BRIT Awards 2017: Full List Of Winners

Accepting the Best British Album award, David Bowie’s son Duncan said: “He always supported people who are a little bit strange or different. This award is for all the kooks and those who make the kooks.”

Duncan, a filmmaker who has directed several critically acclaimed films, opened up about his father’s tragic death during his speech. “I lost my dad last year and I also became a dad,” he said. “I spent a lot of time after getting over the shock thinking what would I like my son to know about his granddad. It would be he has always been there supporting people who thought they were a little bit weird, strange, different. He’s always been there for them, this award is for all the kooks and all the people that make the kooks.”
Duncan later to Twitter to write: “I did forget one little bit of the speech though.... F**k cancer. F**k it right off the planet.”
Actor Michael C Hall, who starred in Lazarus, accepted the Best British Male Solo Artist on behalf of the late David Bowie and his family. “If David Bowie could be here tonight, he probably wouldn’t be here tonight,” he observed.
1975 won Best British Band last night. Taking to the podium, the band’s frontman Matty Healy said: “This is mental. We’ve been a band since we were 13, for 14 years now. The only thing we tried to do with our album was to get to that place…”

Here’s the full list of winners:
Best British Album – David Bowie – ‘Blackstar’
Global Success Award: Adele
Best International Male – Drake
Best International Female – Beyonce
Best Internatonal Group – A Tribe Called Quest
Best British Video – One Direction – ‘History’
Best British Female Solo Artist: Emeli Sandé
Best British Male Solo Artist: David Bowie
Best British Group: The 1975
Best British Breakthrough Act: Rag N’ Bone Man
Best Single: Little Mix – ‘Shout Out To My Ex’
Icon Award: Robbie Williams