Over the last week, the nominations for the 2009 esctoday.com awards took place. Now it is time to reveal the nominees in the 21 categories and to announce that the polls are now open! You can cast your votes until 23rd December, 20:00 CET. As every year, the announcement of the winners will start on Christmas Eve, 24th December.
Song of the year
- Vote here.
- Fairytale (Norway)
written by Alexander Rybak
video - Is it true? (Iceland)
written by Óskar Páll Sveinsson, Tinatin Japaridze and Chris Neil
video - Always (Azerbaijan)
written by Arash, Robert Uhlmann, Alex Papakonstantinou, Marcus Englöf, Johan Bejerholm, Anderz Wrethov and Elin Wrethov
video - Düm tek tek (Turkey)
written by Sinan Akçil, Hadise and Stefan Fernande
video - It's my time (United Kingdom)
written by Diane Warren and Andrew Lloyd Webber
video - Rändajad (Estonia)
written by Sven Lõhmus
video - Et s'il fallait le faire (France)
written by Fred Blondin and Anse Lazio
video - La voix (Sweden)
written by Fredrik Kempe and Malena Ernman
video
Performance of the year
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- Alexander Rybak (Norway)
video - Yohanna (Iceland)
video - Hadise (Turkey)
video - Patricia Kaas (France)
video - Svetlana Loboda (Ukraine)
video
Composer of the year
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- Alexander Rybak (Norway)
for the song Fairytale
video - Óskar Páll Sveinsson, Tinatin Japaridze and Chris Neil (Iceland)
for the song Is it true?
video - Diane Warren and Andrew Lloyd Webber (United Kingdom)
for the song It's my time
video - Sven Lõhmus (Estonia)
for the song Rändajad
video - Aleksandar Covic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
for the song Bistra voda
video
Lyricist of the year/English lyrics
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(lyrics on diggiloo.net)
- Alexander Rybak (Norway)
for the song Fairytale
lyrics - Óskar Páll Sveinsson, Tinatin Japaridze and Chris Neil (Iceland)
for the song Is it true?
lyrics - Diane Warren and Andrew Lloyd Webber (United Kingdom)
for the song It's my time
lyrics - Adrian Sieber, Thomas Rechberger, Florian Senn (Switzerland)
for the song The highest heights
lyrics - Nikolas Metaxas (Cyprus)
for the song Firefly
lyrics
Lyricist of the year/Non-English and multilingual lyrics
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(lyrics and translations on diggiloo.net)
- Sven Lõhmus (Estonia)
for the song Rändajad
lyrics with translation - Anse Lazio (France)
for the song Et s'il fallait le faire
lyrics with translation - Aleksandar Covic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
for the song Bistra voda
lyrics with translation - Pedro Marques and Paulo Pereira (Portugal)
for the song Todas as ruas do amor
lyrics with translation - Noa, Mira Awad and Gil Dor (Israel)
for the song There must be another way/Einaich
lyrics with translation
Best act not to qualify from the semi finals
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- Andrea with Just get out of my life (Montenegro)
video - Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy with Et cetera (Ireland)
video - Lovebugs with The highest heights (Switzerland)
video - Christina Metaxa with Firely (Cyprus)
video - Susanne Georgi with La teva decisió (Andorra)
video
Best female performance
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- Yohanna (Iceland)
video - Hadise (Turkey)
video - Jade Ewen (United Kingdom)
video - Patricia Kaas (France)
video - Nelly Ciobanu (Moldova)
video
Best male performance
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- Alexander Rybak (Norway)
video - Sakis Rouvas (Greece)
video - Brinck (Denmark)
video - Sasha Son (Lithuania)
video - Petr Elfimov (Belarus)
video
Best duo/group performance
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- Aysel & Arash (Azerbaijan)
video - Urban Symphony (Estonia)
video - Regina (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
video - Inga & Anush (Armenia)
video - Flor-de-Lis (Portugal)
video
Best female vocal performance
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- Yohanna (Iceland)
video - Jade Ewen (United Kingdom)
video - Patricia Kaas (France)
video - Malena Ernman (Sweden)
video - Chiara (Malta)
video
Best male vocal performance
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- Alexander Rybak (Norway)
video - Davor Ebner (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
video - Brinck (Denmark)
video - Sasha Son (Lithuania)
video - Petr Elfimov (Belarus)
video
Best duo/group vocal performance
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- Aysel & Arash (Azerbaijan)
video - Inga & Anush (Armenia)
video - Noa & Mira Awad (Israel)
video - Igor Cukorv & Andrea (Croatia)
video - Kamil Mikulcik & Nela Pociková (Slovakia)
video
Best preview video
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- Et s'il fallait le faire (France)
video - Nor par (Armenia)
video - Be my Valentine! (Anti-crisis girl) (Ukraine)
video - La noche es para mí (Spain)
video - Lose control (Finland)
video
Most traditional Europop song
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- This is our night (Greece)
video - La noche es para mí (Spain)
video - Lose control (Finland)
video - Just get out of my life (Montenegro)
video - Shine (Netherlands)
video
Most creative effort
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- Fairytale (Norway)
video - Rändajad (Estonia)
video - Nor par (Armenia)
video - Be my Valentine! (Anti-crisis girl) (Ukraine)
video - Todas as ruas do amor (Portugal)
video
Best arrangement and production
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- Lee Horrocks (Iceland)
for the song Is it true?
video (studio version) - Sinan Akçil (Turkey)
for the song Düm tek tek
video (studio version) - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Andy Bradfield (United Kingdom)
for the song It's my time
video (studio version) - Sven Lõhmus (Estonia)
for the song Rändajad
video (studio version) - Frédéric Helbert (France)
for the song Et s'il fallait le faire
video (studio version)
Best backing performers
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- Jorunn Hauge, Karianne Kjærnes, Hallgrim Hansegård, Sigbjørn Rua and Torkjell Lunde Børsheim (Norway)
video - Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir, Hera Björk Þórhallsdóttir, Friðrik Ómar, Hallgrímur Jensson and Börkur Birgisson (Iceland)
video - Eva Smeenk, Steve Kashala and dancers* (Turkey)
video - Irina Krestinina and dancers* (Ukraine)
video - Andrea Norberg, Jessica Marberger, Tine Matulessy, Anna-Maria Hallgarn and Malin Nilsson (Sweden)
video
* If you know the missing names, please tell us by posting a reaction.
Best choreogrpahy
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Best stage effects
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Best dressed act
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- Jade Ewen (United Kingdom)
picture - Patricia Kaas (France)
picture - Urban Symphony (Estonia)
picture - Regina (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
picture - Malena Ernman (Sweden)
picture
Worst dressed act
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- Hadise (Turkey)
picture - Kejsi Tola (Albania)
picture - Zoli Ádok (Hungary)
picture - Krassimir Avramov (Bulgaria)
picture - Gipsy.cz (Czech Republic)
picture
Can't decide yet?
If you can't decide yet, who are giving our votes to, you will have the chance to get to know the nominees better. Over the next two weeks, we will introduce the nominees of all categories. Tomorrow, we will take a look at the statistics of the nominations in the esctoday.com awards 2006-2009.
