Sophie Willan has been nominated for the Times Breakthrough Award in the prestigious South Bank Sky Arts Awards.
Inside No 9, Catastrophe and This Country are nominated in the Best Comedy category.
Now in its 22nd year, the annual awards ceremony will take place at The Savoy Hotel in London on Sunday 1 July 2018, hosted by Melvyn Bragg and celebrating the wide range of creative talent Britain has to offer, from Stormzy to Paddington 2. It will also be broadcast on Sky.
See below for the full nominations:
VISUAL ART
Mat Collishaw - Thresholds, Somerset House
Paula Rego - The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories, Jerwood Gallery
Rose Wylie - Quack Quack, Serpentine Sackler Gallery
COMEDY
Catastrophe - Channel 4
Inside No. 9 - BBC Two
This Country - BBC Three
THEATRE
The Ferryman – Royal Court / Gielgud. Produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Neal Street Productions & Royal Court Theatre Productions
Follies - National Theatre
The Jungle - A Young Vic and National Theatre co-production with Good Chance Theatre. Commissioned by the National Theatre
FILM
Lady Macbeth
Dunkirk
Paddington 2
DANCE
Maliphantworks - Russell Maliphant Company
Flight Pattern - The Royal Ballet
Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) - English National Ballet
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Gurrelieder - BBC Philharmonic and the Hallé
Enescu’s Oedipe - London Philharmonic Orchestra
This is Rattle - London Symphony Orchestra
LITERATURE
Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret - Craig Brown
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One - Philip Pullman
OPERA
Pelléas and Mélisande - Scottish Opera
Hamlet - Glyndebourne
Albert Herring - The Grange Festival
POP
Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s Gone
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
TV DRAMA
Line of Duty - World Productions / BBC One
The Crown - LEFT BANK Pictures / Netflix
Howards End - Playground / BBC One
THE TIMES BREAKTHROUGH AWARD
Pop - Nubya Garcia
Comedy - Sophie Willan
TV Drama - Alex Lawther
Dance - Dickson Mbi
Theatre - Monica Dolan
Classical Music - Oliver Zeffman
Opera - Rachel Redmond
Literature - Imogen Hermes Gowar
Film - Francis Lee
Visual Art – Heather Agyepong
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
To Be Announced
Picture: Steve Ullathorne
