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  • best pop video

    • uk

      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

    • international

      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

    • newcomer

      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

  • best r&b / soul video

    • uk

      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

    • international

      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

    • newcomer

      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

       

  • best dance / electronic video

    • uk

      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

    • international

      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

    • newcomer

      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

  • best rock video

    • uk

      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

       

    • international

      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

    • newcomer

      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

       

       

  • best alternative video

    • uk

      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

    • international

      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

    • newcomer

      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

       

  • best hip hop / grime / rap video

    • uk

      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

    • international

      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

    • newcomer

      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