The work nominated for the Turner Prize, the sound installation "Lowlands," was originally commissioned for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.
His film, intimate, affecting and above all made with astonishing competence, is just one of a brilliant field of young filmmakers' work nominated for an award at the BSFF ceremony in London at the end of April.
Rachel then suggested that perhaps their housekeeper could be her mother's husband, and when told that would not work, nominated the husband of her mother's best friend.
Pretty, Dirty Things of the Gulf The International Prize for Arabic Fiction – the "Arabic Booker" as it is known, has sparked controversy for as long as it has existed (some writers have refused to have their work nominated) so it is a surprise to learn that The Bamboo Stalk, a novel by a young Kuwaiti author, Saud Alsanousi, has picked up the $50,000 prize without a brouhaha.
- Found senior faculty champions in your department, including a mentor or mentors, who help you instructionally (helping you build skills), developmentally (interpreting experiences and feelings), psychologically (providing emotional support, helping with anxiety management), and instrumentally (critiquing work, nominating you for awards, collaborating on research, and providing links to networks).
And what a year it was for plays: Good People, Jerusalem, War Horse and Stephen Adly Guirgis's recovering-addict comedy The Motherf**ker with the Hat – the four works nominated in the best play category – were all equally deserving of plaudits.
Around the corner from Frieze, in a 10,000sq ft former dairy and recording studio in Primrose Hill, is the new Museum of Everything, a space for "art created outside mainstream art circles", with works nominated by a stellar cast of established figures from Annette Messager and Ed Ruscha to Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave.
The rules restricted voting to members of the convention that the awards would be given at, while still allowing anyone to nominate works; nominations were restricted to members of the convention or the previous year's convention in 1963.
"It's a lot of hard work being nominated for the Turner Prize and I'd advise anybody who gets nominated for it to think seriously whether you accept it," she said.
He also received three Emmys for other cartoon shows, and his work was nominated on 22 other occasions.
