South Bank Sky Arts Award

The South Bank Sky Arts Award (originally The South Bank Show Award) is an accolade recognizing British achievements in the arts. The awards have been given annually since 1996. They originated with the long-running British arts programme The South Bank Show. The last South Bank Show Awards ceremony to be broadcast by ITV was in January 2010. After the network had announced that The South Bank Show would be cancelled at the end of the 2009 season, the award ceremony continued to be broadcast by Sky Arts and was eventually renamed the South Bank Sky Arts Award. Sky Arts revived The South Bank Show itself in 2012.

In addition to awards in each of the individual arts categories, the South Bank Sky Arts Awards also include the Outstanding Achievement Award recognizing lifetime contributions to the arts in Britain, and the Times Breakthrough Award recognizing outstanding new British artists. Past winners of the Outstanding Achievement Award include Julie Walters (2013), Michael Frayn (2012), Dame Judi Dench (2011), Harold Pinter, JK Rowling, and The Who.

Award categories

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The 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron, winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Visual Art, March 2013

As of the 17th annual ceremony (broadcast March 2013), the award categories were:

• Literature
• Theatre
• Visual Art
• Film
• Opera
• Classical music
• Pop Music
• Dance
• Comedy
• TV Drama
• Times Breakthrough Award
• Outstanding Achievement in the Arts

Prizewinners

Source: West End Theatre

Literature

• 2015: Henry Marsh for Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
• 2014: Kate Atkinson for Life after Life
• 2013: Hilary Mantel for Bring Up The Bodies
• 2012: Claire Tomalin for Charles Dickens: A Life
• 2011: Candia McWilliam for What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
• 2010: Adam Foulds for The Quickening Maze
• 2009: Linda Grant for The Clothes on their Backs
• 2008: Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• 2007: Edward St Aubyn for Mother’s Milk
• 2006:
• 2005: David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas
• 2004: Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• 2003: Sarah Waters for Fingersmith
• 2002: Ian McEwan for Atonement
• 2001: Peter Ackroyd for London: The Biography
• 1996: Seamus Deane for Reading in the Dark

Visual Arts

• 2015: Paul Cummins for Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
• 2014: Katie Paterson for Tipping Point, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
• 2013: Thomas Heatherwick for the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron
• 2012: Grayson Perry for The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, British Museum
• 2011: Tacita Dean for the Craneway Event, Frith Street Gallery
• 2010: Anish Kapoor for his retrospective exhibition, Royal Academy
• 2009: Peter Doig for his work at Tate Britain
• 2008: Andy Goldsworthy at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• 2007: Gilbert & George for Sonofagod Pictures for Was Jesus Heterosexual?
• 2006: John Virtue for his London Paintings at The National Gallery
• 2005: Paula Rego for her In Focus exhibition at the Tate Britain
• 2004: Chris Ofili for his work at the Venice Biennale
• 2003: Anish Kapoor for Marsyas
• 2002: Frank Auerbach for his Retrospective at Royal Academy
• 1999: Anthony Gormley for the Angel of the North

The Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award

• 2015: Sylvie Guillem, dancer, choreographer
• 2014: Tracey Emin, artist
• 2013: Julie Walters, actress
• 2012: Michael Frayn, writer
• 2011: Judi Dench, actress
• 2010: Melvyn Bragg, TV presenter
• 2009: Sir Cameron Mackintosh, theatre producer
• 2008: J. K. Rowling, author
• 2007: The Who, rock group
• 2006: Sir Richard Attenborough, film director
• 2005: Paul Abbott, scriptwriter
• 2004: Dame Helen Mirren, actress
• 2003: Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright
• 2002: Bernard Haitink, conductor
• 2001: Harold Pinter, playwright
• 2000: Sir Cliff Richard, pop singer
• 1999: Simon Rattle, conductor
• 1997: Richard Eyre, theatre director

External links

• Official website
• List of winners from 2005 to date

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