best Entertainment Performance
  • Winner: Graham Norton – So Graham Norton (Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Ant and Dec – Pop Idol (ITV); John Bird and John Fortune – Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4); Paul Merton – Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One)
• Best Factual Series or Strand
  • Winner: Horizon (BBC / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: The Blue Planet (BBC / BBC One); Langan Behind the Lines (BBC / BBC Two); Welcome to Britain (BBC / BBC One)
• Best Feature
  • Winner: Faking It (RDF Media / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Farmer Wants a Wife (Thames Television / ITV); The Sound of Music Children: After They Were Famous (Tyne Tees Television / ITV); What Not to Wear (BBC / BBC Two)
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
  • Winner: Kelly and Her Sisters (Carlton Television / ITV)
  • Other nominees: True Stories – Battlecentre (Diverse Productions / Channel 4); Ellen MacArthur – Sailing Through Heaven and Hell (BBC Wales / BBC One); When Louis Met The Hamiltons (BBC / BBC One)
• Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
  • Winner: Arena – The Private Dirk Bogarde (Various / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: The 1940s House (Wall to Wall / Channel 4); The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Granada Television / Channel 4); Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song (BBC / BBC Two)
• Best Entertainment Programme or Series
  • Winner: Pop Idol (Thames Television / 19 TV / ITV)
  • Other nominees: Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One); Parkinson (BBC / BBC One); Room 101 (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Two)
• News Coverage
  • Winner: September 11 – 12 (Sky News / Sky News)
  • Other nominees: Attack on America – 11 September (ITN / Channel 4); Attack on America – 11 September (ITN / ITV); The BBC News Coverage of the Fall of Kabul – 12 November – 13 November (BBC News / BBC One / BBC Two / BBC News 24)
• Situation Comedy Award
  • Winner: The Office (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Gimme Gimme Gimme (Tiger Aspect Productions / Hartswood Films / BBC Two); Happiness (BBC / BBC Two); Spaced II (London Weekend Television / Channel 4)
• Sport
  • Winner: Channel 4 Cricket (Sunset + Vine / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: British Grand Prix, Silverstone 2001 – Farewell to Murray Walker (Chrysalis Sport / Granada Sport / ITV); FA Cup Final 2001 – Liverpool vs Arsenal (ISN / Carlton Television / ITV); Germany vs England (BBC / BBC One)
• Innovation Award
  • Winner: Doubletake (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Banzai (RDF Media / E4 / Channel 4); The Blue Planet – The Deep (BBC / BBC One); BrassEye Special (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
• Special Award
  • BBC Natural History Unit
• The Alan Clarke Award
  • Verity Lambert
• The Dennis Potter Award
  • Stephen Poliakoff
• Academy Fellowship
  • Andrew Davies
• Special Award for Contribution to Television
  • Murray Walker

• Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 4, 2006).
• British Academy Television Awards 2002 Archived 2008-12-31 at the Wayback Machine at the Internet Movie Database.