Nominations for South Bank Show awards unveiled
Atonement, the Arctic Monkeys, and Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger have been nominated for the 12th annual South Bank Show awards.
Atonement battles against This Is England, Shane Meadows’ film about growing up in a small coastal town in 1980s Britain, and Control, the critically acclaimed small budget story of Joy Division star Ian Curtis.
In the TV Drama category, Doctor Who is up against The Mark of Cain, the drama about two 18-year-olds serving in Iraq which Channel 4 had to postpone earlier this year because of the Iran hostage crisis.
The Arctic Monkeys are up against Radiohead and British folk singer Linda Thompson while the literature section pits authors Catherine O’Flynn, Adam Thorpe and Mohsin Hamid against each other.
Hamid is also nominated for the Decibel Award for his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Saint Joan, starring Anne-Marie Duff, at the National Theatre, Macbeth with Patrick Stewart at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Gielgud theatre, and The Masque of The Red Death at the Battersea Arts Centre are all nominated in the theatre category.
The South Bank Show Awards are unique in honouring artists and performers from the entire spectrum of the arts.
Melvyn Bragg, creator and presenter of The South Bank Show Awards, said of this year’s nominees: “An extraordinary roll call in achievement across the spectrum in the arts for the 2008 South Bank Show Awards.
“Whatever else is happening, the arts in this country are still at full throttle.”
The awards show is broadcast on ITV on February 3 and takes place in London on January 29.
The Nominations
:: Film
This Is England
Atonement
Control
:: Comedy
Hot Fuzz (Working Title Films)
Gavin and Stacey (BBC3)
Alan Carr Tooth Fairy Live
:: TV Drama
Doctor Who (BBC1)
The Mark of Cain (Channel 4)
Boy A (Channel 4)
:: Theatre
Saint Joan at the National Theatre
Macbeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre, then Gielgud
The Masque of The Red Death at the Battersea Arts Centre
:: Pop
Arctic Monkeys for Favourite Worst Nightmare
Radiohead for In Rainbows
Linda Thompson for Versatile Heart
:: Literature
Catherine O’Flynn for What Was Lost
Adam Thorpe for Between Each Breath
Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist
:: Classical Music
Traced Overhead: The Musical World of Thomas Ades at the Barbican
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at the Proms
Julian Anderson’s Alleluia world premiere at the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall
:: Visual Arts
Mark Wallinger for State Britain
Andy Goldsworthy at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
David Adjaye for Rivington Place
:: Opera
La Fille du Regiment at the Royal Opera House
Monkey: Journey To the West at the Manchester International Festival
The Turn of The Screw at the ENO
:: Dance
Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company for Programmes 1 and 2 at Sadler’s Wells
In Your Rooms choreographed by Hofesh Schechter for The Place, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Sadler’s Wells
Royal Ballet for Jewels
:: Arts Council England – Decibel Award
Daljit Nagra for Look We Have Coming To Dover!
Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Bernie Grant Arts Centre
:: The Times Breakthrough Award
Tom Hardy (TV Drama)
Lucy Crowe (Opera)
Jennifer Pike (Classical)
Tessa Farmer (Visual Art)
James Forbat (Dance)
Richard Milward (Literature)
Sharon Horgan (Comedy)
Stephen Wight (Theatre)
Bishi (Pop)
Sam Riley (Film)
