Brighton Fringe is a great opportunity for shows to pick up a range of awards. We'll be keeping you updated with the latest news about what awards have been given out so far!

Visual Arts Award

The Brighton Fringe 2012 Visual Arts Award, presented in association with ArtRepublic, was awarded to Brighton artist Jay Collins, who received £250 in artrepublic vouchers and a free registration for Brighton Fringe 2013.

New Writing South Best New Play award

This year, the award was shared between two events - Feral Theatre for Triptych, and Jonathan Brown for The Last Lunch

Argus Angel Awards

These are awarded by the Argus newspaper

• Fleeto
• Blond Poison
• Rom Com Con
• Translunar Paradise
• Faust at the Warren
• Krapp's Last Tape
• Just Another Love Story
• Vita & Virginia
• Screaming Inside

Audience Choice: My Gay Best Friend

Critics Choice: Dip Your Toe

Latest Festival Awards

These are presented by Latest 7 magazine at the end of Brighton Fringe.

Best Cabaret

Winner: How to Read Minds and Influence People

Nominees: Sadie and the Faded Ladies, Chap Hop Hurrah

Best Children's Event

Winner: Rolling on the Floor Laughing

Nominees: Show Off, Spook Circus

Best Classical Music

Winner: CSI Opera – Sussex Symphony Orchestra

Nominees: Celebration of William Bird, Bow Down

Best Comedy

Winner: Cock and Tail Inn 2

Nominees: Filthy Weekender, Rom Com Con

Best Female Performer

Winner: Kitty Newbury (Twelfth Night)

Nominees: Claire Parker (Filthy Weekender), Elizabeth Counsell (Blonde Poison)

Best International Act

Winner: Mae Martin

Nominees: Circus Klezmer, Waterlitz

Latest 7 award for innovation

Brian Mitchell – Brighton Five Pound Fringe

Best Literature/Workshop

Winner: Patrick Hamilton (exhibition and talk)

Nominees: Dr Frankenstein’s Travelling Freak Show, Once Upon a Time in Brighton, Beyond Brighton Fringe: The Next Stage

Best Male Performer

Winner: Charlie Allen (Bug)

Nominees: Pat Kinevane (Silent), Sam Devereux (Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues)

Best Music Event

Winner: Live Transmission

Nominees: White Mink, Patty Plinko

Best Outdoor Event

Winner: If I Ruled the World

Nominees:Waterlitz, In My Shoes

Best Theatre Performance

Winner: East

Nominees: Gogol, Oedipussy

Best Venue

Winner: The Warren

Nominees: The Nightingale, The Marlborough

Most Groundbreaking Act

Winner: Dip Your Toe

Nominees: Shutterland, Motor Show

Outstanding Contribution to the Festival

James Turnbull for The Warren

Star of the Festival

Dip Your Toe

Brighton Fringe Emerging Talent Award

This award is presented to an outstanding show or theatre company at Edinburgh Fringe, who then bring their productions to Brighton Fringe 2012. The winner of the Emerging Talent Award was Tumult in the Clouds, who are presenting two productions this year, Fleeto and Wee Andy. Find out more about these peformances vie the listings below.

	Fleeto The Nightingale - Dining Room When his friend is stabbed, a young lad falls in with a gang. The terrible revenge he takes brings disaster on himself and the family of his victim. Inspired by the Iliad and drawing on Glasgow’s ‘knife culture,’ Fleeto is a hard-hitting contemporary Scottish re-invention of the Greek tragic form. 16 - 20 May £8.50 (£6.50)
	Wee Andy The Nightingale - Dining Room Another day, another young lad attacked by a knife gang and another life shattered. Wee Andy depicts the fallout for those left picking up the pieces - the surgeon who tries to repair his damaged face, the mother who takes drastic and terrifying action to protect him, and wee Andy himself, who tries to imagine a different life. 16 - 20 May £8.50 (£6.50)