UK Music Video Awards 2026 winners announced

Director Romain Gavras’ epic video for Gener8ion starring Yung Lean’s Storm was the big winner at this year’s UK Music Video Awards, claiming five awards including the Video of the Year for the director and team at the UKMVAs 2026, the annual celebration of global music video creativity. 

The video took the Best Dance/Electronic Video – International award for the director, as well as Best Choreography for Damien Jalet, Best Casting and Best Performance for Yung Lean and the cast. 

Kneecap claimed three awards on the night: the Best Alternative Video – International award for Irish Goodbye directed by Thomas James. That film also claimed the Best Newcomer Colour Grading trophy for Nathaniel Skeels at The Shop, while the video for Kneecap and Paul Hartnoll’s Sayōnara starring Derry Girls’ Jamie Lee O’Donnell won Best Editing for Finn Keenan and Ed Fay. 

There were also two awards for Spanish superstar Rosalía’s track Berghain featuring Björk and Yves Tumor as it claimed the Best Pop Video – International for Nicolás Méndez and the Best Styling award for Jose Carayol. Production company CANADA who made the video were honoured with the Best Production Company award. 

This year’s Best Director award went to Aidan Zamiri for numerous collaborations in the past year with Charli XCX. Zamiri also claimed the Best Dance/Electronic Video – UK trophy for A G Cook’s Residue. The Best New Director was magna studios’ Tanner K Williams for his work with Povoa x Madge and Lizzo. Magna EP Nnena Nwakodo also claimed the Best Executive Producer title. 

A$AP Rocky secured the Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – International prize for the second year running, this time for Helicopter directed by Dan Streit, while Harry Styles’ Aperture took the Best Pop Video – UK award for director Aube Perrie. Fred again.. also won Best Live Video for the second year in succession, this time for his collaboration with Ezra Collective, Paco Amoroso and Ca7riel for Beto’s Horns (Ezra Remix) directed by LOOSE. The War Child Help 2 project claimed the Special Visual Project award for its creative director Jonathan Glazer, directors Billy Boyd Cape, John Angus Stewart and Talia Beale and the creative team behind it. 

Among the other UK directors honoured on the night were Savanah Leaf for Kelsey Lu’s Running to Pain, which won the Best R&B/Soul/Jazz Video – International award, Ethan and Tom who took the Best R&B/Soul/Jazz Video – UK award for Joy Crookes’ Pain Killer, and Sophie Jones who took the award for Best Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Video – UK for kwn’s Risk It All. Meanwhile, LAUZZA was the winner of the Best Alternative Video – UK award for Jim Legxacy’s ’06 Wayne Rooney, Dora Paphides picked up the Best Dance/Electronic Video – Newcomer trophy for Logic1000 ft Chrstine and the Queens’ The Only One and the Best Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Video – Newcomer award went to Will Norman for TR Gobrazy’s Forreduci.