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Kneecap and Sally Rooney nominated for Sky Arts Awards

Kneecap - The group and their film are nominated for Sky Arts Awards
Kneecap - The group and their film are nominated for Sky Arts Awards

Belfast-based rap trio Kneecap and Co Mayo author Sally Rooney are among the nominees for this year's Sky Arts Awards in the UK.

In the Popular Music category, Kneecap are nominated for their album Fine Art alongside Charli xcx for her album Brat and Lola Young for her album This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway.

The Rich Peppiatt-directed biopic Kneecap is nominated in the Film category alongside director Edward Berger's Conclave and Karan Kandhari's Sister Midnight.

Rooney is shortlisted in the Literature category for her latest book, Intermezzo, alongside Alan Hollinghurst for Our Evenings and Gwyneth Lewis for Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling.

Sally Rooney is shortlisted in the Literature category for her latest book

>In the Television category, the nominees are Adolescence, Mr Loverman, and Rivals, with Adolescence's teenage star Owen Cooper among the nominees for The Times Breakthrough Award.

The winners will be announced at the Sky Arts Awards ceremony at London's Roundhouse on 16 September, hosted by Bill Bailey.

The Sky Arts Awards nominees in full:

Classical Music
Bold Tendencies - Body of Work
Errollyn Wallen - Body of Work
Manchester Camerata - Body of Work

Comedy
Elf Lyons - Horses
Jen Brister - Body of Work
Sarah Keyworth - My Eyes Are Up Here

Dance
Lost Dog - Ruination
Nederland Dans Theatre and Complicité - Figures in Extinction
Stopgap Dance Company - Lived Fiction

Film
Conclave
Kneecap
Sister Midnight


Literature
Alan Hollinghurst - Our Evenings
Gwyneth Lewis - Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling
Sally Rooney - Intermezzo

Opera
Garsington Opera - Body of Work
Opera North - Simon Boccanegra
Sound Voice - The Sound Voice Project

Poetry
Caleb Femi - The Wickedest
Janetta Otter-Barry - Body of Work
Roundhouse - The Roundhouse Poetry Slam

Popular Music
Charli xcx - Brat
Kneecap - Fine Art
Lola Young - This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway

Television
Adolescence (Netflix)
Mr Loverman (BBC)
Rivals (Disney+)

Theatre
David Byrne - Body of Work
Jamie Hale - Body of Work
LUNG - The Children's Inquiry

Visual Art
Barbara Walker - Being Here
Claudette Johnson - Three Women
Michelle Roberts - Body of Work, including Red Blue Up

The Times Breakthrough Award
Alex Margo Arden (Visual Art)
Nussaibah Younis (Literature)
Owen Cooper (Television)

Lifetime Achievement Award
TBA

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