1999 BAFTA Awards
Best Design*
Best Drama Serial*
Best Make Up/Hair*
Best Sound (Fiction/Entertainment)*
Best Actor for Timothy Spall
Best Costume Design
Best Editing (Fiction/Entertainment)
Best Original Television Music
Best Photography and Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment)

1999 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Best Actor for Timothy Spall*
Best Drama Series/Serial*

1998 RTS Television Awards (Royal Television Society)
Best Production Design - Drama*
Team Award*
Best Make Up Design - Drama

1999 San Francisco International Film Festival Certificate of Merit
Television - Drama-Miniseries*

* awards won