UK Music Video Awards 2024 announce winners

Charli XCX, AntsLive, RM, The Chemical Brothers and Fontaines D.C. were the big winners at this year’s UK Music Video Awards, as they collected 2 awards apiece for individual videos and further recognition for the teams behind them.   

British director Aidan Zamiri claimed the Video of the Year trophy for Charli XCX’s 360, after also winning the Best UK Pop Video award. The production team behind Zamiri, Object & Animal, were named as Best Production Company while O&A’s Alex Brinkman won the Best Executive Producer accolade.   

Meanwhile French director Aube Perrie was awarded the Best Director award for the second year running, his third award of the night following recognition for his direction of Fontaines D.C.’s Starburster in the Best International Rock Video category and RM’s Lost! in the Best International Alternative Video category. Perrie’s regular collaborator, Gwen Ghelid, also won the Best Editing award for his work on Perrie’s video for Jade ‘Angel of My Dreams’ while production designers Studio Augmenta took the trophy for their part in creating the world of Perrie’s RM Lost! video. 

Charli XCX’s 360, claimed the Best UK Pop Video up against strong competition from Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Jade and Raye. AntsLive was awarded the Best Performance trophy for his starring role in Captain Ants, which was also awarded the Best UK Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Video, a video directed by Tom Emmerson, who received the award for the second year in a row. Meanwhile the Penscola-directed video for Skipping Like A Stone by The Chemical Brothers ft Beck claimed the UK Dance/Electronic Video trophy as well as the Best Visual Effects award. As well as the International Rock Video award for Starburster, a second Fontaines D.C. video, Here’s The Thing, directed by Londoner Luna Carmoon, was recognised as Lucy James picked up the trophy for Best Styling. 

Other UK artist success came in the form of Tajana Tokyo’s video for Ezra Collective’s God Gave Me Feet For Dancing, and Rich Hall’s video for Depeche Mode’s People Are Good, while Loose picked up the Best Live Video for her direction of Fred Again… and Anderson .Paak’s Places To Be. IDLES, Coldplay, Jade, Elbow, and Matilda Mann were among the other UK artists honoured at the celebration of global music video creativity, hosted for the second year running by DJ, presenter and Scissor Sisters frontwoman Ana Matronic at Magazine London.  

The international artists who triumphed on the night included last year’s video of the Year winner, Mette who claimed the Best Pop Video – International award for the second year running, this time for Bet directed by previous UKMVA winner C Prinz, as well as Kamasi Washington, Justice, Lil Dicky, and Alaskan Tapes. The collaboration between Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky and .Anderson Paak won the Best International Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Video for Gangsta, directed by multi-UKMVA award winner, François Rousselet. 

The UKMVAs also honoured Canadian director, Floria Sigismondi with the Icon Award for her outstanding achievement in music videos for over the past three decades. Presented by Lawrence Rothman, the award celebrated Sigismondi’s career in the medium with video messages from superstar artists Sam Smith and Christina Aguilera, actress Elle Fanning and director (and previous UKMVA Icon Award winner) Jonas Akerlund. 

Other winners on the night included brothers The Reids who took home the Best New Director award for their work with Mura Masa and James Blake, French director Lea Ceheivi. who triumphed in the Best International Dance/Electronic Video category for her video for Justice’s Generator, and American director David Helman for his video for IDLE’s Gift Horse which claimed the Best UK Rock Video award. Meanwhile, London-bord Jenn Nkiru took the Best International R&B/Soul Video award for Kamasi Washington’s Get Lit.   

XL Recording’s Scott Wright claimed the title as the Best Creative Commissioner, with Theo Hue Williams named Best Producer and FreeAgent UK’s Alexa Haywood took the Best Agent trophy for the third year in a row.