Our inaugural List Festival Awards have been announced at a ceremony in Johnnie Walker Princes Street today, with nominees from a diverse range of categories to celebrate the best of the beautiful, weird and wonderful happenings that take place during Edinburgh Festival season. 

LA-based clown Natalie Palamides picked up the gong for Best Show at the Fringe with her delightfully intricate and gloriously grotesque WEER, while the award for Best International show went to the powerful dance work Songs Of The Bulbul. Also among the winners was Blair Young and Carla J Easton’s Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands for best Scottish Film.

These awards were undertaken alongside our sponsors Johnnie Walker Princes Street, with superlative support from Lothian Buses, Citizen Ticket, Ghost Light Global, LNER, Adelaide Fringe, SoHo Playhouse, Sit-Up Theatre, and Edinburgh Marriott Hotel Holyrood.

Here's the full list of nominees and winners: 

Art – Best rising Scottish Artist 

Renèe Helèna Browne: Sanctus!
Flannery O’kafka: For Willy Love and Booker T: Blue babies do whatever they want (WINNER)
Rory Dixon: Heavy without it II

Books – Best rising Scottish author 

K Patrick (WINNER)
Rachelle Atalla 
Shane Strachan 

Film – Best Scottish Film 

Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands (directed by Carla J. Easton and Blair Young) (WINNER)
Duck (directed by Rachel Maclean)
A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things (directed by Mark Cousins)

Fringe – Sit-Up Award for Best Production with a Social Impact

FAMEHUNGRY, Summerhall (WINNER)
300 Paintings, Summerhall 
The Chaos That Has Been And Will No Doubt Return, Summerhall 

Fringe – International Fringe Encore Series Edinburgh Prize

Weather Girl, Summerhall (WINNER)
A Giant On The Bridge, Assembly Roxy
A Letter To Lyndon B Johnson Or God: Whoever Reads This First, theSpace 
My Mother's Funeral: The Show, Summerhall

Fringe – Best show from Adelaide

Lewis Major: Triptych, Assembly @Dance Base (WINNER)
B.L.I.P.S., Summerhall
Ten Thousand Hours, Assembly Hall
Fool’s Paradise, Pleasance Courtyard

Fringe – Best show 

Natalie Palamides: WEER, Traverse Theatre (WINNER)
These Are The Contents Of My Head (The Annie Lennox Show), Assembly Checkpoint
So Young, Traverse Theatre
Sawdust Symphony, ZOO Southside
Monkeys Everywhere, Pleasance Courtyard

International – Best show 

Songs Of The Bulbul (WINNER)
Up Lates: Wynton Marsalis 
Please Right Back 

Spirit of the Fringe

Sam Gough (WINNER)