The London Awards for Art and Performance are the country's most expansive awards and recognises the best in British art and entertainment across 11 categories. Each award recognises an outstanding contribution by an artist or performer in that art form over the past year.

And who better than the nominees themselves to judge each category.. we'll be asking nominees to pick their top artists or performers in their art form to arrive at the shortlist and award winner who will receive the trophy. The shortlist and winner will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony.

Results of public voting (please note, this will only be taken into account if there's a tie in the nominee votes). Please take a moment to vote below.

Long list in competition (click on title for more) - nominations: 20

London TV Award nomination United: 'Chris Chibnall's script is peppered with uplifting and evocative dialogue, but it's James Strong's direction that makes this story memorable. While United's narrative authenticity is questionable, the aesthetic of this post war world feels incredibly real, and the strange, dream-like scene in which Jack O'Connell's Bobby Charlton looks back at the crashed plane of the Munich air disaster is incredibly powerful.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Feb 11

London TV Award nomination Exile: 'Amidst all the mystery and gritty realism is a confident, fast paced thriller, the crux being that Tom is looking for information that is hidden somewhere inside his father's confused mind. But really what makes Exile interesting it's just how big it's heart is, despite all the darkness, at it's core it's a very powerful drama about family.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Feb 11

London TV Award nomination Adam Curtis: '[on All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace] .. the story of mankind's self destruction, told with a visual flare, brilliant editing and an inspired soundtrack. It feels like a myth, like fiction, or else a future account of the failings of humanity, as if a baby robot had said "tell me about those silly humans again daddy.’

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 16

London TV Award nomination An Idiot Abroad: 'The only fault of the show is the title, Karl Pilkington is no idiot, indeed in many ways he's wise. He sees the world in a totally different way, and he always speaks his mind. His unique world view and honesty make him the most watchable presenter on TV.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 10

London TV Award nomination Stefan Golaszewski: 'Him & Her is an odd creation, on the one hand it's sleazy, filthy and crude, but on the other hand, most critics agree it has a heart of gold, superb writing and the feel of a Samuel Beckett play.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 07

London TV Award nomination Holy Flying Circus: 'Seeing each of the Pythons caricatured was the first of Holy Flying Circus’s many joys. Terry Jones (Rufus Jones) had a tewiffically pwonounced speech impediment, Graham Chapman (Tom Fisher) cradled a pipe, and Terry Gilliam (Phil Nichol) was constantly turning ideas into animations. Darren Boyd’s John Cleese, meanwhile, was fun from the start.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 06

London TV Award nomination Absolutely Fabulous: '.. returns with a careless, drunken swagger, gleefully tearing into 2011 with as much gusto and insight as it had in the nineties. It hasn't missed a beat, and the fact that the stars, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, are so much older now actually works in the shows favour.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 06

London TV Award nomination The Borrowers: 'Tom Harper's The Borrowers is a loose adaptation of Mary Norton's wonderful children's book… simply great British television with a star studded cast and earnest, winning performances all round.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 05

London TV Award nomination Great Expectations: '.. performances are spectacular all round, Gillian Anderson captures the brittle fragility of Miss Havisham and Harry Lloyd charms as an absurdly nice Herbert Pocket. Cleverly, the star of the show is an unknown, Douglas Booth, so that we can more easily believe in his rise from nobody to somebody over the course of the narrative.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 05

London TV Award nomination Shane Meadows: 'This Is England ’88 bears the essential stamp of good drama in that the characters seem so vivid, so true, that you feel that their lives go on after you’ve switched off the set.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 14

London TV Award nomination Derren Brown: '.. doesn't seem to be doing anything particularly mind-blowing, but with a few words of encouragement and buzzing noises in the right place, he can make people admit to murders they haven't committed, or even brainwash perfectly normal sods into assassinating Stephen Fry.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 12

London TV Award nomination Paul Merton: '[Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood] does it very well, with a buff's enthusiasm, but also with the raised eyebrow of a sarky bastard. So the Kinetoscope footage of two men waltzing together 'was made before the invention of women'."

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 12

London TV Award nomination Charlie Brooker : 'This was a dementedly brilliant idea. The satire was so audacious, it left me open-mouthed and squealing.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 06

London TV Award nomination Fresh Meat: '.. captures the spirit of university life, with brilliant writing and knowing performances blending together perfectly.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 23

London TV Award Frozen Planet: '.. an incredible, tangible, richness to it that makes it stand out from other programs like it.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 18

London TV Award nomination Rev: 'And in truth there are some quite remarkable things about Rev. One of them is Tom Hollander’s performance.''

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 18

London TV Award nomination Mark Cousins: '.. visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe, it’s at once a love letter to cinema, an unmissable masterclass, and a radical rewriting of movie history.'

Chris Brocklebank · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 12

London TV Award nomination Appropriate Adult: 'Tension seeped from every corner of the production..'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 09

London TV Award nomination Misfits: '.. “smart and sharp, rude and sexy. And it gallops along in breathtaking leaps and bounds, like a free runner.'

Chris Brocklebank · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 02

London TV Award Nomination Alan Bleasdale: 'Over the last 40 years, Bleasdale has created an astonishing body of work which champions the disenfranchised British working-classes.'

Chris Brocklebank · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Oct 31