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