Charli XCX, Kneecap and Sally Rooney up for Sky Arts awards

The nominees for this year's Sky Arts Awards person been announced, with Brat superstar Charli XCX, arguable rap trio Kneecap and modern writer Sally Rooney each making the cut.

The awards showcase the precise champion of British and Irish arts and culture, celebrating achievements crossed each arts, ranging from classical music, film, and poesy to fashionable music, TV and ocular arts.

It's the 2nd twelvemonth of the awards show, which builds connected the agelong bequest of the South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

In the fashionable euphony category, Charli XCX is nominated for her medium Brat, up against Kneecap's Fine Art and Lola Young's This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway.

Kneecap marque a 2nd quality successful the movie category, nominated alongside Rich Peppiatt's BAFTA-winning biopic Kneecap, governmental thriller Conclave and Karan Kandhari's achromatic comedy, Sister Midnight.

The TV class boasts Netflix deed Adolescence, the BBC's Bernardine Evaristo adaptation Mr Loverman and Disney+ Jilly Cooper romp Rivals.

Making it a treble motion for Adolescence, the drama's young prima Owen Cooper is nominated arsenic up-and-coming endowment successful the Times breakthrough category.

The 15-year-old histrion is up against ocular creator Alex Margo Alden, for her archetypal solo exhibition, Safety Curtain, and writer Nussaibah Younis for her debut novel, Fundamentally.

Writers Alan Hollinghurst, Gwyneth Lewis and Sally Rooney each person nods successful the lit category, for their respective novels Our Evenings, Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling, and Intermezzo.

Meanwhile, successful the theatre category, Royal Court Artistic Director David Byrne, laminitis of CRIPtic Arts Jamie Hale, and Barnsley-based Lung are each nominated.

The beingness accomplishment grant recipient is yet to beryllium announced.

Phil Edgar-Jones, manager of Sky Arts, said: "The Sky Arts Awards stay the lone nighttime of the twelvemonth successful which each the arts are recognised astatine once.

"Poets and sopranos articulation actors, writers, dancers and musicians to observe the contributions they person made to the assemblage which not lone fuels our system but brings america joy, empathy and hope."

The Sky Arts Awards volition beryllium held astatine London's Roundhouse, connected Tuesday 16 September, hosted by comedian Bill Bailey.

Full database of Sky Arts Awards nominees:

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 successful 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 - Simone 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 (TV)