2016 Ivor Novello Awards nominees announced

Jamie Lawson is one of many songwriters nominated this year. Image by Pip

Ed Sheeran, Roots Manuva, Years & Years and Jamie Lawson among those with a chance of winning an Ivor Novello

It’s the songwriters award ceremony and to come away a winner is one of the proudest honours that an artist can achieve. Now we know which songwriters are in with a shout of winning an Ivor Novello Award, after the shortlist for this year’s ceremony was announced.

This year’s Ivor Novello Awards ceremony is to be held on 19 May in London. There are six categories and the nominees include some of the biggest names in music, with Wolf Alice, Skepta, Jess Glynne and Gaz Coombes just a few of the many songwriters to feature on the shortlist.

The full list of nominees are:

Best Song Musically And Lyrically

Bloodstream – Ed Sheeran
Bros – Wolf Alice
Wasn’t Expecting That – Jamie Lawson

Best Contemporary Song

All My Friends – Snakehips ft Tinashe & Chance The Rapper
Cargo – Roots Manuva
Shutdown – Skepta

Most Performed Work

Hold Back The River – James Bay
Hold My Hand – Jess Glynne
King – Years & Years

Best Album

Darling Arithmetic – Villagers
In Colour – Jamie xx
Matador – Gaz Coombes

Best Film Score

Ex Machina
Pan
The Duke of Burgundy

Best Television Soundtrack

And Then There Were None
From Darkness
London Spy

Villagers’ songwriter Conor O’Brien is nominated in the best album category and had this to say about the Ivor Novello Awards: “Music awards are funny things – but these ones seem to be actually controlled by writers and the writing community. Which feels good because writing can be a strange, solitary existence. So it can be nice to peek your head above the parapet and say ‘hello.'”

Among the winners at the 2015 Ivor Novello Award ceremony were Albert Hammond, James Napier and Jack Patterson, Annie Lennox, James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire, Jack Steadman and Ed Sheeran.

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