The shortlist for this year's NME Awards 2016 with Austin, Texas has finally been confirmed and sees some of pop's hottest acts of the moment go head to head for the Worst Band prize. 

A press release explains: "5 Seconds of Summer were named Worst Band in 2015 and they are in with the chance of retaining the title, competing with One Direction, Little Mix, Sleaford Mods, U2 and Nickelback in the category for 2016."

The Best Festival category sees Glastonbury facing stiff competition from the likes of Reading & Leeds, V Festival, T In The Park, Bestival and the Isle of Wight. 

Music Moment of the Year is one of the hottest battles. From the return of Adele, The Libertines secret Glastonbury set, pop-kings One Direction’s ‘split’, Kanye West’s performance at the BRITs to Dave Grohl’s heroics as he battled through a Foo Fighters’ gig despite breaking his leg mid-show.

Mike Williams, editor-in-chief of the NME, says: “The NME audience has voted in its thousands, and once again have pulled together an exciting, diverse and in some places pretty surprising shortlist for the 2016 Awards. Will The Libertines crown their beautiful comeback with a couple of wins? Will Kanye be the hero and villain of the year? Can anyone stop the Adele juggernaut from pulverising everything in its path? All will be revealed on February 17 at the NME Awards 2016 with Austin, Texas once the people have had their final say. I’m really excited and can’t wait for the big night”

Voting for the winners is now open at www.nme.com/awardsvote and you can check out the full list of shortlisted nominees below:

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

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

Kendrick Lamar
Lana Del Rey
Taylor Swift
Courtney Barnett
Kanye West
Grimes

Best Live Band 

The Maccabees
The Libertines
Foals
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Royal Blood
Wolf Alice 

Best Album supported by HMV

‘My Love Is Cool’ Wolf Alice
‘Marks to Prove it’ The Maccabees
‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ Kendrick Lamar
‘Currents’ Tame Impala
‘Art Angels’ Grimes
‘What Went Down’ Foals

Best Track

‘Adventure of a Lifetime’ Coldplay
‘Gunga Din’ The Libertines
‘I Can’t Feel My Face’ The Weeknd
‘Shut Down’ Skepta
‘Giant Peach’ Wolf Alice

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
New World Towers

Best Music Video

‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ Rihanna
‘Heart Of The Matter’ The Libertines
‘You’re a Germ’ Wolf Alice
‘Ong Ong’ Blur
‘Cheer Up London’ Slaves
‘The Less I Know The Better’ Tame Impala

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

‘Five Years’ David Bowie
‘People's Instinctive Travels And the Paths Of Rhythm’ Tribe Called Quest
‘Loaded’ Velvet Underground
‘Sticky Fingers’ Rolling Stones
‘Under The Pink’ Tori Amos
‘Angel Dust’ Faith No More

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

Swn
Festival Number 6
Green Man
End Of The Road
Liverpool Sound City
Kendall Calling 

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 Osborne
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

Game of the Year

Metal Gear Solid
The Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Fallout 4
Star Wars Battleforce
The Legend Of Zelda Triforce Heroes
Guitar Hero

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Watch music videos from some of the shortlisted Worst Band nominees here: