The South Bank Sky Arts Awards return July 18, with an in-person event at The Savoy London. The show will mark 25 years as the only Awards ceremony in the world to celebrate every genre of the arts, including Dance, Theatre, Pop, TV Drama, Film, Classical Music, Literature, Opera, Comedy and Visual Art.
Once again presented and edited by Melvyn Bragg, the list of nominees is suitably eclectic.
The Pop category features nominations for Dua Lipa, J Hus and SAULT, while the TV Drama category this year nods to RTS-winning, BAFTA-nominated BBC drama I May Destroy You, BAFTA-nominated anthology series Small Axe and BBC Two drama Industry.
Leading the Comedy category with two nominations is Channel 4 with sitcom Home and semi-autobiographical series Feel Good, alongside the BBC’s sitcom from the Horrible Histories team, Ghosts.
The movie Film category sees Sarah Gavron’s coming of age drama Rocks (pictured above), take on Rose Glass’ horror debut Saint Maud and Remi Weekes’ thriller His House.
Nominations for Theatre include the Kiln Theatre’s Pass Over, the Donmar Warehouse’s Blindness and the Harold Pinter Theatre and BBC Four collaboration, Uncle Vanya.
Opera North and Scottish Opera battle it out in the Opera category with Street Scene and Nixon In China respectively, with VOPERA also being nominated for L’enfant et les sortilèges.
Literature category noms this year include Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning and New York Times Bestseller, Shuggie Bain, alongside Maggie O’Farrell’s winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 novel, Hamnet and Paul Mendez’s semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age novel, Rainbow Milk.
Rounding out the Visual Art category are Denzil Forrester: Itchin & Scratchin from Nottingham Contemporary & Spike Island, Bristol, Hold Still from the National Portrait Gallery and unique, ground-breaking exhibition Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World.
Leaping into the Dance category, nominations include The Royal Ballet’s first main-stage work of Valentino Zucchetti’s Scherzo, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s first one-act ballet commissioned and presented by Carlos Acosta, Lazuli Sky, and Final Edition, the farewell performance from the Richard Alston Dance Company. Classical Music nominations include Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Petrenko’s Mahler I & II, The Lockdown Commissions Lawrence Power and Pavel Kolesnikov’s and Samson Tsoy’s Second Ragged Music Festival at the Ragged School Museum.
This year will see two additional awards: The Sky Arts Award for Innovation in the Arts During The Pandemic, awarded to both an institution and an individual, to acknowledge their outstanding work during the Covid-19 global pandemic. Winners of this category will be announced on the night.
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021 nominations in full
Visual Art Denzil Forrester: Itchin & Scratchin – Nottingham Contemporary & Spike Island, Bristol Hold Still – National Portrait Gallery Cold War Steve Meets The Outside World – Medway / Bournemouth / Liverpool / Coventry
Literature Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell Rainbow Milk – Paul Mendez
Pop Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia J Hus – Big Conspiracy SAULT – Untitled (Black Is)
Theatre Pass Over – Kiln Theatre Uncle Vanya (2020 Film) – Harold Pinter Theatre / BBC Four Blindness – Donmar Warehouse
TV Drama I May Destroy You – BBC One / HBO Small Axe – BBC One Industry – Bad Wolf/ BBC / HBO
Classical Music Petrenko’s Mahler I & II – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Lawrence Power – The Lockdown Commissions Second Ragged Music Festival – Ragged School Museum
Comedy Home, Series 2 – Jantaculum / Channel X / Channel 4 Feel Good – Objective Fiction & Objective Media Group Scotland / Channel 4 / Netflix Ghosts, Series 2 – Monumental Television / BBC One
Dance Scherzo – The Royal Ballet Lazuli Sky – Birmingham Royal Ballet Final Edition – Richard Alston Dance Company
Film Rocks Saint Maud His House
Opera Street Scene – Opera North Nixon in China – Scottish Opera L’enfant et les sortilèges – VOPERA
The Luxe Review 
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards return July 18, with an in-person event at The Savoy London. The show will mark 25 years as the only Awards ceremony in the world to celebrate every genre of the arts, including Dance, Theatre, Pop, TV Drama, Film, Classical Music, Literature, Opera, Comedy and Visual Art.
The event will air July 22 at 9pm on Sky Arts.
Once again presented and edited by Melvyn Bragg, the list of nominees is suitably eclectic.
The Pop category features nominations for Dua Lipa, J Hus and SAULT, while the TV Drama category this year nods to RTS-winning, BAFTA-nominated BBC drama I May Destroy You, BAFTA-nominated anthology series Small Axe and BBC Two drama Industry.
Leading the Comedy category with two nominations is Channel 4 with sitcom Home and semi-autobiographical series Feel Good, alongside the BBC’s sitcom from the Horrible Histories team, Ghosts.
The movie Film category sees Sarah Gavron’s coming of age drama Rocks (pictured above), take on Rose Glass’ horror debut Saint Maud and Remi Weekes’ thriller His House.
Nominations for Theatre include the Kiln Theatre’s Pass Over, the Donmar Warehouse’s Blindness and the Harold Pinter Theatre and BBC Four collaboration, Uncle Vanya.
Opera North and Scottish Opera battle it out in the Opera category with Street Scene and Nixon In China respectively, with VOPERA also being nominated for L’enfant et les sortilèges.
Literature category noms this year include Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning and New York Times Bestseller, Shuggie Bain, alongside Maggie O’Farrell’s winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 novel, Hamnet and Paul Mendez’s semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age novel, Rainbow Milk.
Rounding out the Visual Art category are Denzil Forrester: Itchin & Scratchin from Nottingham Contemporary & Spike Island, Bristol, Hold Still from the National Portrait Gallery and unique, ground-breaking exhibition Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World.
Leaping into the Dance category, nominations include The Royal Ballet’s first main-stage work of Valentino Zucchetti’s Scherzo, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s first one-act ballet commissioned and presented by Carlos Acosta, Lazuli Sky, and Final Edition, the farewell performance from the Richard Alston Dance Company. Classical Music nominations include Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Petrenko’s Mahler I & II, The Lockdown Commissions Lawrence Power and Pavel Kolesnikov’s and Samson Tsoy’s Second Ragged Music Festival at the Ragged School Museum.
This year will see two additional awards: The Sky Arts Award for Innovation in the Arts During The Pandemic, awarded to both an institution and an individual, to acknowledge their outstanding work during the Covid-19 global pandemic. Winners of this category will be announced on the night.
For more information, visit Sky Arts online.
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021 nominations in full
Visual Art
Denzil Forrester: Itchin & Scratchin – Nottingham Contemporary & Spike Island, Bristol
Hold Still – National Portrait Gallery
Cold War Steve Meets The Outside World – Medway / Bournemouth / Liverpool / Coventry
Literature
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
Rainbow Milk – Paul Mendez
Pop
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
J Hus – Big Conspiracy
SAULT – Untitled (Black Is)
Theatre
Pass Over – Kiln Theatre
Uncle Vanya (2020 Film) – Harold Pinter Theatre / BBC Four
Blindness – Donmar Warehouse
TV Drama
I May Destroy You – BBC One / HBO
Small Axe – BBC One
Industry – Bad Wolf/ BBC / HBO
Classical Music
Petrenko’s Mahler I & II – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Power – The Lockdown Commissions
Second Ragged Music Festival – Ragged School Museum
Comedy
Home, Series 2 – Jantaculum / Channel X / Channel 4
Feel Good – Objective Fiction & Objective Media Group Scotland / Channel 4 / Netflix
Ghosts, Series 2 – Monumental Television / BBC One
Dance
Scherzo – The Royal Ballet
Lazuli Sky – Birmingham Royal Ballet
Final Edition – Richard Alston Dance Company
Film
Rocks
Saint Maud
His House
Opera
Street Scene – Opera North
Nixon in China – Scottish Opera
L’enfant et les sortilèges – VOPERA
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