Romain Gavras swept the major honours at the UK Music Video Awards 2012 last night in London, winning the Best Director award and the Video Of The Year for his video for M.I.A’s Bad Girls. At the fifth annual ceremony celebrating the most creative work in music video of the past year, the French director [...]
M.I.A.’S BAD GIRLS BY ROMAIN GAVRAS WINS VIDEO OF THE YEAR! ROMAIN GAVRAS ALSO WINS BEST DIRECTOR! AG ROJAS TAKES THE BEST NEW DIRECTOR AWARD! DOUBLE AWARD TRIUMPH FOR DANIEL WOLFE’S THE SHOES! JOHN MOULE WINS BEST COMMISSIONER! JAMIE THRAVES ACCEPTS UK MVAS’ ICON AWARD! Best Pop Video – UK, in association with 4Music M.I.A. [...]
“Everybody fights, nobody quits” – Barry Wasserman With over thirty years working as a 1st AD, Barry Wasserman is legend of the British music video industry. Barry has worked with the major artists in rock and pop, and with many of the major directors, on some of the most influential music videos ever made. Bronx-born [...]
The UK Music Video Awards 2011 on Tuesday (Nov 8th) was the night of the year for British music videos – with a strong French, Spanish and American presence at the awards too. This is the story of the ceremony in pics, with a little bit of video – and the full list of winners [...]
DANIELS’ MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA WINS VIDEO OF THE YEAR! CANADA WIN BEST DIRECTOR! US VOTED BEST NEW DIRECTOR! DOUBLE AWARD TRIUMPHS FOR SAM BROWN’S ADELE, DAN WOLFE’S CHASE & STATUS, MEGAFORCE’S IS TROPICAL JONAS AKERLUND ACCEPTS UK MVA’S ICON AWARD! OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNITION FOR BARRY WASSERMAN! The UK Music Video Awards 2011 were held at the [...]
Nearly a week since the UK Music Video Awards, indisputably the big party of the year for the British music video-making community, most people have more or less recovered… So congratulations once again to all the winners who collected a delightful MVA trophy (or maybe more than one) – and hopefully got them home all [...]
Rich Fulcher – mad, magnificent, fish suit-wearing host of the UK Music Video Awards on Tuesday night – tickled the audience mercilessly with his hilarious film, made especially for the show with director Ninian Doff and Claw Films, where he explains in ten easy steps how to become a video director. Fairly accurately. As Rich [...]
Photos (by Ben Meadows): Rich Fulcher opens the show; Sam Tidman accepts Best Art Direction; Hannah Edwards wins Best Styling; Ben Newman thanks Rich for Best Budget Pop award; Hal Kirkland accepts Best Budget Rock/Indie; James Frost accepts Best Rock video; John Pavely with Best Music Ad; Panalux’s Barnaby Laws; Paul Dugdale wins Best Live [...]
The extraordinary ‘Rube Goldberg Machine’ video for OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass video won the top award of Video of the Year at the UK Music Video Awards 2010 last night in London, at a boisterous, emotional, and euphoric ceremony hosted by outrageous comedian Rich Fulcher. The OK Go video, which has the band [...]
OK GO & JAMES FROST WIN VIDEO OF THE YEAR! DANIEL WOLFE WINS BEST DIRECTOR! WOLFE’S PLAN B VIDEOS SCOOP FOUR AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST POP VIDEO! HAMMER & TONGS ACCEPT UK MVA’S ICON AWARD! BEN NEWMAN VOTED BEST NEW DIRECTOR! The UK Music Video Awards 2010 were held in London’s Leicester Square last night at [...]
