The nominees for The Ivors 2023 have been unveiled – with Fontaines D.C. included alongside some of the biggest names in international music, with a nomination in the Best Album category for Skinty Fia.

The Ivor Novello Awards have been presented to UK and Irish songwriters and screen composers since 1956. This year's ceremony is set to take place on May 18 at JW Marriott Grosvenor House London, with Amazon Music broadcasting live performances and interviews.

Released in April 2022, Fontaines D.C.'s lauded third LP was previously named Hot Press' Album of the Year, and scored a nomination at the Choice Music Prize. The success also led to the Irish band being crowned Best International Group at the BRIT Awards earlier this year, as well as Irish Artist of the Year at the Choice Music Prize.

"...A compound forms in Fontaines’ music – like a shadow guitarist manifesting in their sound: an ethereal being, evoking the Irish elk, that symbol of lost Ireland which looms over Skinty Fia," Will Russell wrote in his review of the album for Hot Press.

"Joyce reckoned that the shortest way to Tara, the ancient centre of Celtic civilisation, is through Holyhead," he continued. "Fontaines D.C. seem to grasp that riddle, and as Joycean scholar Declan Kiberd ruminated, remain sincere not to a single self, but authentic to several. They are dignified amidst the grotesque. Mighty stuff."

In The Ivors' Best Album category, Skinty Fia is up against Arctic Monkeys' The Car, Little Simz's NO THANK YOU, SAULT'S 11, and Obongjayar's Some Nights I Dream Of Doors.

This year, Sting is also set to receive Fellowship of the Ivors Academy.

Other nominees include recent Hot Press interviewees Venbee (Rising Star Award) and Katie Gregson-MacLeod (Best Song Musically and Lyrically for 'Complex'). Irish series Bad Sisters also scored a nomination for PJ Harvey and Tim Phillips' soundtrack.

See the full list of nominations below:

BEST ALBUM

11
written by Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover, Jamar McNaughton, Cleopatra Nikolic and Jack Peñate
performed by SAULT

NO THANK YOU
written by Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover, Little Simz and Cleopatra Nikolic
performed by Little Simz

SKINTY FIA
written by Grian Chatten, Thomas Coll, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Carlos O’Connell
performed by Fontaines D.C.

SOME NIGHTS I DREAM OF DOORS
written by Barney Lister and Obongjayar
performed by Obongjayar

THE CAR
written by Alex Turner
performed by Arctic Monkeys

BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG

COLD SUMMER
written by Wesley Joseph and Leon Vynehall
performed by Wesley Joseph

ESCAPISM
written by 070 Shake, RAYE and Mike Sabath
performed by RAYE & 070 Shake

HIDE & SEEK
written by Owen Cutts, P2J, PRGRSHN and Stormzy
performed by Stormzy

LEON THE PROFESSIONAL
written by Knucks, Venna and Toshifumi Hinata
performed by Knucks

PAYBACK
written by Knucks, Kojey Radical and Swindle
performed by Kojey Radical feat. Knucks

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
composed by Simon Franglen

DEATH ON THE NILE
composed by Patrick Doyle

DON’T WORRY DARLING
composed by John Powell

MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS
composed by Rael Jones

THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN
composed by Arthur Sharpe

BEST ORIGINAL VIDEO GAME SCORE

GOTHAM KNIGHTS
composed by The Flight

HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST
composed by Joris de Man, Oleksa Lozowchuk and The Flight

MARIO + RABBIDS SPARKS OF HOPE
composed by Gareth Coker, Grant Kirkhope and Yoko Shimomura

BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY

AS IT WAS
written by Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson and Harry Styles
performed by Harry Styles

BEST DAY OF MY LIFE
written by Laurie Blundell and Tom Odell
performed by Tom Odell

COMPLEX
written by Katie Gregson-Macleod
performed by Katie Gregson-Macleod

KING
written by Jack Antonoff and Florence Welch
performed by Florence + The Machine

STRONGER
written by Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover and Cleopatra Nikolic
performed by SAULT

BEST TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK

BAD SISTERS
composed by PJ Harvey and Tim Phillips

ELIZABETH: THE UNSEEN QUEEN
composed by David Schweitzer

THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS
composed by Hannah Peel

THE RESPONDER
composed by Matthew Herbert

THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND THE CANOE
composed by Harry Escott and Ben Pearson

PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK

AS IT WAS
written by Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson and Harry Styles
performed by Harry Styles

BAD HABITS
written by FRED, Johnny McDaid and Ed Sheeran
performed by Ed Sheeran

HEAT WAVES
written by Dave Bayley
performed by Glass Animals

RUNNING UP THAT HILL
written by Kate Bush
performed by Kate Bush

SHIVERS
written by Johnny McDaid, Kal Lavelle, Steve Mac and Ed Sheeran
performed by Ed Sheeran

RISING STAR AWARD

Cat Burns

Ines Dunn

tendai

venbee

Victoria Canal

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Central Cee and Young Chencs

Florence Welch

George Daniel and Matty Healy

Harry Styles and Kid Harpoon

Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers