newsUK Music Video Awards 2024: Aidan Zamiri wins Video Of The Year for Charli XCX’s 360, Aube Perrie wins Best Director for second year runningLast night at the 17th annual UK Music Video Awards, the biggest global celebration of music video creativity, the Aidan Zamiri-directed video for Charli XCX’s 360 won Video Of The Year, and Aube Perrie won the Best Director award for the second year in succession. Photos by James Mead.On a night of high excitement at the ceremony held at Magazine London in North Greenwich - and hosted for the second year running by DJ, presenter and Scissor Sisters frontwoman Ana Matronic (top right, with Aidan Zamiri with his Video of the Year prize) - the Best Production Company prize went to Object & Animal, while its US-based EP Alex Brinkman, won the inaugural Best Executive Producer award.Above: Aube Perrie (left) accepts the Best Director award from Oscar Wendt of award sponsors Electric Theatre CollectiveAbove: Object & Animal collect Best Production Company, Morgan Clement (centre) holding the award; presented by Sam Clark (front right) of award sponsors KodakAbove: Theo Hue Williams accepts the Best Producer award from Estere of award sponsors WPAOther leading winners included directing duo The Reids, who won Best New Director, and Theo Hue Williams, who won Best Producer; Alexa Haywood won Best Agent for the third year in a row, and XL Recordings’ Scott Wright won Best Creative Commissioner.And the UKMVAs also bestowed its highest honour, The Icon Award, to legendary Canadian director Floria Sigismondi, for her longstanding contribution to the artform of music video – the award presented to her by her husband, musician Lawrence Rothman.Above: The Reids (left & centre) accept the Best New Director award from Jon Davey of LeapAbove: Scott Wright of XL Recordings wins Best Creative CommissionerAbove: Floria Sigismondi accepts The Icon AwardAs well as accepting the Best Director award from Electric Theatre Collective’s Oscar Wendt – a year after being an absent winner of his first Best Director win – Aube Perrie also saw videos he has directed in the past year win more four awards.Two of them went to his video for RM’s Lost! – Best Alternative Video International and Best Production Design in a Video, the latter accepted by art directing team Studio Augmenta. Perrie’s video for Fontaines D.C.’s Starburster won Best Rock Video International and his video for JADE’s Angel Of My Dreams won Best Editing in a Video, accepted by editor Gwen Ghelid.Above: Hatty Ellis Coward and Stephanie Kevers, aka Studio Augmenta, win Best Production Design In A VideoAbove: Gwen Ghelid (right) accepts the Best Editing In A Video award from Max Colt of award sponsors Digital Beauty WorkAbove: Pensacola (left) wins Best Visual Effects In A Video with producer Callum Harrison (centre) and CANADA MD Marta BobicOther double award winning videos were the Tom Emmerson directed video for AntsLive’s Captain Ants, winner of Best HipHop/Grime/Rap Video UK and Best Performance in a Video – won by AntsLive; The Chemical Brothers’ Skipping Like A Stone, directed by Pensacola, which won Best Dance/Electronic Video UK and Best Visual Effects in a Video; and Zamiri’s video for Charli XCX’s 360, where he picked up the award for Best Pop Video UK before receiving the Video of the Year prize from Ana Matronic.Two videos by Fontaines D.C. were honoured, Perrie’s Starburster and Here’s The Thing, the Luna Carmoon-directed video taking the award for Best Styling in a Video, accepted by wardrobe stylist Lucy James.More notable winners included Tajana Tokyo for her video for Ezra Collective's God Gave Me Feet For Dancing, which won Best R&B/Soul Video UK; Loose for Fred Again & Anderson Paak.’s Places To Be, which won Best Live Video; Rich Hall for his Depeche Mode video People Are Good, winning Best Alternative Video UK; David Helman winning Best Rock Video UK for IDLES' Gift Horse; and Beloji who delivered a heartfelt speech on accepting the award for Best Special Visual Project for his self-directed series of films Auguerre: Infinite Trolling.US director C Prinz won Best Pop Video International for her video for Mette’s Bet – the second year in succession a Mette video has won that award, and Prinz’s video for Jeremy Pope U Lost + What I Gotta Do won Best Choreography in a Video, the award going to celebrated choreographer Parris Goebel. Habitual UKMVA winner Francois Rousselet this year took the Best Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Video International award, for the second time in three years, for his direction of Free Nationals ft A$AP Rocky & Anderson Paak.'s Gangsta.Raman Djafari won Best Animation in a Video for Coldplay's Feelslikeimfallinginlove. Léa Ceheivi won Best Dance/Electronic Video International for Justice's Generator.The evening began with a performance by Supermodel – the electronic duo comprised of directors Joe Connor and Emile Rafael – of their track Push. Their self-directed video was shortlisted in the Best Dance/Electronic Video UK category. Then a series of awards where handed to Newcomer award recipients, including for inaugural Newcomer categories for Best Cinematography, Editing and Colour Grading.The Newcomer award winners included French director/editor Ferina, who won Best Editing Newcomer for Yvnnis's Gare Du Nord; DoP Angelo Marques, winner of Best Cinematography Newcomer for Wallace Cleaver's Plus Rien N'est Grave; Alex O'Brien at Okay Studio, winning Best Colour Grading Newcomer for Say Lou Lou's Dust; and Alex Acy won Best Dance/Electronic Video Newcomer for his video for Realo's Money Up Pants Down, having just arrived from Montreal in time to accept the award.• See the full list of winners and credits at the UK Music Video Awards 2024 here
