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UK Music Video Awards 2024 Nominations revealed
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Charli XCX leads the pack while Jade, Raye, Antslive, Fontaines D.C., Mette and Childish Gambino all score big in the nominations for the premier global celebration of music video creativity on October 24th.
Charli XCX leads the nominations at this year’s UK Music Video Awards with a suite of attention-grabbing videos.
The artist sees her videos for 360, Von Dutch and Guess, her collaboration with Billie Eilish, pick up a total of seven shortlist places across the music genre and craft categories, the most by any single artist, in the annual celebration of music video creativity.
In hot pursuit, Jade wins five nominations, four for the official music video for Angel Of My Dreams by last year’s Best Director winner Aube Perrie, as well as a nod for the live version helmed by Theo Adams and Sophie Muller. Among the other British artists to make headlines in the shortlists, the ever-charismatic Raye and AntsLive pick up multiple nominations for their music videos and live videos, while Irish rockers Fontaines D.C. win a total of five mentions for their innovative videos for Here’s The Thing and Starburster. They head a list which includes multiple nods for Coldplay, James Blake, The Rolling Stones, The Chemical Brothers, Ezra Collective, IDLES, Mura Masa and Jeshi demonstrating the breadth of music video creativity over the past year.
Among the international artists, previous UKMVA multi-nominee Childish Gambino leads the way with 5 nominations and last year’s Video of the Year winner, Mette, scores 4 places for her video for Bet. The video for the collaboration between Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky and Anderson .Paak for the track Gangsta also gains four nominations, while Camila Cabello, Jeremy Pope, Justice, Kamasi Washington, Rage Against The Machine, Wallace Cleaver and Yseult receive multiple mentions in this year’s list of nominations for over 35 awards, celebrating the best work in music videos in the UK and around the world, and the creative and technical talent behind them.
The winners at this year’s UKMVAs will be announced at the awards ceremony which takes place at Magazine London on October 24th, when directors and production companies will be celebrated for their outstanding creative work alongside other filmmaking talent in areas including Cinematography, Colour grading, Production Design, Choreography, Styling, Editing, Animation and Visual Effects.
Among the directors on this year’s list, Frenchman Aube Perrie leads the pack with a total of nine nominations for his work with Jade, Fontaines D.C. and South Korean rapper RM, while British talent Aidan Zamiri and Tom Emmerson score multiple mentions for their work with Charli XCX and AntsLive respectively. They face off in the Best Director category against the multi-nominated François Rousselet and American director C Prinz, and previous two-time winner in the category, Tanu Muino.
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Among the new directing talent on the list, British director Billy King leads the way with 5 nominations for his work with Konyikeh and AntsLive, closely followed by British brothers The Reids for their videos for James Blake’s Thrown Around and Mura Masa’s Rise, and French duo Sang Froid, recognised for their work with Paris-based rapper Wallace Cleaver. In the Best New Director category, they will contend with Jake Erland, Pedro Takahashi and Zac Dov Wiesel for the title. Other directors with multiple nominations are Otis Dominique for his collaboration with Raye on Genesis, London filmmaker Luna Carmoon for her video for Fontaines D.C.’s Here’s The Thing, and previous Best Director winner Hiro Murai returning to the shortlist with his video for Childish Gambino’s Little Foot Big Foot.
This year’s shortlist for the Best Performance in a Video category, designed to spotlight outstanding on-camera performances by artists, actors and ensembles in music videos, this year features stellar turns by AntsLive, Childish Gambino, Jade, Mette, Raye and two young actors portraying A$AP Rocky and Anderson .Paak in François Rousselet’s video for Gangsta.
The hotly-contested Best Production Company award, presented in association with Kodak, this year sees a face-off between 6 strong contenders, all renowned for their output of music videos: Riff Raff FIlms, Object & Animal, Pulse Films, Stink Films, DIVISION and Iconoclast.
Since its inception in 2008, the UKMVAs has grown into the leading global awards programme for music video creativity, the most important annual event in the calendar for the world of music video production. The global reach of the competition saw entries from 33 different territories. Tickets for the awards show at Magazine, London on October 24th are on sale now at www.ukmva.com
