The UK Music Video Awards launches its call for submissions from today, June 11th 2025, as it commences its search for this year’s standout creative and innovative work in music videos and music visual projects in 38 separate categories. The leading global celebration of excellence in music video is inviting entries from music video creators from around the world to submit their projects via the official website at www.ukmva.com. The deadline for entries is Friday 1st August.
This year’s awards show will take place on Thursday 30th October at Magazine London and will once again be a major celebration of creative excellence in music visuals and the talent behind the work.
Directorial achievements in single music videos will be celebrated with 12 awards defined by music genre – Pop, R&B/Soul/Jazz, Dance/Electronic, Rock, Alternative, Hip Hop/Grime/Rap for both UK and international artists, as well as 4 awards for Newcomer directors who have been working professionally for 4 years or less. In addition, there will be awards for direction of the Best Live Music Video and Best Special Visual Project as well as a brand new Best Low Budget Video category to spotlight creative projects made for under £5k.
The Best Cinematography in a Video award is one of most prestigious categories at the UK Music Video Awards, with previous winners including Lol Crawley, Tom Townend, Steve Annis, Robbie Ryan, Patrick Meller and Jake Scott. Last year saw the addition of a brand new Newcomer Cinematography category, aimed at those with less than 4 years’ experience working consistently on music videos as a DoP.
A collaboration between Kodak and the UKMVAs identified an impressive 42 nominations across the board at last year’s Awards which were shot on Kodak film stock. Kodak is confirmed as a key sponsor again for this year’s Awards, supporting the Best Production Company category.
As well as awards for achievement in single music video projects, the UKMVA Jury will be voting for individuals and companies who have produced an outstanding body of work across the past year. Awards for Best New Director, Director, EP, Producer and Creative Commissioner, will be presented as well as the Best Production Company, recognising the team whom the Jury deem to have delivered the most impressive body of music visual work between August 2024 and 2025.
