Last night. my L.A. Times colleague Todd Martens caught a jolly ole goof while we prepared The Envelope's report on the winners of BAFTA's TV Awards. The official website lists two different winners!

Go to the site's main TV page, click on the link at right marked "Television Award Winners" and you'll see that Stephen Dillane ("The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall") was named champ for portraying an attorney who fought to find the Israeli Defense Force sniper who killed his son while the lad was serving as a British humanitarian volunteer in Gaza in 2003.

But, wait! Go back to the main BAFTA TV page, click on the link marked "Winners' List" underneath the box with flashing images, then click on the link "Actor" and you'll see that Ben Whishaw ("Criminal Justice") won for playing a slacker accused of murdering his gal pal during a pill-popping, vodka-swilling romp.

Obviously, Dillane really won the prize. On the first awards page noted above, you can see a video of him accepting the prize. But how did this goof occur? And why is the mistake still -- as of 4:30 p.m. PST, at the BAFTA website? Gold Derby e-mailed the org's leaders and PR reps yesterday to ask these pressing questions, but no one has yet responded.

Photos: BAFTA.org, BBC One, C4

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