On Sunday night, the best and brightest in the Omaha arts community were awarded for their efforts.

At the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards, held at the Hilton Omaha, trophies were given out in 47 categories to the best in music, visual arts and performing arts, which includes dance, theater and slam poetry.

The big winner in music was Bright Eyes, which won album of the year for "The People's Key." Galvanize Tron is the first-ever hip-hop artist to win artist of the year. He also took home a second trophy for best hip-hop/rap artist.

In theater, Omaha Community Playhouse productions garnered six trophies. Brigit Saint Brigit and the Blue Barn Theatre weren't far behind with four awards each.

Photographer Vera Mercer won almost half of the seven categories in visual arts. She won the award for best visual artist as well as awards for best 2D artist and best solo show for her ongoing exhibit, "Still Lifes," at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

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Full list of the winners:

MUSIC
Album of the Year — Bright Eyes, “The People's Key”
Alternative/Indie — Conduits
Artist of the Year — Galvanized Tron
Best Progressive/Experiment/Funk — Satchel Grande
Best Soul/ R&B/ Gospel — Lucas Kellison and the Assembled Soul
Blues — Kris Lager Band
Country/Americana — Matt Cox Band
Cover Band — Yesterday and Today
DJ/ Electronic — Icky Blossoms
Ethnic/World — The Bishops
Hard Rock — Broken Crown
Hip-Hop/Rap — Galvanized Tron
Jazz — Jazzocracy
New Artist — Snake Island!
Rock — Rock Paper Dynamite
Singer-Songwriter/Adult Alternative — All Young Girls Are Machine Guns

THEATER and PERFORMING ARTS
Best Actor in a Comedy/Drama — Scott Kurz, “Distant Music,” Brigit Saint Brigit
Best Actor in a Musical — Steve Krambeck, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrals,” Bellevue Little Theatre
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy/Drama — Scott Working, “Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol,” Blue Barn Theatre
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical — Dan Chevalier, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Omaha Community Playhouse
Best Actress in a Comedy/Drama — Ruth Rath, “Three Tall Women,” Blue Barn Theatre
Best Actress in a Musical — Kirstin Kluver, “Guys and Dolls,” Omaha Community Playhouse
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy/Drama — Laura Leininger, “Distant Music,” Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical — Jennifer Tritz, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Omaha Community Playhouse
Best Choreography — Roxanne Nielsen, “Guys and Dolls,” Omaha Community Playhouse
Best Comedic Play — “Distant Music,” Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre
Best Director of Comedy/Drama — Kevin Lawler, “Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol,” Blue Barn Theatre
Best Musical — “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Omaha Community Playhouse
Best Musical Direction — Mark Kurtz, ”Smokey Joe's Café,” Children's Respite Care Center
Best Dramatic Play — “Three Tall Women,” Blue Barn Theatre
Original Script — Monica Bauer, “My Occasion of Sin,” Shelterbelt Theatre
Costume Design — Georgiann Regan, “Guys and Dolls,” Omaha Community Playhouse
Lighting Design — Steven L. Williams, “Dark Play, or Stories for Boys,” University of Nebraska at Omaha
Performance by Young Actors — Bailey Newman, “My Occasion of Sin,” Shelterbelt Theatre
Performance for A Young Audience — “Pride Players: Project 13,” Rose Teens ‘n' Theatre
Scenic Design — Scott Kurz, “Distant Music,” Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre
Sound Design — Amanda Miller, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Circle Theatre
Best Featured Dancer — Erika Overturff, “Momentum,” Ballet Nebraska
Best Local Dance Production — “Momentum,” Ballet Nebraska
Best Local Slam Poet — Matt Mason

VISUAL ART
Best 2D Artist — Vera Mercer
Best 3D Artist — Jun Kaneko
Best Emerging Visual Artist — Ying Zhu
Best Group Visual — “Extraordinary Rendition” - bemisUNDERGROUND
Best new Media Artist — Ying Zhu
Best Solo Show — Vera Mercer, ”Still Lifes,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Best Visual Artist — Vera Mercer