Similarly, actors nominated for the best work in a television drama included newcomers such as Clive Owen in The Knick, while joining other awards shows regulars such as House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey.
Sandé is also nominated for the Most Performed Work prize for "Next To Me".
Rather Be, which Napier composed with James Patterson of Clean Bandit, was nominated for best contemporary song, while both Rather Be and Stay With Me, which Napier co-wrote with Smith, were nominated for the most-performed work award.
Bestselling English-language writers Sebastian Barry and Joseph O'Neill are jostling with the largest number of books in translation ever nominated for the prize, including works by Icelandic crime novelist Arnaldur Indridason, Chinese author Ma Jian and Serbian surrealist Zoran Zivkovic.
The work nominated for the Turner Prize, the sound installation "Lowlands," was originally commissioned for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.
Click here or on "View Images" for a gallery of work by shortlisted artists Shrigley, who was born in Macclesfield and has been based in Glasgow since studying at the Glasgow School of Art, was nominated for the retrospective of his work at the Hayward Gallery in London.
Show creator Steven Moffat is nominated for the latter for his work on the episode A Scandal in Belgravia.
Today, Toxteh is again in the news because Assemble was nominated for the Turner Prize for their work in Granby 4, an area of Liverpool that had been abandoned after the riots when Thatcher sent her Minister of The Environment to 'clean' the area from its 'rioting pest'.
Balkan-born Téa Obreht signed in with The Tiger's Wife, set in the Balkans in the aftermath of war; the work was nominated for the National Book Award.
The Second Stage season will begin in the fall with the Kopit drama, about a female aviator's recovery from a stroke; the work was nominated for the Tony Award for best play in 1979.
