The NME Awards 2017 were held in London, England, on 15 February 2017, at the Brixton Academy and was hosted by English comedian Huw Stephens. Beyoncé led the nominations with five, followed by the 1975, Bastille, Christine and the Queens and Skepta with four nominations each.
Winners and nominees Best British Band Wolf Alice The 1975 Bastille Years & Years Biffy Clyro The Last Shadow Puppets
Best International Band Tame Impala Kings of Leon Green Day Metallica A Tribe Called Quest Tegan and Sara
Best British Female Dua Lipa Adele Charli XCX MIA Kae Tempest PJ Harvey
Best International Female Sia Lady Gaga Beyoncé Solange Christine and the Queens Tove Lo
Best International Male Kanye West Drake The Weeknd Frank Ocean Kendrick Lamar Chance the Rapper
Best British Male Skepta Zayn Malik Kano Jamie T Michael Kiwanuka Richard Ashcroft
Best New Artist Blossoms Zara Larsson Sunflower Bean Christine and the Queens Dua Lipa Anderson .Paak
Best Album Kanye West – The Life of Pablo Skepta – Konnichiwa The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool Bastille – Wild World Beyoncé – Lemonade
Best Track Tove Lo – "Cool Girl" Charli XCX – "After the Afterparty" Skepta – "Man" Bastille – "Good Grief" The 1975 – "Somebody Else" Christine and the Queens – "Tilted"
Best Live Band Bastille Slaves The 1975 Bring Me the Horizon Christine and the Queens Wolf Alice
Best Video Kanye West – "Famous" Beyoncé – "Formation" Radiohead – "Burn the Witch" Slaves – "Consume or Be Consumed" Rat Boy – "Get Over It" Wolf Alice – "Lisbon"
Best TV Series Stranger Things Fleabag Game of Thrones Black Mirror HUM∀NS People Just Do Nothing
Best Festival Glastonbury Reading & Leeds Festivals Download Festival Isle of Wight Festival Primavera V Festival
Best Film Deadpool My Scientology Movie Captain America: Civil War Suicide Squad Everybody Wants Some!! Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Best Music Film Oasis: Supersonic Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ One More Time with Feeling Sing Street Gimme Danger The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Music Moment of the Year Bring Me the Horizon invade Coldplay’s table at NME Awards 2016 Coldplay’s Viola Beach tribute at Glastonbury Beyoncé drops Lemonade Skepta wins Mercury Prize Pete Doherty plays The Bataclan The Stone Roses’ first new music in 20 years
Best Re-issue REM – Out of Time Pink Floyd – Meddle Oasis – Be Here Now Michael Jackson – Off the Wall DJ Shadow – Endtroducing.... Blur – Leisure
Best Book Alan Partridge – Nomad Johnny Marr – Set the Boy Free Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run The Killers – Somewhere Outside That Finish Line Zayn – Zayn: The Official Autobiography Sylvia Patterson – I'm Not with the Band
Hero of the Year David Bowie Adele Beyoncé Millie Bobby Brown Gary Lineker Liam Gallagher
Villain of the Year Donald Trump David Cameron Boris Johnson Nigel Farage Martin Shkreli Katie Hopkins
Worst Band The Chainsmokers Clean Bandit Honey G Nickelback 5 Seconds of Summer Twenty One Pilots
Best Small Festival Y Not Green Man End of the Road Festival No 6 Kendall Calling Slam Dunk
Best Festival Headliner Coldplay Radiohead Biffy Clyro Adele Foals The Stone Roses
Outstanding Contribution to Music Pulp
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