Nominations announced for the The Ivors 2019OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY The Ivors Academy The Ivors Academy have announced the nominations for The Ivors 2019. The winners will be revealed at a star-studded ceremony at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London on 23rd May. The Ivors, now in their 64th year, celebrate, honour and reward excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing across categories for songs, albums, film, TV and video game scores. The ceremony will also present Ivor Novello Awards that recognise music creators for their wider contribution to British music. Music creators nominated to receive an Ivor Novello Award in a judged category are chosen by panels of songwriters and composers, representing true peer recognition. The nominations for PRS for Music Most Performed Work credit songs having received the most broadcast, online and general performances in the calendar year ending 31 December 2018. Works eligible for this year’s awards were commercially released in the UK in 2018 and have a British or Irish songwriting or composing contribution of at least a third. The nominations for The Ivors 2019 represent the work of 48 individual songwriters and composers, 70% of whom are nominated for the first time. The Ivors Academy Chair, Crispin Hunt, says “The works nominated for The Ivors 2019 are brilliantly diverse, and we’re delighted to see so many first-time nominees recognised. As the only peer-nominated music award in the country, they are a fantastic reflection of the exciting emerging talent of British & Irish music creators today. Our congratulations to all nominated.” The Ivors are sponsored by PRS for Music. The 2019 Ivor Novello Awards nominations are: BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY Four Out Of Five Nica Libres at Dusk Nina Cried Power BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG Black Rose Published in the UK by BMG Rights Management and EMI Music Publishing – Stellar Songs Blue Lights Love It If We Made It PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK Breathe Shotgun Published in the UK by BMG Rights Management and Sony ATV/Music Publishing – Promised Land Music These Days BEST ALBUM Cocoa Sugar I’m All Ears Joy As An Act of Resistance BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE American Animals Phantom Thread Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse BEST TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK Flowers (Series 2) Happy New Year, Colin Burstead Requiem Published in the UK by BMG Rights Management, Du Vinage Publishing and Sony/ATV Music Publishing BEST ORIGINAL VIDEO GAME SCORE Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Q.U.B.E. 2 Sea of Thieves The winners in each category will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House, London on Thursday 23rd May 2019. In addition to the above award categories, the following Ivor Novello Awards will be presented in recognition of a contribution to UK music: INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT For more information visit www.ivorsacademy.com or follow us @IvorsAcademy
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April 25, 2019 1:12pm ET by The Ivors Academy |