Stephen Fry, Grayson Perry, Emilia Fox, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan to join a host of stars at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards hosted by Melvyn Bragg
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards confirms another stellar line-up of guests to this year’s event which will take place on Sunday 7th June at the Savoy Hotel.
Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Emily Mortimer and Ophelia Lovibond - whose The Trip to Italy (BBC Two), Doll & Em (Sky Living) and WIA (BBC Two) respectively will go head-to-head for the Comedy award – will attend, alongside stars from the world of dance, theatre, literature, visual art and more in the only award ceremony to recognise the broad spectrum of arts across the UK.
Guests including Emilia Fox, Richard E Grant, Christopher Eccleston and Jessica Hynes will join their peers from the acting world at the awards, whilst up-and-coming individuals from across all nomination categories including, from the comedy world, Sara Pascoe, will attend to see who will be named The Times Breakthrough Award winner.
Mark Strong, who starred in the Young Vic’s A View from the Bridge, will attend, along with Rupert Goold who directed King Charles III at the Almeida and Wyndham’s Theatre, which both go up against the Donmar Warehouse’s Henry IV.
Bringing together a diverse range of music stars, from Anna Netrebko and Nitin Sawhney to violinists Maxim Vengerov and Tasmin Little, with the great and good of the Visual Arts world, including Grayson Perry, Gavin Turk and Don McCullin, this year’s guest list is as broad and exciting as ever.
From the world of dance, Sylvie Guillem, Akram Kahn, Matthew Bourne and Tamara Rojo are just some of the world-renowned names who will walk the red carpet on the Sunday night.
David Nicholls, whose novel Us is nominated for the literature prize commented: “I grew up watching The South Bank Show on a Sunday night, so it’s a particular honour to find myself amongst such an eclectic array of talent from all corners of the Arts world”
Emily Mortimer added: “The South Bank Awards were always the coolest and classiest. To be nominated alongside such talented people from all areas of the Arts, is thrilling. We are very flattered and can't believe our luck.”
Various famous faces will join Melvyn Bragg on stage throughout the evening to present the awards, with categories across Dance, Opera, Literature, Pop, Film, Visual Art, Comedy, TV Drama, Theatre and Classical - plus the Outstanding Achievement Award and The Times Breakthrough Award. Details of the evening’s classical and pop music performances are still to be announced.
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Notes to Editors
The South Bank Sky Arts 2015 Awards Nominees:
Dance
A Dream within a Midsummer Night’s Dream - Ballet Black
Lest We Forget - English National Ballet
The Winter’s Tale - The Royal Ballet
Opera
Die Frau Ohne Schatten - The Royal Opera House
Moses Und Aron - Welsh National Opera
Khovanskygate: A National Enquiry- Birmingham Opera Company
Literature
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - Henry Marsh
H is for Hawk - Helen MacDonald
Us - David Nicholls
Pop
LP1 - FKA Twigs
Dead - Young Fathers
In The Lonely Hour - Sam Smith
Film
Pride
Paddington
Under the Skin
Visual Art
Dock, Tate Britain - Phyllida Barlow
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red - Artist Paul Cummins, installation designed by Tom Piper, Tower of London
Who Are You? Channel 4 and National Portrait Gallery - Grayson Perry
Comedy
Doll & Em - Sky Living
W1A - BBC Two
The Trip to Italy - BBC Two
TV Drama
Line of Duty, Series 2 - BBC Two
Happy Valley - BBC One
The Honourable Woman - BBC Two
Theatre
A View from the Bridge - Young Vic
King Charles III - Almeida Theatre / Wyndham’s Theatre
Henry IV - Donmar Warehouse
Classical
40 Years Young - Arditti Quartet
The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 -City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maxwell Davies’ Symphony No. 10, Alla ricerca di Borromini - London Symphony Orchestra
Times Breakthrough Nominees
Luke Pasqualino - TV Drama
Luke Bedford - Classical
James Capper - Visual Art
Nicky Spence - Opera
Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Film
Francesca Hayward - Dance
LoneLady - Pop
Sara Pascoe - Comedy
Emma Healey - Literature
1927 - Theatre
About The South Bank Sky Arts Awards
The glittering ceremony is hosted annually by the South Bank Show editor and presenter Melvyn Bragg, and previous winners include Harold Pinter, J. K. Rowling, Dame Judi Dench, The Who, Seamus Heaney, Tom Stoppard, Tracey Emin and Alfred Brendel.
The judges of this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards are Gillian Greenwood, writer and South Bank Show producer, who will act as Chair; Alex O’Connell, Arts Editor at The Times; Baz Bamigboye, Entertainment Columnist at The Daily Mail; Boyd Hilton the TV & Reviews Editor at Heat Magazine; Richard Brooks the Arts Editor at The Sunday Times; Sarah Donaldson the Arts Editor at The Observer; Matt Cain the writer & broadcaster; Hugh Montgomery the Arts Editor at The Independent on Sunday and Sarfraz Manzoor the writer & broadcaster.
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards is produced for Sky Arts by Director’s Cut Productions’ Cathy Haslam and is commissioned by Celia Taylor, Head of Non-Scripted at Sky.
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