Best Major Festival: Creamfields, Download, Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival, Carling Weekend: Reading Festival, Global Gathering, Nokia Isle of Wight Festival, T in the Park, V Festival: Chelmsford, V Festival: Staffordshire, Wireless Festival
Best Medium-To-Large Festival: Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Bestival, Bulldog Bash, Get Loaded in the Park (London), Guilfest, Latitude, Lovebox Weekender, Escape Into The Park, The Big Chill, WOMAD
Best Small Festival: Beautiful Days, Bloodstock Open Air, Cambridge Folk Festival, Glade, Isle of Skye Festival, Jersey Live, Secret Garden Party, The Summer Sundae Weekender, Truck Fest, Wakestock
Playmusic New Festival Award: Bloom, Electric Garden, End Of The Road Festival,
Get Loaded Presents "Cardiff Calling"¸Hi:Fi, Hyde Park Calling, Latitude, Rhythm Festival, Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration, SW4 (Cardiff)
Party People Award For Dance Music: Bestival, Creamfields, Escape Into The Park,
Glade, Global Gathering, Hi:Fi, Lovebox, SW4, The Slam Tent at T In The Park, The Big Chill
Grass Roots Festival Award: Beautiful Days, Cornbury Festival, End of the Road Festival, Green Man Festival, Larmer Tree, Rhythm Festival, Solfest, Sunrise Summer Solstice Festival, Wickerman Festival, Wychwood Festival
Family Festival Award: Beautiful Days, Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Ben & Jerry's Sundae, Cambridge Folk Festival, Guilfest, Solfest, The Summer Sundae Weekender, The Big Session, Wychwood, WOMAD
Best One Day Festival: Creamfields, Escape Into The Park, Get Loaded Presents "Cardiff Calling", Get Loaded In The Park (London), Hi:Fi North, Monsters Of Rock, T4 On The Beach, Tin Pan Alley, SW4 (Cardiff), SW4 (London)
Fan-Friendly Festival Award: Ben & Jerry's Sundae, Cambridge Folk Festival, Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds, Download, Escape Into The Park, Global Gathering, Isle Of Skye Festival, Latitude, Solfest, The Summer Sundae Weekender
Shelter Award For Social Responsibility: Belladrum Tartan Heart, Ben & Jerry's Sundae,
Cambridge Folk Festival, Latitude, Lovebox Weekender, Solfest, The Summer Sundae Weekender, Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration, T In The Park, WOMAD
Portaloo Sunset Award for Best Toilets: Cambridge Folk Festival, Download, Global Gathering, Jersey Live, Larmer Tree Festival, Carling Weekend: Reading Festival, Solfest, Guilfest, WOMAD, Wychwood Festival
Headline Act: Coldplay (Isle of Wight), Daft Punk (Global Gathering), Depeche Mode (O2 Wireless), The Levellers (Beautiful Days), Metallica (Download), Muse (Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds), Pearl Jam (Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds), Prodigy (Creamfields, Isle of Wight), Radiohead (V Festival), Red Hot Chili Peppers (T in the Park)
Rock Act: Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Pearl Jam, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Metallica, The Kooks, Radiohead, Foo Fighters
Best Dance Act: 2 Many DJs, Carl Cox, Daft Punk, DJ Shadow, Fatboy Slim, Goldfrapp, Groove Armada, Mylo, The Prodigy, Sasha
Pop Act: Belle & Sebastian, Girls Aloud, James Blunt, The Feeling, Kubb, Lily Allen, Orson, Sandi Thom, Scissor Sisters, Scritti Polliti
Urban Act: Corine Bailey Rae, Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley, Lady Sovereign, Jamie T, Kano, Killa Kela, Mark Ronson, Pharrell Williams, Plan B, The Streets
Breakthrough Act: The Automatic, Dirty Pretty Things, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Guillemots, Klaxons, The Kooks, Lily Allen, Metric, Wolfmother, The Young Knives
Feel-Good Act: A-Ha, Beck, Gogol Bordello, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Nizlopi, Norman Jay, Primal Scream, The Cuban Brothers, The Flaming Lips, The Proclaimers
Innovation Award
Bestival - For the new 'Breast-ival' area where mothers could breastfeed and change nappies in peace.
Carling Cold Beer Amnesty - Declaring war on warm beer, fans were invited to swap their cans with ice cold Carling at Reading, Leeds and the Isle Of Wight Festival.
Download - Download TV, a new website developed by Live Nation, invites fans to upload and share video footage from the rock festival.
Get Loaded In The Park - All ticket buyers were given a free and exclusive track by headliners Babyshambles, plus access to a new website.
Hyde Park Calling - The Who's headline set was streamed on the internet and shown live in Hard Rock Cafes around the world, thanks to the restaurant chain.
Latitude - Mean Fiddler fused music, art, theatre, literature, cabaret and poetry to create an entirely new festival experience.
Pod Pads - Gave guests and VIPs an alternative to sleeping in tents, constructing cosy beach hut-style with beds and mattresses.
T In The Park - 500,000 live download cards were included inside packs of Tennent's Lager which made this the only UK festival this year to make live tracks available to fans for free, online.
V Festival - Morrissey fans at both sites were able to download a live version of his single immediately after he performed it.
Wakestock - The installation of a huge wakeboarding 'pool gap' allowed riders to show off their skills in front of crowds in the middle of the festival site.
Memorable Moment
Axl Rose - storming off a slippery stage at Download and demanding it be carpeted, after falling over.
The Levellers - closing Beautiful Days to cap the evening's Masked Ball Party.
Chris Martin - leading the Isle Of Wight Festival crowd through his version of 'The Crouch' song and dance.
Franz Ferdinand - inviting various band members on stage to help drum on 'The Outsiders' (Reading, Leeds and T In The Park)
Girls Aloud - covering Kaiser Chiefs' 'I Predict A Riot' at V Festival
Panic! At The Disco - continuing their Carling Weekend: Reading Festival set in defiance after singer Brendon Urie got knocked out by a bottle thrown from the crowd.
Procol Harum - performing the tear-jerk classic 'Whiter Shade Of Pale' at the Isle Of Wight Festival.
Radiohead - finishing their V Festival headline set with the long hibernated 'Creep'.
Roger Waters - performing 'Dark Side Of The Moon' in its entirety at Hyde Park Calling.
Scissor Sisters - performing at Bestival dressed as clowns, despite a 'clown ban' for the fancy dress party.