page_title: South Bank Sky Arts Award
section_title: Award categories
hierarchical_section_title: South Bank Sky Arts Award / Award categories
caption_attribution_description: English: The 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron
context_page_description: The South Bank Sky Arts Award is an accolade recognizing British achievements in the arts. The awards have been given annually since 1996.
  They originated with the long-running British arts programme The South Bank Show. The last South Bank Show Awards ceremony to be broadcast by ITV was in January 2010. After the network had announced that The South Bank Show would be cancelled at the end of the 2009 season, the award ceremony continued to be broadcast by Sky Arts and was eventually renamed the South Bank Sky Arts Award. Sky Arts revived The South Bank Show itself in 2012.
context_section_description: In addition to awards in each of the individual arts categories, the South Bank Sky Arts Awards also include the Outstanding Achievement Award recognizing lifetime contributions to the arts in Britain, and the Times Breakthrough Award recognizing outstanding new British artists.  Past winners of the Outstanding Achievement Award include Julie Walters (2013), Michael Frayn (2012), Dame Judi Dench (2011), Harold Pinter, JK Rowling, and The Who.
  Between 2013 and 2016, the show was also used to announce the winners of the Sky Academy Arts Scholarships.
  As of the 17th annual ceremony (broadcast March 2013), the award categories were:
  Literature
  Theatre
  Visual Art
  Film
  Opera
  Classical music
  Pop Music
  Dance
  Comedy
  TV Drama
  Times Breakthrough Award
  Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
caption: The 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron, winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Visual Art, March 2013[3]
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