Winners announced: 9 July 2017 at the Savoy Hotel, and broadcast on Sky Arts 12 July.
South Bank Sky Arts Awards – Nominations 2017
Classical Music
Winner: Philharmonia Orchestra, Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals
Tom Coult, Spirit of the Staircase, London Sinfonietta/Martyn Brabbins
Dunedin Consort, Monteverdi Vespers, Lammermuir
FestivalComedy
Winner: Fleabag, BBC Three
Camping, Sky Atlantic
People Just Do Nothing, BBC Three
Dance
Winner: English National Ballet, Akram Khan’s Giselle
Richard Alston Dance Company, An Italian in Madrid
Northern Ballet, Jane Eyre
Film
Winner: I, Daniel Blake
American Honey
Under the Shadow
Literature
Winner: The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, Hisham Matar
Swing Time, Zadie Smith
Opera
Winner: Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle), Opera North
4.48 Psychosis, Royal Opera House
Nothing, Glyndebourne Youth Opera
Pop Music
Winner: David Bowie, Blackstar
The 1975, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Skepta, Konnichiwa
Theatre
Winner: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre
The Shakespeare Trilogy, Donmar at King’s Cross
Yerma, Young Vic
TV Drama
Winner: Happy Valley, BBC One
National Treasure, Channel 4
The Crown, Netflix
Visual Art
Winner: Artangel, Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison
John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea
George Shaw: My Back to Nature
Times Breakthrough Nominees:
Winner: 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
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber received the Outstanding Achievement recognizing lifetime contributions to the arts in Britain.
