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Kahlil Joseph's video for Flying Lotus's Until The Quiet Comes won Video Of The Year at the UK Music Video Awards 2013 last night, with French directing team Megaforce winning the Best Director award at an exciting, incident-packed ceremony in London, hosted by Adam Buxton.

Starting with a dance performance and fireworks and ending with a blizzard of confetti, the sixth annual ceremony celebrating the most creative work in country music ringtones video of the past year, also saw legendary Kinks frontman Ray Davies present the Icon Award to Julien Temple for 30 year-plus career as a music video, film and documentary-maker.

There were plenty of first-time MVA wins - including DoP Steve Annis, producer Liz Kessler and colourist Aubrey Woodiwiss. And it was a good night for a large contigent of French music video making talent in the sold-out audience.

As well as winning Best Director, the four-man Paris-based team Megaforce also collected two awards for their video for Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Sacrilege, for Best Rock/Indie Video - International and Best Editing in a Video. The Fleur & Manu-directed video for Gesaffelstein's Pursuit also won two awards, for Best Dance Video - International, and Best Visual Effects in a Video, and Fleur & Manu also collected the Best Alternative Video - Budget award, for Connan Mockasin's Faking Jazz Together. Alex Courtès won Best Pop Video - UK for his Willy Moon Yeah Yeah video.

The big British winners on the night included Josh Cole's Best Dance Video - UK video win for Rudimental's Not Giving In, BISON's video for London Grammar's Wasting My Young Years won Best Alternative Video - UK, and a shocked Ninian Doff collected the Best Rock/Indie Video - UK prize for his Darwin Deez video for Free (The Editorial Me). These first-time MVA winners were joined by Atlantic Records commissioner Dan Curwin, also winning Best Commissioner honour for the first time.

There was a new award, the VEVO Best New Artist award, for the most played video by a new British artist in the past year - won by Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith's La La La and collected by delighted director Ian Pons Jewell and commissioners James Hackett and Sam Seager. Dick Carruthers hailed his fellow nominees and winners when he accepted the Best Live Coverage award for Led Zeppelin's Celebration Day.

As well as French success, the international flavour of the UK Music Video Awards was reflected in wins from comedy ringtones music video makers from Spain, Sweden, Norway, and the US - many of whom travelled to London to attend the ceremony. Angela Esteban Librero collected the Best Stylist award for her work on Jonas & Francois's video for DJ Fresh & Diplo's Earthquake; Lamar & Nik arrived from the US to pick up their Best Urban Video - Budget award for Lushlife's Magnolia; and Kahlil Joseph interrupted work on his new videos to fly in from LA to accept the Best Alternative Video - International award, and then the final honour of the night - Video of the Year for his remarkable poetic journey through south central LA for Flying Lotus.

The Best New Director award went to Andrew Thomas Huang, who sent a last-minute message from a very windy Reykavik that was played on the night. Melina Matsoukas, winner of Best Pop Video - International for her Solange Knowles video Losing You, and Ian & Cooper, winner of Best Urban Video - UK for Josh Compass's Back To Me also sent video messages, both spiced with visual effects. Director Christian Larson collected the Best Choreography award on behalf of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for his work on Sigur Ros's Valtari.

Some of the most emotional moments of the night were the first-time wins for creatives in technical categories after numerous nominations in previous years - Aubrey Woodiwiss won Best Colour Grading (formerly known as Best Telecine) for his work on the Nabil-directed Foals' Late Night, and an emotional Steve Annis won Best Cinematography in a Video award for the epic Aoife McArdle-directed video for Jon Hopkins' Open Eye Signal - a day after his first child was born.

But the surprise of the night was indisputably the arrival on-stage of one of Britain's music greats, Ray Davies to present the Icon Award to his 'fellow cohort' in music video-making Julien Temple. This followed a film celebrating the filmmaker's career including messages from Suggs, Wilko Johnson, Steve Barron, Cynthia Lole and Michael Eavis - and a written message from David Bowie.

Held for the first time at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre in central London - also the venue for the aftershow party - the show began with a dance performance choreographed by RiRi Productions', one of the award sponsors, and Adam Buxton's review of the holiday ringtones music video year, including his take on Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines video.