The premier global celebration of music video creativity calls for submissions for 2025 edition

12 June 2025 - Press release

The UK Music Video Awards launches its call for submissions from today, June 11 2025, as it commences its search for this year’s standout creative and innovative work in music videos and music visual projects in 38 separate categories. The leading global celebration of excellence in music video is inviting entries from music video creators from around the world to submit their projects via the official website at www.ukmva.com. The deadline for entries is Friday 1 August. 

This year’s awards show will take place on Thursday 30 October at Magazine London and will once again be a major celebration of creative excellence in music visuals and the talent behind the work.

Directorial achievements in single music videos will be celebrated with 12 awards defined by music genre – Pop, R&B/Soul/Jazz, Dance/Electronic, Rock, Alternative, Hip Hop/Grime/Rap for both UK and international artists, as well as 4 awards for Newcomer directors who have been working professionally for 4 years or less. In addition, there will be awards for direction of the Best Live Music Video and Best Special Visual Project as well as a brand new Best Low Budget Video category to spotlight creative projects made for under £5k.

Charli XCX, AntsLive, RM, The Chemical Brothers and Fontaines D.C. were the big winners at last year’s UK Music Video Awards, as they collected 2 awards apiece for individual videos and further recognition for the teams behind them. Ezra Collective, Depeche Mode, IDLES, Coldplay, Jade, Elbow and Matilda Mann were among the other UK artists honoured at the celebration of global music video creativity.

This year, two awards will recognise stand-out on-screen appearances with a Best Performance award for artists, actors and ensemble casts and an inaugural Best Casting award recognising the contribution of casting directors to the year’s top music videos.As well as awards for achievement in single music video projects, the UKMVA Jury will be voting for individuals and companies who have produced an outstanding body of work across the past year. Awards for Best New Director, Director, EP, Producer and Creative Commissioner, will be presented as well as the Best Production Company, recognising the team whom the Jury deem to have delivered the most impressive body of music visual work between August 2024 and 2025.

 

For further information please contact Alix Wenmouth at Wasted Youth PR - alix@wastedyouthpr.com