2023 Winners
Eastern Eye Award for Arts
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Winner: Chila Kumari Burman ‘Do you see words in rainbows’.
Nancy Kukukhil, Barry Gardiner MP
Eastern Eye Award for Dance
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Winner: Urja Desai Thakore for Kattam Katti
Urja Desai Thakore, Shobna Gulati
Eastern Eye Award for Fiction
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Winner: Hafsa Zayyan for We are all Birds of Uganda
Winner: Neema Shah for Kololo Hill.
Hafsa Zayyan, Neema Shah & Amish Tripathi
Eastern Eye Award for Non-Fiction
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Winner: Sathnam Sanghera for ‘Empireland: How Imperialism has shaped modern Britain’.
Sangita Myska, Sathnam Sanghera
Eastern Eye Award for Photography
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Winner: Posthumously to Maganbhai ‘Masterji’ Patel.
Tarla Patel, WO1 Rupert Frere
Eastern Eye Award for Best Presenter
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Winner: Sangita Myska Current Affairs Show on LBC
Ayesha Dharker, Sangita Myska
Eastern Eye Award for Best Production
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Winner: ‘Life of Pi’
Hiran Abeysekera, Syreeta Kumar & Valerie Vaz MP
Eastern Eye Award for Best Director
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Winner: Indhu Rubasingham ‘The Father and the Assassin’
Indhu Rubasingham, Tony Jayawardena
Eastern Eye Award for Best Scriptwriter
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Winner: Asif Khan for Jabala and the Jinn’.
Asif Khan, Krishnendu Majumdar
Eastern Eye Award for Emerging Artist supported by the Arts Council England.
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Winner: Rishi Shah Marvel Ms Marvel Series
Deepak Mistry
Eastern Eye Community Engagement Award
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Winner: National Trust
Celia Richardson, Corinne Fowler, National Trust, Amit Roy Eastern Eye
Eastern Eye Award for Music
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Winner Swati Natekar
Swati Natekar, Naughty Boy
Eastern Eye Award for Theatre Best Actor.
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Winner : Hiran Abeysekera for ‘Life of Pi’
Hiran Abeysekera, Lord Jitesh Gadhia
Eastern Eye Award for Theatre, Best Actress supported by Koolesh Shah Foundation
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Winner: Ayesha Dharkar for ‘The Father and the Assassin’
Ayesha Dharkar, Dr Nikhil Shah
Eastern Eye Award for Film, TV & Drama – Best Actor
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Winner: Sagar Radia The Good Karma Hospital
Sagar Radia, Sudha Buchar
Eastern Eye Award for Film, TV & Drama – Best Actress
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Winner: Anjana Vasan for ‘Killing Eve’ and ‘We are Lady Parts’
Sudha Buchar , Nitin Ganatra
Eastern Eye Editor’s Special Award
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Winner: The British Film Institute for its Satyajit Ray Season.
Justin Johnson BFI, Julie Pearce BFI Shailesh Solanki, Kalpesh Solanki
Eastern Eye Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Creative Industry
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Winner: Nitin Sawhney composer, producer, and musician
Nitin Sawhney, Shekhar Kapur