Winners For The 2012 UK Music Video Awards Are Announced
Friday, 09 November 2012
Written by Catherine Rea
Now in its fifth year, the UK Music Video Awards held in London’s Leicester Square in the Empire Cinema host over 30 categories to award, covering huge international artists alongside up and coming talent. This years nominations were artists such as Jay-Z, Calvin Harris, Plan B, Bonobo, Gorillaz and Frank Ocean among more.
Last night British Artists were seen scooping awards at the prestigious event, singer-songwriter M.I.A saw her video for “Bad Girls”, directed by Romain Gavras, pick up The Video Of The Year award as well as Best Pop Video and Best Styling In A Video. Romain Gavras also picked up the award for Best Director. Director Daniel Wolfe picked up the Best UK Dance Video for the second year running for The Shoes single “Time To Dance”, which was also awarded Best Editing In A Video and saw producer Lee Groombridge honoured the Best Director award.
However, The Shoes weren’t the only French band to come home with an award. Justice was among other winners, with video for “New Lands” won Best Art Direction and Design in a Video and Woodkid collected the award for Best Visual Effects In A Video. Director of Woodkid, Yoann Lemoine, was also awarded Best International Pop Video for controversial pop-singer Lana Del Rey’s “Born To Die” video.
Other winners include actor Aidan Gillen who presented The Icon Award to Jamie Thraves after a 14 year long career working with names such as Radiohead, Blur, Coldplay and The Verve. Tributes last night to Jamie included messages from Travis, Alex James and Kristina Train. David Knight was also honoured with an Outstanding Contribution award for his 20 year dedication to the promotion of music video makers and their work.
The public-voted category saw One Direction honoured with The People’s Choice Award in association with VEVO for “Live While We’re Young”. UK Music Video Awards editorial director David Knight said, “The UK Music Video Awards celebrates the range of excellence in music videos, and there's been some fantastic videos to celebrate this year. We honour the people who make them, and the winners at the MVAs this year show that the medium is as vibrant as ever as an art form, a promotional tool for music, and as pure entertainment.”
Please see below for the full list of winners.
THE WINNERS:
Best Pop Video – UK in association with 4Music
M.I.A. – Bad Girls
Director: Romain Gavras
Producer: Khalid Tahhar
Prod co: Iconoclast Commissioner: Michelle Ann for Interscope
Best Dance Video – UK in association with Rudeye Dance Agency
The Shoes – Time to Dance
Director: Daniel Wolfe Producers: Lee Groombridge & Dougal Meese Prod co: Somesuch & Co Commissioner: Pierre Le Ny for Green United Music
Best Urban Video – UK in association with East End Studios
Plan B – Ill Manors
Director: Yann Demange Producer: Ben Sullivan Prod co: Rokkit Commissioner: Dan Curwin for Atlantic Records
Best Indie/Rock Video – UK in association with Music Week
Spiritualized – Hey Jane
Director: AG Rojas Producer: Anna Rau Prod co: Caviar/Somesuch & Co Commissioner: Juliette Larthe for Double Six/Domino Records
Best Alternative Video – UK
Alt-J – Breezeblocks
Director: Ellis Bahl
Producer: Jessica Birmingham
Prod co: Project Fathom Commissioner: Connie Meade for Infectious Music
Best Pop Video - International
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
Director: Yoann Lemoine
Producer: Emmanual Reye Prod co: Iconoclast Commissioner: Emily Tedrake for Polydor
Best Dance Video – International
Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf
Director: Keith Schofield Producer: Natasha Tan Prod co: Somesuch & Co Commissioner: Duck Sauce
Best Urban Video – International
Frank Ocean - Novacane
Director: Nabil Producer: Kathleen Heffernan Prod co: A+ Commissioner: Frank Ocean
Best Indie/Rock Video – International
The Shins – Simple Song
Director: Daniels Producer: Jonathan Wang Prod co: Prettybird US Commissioner: Saul Levitz for Columbia US
Best Alternative Video – International
The Hickey Underworld – The Frog
Director: Joe Vanhoutteghem Producer: Nele Carlier Prod co: Czar.be Commissioner: PIAS
Best Pop Video – Budget
Rent Boys – Shoot The Shot
Director: Zac Ella Producer: Posy Dixon Prod co: B A D Productions Commissioner: Andrew Swaine for German Bite
Best Urban Video – Budget
Noisses ft RTKAL, Lady Leshurr & Foreign Beggars – Run Your Mouth
Director: Drew Cox
Producer: Lucy Barber
Production co: Slanted Eyes & Lullabys
Commissioner: Ollywood for Black Butter Records
Best Indie/Rock Video – Budget
When Saints Go Machine – Parix
Director: Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen Producer: Thor Brammer Jacobsen Prod co: Spoiled Productions Commissioner: Jan-Erik Stig for EMI Records Denmark
Best Alternative Video – Budget
The Death Set – They Come To Get Us
Director: Guillaume Panariello
Producer: Guillaume Panariello & Julie Fabre
Prod co: Supergoober
Commissioner: The Death Set
Best Art Direction & Design in a Video
Justice – New Lands
Art Director: Roger Bellés Director: Canada Producers: Oscar Romagosa for Canada, Arthur Cantin for Partizan Prod co: Partizan Record co: Ed Banger/Because Music
Best Styling in a Video
M.I.A. – Bad Girls
Stylist: Hannah Edwards Director: Romain Gavras Producer: Khalid Tahhar Prod co: Iconoclast Record co: Interscope / XL Recordings
Best Choreography in a Video
Will Young – Losing Myself
Choreographer: Aletta Collins Director: Henry Scholfield Producer: Louise Gagen Prod co: Partizan Record co: Sony Music
Best Cinematography in A Video, in association with Panalux
Feist – The Bad In Each Other
DoP: Kasper Tuxen Director: Martin de Thurah Producer: Dom Thomas Prod co: A+ Record co: Polydor
Best Telecine in a Video
Temper Trap – Trembling Hands
TK: James Tillett at Moving Picture Co Director: Tom Haines Producer: Tiernan Hanby Prod co: Colonel Blimp Record co: Infectious Music
Best Animation in a Video
Fleet Foxes – The Shrine/An Argument
Animation: Sean Pecknold & Britta Johnson Director: Sean Pecknold Producer: Aaron Ball Prod co: Grandchildren Record co: Sub Pop
Best Editing in a Video, in association with Vanderquest
The Shoes – Time To Dance
Editor: Tom Lindsay Director: Daniel Wolfe Producer: Lee Groombridge & Dougal Meese Prod co: Somesuch & Co Record co: Green United Music
Best Visual Effects in a Video
Woodkid – Run Boy Run
VFX: One More Productions Director: Yoann Lemoine Producer: Roman Pichon Prod co: Iconoclast / HSI Record co: Green United Music
The Innovation Award
ALB – Golden Chains
Director: Johnatan Broda Prod co: BBDO / CARNIBIRD / ACNE Commissioner: ALB Record co: Green United Music
Best Live Music Coverage
Joint winner:
Chemical Brothers - Don’t Think
Director: Adam Smith Prod co: Black Dog Films Commissioner: Stefan Demetriou Record co: EMI
Joint winner:
LCD Soundsystem – Shut Up And Play The Hits
Director: Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace (AKA thirtytwo) Prod co: Pulse Films Commissioner: Keith Wood & Eddy Moretti Record co: DFA
Best Music Ad – TV or Online
Kasabian - Velociraptor
Director: John Pavely Prod co: JJ Stereo Commissioner: Ian Dutt Record co: Sony Columbia Records
Best Producer, in association with Rushes
Lee Groombridge
Best Commissioner
John Moule
Best New Director, in association with Locomotion
AG Rojas
Best Director, in association with Promo News
Romain Gavras
The People’s Choice Award, in association with VEVO
One Direction – Live While We’re Young
Director: Vaughan Arnell
Producer: Astrid Edwards & James Chad Prod co: Rokkit Commissioner: Mike O’Keefe for Syco / Sony Music
Video of the Year
M.I.A . – Bad Girls
Director: Romain Gavras
Producer: Khalid Tahhar
Prod co: Iconoclast Commissioner: Michelle Ann for Interscope
The Outstanding Contribution Award
David Knight
The Icon Award
Jamie Thraves
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