Winners announced: 5 June 2016 at the Savoy Hotel, and broadcast on Sky Arts 8 June 2016.
South Bank Sky Arts Awards – Nominations 2016
Classical music
Winner: Mark Simpson: The Immortal
Stephen Hough International Piano Series: Debussy and Chopin, Royal Festival Hall
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons’ Farewell Concert, Symphony Hall
Literature
Winner: Sunjeev Sahota: The Year of the Runaways
Sarah Hall: The Wolf Border
Tessa Hadley: The Past
Theatre
Winner: Hangmen, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre
Oresteia, Almeida Theatre
People, Places & Things, National Theatre and Headlong
Pop
Winner:Benjamin Clementine: At Least for Now
Years & Years: Communion
Sleaford Mods: Key Markets
Comedy
Winner: Catastrophe, Channel 4
Peter Kay’s Car Share, BBC1
Chewing Gum, E4
TV drama
Winner: Doctor Foster, BBC 1
Wolf Hall, BBC 2
Humans, Channel 4
Opera
Winner: Force of Destiny, English National Opera
Krόl Roger, Royal Opera House
Saul, Glyndebourne
Visual Art
Winner: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk, Serpentine Gallery
Cornelia Parker: Magna Carta (An Embroidery), British Library
Banksy: Dismaland Bemusement Park
Film
Winner: 45 Years
Ex Machina
Brooklyn
Dance
Winner: 1984, Northern Ballet
Woolf Works, Royal Ballet
Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me), Lost Dog
Breakthrough – Stormzy
Outstanding achievement – Eddie Izzard
