Nominations have been announced for the 2013 MVPA Awards – the US music video industry’s annual celebration of the best US-produced work in the past year – with videos by Floria Sigismondi taking the most nominations, followed by those of DANIELS, Anthony Mandler, Benny Boom, Colin Tilley and Melina Matsoukas. Sigismondi’s videos for David Bowie’s [...]
The NME Awards 2013 are being held this evening (Wednesday, 27th February) at The Troxy in London. And unlike the Brits Awards, the NMEs do pay proper respect to the importance and creative contribution of music videos to the rich tapestry of rock, pop, etc… And here are the nominations for the Best Music Video [...]
Melina Matsoukas’s video for Rihanna ft Calvin Harris’s We Found Love took the Best Short Form Music Video prize at the 55th Grammy Awards, held last night (Feb 10th) in Los Angeles, while the Emmett Malloy-directed film Big Easy Express (right) won the Best Long Form Music Video award. The promo for We Found Love [...]
Romain Gavras was the big winner at the Antville Music Video Awards 2012, announced over at videos.antville.org on Christmas Day. He won the Best Director award, while his video for M.I.A’s Bad Girls won Video of the Year, Best Performance ande Best Cinematography in the website’s annual online poll. Emily Kai Bock won best new [...]
Die Antwoord’s video for I Fink U Freaky(right), directed by Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord’s DJ Ninja, won the Best Music Video award at Plus Camerimage 2012 last Saturday (December 1st), while Best Cinematography – the other award in the festival’s Music Video competition – went to Matthew J Lloyd for his work on the [...]
Joining a roll of honour of directors that have won a special award for their longstanding achievement in the field of music video direction at the UKMVAs and the CADs before that, Jamie Thraves received the Icon Award at the UK Music Video Awards 2012 last Thursday night (November 8th) for his outstanding contribution to [...]
As tradition demands, the UK Music Video Awards in 2012 began with a ceremony at The Empire in Leicester Square, where the prizes were handed out – and then the party really got going at the aftershow… This year it was held a few doors away at the Café de Paris in Piccadilly and was [...]
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, widely known for directing some of the first music videos ever made – including promos for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bryan Ferry and The Who – will receive a special honorary award for his achievement in music videos at the 20th Plus Camerimage, the film festival dedicated to the art [...]
It was the night of the year for British music videos, and the fifth annual UK Music Video Awards last Thursday night (November 8th) was indeed the biggest MVA show yet – from a pre-show performance by dance troupe Peridot, to host Adam Buxton’s sidesplitting celebrity messages, to joyous and emotional scenes as winners accepted [...]
Romain Gavras swept the major honours at the UK Music Video Awards 2012 last night in London, winning the Best Director award and the Video Of The Year for his video for M.I.A’s Bad Girls. At the fifth annual ceremony celebrating the most creative work in music video of the past year, the French director [...]
