Every year, Edinburgh Guide is a leading promoter of the Edinburgh Festival cultural season, publishing dozens of reviews from the team of drama, dance, music, opera and comedy critics, with star ratings to highlight the very best shows and performances around the Edinburgh International Festival, Festival Fringe, Art and Book Festivals. (See Festival Reviews)
The List awards recognise many different disciplines within the Art, Book, Film, Fringe and International festivals, selected from The List reviews of around 400 shows, to celebrate the diversity and quality of performances and exhibitions that define the Edinburgh Festivals. A number of categories are dedicated to performances at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Nominees include a few shows that have already won Scotsman Fringe First including Brian Watkins’ Weather Girl and Xhloe and Natasha’s A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First.
Shortlisted Theatre Categories:
Sit-Up Award for Best Production with a Social Impact
- FAMEHUNGRY at Summerhall
- 300 Paintings at Summerhall
- The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return at Summerhall
International Fringe Encore Series Edinburgh Prize to provide opportunities for emerging artists that who exceptional talent, selected by independent panels.
- Weather Girl at Summerhall
- A Giant on the Bridge at Assembly Roxy
- A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First at theSpace
- My Mother’s Funeral: The Show at Summerhall
Best Show from Adelaide
- Lewis Major: Triptych at Assembly @Dance Base
- B.L.I.P.S. at Summerhall
- Ten Thousand Hours at Assembly Hall
- Fool’s Paradise at Pleasance Courtyard
Best Show
- Natalie Palamides: WEER at Traverse Theatre
- These Are The Contents Of My Head (The Annie Lennox Show) at Assembly Checkpoint
- So Young at Traverse Theatre
- Sawdust Symphony at ZOO Southside
- Monkeys Everywhere at Pleasance Courtyard
ART – Best rising Scottish artist
Renèe Helèna Browne: Sanctus!: a film exploring portraiture, faith and belonging -City Art Centre,
Flannery O’kafka: For Willy Love and Booker T: Blue babies do whatever they want: installation on gender performance and picturing disability - Sierra Metro,
Rory Dixon: Heavy without it II: a vibrantly flamboyant solo exhibition by Sett studios.
BOOKS – Best rising Scottish author
K Patrick – a ground-breaking debut book of poems, Three Births.
Rachelle Atalla - The Salt Flats follows six strangers’ journey to Bolivia, to find a cure for their various ills.
Shane Strachan – poetry collection, DWAMS.
FILM – Best Scottish film
Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands (directed by Carla J. Easton and Blair Young): the history of Scottish girl bands from the 1960s to the present.
Duck: a daring deepfake short from avant-garde filmmaker Rachel Maclean.
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (directed by Mark Cousins): the life and work of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
INTERNATIONAL – Best Show
Songs Of The Bulbul: Aakash Odedra’s spiritual and captivating new work, creates a sensitive dialogue between the Indian classical dance Sufi Kathak and Islamic poetry.
Up Lates: Wynton Marsalis: the legendary American jazz trumpeter is one of the world’s most renowned jazz musicians
Please Right Back : combining handcrafted animation and bold storytelling inspired by the writer-director’s own childhood.
Spirit of The Fringe Award
An open award that pays tribute to a person, place or event that sums up the true spirit of the
Edinburgh Fringe, to be announced on the day of the Awards.
The Awards ceremony will take place on Friday 23 August 2024 at Johnnie Walker Princes Street, Edinburgh hosted by Mark Nelson and Zara Janjua. The winners will receive £500 and two shows will be staged at the SoHo Playhouse in New York.