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winners & nominees

winner:

dua lipa – break my heart
director: henry scholfield
producer: javier alejandro
prod co: caviar
commissioner: caroline clayton for warner records/tap mgmt

shortlist:

harry styles – adore you
director: dave meyers
producer: nathan scherrer, jo coombes, ellen de faux, tom gardner
prod co: freenjoy
commissioner: bryan younce for columbia records

lewis capaldi – before you go
director: kyle thrash
producer: stephen buchanan
prod co: more media
commissioner: james hackett for emi records

ashnikko ft grimes – cry
director: mike anderson
producer: karina ripper
prod co: anderson platz
commissioner: sam seager for parlophone records

harry styles – falling
director: dave meyers
producer: nathan scherrer, fuliane petikyan
prod co: freenjoy
commissioner: bryan younce for columbia records

dua lipa – physical
director: lope serrano aka canada
producer: laura serra estorch, karen saurí
prod co: canada
commissioner: caroline clayton for warner records

winner:

the weeknd – blinding lights
director: anton tammi
producer: sarah park
prod co: somesuch
commissioner: la mar c taylor for republic records

shortlist:

rosalía – a pale
director: jora frantzis
producer: kareem johnson
prod co: prettybird
commissioner: saul levitz for columbia records

tove lo ft mc zaac – are u gonna tell her?
director: alaska
producer: francesco colombo, henrique danieletto
prod co: iconoclast
commissioner: charlie twaddle for island records

rosalía – juro que
director: tanu muino
producer: frank borin, montse urniza
prod co: underwonder content
commissioner: saul levitz for columbia records

bts – on
director: lumpens (yongseok choi)
producer: tiffany suh
prod co: freenjoy
commissioner: big hit entertainment

rosalía, travis scott – tkn
director: nicolás méndez aka canada
producer: laura serra estorch
prod co: canada in collaboration with the directors bureau
commissioner: saul levitz for sony music

winner:

vagabon – in a bind
director: maegan houang
producer: benjamin kang, john lozada
prod co: antidote films
commissioner: artist commissioned 

shortlist:

babeheaven – cassette beat
director: margot bowman
producer: chris murdoch
prod co: prettybird
commissioner: becky richardson for urok

ashnikko – drunk with my friends
director: claire arnold
producer: callum harrison
prod co: ground work
commissioner: sam seager for parlophone records

nick wilson – enough to know you
director: bjorn franklin & johnny marchetta
producer: gina burns
prod co: bee happy media
commissioner: orna lyons for never fade records

filous ft ashe – monday
director: tobias pichler
producer: tobias pichler
prod co: matthias oldofredi
commissioner: elias oldofredi for ultra music

raine allen-miller – wank wiggle
director: raine allen-miller
producer: elly camisa
prod co: somesuch

winner:

berwyn – trap phone
director: brock neal roberts
producer: india bradshaw
prod co: agile films
commissioner: dan millar for sony music entertainment uk

shortlist:

jorja smith – by any means
director: otis dominique, ellington hammond
producer: precious mahaga
commissioner : erin corrian-alexis for famm

fka twigs ft future – holy terrain
director: fka twigs and nick walker
producer: whitney jackson
prod co: object & animal
commissioner: artist commissioned

olivia dean – password change
director: stella scott
producer: ersan beskardes
prod co: pulse films
commissioner: connie meade w/ joceline gabriel for amf records

celeste – stop this flame
director: leonn ward
producer: holly wolfers
prod co: black dog films
commissioner: semera khan for polydor records

lola young – woman
director: oliva rose
producer: chanel parkinson/benedict turnbull
prod co: caviar
commissioner: laura clayton for island records

winner:

yseult – corps
director: colin solal cardo
producer: christophe ‘chryde’ abric, adrien chibatte
prod co: la blogothèque, y.y.y
commissioner: artist commisioned
record co: believe

shortlist:

tiwa savage – 49-99
director: meji alabi
producer: jimi adesanya
prod co: jm films
commissioner: roc nation

beyoncé, shatta wale, major lazer – already
director: beyoncé, pierre debusschere, kwasi fordjour
producer: erinn williams, jeremy sullivan
prod co: parkwood entertainment
commissioner: erinn williams for parkwood entertainment, sony music, columbia records

070 shake – nice to have
director: noah lee
producer: jared lundy
prod co: checkmate films, noco
commissioner: artist commissioned
record co: def jam

gregory porter – revival
director: douglas bernardt
producer: ryland burns
prod co: stink films
record co: universal music

marvin gaye – what’s going on
director: savanah leaf
producer: danielle hinde/danny lockwood/ rich hutchins/ jason cole
prod co: doomsday entertainment
commissioner: danny lockwood for capital records / motown

winner:

greentea peng – mr sun (miss da sun)
director: felix brady
producer: nellie heron-anstead
prod co: stink films
record co: earbuds

shortlist:

jeshi ft celeste – 30,000 feet
director: charlie robins
producer: joseph goldman
prod co: friend
commissioner: theo oliver, scott jason for sony music entertainment

arlo parks – black dog
director: molly burdett
producer: oskar brockbank
prod co: forever
record co: transgressive & beatnik

black square ft laville – coral blues
director: luke tierney
producer: suzan mustafa
prod co: friend

fredwave – dust
director: brock neal-roberts
producer: india bradshaw
prod co: agile films

ni houstonn ft darius raheem – gemini
director: alban coret
producer: alix
prod co: scorpion
commissioner: nigel houston for midnight crew

 

winner:

disclosure ft aminé & slowthai – my high
director: simon cahn
exec producer: clémence cuvelier, jules de chateleux;
producer: théo gall, laure salgon
prod co: division
commissioner: kevin kloecker for island records

shortlist:

waze & odyssey, george michael, mary j blige & tommy theo – always
director: nelson de castro
producer: jesse mcclung
prod co: little ugly llc
commissioner: kat cattaneo for sony music entertainment uk

prospa – control the party
director: jak payne
producer: ghandi el-chamaa
prod co: blink productions
commissioner: marco grey for polydor records

mura masa & slowthai – deal wiv it
director: yoni lappin
producer: karen saurí, davey ahern
prod co: canada
commissioner: richard grewe for polydor records

disclosure – energy
director: kid studio
exec producer: ryan hahn & vince tran
producer: chanel urban
prod co: hpla
commissioner: kevin kloecker for island records

duke dumont, zac abel – the power
director: paco raterta
producer: jp
prod co: pulse films
commissioner: james hackett for emi records

winner:

salvatore ganacci – boycycle
director: vedran rupic
producer: christian kuosmanen, sia masoodian
prod co: business club royale
commissioner: blake foster for owsla

shortlist:

flight facilities – better than ever
director: tom noakes
producer:craig siney
prod co: prettybird
commissioner: ed sholl for team leisurely

piero pirupa – braindead (heroin kills)
director: yousef
producer: jake river parker
prod co: prettybird
commissioner: lucy rogers for island records

bronson – keep moving
director: stylewar
producer: elizabeth doonan
prod co: smuggler
commissioner: john moule for ninja tune

chris liebing & charlotte de witte – liquid slow
director: nogari
producer: francesco colombo
prod co: iconoclast
commissioner: stijn smet, alexander vandriessche for kntxt

brodinski ft zelooperz – master section
director: matilda finn
producer: martha mcguirk
prod co: stink films
record co: cinematic music group

winner:

mild minds ft boats – walls
director: colin read
exec producer: giacomo vigliar
producer: francesco rizzo
prod co: unit9
commissioner: emmanuelle george for foreign family collective

shortlist:

leifur james – aaid
director: balázs simon, dávid dell’edera
producer: balázs simon
prod co: airplan
commissioner: paul glancy for night time stories

samaran – allo
director: cédric legrand
producer: léa carteaux
record co: circa’99

raven – cass & lex
director: phillip kaminiak
producer: phillip kaminiak
prod co: tumult film
commissioner: artist commissioned for prah recordings, moshi moshi music management

akwasi – extase
director: florian joahn
producer: julia schellekens
prod co: compulsory
commissioner: artist commissioned

saavan – in my head
director: valentin meaux & lucas mokrani
producer: valentin meaux, lucas mokrani
prod co: meska collective
commissioner: david ohayon for yunizon records

mild minds ft boats – walls
director: colin read
producer: francesco rizzo
prod co: pulse films
commissioner: emmanuelle george for foreign family collective

winner:

idles – war
director: will dohrn
producer: mel giles
prod co: ground work
commissioner: theresa adebiyi for partisan records

shortlist:

sam fender – borders
director: thomas james
producer: vanessa mcdonnell
prod co: ob productions
commissioner: semera khan for polydor records

michael kiwanuka – hero
director: cc wade
producer: precious mahaga
prod co: somesuch
commissioner: emily tedrake, marco grey for polydor records

the 1975 – people
director: warren fu
producer: mayling wong
prod co: partizan
commissioner: semera khan for polydor records

declan mckenna – the key to life on earth
director: will hooper
producer: rosie brear
prod co: blink productions
commissioner: michael lewin for sony music entertainment uk

coldplay – trouble in town
director: aoife mcardle
producer: alex chamberlain
prod co: somesuch
commissioner: sam seager for parlophone records

idles – war
director: will dohrn
producer: mel giles
prod co: ground work
commissioner: theresa adebiyi for partisan records

 

winner:

joywave – obsession
director: dimitri basil, laura gorun, cooper roussel,
producer: laura gorun
prod co: mad meridian 76 nw
commissioner: craig cox for hollywood records

shortlist:

the strokes – bad decisions
director: andrew donoho
exec producer: ian blair
prod co: invisible inc
commissioner: lagen sebert, sabrina rivera for rca records

håkan hellström – alla drömmar är uppfyllda
director: filip nilsson
producer: kalle wettre
prod co: object & animal
commissioner: johan olsson for warner music sweden

broken bells – good luck
director: kimberly stuckwisch & nelson de castro
producer: ian blair
prod co: little ugly, invisible inc
commissioner: tiffany steffens for monotone inc

the strokes – ode to the mets
director: warren fu
producer: joel kretschman
prod co: partizan
commissioner: sabrina rivera for rca

leonard cohen – the hills
director: vincent haycock
producer: laure salgon
prod co: somesuch x division
commissioner: shelley jones for nowness

winner:

willie j healey – true stereo
director: joe wheatley
producer: luke fraser
prod co: joe wheatley

shortlist:

commissioner: emma greengrass for yala! recordsthe academic – acting my age
director: ronan corrigan & hope kemp
producer: hope kemp
commissioner: michael whitham for capitol records

sports team – camel crew
director: sports team & ben unwin
producer: phil tidy
prod co: squire
commissioner: david knight for island records

beabadobee – i wish i was stephen malkmus
director: bedroom
producer: joseph goldman
prod co: compulsory
commissioner: jon moore for dirty hit

dream wife – so when you gonna…
director: aidan zamiri
producer: andy luck
prod co: object & animal
commissioner: stephen richards for lucky number music

kid kapichi – thugs
director: james green
producer: dan matthews
prod co: ramshackle productions
commissioner: kid kapichi

 

 

winner:

låpsley – my love was like the rain
director: camille summers-vallisfcoi
producer: scarlett barclay
prod co: ground work
commissioner: scott wright for xl recordings

shortlist:

ghostpoet – concrete pony
director: thomas james
producer: jamie gamache, connor o’hara
prod co: ob productions
commissioner: sean mayo for pias

thom yorke – last i heard (…he was circling the drain)
director: art camp, saad moosajee
producer: art camp
prod co: art camp
commissioner: scott wright for xl recordings

fka twigs – sad day
director: hiro murai
producer: jason cole, danielle hinde, brad weston, anita gou, hiro murai, nate matteson, michael stirton, fka twigs
prod co: doomsday entertainment (us), friend (uk)

moses boyd – stranger than fiction
director: in/out
producer: louisa plumstead
prod co: riff raff films
commissioner: michael lewin from sony music entertainment uk

mura masa ft ellie roswell – teenage headache dreams
director: marcus söderlund
producer: georgina smith
prod co: academy films
commissioner: richard grewe for polydor records

winner:

agoria – call of the wild
director: loïc andrieu
producer: pierre cazenave-kaufman
prod co: soldats
commissioner: christian de rosnay for sapiens

shortlist:

moses sumney – cut me
director: moses sumney
producer: whitney jackson
prod co: object & animal
commissioner: artist commissioned

meryem aboulouafa – deeply
director: zhang & knight
exec producer: kristin arakchieva & alexander kenanov
producer: hugo legrand-nathan
prod co: birth
commissioner: emmanuel barron for savoir faire, a63

ferran palau – flora & caic
director: pablo maestres
producer: georg bungard, inés massa
prod co: primo, bungard film, eighty4
commissioner: louise sansom for hidden track records / primavera labels

woodkid – goliath
director: yoann lemoine
producer: horace de gunzbourg
prod co: iconoclast
commissioner: pierre le ny for universal music / barclay

sheenah ko – wrap me up
director: vincent rené-lortie & brittney canda
producer: samuel caron
prod co: telescope films
commissioner: artist commissioned

winner:

zebra katz – moor
director: žanete skarule & ojay morgan
producer: normunds rumba
prod co: common people films / wmw.studio
commissioner: zebra katz for mad decent

shortlist:

maría josé llergo – a través de ti
director: alex gargot
producer: álvaro priante
prod co: grayskull
commissioner: luís ángeles for sony music

alaskan tapes – and, we disappear
director: meredith hama-brown
producer: madeleine davis, jill orsten, marlaina mah
prod co: boldly
commissioner: artist commissioned

midnight tracks – anymore
director: marleen valien
producer: lisa purtscher
prod co: filmakademie baden-württemberg
commissioner: marleen valien for l’inlassable

l’homme statue – braços/vela
director: douglas bernardt
producer: ingrid raszl, tico cruz
prod co: stink films
commissioner: loic koutana for in their feelings

ll burns – get me back in the game
director: cc wade
prod co: somesuch

 

winner:

jme ft merky ace – live
director: matthew walker
producer: matthew walker
prod co: mkw films
commissioner: jamie adenuga for boy better know

shortlist:

stormzy ft headie one – audacity
director: taz tron delix
producer: ghandi el chamaa
prod co: compulsory
commissioner: dan curwin, nicola shephard for atlantic records

headie one & fred again – gang
director: arnaud bresson
producer: théo gall, laure salgon
prod co: division
commissioner: elena argiros for sony music entertainment uk

avelino – higher power
director: nadira amrani
producer: nailah blissett
prod co: blink productions
commissioner: dan millar for sony music entertainment uk

octavian – poison
director: crowns & owls
producer: greg smith, javier alejandro
prod co: noir
record co: artist commissioned for black butter

slowthai – psycho
director: duncan loudon
producer: nat baring
prod co: somesuch
commissioner: lewis levi for true panther sounds, method records

winner:

dj shadow ft de la soul – rocket fuel
director: sam pilling
producer: emma wellbelove
prod co: pulse films, radioaktive film
commissioner: caroline clayton for mass appeal records

shortlist:

flatbush zombies – afterlife
director: arnaud bresson
producer: théo gall, laure salgon
prod co: division
commissioner: josh dick & phillip t. annand for glorious dead records

a$ap rocky – babushka boi
director: nadia lee cohen
producer: malcolm duncan, fabien colas
prod co: virgin soil pictures
commissioner: nicholas robespierre for rca records

future ft drake – life is good
director: julien christian lutz
producer: harv glazer, taj critchlow
prod co: popp rok
commissioner: sam lecca for epic records.

run the jewels ft greg nice & dj premier – ooh la la
director: brian beletic & vanessa beletic
producer: cat restrepo
prod co: smuggler

tommy cash – sdubid
director: tommy cash & anna himma
producer: horace de gunzbourg
prod co: iconoclast

winner:

jurdan bryant – words for thomas
director: alonzo hellerbach
producer: chris toumazou
prod co: compulsory

shortlist:

louis culture – being me
director: milo blake
exec producer: pilar muro
producer: james wood
prod co: figaro inc, papaya films

spxxn p – complicació
director: pere sala
producer: maria granell
prod co: vivir rodando
record co: kasba music

kam-bu ft lord apex – different
director: milo blake
exec producer: pilar muro
producer: ella glazer
prod co: figaro inc, papaya films

meekz – like me
director: kc locke
producer: lewis nicholson
prod co: swords & eagles
commissioner: james walsh for neighbourhood

flohio – way2
director: ethan & tom
producer: natalie roloff and lauren hills
commissioner: flohio for alphatone