Victoria Wood has made BAFTA history by receiving her twelfth nomination - this time for her role in Housewife, 49.

The programme was created by the comedienne and has also picked up a nomination for best single drama.

BAFTA chairman Peter Salmon told the BBC: "Victoria Wood is a queen of comedy in some ways. She has now been at the top of her game for 20 years - fantastic success story."

The BAFTA awards ceremony will take place at the London Palladium on May 20.

The full list of nominations is as follows:

ACTOR
JIM BROADBENT - Longford (Channel 4)
ANDY SERKIS - Longford (Channel 4)
MICHAEL SHEEN - Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (BBC4)
JOHN SIMM - Life On Mars (BBC1)

ACTRESS
ANNE-MARIE DUFF - The Virgin Queen (BBC1)
SAMANTHA MORTON - Longford (Channel 4)
RUTH WILSON - Jane Eyre (BBC1)
VICTORIA WOOD - Housewife 49 (ITV1)

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE
ANT & DEC - Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1)
STEPHEN FRY - QI (BBC2)
PAUL MERTON - Have I Got News For You (BBC1)
JONATHAN ROSS - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC1)

COMEDY PERFORMANCE
DAWN FRENCH - The Vicar Of Dibley (BBC1)
RICKY GERVAIS - Extras (BBC2)
STEPHEN MERCHANT - Extras (BBC2)
LIZ SMITH - The Royle Family: Queen Of Sheba (BBC1)

SINGLE DRAMA
HOUSEWIFE 49 - Victoria Wood, Piers Wenger, Gavin Millar, David Threlfall (ITV1/ITV Productions)
KENNETH WILLIAMS: FANTABULOSA! - Andy de Emmony, Ben Evans, Martyn Hesford (BBC4/BBC Drama)
LONGFORD - Peter Morgan, Tom Hooper, Helen Flint, Andy Harries (C4/Granada Productions for C4 in assoc. with HBO)
ROAD TO GUANTANAMO - Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross (C4/Revolution Films)

DRAMA SERIES
LIFE ON MARS - Production Team (BBC1/Kudos Film & Television)
SHAMELESS - Production Team (C4/Company Pictures)
SUGAR RUSH - Production Team (C4/Shine Productions)
THE STREET - Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, David Blair, Ken Horn (BBC1/Granada Productions)

DRAMA SERIAL
LOW WINTER SUN - Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Simon Donald, Rhonda Smith (C4/Tiger Aspect Productions)
PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT - Andrew Benson, Philip Martin, Frank Deasy, Andy Harries (ITV1/ITV Productions)
SEE NO EVIL: THE MOORS MURDERS - Lisa Gilchrist, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope, Chris Menaul (ITV1/ITV Productions)
THE VIRGIN QUEEN - Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, Paul Rutman (BBC1/A BBC Drama/Power co-production)

CONTINUING DRAMA
CASUALTY - The Production Team (BBC1/BBC)
CORONATION STREET - Stephen Russell, Tim O'Mara, Steve Frost, Kieran Roberts (ITV1/ITV Productions)
EASTENDERS - The Production Team (BBC1/BBC Drama Production Studios)
EMMERDALE - Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, Lindsay Williams, Piotr Szkopiak (ITV1/ITV Productions)

FACTUAL SERIES
ROSS KEMP ON GANGS - Clive Tulloh, Amelia Hann, Ross Kemp (Sky One/Tiger Aspect Productions)
STEPHEN FRY - THE SECRET LIFE OF A MANIC DEPRESSIVE - Production Team (BBC2/IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group)
TRIBE - James Smith, Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ (BBC2/BBC)
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? - Alex Graham, Lucy Carter (BBC2/Wall To Wall)

SPECIALIST FACTUAL*
MUNICH: MOSSAD'S REVENGE - Anthony Geffen, Tom Whitter, Peter Miller, Calum Walker (C4/Atlantic Productions Ltd)
NUREMBERG: GOERING'S LAST STAND - Peter Nicholson, Simon Berthon, Dan Korn, Piers Vellacott (C4/3BM Television)
PLANET EARTH - Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield (BBC1/BBC)
SIMON SCHAMA'S POWER OF ART - Clare Beavan, Simon Schama, Basil Comely, Mark Harrison (BBC2/BBC London Arts)

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY
BREAKING UP WITH THE JONESES - Ursula Macfarlane, Saskia Wilson, Dave Nath, Gregor Lyon (C4/Betty TV)
EVICTED - Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley, Jeremy Wales, Katy Sheppard (BBC1/True Vision)
9/11: THE FALLING MAN - Henry Singer, John Smithson, Sue Bourne, Julian Ware (C4/Darlow Smithson Productions)
RAIN IN MY HEART - Paul Watson (BBC2/BBC)

FEATURES
THE APPRENTICE - Dan Adamson, Sanjay Singhal, Martyn Smith, Sir Alan Sugar (BBC2/TalkbackThames/Mark Burnett Productions)
THE CHOIR - Jamie Isaacs, Ludo Graham, Drew Hill, Sam Grace (BBC2/Twenty Twenty)
DRAGONS' DEN - Helen Bullough, Dominic Bird, Paul Mackay (BBC2/BBC Entertainment)
THE F WORD - Ben Adler, Jon Swain, Pat Llewellyn, Eileen Herlihy (C4/Optomen Television)

SPORT
THE BOAT RACE - John Watts, Tony Pastor, John McKenna, Phil Heslop (ITV1/ITV Sport)
F1: HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX - JENSON BUTTON'S FIRST WIN - Neil Duncanson, Gerard Lane (ITV1/North One Television)
CRICKET ON FIVE - Jeff Foulser, Gary Franses, Dylan Jane, Diana Keen (Five/Sunset and Vine Productions)
WINTER OLYMPICS - BBC Sport Production Team (BBC2/BBC Sport)

NEWS COVERAGE
BBC TEN O'CLOCK NEWS - TERRORISM PLOT AT HEATHROW - BBC Ten O'Clock News Team (BBC1/BBC News)
CHANNEL 4 NEWS - NEWS FROM IRAN - Jon Snow, Deborah Rayner, Ben Monro-Davies, Martin Collett (C4/ITN)
GRANADA REPORTS: MORECAMBE BAY - Production Team (ITV/Granada)
ITV EVENING NEWS - THE ISRAEL/LEBANON CRISIS - Julian Manyon, Mark Austin, Geoff Hill, Rob Bowles (ITV1/ITN)

INTERACTIVITY
DISPATCHES - WAR TORN: STORIES OF SEPARATION - David Modell, Cassian Harrison, Oliver Doward (Channel4.com/Dispatches)
MELTDOWN AND THE BIG CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENT - Frances McNamara, Jonathan Renouf, Paul Bradshaw, Tolu Aina (Supporting BBC4)
THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL - Clive Tulloh, Lisle Turner, Mike Agnew, Adil Abrar (C4/Tiger Aspect Productions)
TERRY PRATCHETT'S HOGFATHER - Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown, Ian Sharples (Sky One Networked Media)

INTERNATIONAL
ENTOURAGE - Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson (ITV2/HBO)
HOUSE - David Shore (Five/Heal and Toe Films/Shore Z Productions/Bad Hat Harry Productions in assoc with NBC Universal Television Studio)
LOST - JJ Abrams, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender (Sky One/Buena Vista International Television)
MY NAME IS EARL - Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Bobby Bowman (C4/Twentieth Century Fox)

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
DANCING ON ICE - Production Team (ITV1/ITV Productions)
DERREN BROWN: THE HEIST - Derren Brown, Simon Mills, Andrew O'Connor, Anthony Owen (C4/Objective Productions)
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIA? - Production Team (BBC1/BBC Entertainment)
THE X FACTOR - Richard Holloway, Claire Horton, Andrew Llinares, Siobhan Greene (ITV1/TalkbackThames in association with SYCO TV)

SITUATION COMEDY
GREEN WING - Victoria Pile, Dominic Brigstocke, Tristram Shapeero, Rob Harley (C4/TalkbackThames)
THE IT CROWD - Ash Atalla, Graham Linehan, Derrin Schlesinger, Lorraine Heggessey (C4/TalkbackThames)
PULLING - Sharon Horgan, Dennis Kelly, Phil Bowker, Tristram Shapeero (BBC3/Silver River)
THE ROYLE FAMILY: QUEEN OF SHEBA - Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, John Rushton, Phil Mealey (BBC1/Granada Productions)

COMEDY PROGRAMME
THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW - Gordon Anderson, Aschlin Ditta, Geoffrey Perkins, Catherine Tate (BBC2/Tiger Aspect Productions)
LITTLE BRITAIN ABROAD - Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Matt Lipsey, Geoff Posner (BBC1/BBC Comedy)
LITTLE MISS JOCELYN - Gary Reich, Jemma Rogers, Gareth Carrivick, Jocelyn Jee Esien (BBC3/Brown Eyed Boy Productions)
THAT MITCHELL & WEBB LOOK - David Kerr, Gareth Edwards, Robert Webb, David Mitchell (BBC2/BBC Comedy)

PIONEER AUDIENCE AWARD
LIFE ON MARS
THE ROYLE FAMILY: QUEEN OF SHEBA
DRAGONS' DEN
THE VICAR OF DIBLEY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
PLANET EARTH
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER