On Tuesday, 26 January 2010, Melvyn Bragg will host the final South Bank Show Awards in front of a star-studded audience at The Dorchester, London.
These unique awards celebrate the best of British talent across the arts including Classical Music, Comedy, Dance, Film, Literature, Opera, Pop, Theatre, TV Drama and Visual Arts.
The ballroom will be filled with glittering talent from across this spectrum to celebrate their strength of artistic achievement on the very special occasion of this final ceremony.
“These are the only awards in the world wholly devoted to the arts," Melvyn explains. "They reflect the range covered by The South Bank Show over the years. Time & again the judges have turned up with apparently rather offbeat lists which have contained artists whose work has gone on to be central to the culture. And it is great fun!”
The full list of award nominations is as follows:
Dance
Diversity – Dance Troupe
E=mc² – David Bintley – Birmingham Royal Ballet
Limen – Wayne McGregor – Royal Opera House
Pop
Florence + the Machine - Lungs
Frankmusik – Complete Me
The xx - xx
Films
An Education
Fish Tank
The Damned United
Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire – Donmar Warehouse
Jerusalem – Jez Butterworth – Royal Court Theatre
The Habit of Art – Alan Bennett – National Theatre
Comedy
Home Time – BBC2
The Inbetweeners – E4
The Thick Of It – BBC2
TV Drama
Being Human – BBC3
Collision – ITV1
Red Riding – CH4
Classical Music
City of Dreams: Vienna 1900-1935 – Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Nielsen Inextinguishable – A cycle of concerts performed by The Hallé Orchestra and The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Easter Reflections – The Sixteen
Opera
Into the Little Hill / Down by the Greenwood Side – Linbury Studio – ROH2 / The Opera Group / London Sinfonietta
Peter Grimes – ENO
The Fairy Queen – Glyndebourne
Visual Arts
Richard Long – Tate Britain
Roger Hiorns – Seizure
Anish Kapoor - RA
Literature
Forest Gate – Peter Akinti
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds
Arts Council England’s Diversity Award
Julie McNamara – Playwright and performing artist
Jenny Sealey – Graeae Theatre Company
Clean Break – Theatre, Education, new Writing
The Times Breakthrough Award – to be presented by Sir Ian McKellen
Alina Ibragimova – for Classical Music
Emma Fryer – for Comedy
Melissa Hamilton – for Dance
Carey Mulligan – for Film
Peter Akinti – for Literature
Daniel Kramer – for Opera
The xx – for Pop
Lucy Prebble – for Theatre
Suranne Jones – for TV Drama
David Blandy – for Visual Art
Outstanding Achievement Award in association with The Dorchester
To be announced on the day
The South Bank Show Awards will be broadcast on ITV1 on Sunday 31 January 2010.
