UK Music Video Awards 2014 Winners Announced

The seventh annual UK Music Video Awards were held in London yesterday (10 November), with a throng of British and international filmmakers assembled to celebrate creative and technical excellence in music videos.

A list of winners was announced, naming people from all areas of the artform – from directors and producers to artists and commissioners, as well as in production and post-production craft categories. 

Video of the Year went to American directing duo DANIELS, who received a total of five nominations and also picked up Best Dance Video - International for DJ Snake ft Lil Jon’s Turn Down For What. The UK Jury selected LA-based director Hiro Murai as the Best Director of the past year for his body of work, which include Queens of the Stone Age’s Smooth Sailing which also won him Best Rock/Indie Video – International.

One of the big British winners of the night was Daniel Wolfe for his eight minute epic for Paolo Nutini’s Iron Sky, which picked up five nominations and rewarded him with the Best Pop Video title as well as the coveted Best Cinematography prize for cinematographer Robbie Ryan. 

Also picking up two honours at the ceremony was Mercury Prize-nominated FKA Twigs who won the new Best Video Artist category for her body of video work in the past year, as well as Best Alternative Video – Budget for Papi Pacify, co-directed by Twigs with Tom Beard. Agile Films’ producer Amber Millington beat off competition from the UK and France to win the Best Producer award, and Caroline Clayton took home the Best Commissioner trophy.

Atoms For Peace’s Before Your Very Eyes won Best Alternative Video - UK, Disclosure’s Grab Her won the Best Dance Video - UK award, and the post-production categories saw British talent winning against tough international competition with Final Cut’s Dan Sherwen taking the Best Editing title for his work on Jon Hopkins’ Collider, Ainslie Henderson and Michael Hughes winning Best Animation for James’ Moving On and the team at Electric Theatre Collective triumphing in the Best Visual Effects category for Alt-J’s Hunger Of The Pine. 

In the non-video categories, Kate Moross collected the Best Music Ad – TV or Online for her direction of Settle by Disclosure, and Bartleberry Logan picked up the coveted Best Live Music Coverage title for his direction of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Live in Paris.

Israeli director Vania Heymann collected the award for Best Interactive Video of the year – Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone, French directing team Truman & Cooper picked up Best New Director and OK Go received the Best Art Direction & Design in a Video award via a specially-recorded message for The Writing’s On The Wall. Also expressing their thanks via video on the night were Sia and Daniel Askill for their choreography-led video for Chandelier in the Best International Pop Video category, and UK director Sam Pilling who triumphed over a host of international directors to grab the Best International Urban Video award for J Cole ft Amber Coffman’s She Knows.

Sony Music were the biggest winners among record labels at the UK MVAs, picking up awards this for Best Pop Video, Best Choreography in a Video, Best Interactive Video and Video of the Year. It was also the record company attached to the Best Colour Grade in a Video award which was presented to colourist George K of MPC. 

Grammy-award winning video director Joseph Kahn was presented with the Icon Award. He is celebrated for his iconic work with a generation of music artists, including Beyonce, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Eminem, Katy Perry, Wu-Tang Clan, Justin Timberlake and U2. 

MusicVidFest, a conference on the business of music video creativity, launched the same day as the awards which gave professionals a chance to discuss the issues and advances driving music video production here and abroad.

The event also saw participation from M.I.A, Basement Jaxx’s Felix Buxton and a presentation by director Steve Barron. 

There were many more winners on the night. For more informatio on the awards, click here.