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Source: The Evening Standard (London)
January 21, 2003
South Bank award confirms singer is Dynamite
BY: Luke Leitch
MS DYNAMITE added yet another prize to her growing collection
today by winning the Pop award at the South Bank Show Awards.
The Kentish Town singer - real name Niomi McLean-Daley - has already
won the Mercury Prize and has been nominated for four Brit Awards
thanks to her debut album A Little Deeper. The pregnant singer
picked up her award
at a ceremony at The Savoy, where many stars were also honoured
for their achievements in the arts in 2002.
Among the celebrities present, including Bond girl Rosamund Pike
and director Ken Russell, Stella McCartney presented Anish Kapoor
with an award for his epic Tate Modern sculpture, Marsyas. The
155-metre installation runs
the length of Turbine Hall and is the biggest sculpture in the
world.
Kapoor won despite competition from Lucian Freud, who had a major
retrospective last year, and Jake and Dinos Chapman, whose new
art collection was bought by Charles Saatchi for £1million.
The controversial programme Bloody Sunday, written and directed
by Paul Greengrass, claimed the TV drama award which was due to
be presented by Sean Bean, currently playing Macbeth in the West
End.
Director Stephen Frears won the cinema award for Dirty Pretty
Things, while stage director-turnedfilmmaker Sam Mendes was rewarded
for his swansong productions at London's Donmar Warehouse of Uncle
Vanya and Twelfth
Night.
The comedy prize went to BBC2's The League Of Gentlemen and Sir
Tom Stoppard picked up the award for outstanding contribution
to the arts. The event will be shown on ITV1 on Sunday at 10.45pm.
Source: The
Guardian
Tuesday January 21, 2003
Bloody Sunday named best drama
John Plunkett
Bloody Sunday, one of ITV's most controversial films of recent years, picked up the drama prize at the South Bank Show awards today.
The critically acclaimed £4m drama, starring James Nesbit, was watched by 3.5 million viewers last year.
The director, Paul Greengrass, paid tribute to Nesbit, who played Protestant MP and civil rights campaigner Ivan Cooper, at today's ceremony.
"I admire him as an actor but most
of all I admire him as a man," said Greengrass, who thanked
ITV's former director of programmes, David Liddiment, and said
the network was "still the best place to tell difficult stories".
The South Bank Show prize is the latest in a string of awards
for the docudrama, which was also given a limited UK cinema release.
Bloody Sunday won a Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival and picked up four Irish Film and Television Academy awards, including best feature film.
However, it failed in its bid be considered for an Oscar nomination.
The film was shot in a hand-held camera, documentary style and was criticised by some viewers, who felt its interpretation of the killing of 14 people during a civil rights march 30 years ago was partisan and pro-British. "This event goes back to the root of the troubles," Mr Greengrass said last year.
"To the best of our knowledge, it is true. There will be people who hate this film but I stand by it totally."
Also at today's South Bank Show awards BBC2's The League of Gentlemen picked up the comedy prize, pipping Perrier award-winner Daniel Kitson and standup Omid Djalili.
Sarah Waters, whose Tipping the Velvet was adapted by Andrew Davies for BBC2, won the literature prize for Fingersmith and the film award went to Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things.
Ms Dynamite won the pop gong while Anish Kapoor picked up the visual award for Marsyas, his turbine hall installation at Tate Modern.
The other awards were for theatre (Sam Mendes - Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya); classical music (pianist Paul Lewis - Schubert Piano Sonata Series); Opera (Graham Vick - Fidelio); dance (Jonathan Cope - Mayerling, Carmen and Tryst); and outstanding achievement (Tom Stoppard).
The awards will be shown on ITV at 10.45pm this Sunday.
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