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The Ivors Unveils 2023 Full Nominations List Includes Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran & Kate Bush

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The Ivor Novello Awards has unveiled its 2023 full nominations list including Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran & Kate Bush. Check out the list below.

The Ivors Academy announced the nominations list for The Ivors 2023 with Amazon Music on Tuesday (April 18). Styles and Harpoon are nominated for Songwriter of the Year with Amazon Music. They are also nominated in two categories for co-writing Styles’ global smash “As It Was” with Tyler Johnson – best song musically and lyrically and PRS for music most performed work.

Also, Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” is nominated in that same category 37 years after the track was nominated for the best contemporary song. 

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Here’s a complete list of The Ivors 2023 nominations:

Songwriter of the Year with Amazon Music

  • Central Cee and Young Chencs
  • Florence Welch
  • Harry Styles and Kid Harpoon
  • Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers
  • George Daniel and Matty Healy

Best contemporary song

  • “Cold Summer”; written by Wesley Joseph and Leon Vynehall; performed by Wesley Joseph
  • “Escapism”; written by 070 Shake, RAYE and Mike Sabath; performed by RAYE & 070 Shake
  • “Hide & Seek”; written by Owen Cutts, P2J, PRGRSHN and Stormzy; performed by Stormzy
  • “Leon the Professional”; written by Knucks, Venna and Toshifumi Hinata; performed by Knucks
  • “Payback”; written by Knucks, Kojey Radical and Swindle; performed by Kojey Radical feat. Knucks

Best song musically and lyrically

  • “As It Was”; written by Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson and Harry Styles; performed by Harry Styles
  • “Best Day of My Life”; written by Laurie Blundell and Tom Odell; performed by Tom Odell
  • “Complex”; written by Katie Gregson-Macleod; performed by Katie Gregson-Macleod
  • “King”; written by Jack Antonoff and Florence Welch; performed by Florence + The Machine
  • “Stronger”; written by Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover and Cleopatra Nikolic; performed by SAULT

PRS for music most performed work

  • “As It Was”; written by Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson and Harry Styles; performed by Harry Styles
  • “Bad Habits”; written by FRED, Johnny McDaid and Ed Sheeran; performed by Ed Sheeran
  • “Heat Waves”; written by Dave Bayley; performed by Glass Animals
  • “Running Up That Hill”; written by Kate Bush; performed by Kate Bush
  • “Shivers”; written by Johnny McDaid, Kal Lavelle, Steve Mac and Ed Sheeran; performed by Ed Sheeran

Best album

  • 11; written by Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover, Jamar McNaughton, Cleopatra Nikolic and Jack Peñate; performed by SAULT
  • No Thank You; written by Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover, Little Simz and Cleopatra Nikolic; performed by Little Simz
  • Skinty Fia; written by Grian Chatten, Thomas Coll, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Carlos O’Connell; performed by Fontaines D.C.
  • Some Nights I Dream of Doors; written by Barney Lister and Obongjayar; performed by Obongjayar
  • The Car; written by Alex Turner; performed by Arctic Monkeys

Best original film score

  • Avatar: The Way of Water; composed by Simon Franglen
  • Death on the Nile; composed by Patrick Doyle
  • Don’t Worry Darling; composed by John Powell
  • Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris; composed by Rael Jones
  • The Electrical Life of Louis Wain; composed by Arthur Sharpe

Best television soundtrack

  • Bad Sisters; composed by PJ Harvey and Tim Phillips
  • Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen; composed by David Schweitzer
  • The Midwich Cuckoos; composed by Hannah Peel
  • The Responder; composed by Matthew Herbert
  • The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe; composed by Harry Escott and Ben Pearson

Best original video game score

  • Gotham Knights; composed by The Flight
  • Horizon Forbidden West; composed by Joris de Man, Oleksa Lozowchuk and The Flight
  • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope; composed by Gareth Coker, Grant Kirkhope and Yoko Shimomura

Rising star award with Amazon Music

  • Cat Burns
  • Ines Dunn
  • tendai
  • venbee
  • Victoria Canal