This year also sees the introduction of the Best Original Video Game Score category, about which awards committee member Mark Fishlock says: “The Ivors has always sought to reflect the ever-changing world of songwriting and composing. The video games market has matured beyond recognition and big budget orchestral scores are regularly being commissioned. Writing music for games also requires a number of specialist skills compared with conventional film scoring, such as non-linear and multi-layered composition”.
The awards will be handed out on 20 May at Grosvenor House in London. Here are the noms in full:
Best Contemporary Song: Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers (Dizzee Rascal, Armand Van Helden), Bat For Lashes – Daniel (Natasha Khan), La Roux – In For The Kill (Elly Jackson, Ben Langmaid)
Best Song Musically And Lyrically: The Leisure Society – Save It For Someone Who Cares (Nick Hemming), Lily Allen – The Fear (Lily Allen, Greg Kurstin), Patch William – The Last Bus (Ed Adlard, Will Adlard, Ali Digby, George Eddy)
Best Television Soundtrack: Desperate Romantics (Daniel Pemberton), Life (George Fenton), Red Riding 1974 (Adrian Johnston)
Album Award: The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Duckworth Lewis Method (Neil Hannon, Thomas Walsh), Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up (Paolo Nutini), Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N Cheek (Dizzee Rascal, Nick Denton)
PRS For Music Most Performed Work: James Morrison feat Nelly Furtado – Broken Strings (James Morrison, Fraser T Smith, Nina Woodford), Lily Allen – The Fear (Lily Allen, Greg Kurstin), Girls Aloud – The Promise (Nick Coler, Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Kieran Jones, Tim Powell, Jason Resch, Carla Williams)
Best Original Film Score: Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (John Powell), Skin (Helene Muddiman), The Young Victoria (Ilan Eshkeri)
Best Original Video Game Score: Empire: Total War (Richard Beddow, Richard Birdsall, Walter Mair, Lorenzo Piggici, Simon Ravn), Killzone 2 (Joris de Man), Savage Moon: Waldgeist (Armin Elsaesser)