Nowness Announces Awards for Breakthroughs in Moving-image Culture

LONDON — Nowness, the art and culture video platform, plans to announce its inaugural Nowness Awards today, WWD has learned. Ten honorees from different backgrounds will be revealed as a part of the ones-to-watch list for 2020 on Nov. 27 at the Modern Media Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Bunny Kinney, creative director of Nowness, said the end of a year award aims to spotlight and celebrate “the filmmakers and artists working in moving image, whose work we feel not only embodies the best of 2019, but has the potential to truly push culture forward in 2020 and beyond.” The honorees have been selected by a group of jurors including the Oscar-nominated film director Luca Guadagnino; artists Andrew Thomas Huang, Martine Syms and Daniel Arsham; art historian and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; designers Matthew Williams, Alexa Chung and Michele Lamy; stylist Lucia Liu; model Lily Cole, and one of China’s top sustainable fashion advocates, Shaway Yeh, according to Kinney. “We didn’t want to have the internal team to select the final list. We sat down and came up with a list of high-level friends and family to nominate breakout artists that over the last year have made the most significant

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