News: South Bank Sky Arts Awards Nominations For Camping, Fleabag, People Just Do Nothing

Camping, Fleabag and People Just Do Nothing have been nominated as Best Comedy in the 21st South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

Camping, by Julia Davis, was broadcast on Sky Atlantic. Fleabag, by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and People Just Do Nothing first went out on BBC Three.

As previously announced character comic Kieran Hodgson is nominated for a Breakthrough Award.

The 21st ceremony will take place on Sunday 9th July at The Savoy Hotel and is broadcast on Sky Arts on Wednesday 12th July. 

There are ten categories in total - Comedy, Classical Music, Dance, Film, Literature, Opera, Pop Music, Theatre, TV Drama, and Visual Arts. The full nominations are below. 

       Classical Music

  • Tom Coult, Spirit of the Staircase, London Sinfonietta/Martyn Brabbins

  • Dunedin Consort, Monteverdi Vespers, Lammermuir Festival

  • Philharmonia Orchestra, Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals

    Comedy

  • Camping, Sky Atlantic

  • Fleabag, BBC Three

  • People Just Do Nothing, BBC Three

    Dance

  • English National Ballet, Akram Khan’s Giselle

  • Richard Alston Dance Company, An Italian in Madrid

  • Northern Ballet, Jane Eyre

    Film

  • American Honey

  • I, Daniel Blake

  • Under the Shadow

    Literature

  • The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain

  • The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, Hisham Matar

  • Swing Time, Zadie Smith

    Opera

  • 4.48 Psychosis, Royal Opera House

  • Nothing, Glyndebourne Youth Opera

  • Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle), Opera North

    Pop Music

  • The 1975, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

  • David Bowie, Blackstar

  • Skepta, Konnichiwa

    Theatre

  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre

  • The Shakespeare Trilogy, Donmar at King’s Cross

  • Yerma, Young Vic

    TV Drama

• Happy Valley, BBC One

  • National Treasure, Channel 4

  • The Crown, Netflix

    Visual Art

  • John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea

  • George Shaw: My Back to Nature

  • Artangel, Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

    Times Breakthrough Nominees:

    Classical -Sheku Kanneh-Mason Comedy - Kieran Hodgson Dance - Vidya Patel
    Film - Lewis MacDougall Literature - Joseph Knox Opera - Natalya Romaniw

    Pop Music - Sampha Theatre - Kate O’Flynn
    TV Drama - Malachi Kirby Visual Art - Rachel Kneebone

    The Outstanding Achievement Award will be announced on the day of the ceremony 

 

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