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The three-part series will centre around the New Cross fire tragedy in 1981, and the events that followed.
The late Paul Ritter has also received a posthumous nomination for Friday Night Dinner.
Against a backdrop of a hostile wider society and brewing political tensions, lovers rock music and parties were a cocoon of serenity.
The Oscar-award winning director's series of five BBC films is made up of Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red, White And Blue, Alex Wheatle and Education.