NME Awards 2016: Complete Winners List
From the archive: published Feb 19, 2016, 10 years ago. Details may have changed since.
The NME Awards 2016 in Austin, Texas, took place on Wednesday, February 17 — just two days after the Grammy Awards — at London’s O2 Academy in Brixton.
Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Wolf Alice, and The Libertines were among the big winners at the ceremony, which was hosted by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens for the third consecutive year. Taylor Swift, who took home five gramophone statues on Monday, beat Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, among others, to land the title of the Best International Solo Artist. Meanwhile, The Maccabees were named the Best British Band, while Run The Jewels were presented the award for the Best International Band.
Coldplay, who was presented with the Godlike Genius award, took to the stage to perform, along with Foals, Bring Me The Horizon, The Maccabees, and Rat Boy.
Ready at the #NMEAwards to present @coldplay with the Godlike Genius Award!???????? pic.twitter.com/jREQGitsAQ
— kylie minogue (@kylieminogue) February 17, 2016
Check out the complete list of NME Awards winners below (winners in bold):
Best British Band The Libertines Foals Wolf Alice The 1975 Catfish and the Bottlemen The Maccabees
Best International Band supported by Austin, Texas Tame Impala Foo Fighters The Strokes The Killers Alabama Shakes Run The Jewels
Best New Artist supported by Topman Rat Boy Hinds Halsey Yak Lapsley Formation
Best British Solo Artist supported by Pilot Pens Adele Noel Gallagher Ed Sheeran Charli XCX Florence Welch Skepta
Best International Solo Artist supported by Nikon Kendrick Lamar Lana Del Rey Taylor Swift Courtney Barnett Kanye West Grimes
Best Live Band supported by Red Stripe The Maccabees The Libertines Foals Catfish and the Bottlemen Royal Blood Wolf Alice
Whaaaa?! Taylor Swift wins a middle finger statue for NME Awards after Grammys, Kanye West drama. See the pic! https://t.co/IEQ14GHzGy
— Us Weekly (@usweekly) February 19, 2016
Best Album supported by HMV Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool The Maccabees – Marks to Prove it Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly Tame Impala – Currents Grimes – Art Angels Foals – What Went Down
Best Track Coldplay – “Adventure of a Lifetime” The Libertines – “Gunga Din” The Weeknd – “I Can’t Feel My Face” Skepta – “Shut Down” Wolf Alice – “Giant Peach” Foals – “What Went Down”
Best TV Show The Walking Dead Game of Thrones American Horror Story Peep Show This is England ’90 Gogglebox
Best Film Ex Machina Spectre Mad Max: Fury Road Whiplash Kill Your Friends Beasts of No Nation
Best Music Film Amy Montage of Heck Straight Outta Compton What Happened, Miss Simone The Reflektor Tapes Blur: New World Towers
Best Music Video Rihanna – “B***h Better Have My Money” The Libertines – “Heart of the Matter” Wolf Alice – “You’re a Germ” Blur – “Ong Ong” Slaves – “Cheer Up London” Tame Impala – “The Less I Know The Better”
Best Actor Tom Hardy Eddie Redmayne Nicholas Hoult Stephen Graham Idris Elba Daniel Radcliffe
Best Actress Vicky McClure Jennifer Lawrence Emilia Clarke Gemma Chan Amy Schumer Saoirse Ronan
Best Reissue David Bowie – Five Years A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels And the Paths Of Rhythm Velvet Underground – Loaded Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers Tori Amos – Under The Pink Faith No More – Angel Dust
Best Book I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, Grace Jones M Train, Patti Smith Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Elvis Costello Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein Lucky, Professor Green Over the Top and Back, Tom Jones
Best Festival Glastonbury Reading & Leeds V Festival T in the Park Bestival Isle of Wight
Best Small Festival supported by ID&C Swn Festival Number 6 Green Man End Of The Road Liverpool Sound City Kendall Calling
Coldplay had their table smashed up by another band at the NME awards https://t.co/VTVu2eqVzy
— Mashable (@mashable) February 18, 2016
Music Moment of the Year The return of Adele The Libertines secret Glastonbury set Dave Grohl breaks leg and carries on Florence headlines Glastonbury Kanye at The Brits One Direction ‘split’
Best Fan Community Hurts The Libertines Muse Catfish and the Bottleman The 1975 Wolf Alice
Worst Band 5 Seconds of Summer One Direction Little Mix Sleaford Mods U2 Nickelback
Villain of the Year David Cameron Chris Moyles Kanye West Donald Trump George Osbourne Simon Cowell
Hero of the Year Adele Dave Grohl Jeremy Corbyn Florence Welch Kanye West Taylor Swift
Vlogger of the Year KSI Vikkstar123 Charlie McDonnell Joe Weller Danisnotonfire Savannah Brown
