Winners include Natalie Palamides, Songs Of The Bulbul, Lewis Major: Triptych and more!
The incredible winners of the inaugural List Festival Awards have been announced at a ceremony in Johnnie Walker Princes Street, with nominees from a diverse range of categories to celebrate the best of the beautiful, weird and wonderful happenings that take place during Edinburgh Festival season. The amazing line-up of winners pays tribute to the quality and sheer power of artistry across Edinburgh and fully takes in the breadth of what is happening during such an inspiring time.
The ceremony was hosted by Mark Nelson and Zara Janjua with each winner receiving a cash award of £500 and two winners will be heading to the SoHo Playhouse in New York to perform their show! The Sit Up and International Fringe Encore Series Edinburgh Prize awards are selected by panels independent to The List and the selections are made by teams linked to those specific organisations.
LA-based clown Natalie Palamides picked up the gong for Best Show at the Fringe with her delightfully intricate and gloriously grotesque WEER, while the award for Best International show went to the powerful dance work Songs Of The Bulbul. Also among the winners was Blair Young and Carla J Easton’s Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands for best Scottish Film.
These awards were undertaken alongside sponsors Johnnie Walker Princes Street, with superlative support from Lothian Buses, Citizen Ticket, Ghost Light Global, LNER, Adelaide Fringe, SoHo Playhouse, Sit-Up Theatre, and Edinburgh Marriott Hotel Holyrood.
Full list of the sensational winners:
- ART - Best rising Scottish artist
- Flannery O’kafka: For Willy Love and Booker T: Blue babies do whatever they want
- BOOKS - Best rising Scottish author
- K Patrick
- FILM - Best Scottish film
- Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands (directed by Carla J. Easton and Blair Young)
- FRINGE – Sit-Up Award for Best Production with a Social Impact
- FAMEHUNGRY, Summerhall
- FRINGE – International Fringe Encore Series Edinburgh Prize
- Weather Girl, Summerhall
- FRINGE - Best show from Adelaide
- Lewis Major: Triptych, Assembly @Dance Base
- FRINGE – Best Show
- Natalie Palamides: WEER, Traverse Theatre
- INTERNATIONAL – Best Show
- Songs Of The Bulbul
- FRINGE – Spirit of The Fringe Award
- Sam Gough, Summerhall’s Chief Executive
Editor of The List Brian Donaldson comments, "For our inaugural award, we gathered up some truly brilliant nominees and winners, and I want to pay tribute to each and every one of them for the high quality they've produced. It's no small thing to bring work to the Edinburgh Festival, an often overwhelming and chaotic cultural laboratory, and I hope these awards inspire them, and many others, to keep producing that work."
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