UK Music Video Awards 2026 Nominations: Here are all the sortlists - and the Scottish act who has made the cut

Kneecap, GENER8ION, Beabadoobee, DAVE, Fred again.., Harry Styles, James Blake, PinkPantheress, Ariana Grande, ROSALĺA and Tove Lo are among the other artists to receive multiple nominations across the 39 categories.

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The awards recognise the best work in music videos in the UK and around the world, and the creative and technical talent behind them, defined by music genre, craft and technical expertise and individual achievement.

The winners of this year’s UKMVAs will be announced at the awards ceremony at London’s Roundhouse on Wednesday, November 4.

And there’s Scottish interest, with Barry Can’t Swim up for the Best UK Dance/Electronic Video gong.

Here are the nominations in full.

Best Pop Video – UK

• Harry Styles – Aperture
• Charli xcx – Camera
• MEEK – Fabulous
• FLO – Leak It
• PinkPantheress + Zara Larsson – Stateside
• Charli xcx – Wink Wink

Best R&B / Soul / Jazz Video – UK

• Alewya – City of Symbols
• Wesley Joseph ft Jorja Smith – July
• Ezra Collective ft Pa Salieu – Only Love
• Joy Crookes – Pain Killer
• Tom Misch – Sisters With Me
• Olivia Dean – So Easy (To Fall In Love)

Best Dance / Electronic Video – UK

• Barry Can't Swim – Dance Dance Dance!
• Fred again.., KETTAMA & Shady Nasty – Hardstyle 2
• Bonobo – Me And You
• Overmono – Pure devotion
• Charli xcx, A.G Cook – Residue
• KETTAMA – Sort It Out

Best Rock Video – UK

• Beabadoobee ft The Marias – All I Did Was Dream Of You
• The Last Dinner Party – Count The Ways
• Makeshift Art Bar – Discipline
• The Rolling Stones – Jealous Lover
• Wolf Alice – Just Two Girls
• Charli xcx – Rock Music

Best Alternative Video – UK

• Jim Legxacy – ‘06 wayne rooney
• JJerome87 – Brush Me Like A Horse
• James Blake – Death of Love
• Novo Amor & Yvette Young – Monty
• Wet Leg – pokemon
• Truman ft Isabel – Tell Him

Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – UK

• AntsLive – Billie Holiday
• Dave x Kano – Chapter 16
• Wesley Joseph ft Danny Brown – Peace Of Mind
• kwn – Risk it all
• 21 Savage ft Young Nudy – Stepbrothers
• Dave – The Boy Who Played The Harp

Best Pop Video – International

• ROSALÍA ft Björk & Yves Tumor – Berghain
• Madonna – Confessions II
• Theodora – Des Mythos
• Tove Lo – I’m Your Girl, Right?
• Sabrina Carpenter – Tears
• Angèle ft Justice – What you want

Best R&B / Soul / Jazz Video – International

• Amber Mark ft Anderson .Paak – Don’t Remind Me
• Baby Keem – Good Flirts
• Laufey – Madwoman
• Ibeyi – Offerings
• Kelsey Lu – Running to Pain
• Ayra Starr – Tornado

Best Dance / Electronic Video – International

• Povoa x madge – Beat Bunny
• CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso & Fred again.. – Beto’s Horns (Fred remix)
• Purple Disco Machine – Disco Cherry
• Channel Tres – Medicine
• Kneecap ft Paul Hartnoll – Sayōnara
• GENER8ION, starring Yung Lean – Storm

Best Rock Video – International

• The Neighbourhood – Hula Girl
• GURRIERS – Nothing Happens Twice
• Foo Fighters – Of All People
• Dillom – Rojo Profundo
• Genesis Owusu – Stampede
• ATARASHII GAKKO! – TTTTOKYO

Best Alternative Video – International

• Alaskan Tapes – Holocene
• Kneecap ft Kae Tempest – Irish Goodbye
• Balming Tiger – Keep On
• Apashe – Kyiv
• Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Boys
• Mitski – Where's My Phone

Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – International

• Mond – Bzns
• Rich The Kid – Calling My Line
• A$AP Rocky – Helicopter
• A$AP Rocky – Punk Rocky
• Asinine – Si le Soleil Existe
• Tierra Whack – Wax Paper

Best Pop / R&B / Soul / Jazz Video – Newcomer

• Ibeyi – Aset
• Chiara Savasta – Cross Control Patrol
• Béesau – Pas Encore
• Ebony – Rage
• MNEK – Reverse!!
• Oklou ft FKA twigs – Viscus

Best Dance / Electronic Video – Newcomer

• gilm0re – another breathtaking melody
• Shelter 12 & Benjamin Amaru – Everybody Feels That Way (From Time to Time)
• Belaria – Losing Control
• Venbee – Not My Day
• LB aka LABAT & notinbed – Take Me Home
• Logic 1000 x Christine & The Queens – The Only One

Best Rock / Alternative Video – Newcomer

• American Football – Bad Moons
• Bonnie Banane – Hoes of Na
• Space Afrika – If This Is Hell
• Common Saints - Illusions
• Bilderbuch – Irgendwo
• Keg – Satan

Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – Newcomer

• John Glacier – Bond Girl
• BK – Castelos y Ruínas
• Coast Contra – Don't Worry
• Yvnnis – EMOTICONE
• TR Gobrazy – FORREDUCI
• corto.alto ft Mick Jenkins – WHODIS

Best Low Budget Video or Visualiser

• Foule – Brigitte
• ANDY – Can't Wait
• Tamara Flores – Chingona
• Makeshift Art Bar – Discipline
• Shelter 12 & Benjamin Amaru – Everybody Feels That Way (From Time to Time)
• Farmar – Rambla

Best Live Video

• Fred again.., Ezra Collective, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso – Beto’s Horns (Ezra remix)
• James Blake – Death of Love
• Anaiis – Devotion & The Black Divine (Live Session)
• Nectar Woode – Live On The Rooftop With Friends
• RAYE – Nightingale Lane - Live from Abbey Road Studios
• Arca – XXXXX

Best Special Visual Project

• André 3000 – 7 Piano Films
• Madonna – Confessions II - The Film
• War Child – Help 2
• Ezra Collective – Here Because of Hope
• Kneecap ft Kae Tempest – Irish Goodbye
• Ibeyi – Offerings

Best Performance in a Video

• Harry Styles – Aperture
• Charli xcx – Camera
• Kneecap ft Kae Tempest – Irish Goodbye
• Kneecap ft Paul Hartnoll – Sayōnara
• Jungle – Someday, Somewhere
• GENER8ION, starring Yung Lean – Storm

Best Casting in a Video

• Povoa x madge – Beat Bunny
• Wallace Cleaver – Incendie
• Kneecap ft Kae Tempest – Irish Goodbye
• Tom Misch – Sisters With Me
• GENER8ION, starring Yung Lean – Storm
• Truman ft Isabel – Tell Him

Best Production Design in a Video in association with radioaktive.film

• Ariana Grande – hate that i made you love me
• Novo Amor & Yvette Young – Monty
• Taylor Swift – Opalite
• Balming Tiger – Oui
• Dave – The Boy Who Played The Harp
• Olivia Rodrigo – The Cure

Best Styling in a Video in association with DAZED

• ROSALÍA ft Björk & Yves Tumor – Berghain
• JADE – Church
• Adéla – KGB
• Tove Lo – I’m Your Girl, Right?
• Charli xcx – SS26
• PinkPantheress + Zara Larsson – Stateside

Best Choreography in a Video

• Povoa x madge – Beat Bunny
• Love Spells – Don't Touch
• FKA twigs – Hard
• Adéla – KGB
• GENER8ION, starring Yung Lean – Storm
• no na – Work

Best Cinematography in a Video

• Mond – Bzns
• Madonna – Confessions II
• Charli xcx ft John Cale – House
• Tove Lo – I’m Your Girl, Right?
• Tamino – Raven
• GENER8ION, starring Yung Lean – Storm

Best Cinematography in a Video – Newcomer

• Erin LeCount – Alice
• Navy Blue – Commencement
• Coast Contra – Don't Worry
• Bilderbuch – Irgendwo
• Joy Crookes – Pain Killer
• Asinine – Si le Soleil Existe

Best Colour Grading in a Video in association with Studio RM

• Beabadoobee ft The Marias – All I Did Was Dream Of You
• Baby Keem – Good Flirts
• Ezra Collective ft Pa Salieu – Only Love
• Ariana Grande – Petal
• Odeal – Pretty Girls
• Charli xcx – Wink Wink

Best Colour Grading in a Video – Newcomer

• KOTA the Friend – Anyway
• Henry Coke – I Want To Feel It In My Heart
• Kneecap ft Kae Tempest – Irish Goodbye
• Kelela – linknb
• Adam Oh – STROKE
• Reign Judge – Wouldn't You Like To Know

Best Editing in a Video in association with Shift

• Povoa x madge – Beat Bunny
• Charli xcx ft John Cale – House
• A$AP Rocky – Punk Rocky
• Kneecap ft Paul Hartnoll – Sayōnara
• GENER8ION, starring Yung Lean – Storm
• Olivia Rodrigo – The Book of Love

Best Editing in a Video – Newcomer

• George Riley – Drip
• Mura Masa – I'm Really Hot (For Myself)
• Belaria – Losing Control
• KETTAMA – Man With A Second Face
• Joy Crookes – Pain Killer
• Supermodel – Seventeen Days

Best Animation in a Video

• Cassius – Dance On
• Tinariwen – Erghad Afewo
• Mr Bruce ft Brian Eno & Homeboy Sandman – How Will We Know
• The Rolling Stones – Shame, Shame, Shame
• Thundercat & Mac Miller – She Knows Too Much
• Lex Amarni – The Kill 2

Best Visual Effects in a Video

• Jim Legxacy – ‘06 wayne rooney
• Rich The Kid – Calling My Line
• Theodora – Des Mythos
• A$AP Rocky – Helicopter
• The Rolling Stones – In The Stars
• J Cole – The Fall-Off is Inevitable

Best Director in association with Freenjoy

• Aidan Zamiri
• Folkert Verdoorn & Simon Becks
• Jake Erland
• Lee Suho
• Olivia de Camps
• Torso

Best New Director in association with Harbor

• Alex Acy
• Ben Harris
• Billy King
• Léa Esmaili
• Melchior Leroux
• Tanner K Williams

Best Agent

• Alexa Haywood, Freeagent
• André Reid, Rep Media
• Claire Stubbs, Mouthpiece
• Lee Fairweather, Leethal Reppin
• Nikhil Sinh Smith, LUX Artists
• Sam Davey, Hurry Sundown

Best Creative Commissioner

• Emily Jeffery, Polydor
• Jake Crossland, Partisan
• Kat Cattaneo, Sony Music
• Kim Jarrett
• Michael Lewin, Sony Music
• Ruth Morris, Warp Records

Best Executive Producer

• Alex Brinkman
• Elizabeth Doonan
• Kiran Mandla
• Morgan Clement
• Nnena Nwakodo
• Shelley Jones

Best Producer

• Alice Wills
• Chris Murdoch
• Collin Druz
• Maggie Curwin
• Nathan Scherrer
• Rowan Mackintosh King

Best Production Company in association with Kodak

• Anonymous Content
• CANADA
• DIVISION
• Iconoclast
• Magna Studios
• Object & Animal

Video of the Year

To be announced on the night

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