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 [...]
The UK Music Video Awards 2011 on Tuesday (Nov 8th) was the night of the year for British music videos – with a strong French, Spanish and American presence at the awards too. This is the story of the ceremony in pics, with a little bit of video – and the full list of winners [...]
The Aoife McArdle-directed video for Little Comets’ The Isles has won the best video award at Rushes Soho Shorts Awards 2011 – held last night (July 28th) at the Curzon Soho. This stark portrait of modern Britain combines genuine photojournalism with stunning tilt and shift footage, and was produced by Amber Millington at Agile. The [...]
A great night was had last Friday (Feb 11th) at the BFI Southbank with a BUG special on Royksopp, with host Adam Buxton introducing their greatest music videos – including H5’s Remind Me, Martin De Thurah’s What Else Is There?, Sam Arthur’s Poor Leno and Andreas Nilsson’s This Must Be It – and Adam also [...]
The Francis Lawrence-directed video for Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance has capped its phenomenal success by winning Best Shortform Video at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, held last night in Los Angeles. One of three awards won by Gaga at the ceremony – where she also performed her new single Born This Way – the video [...]
Romain Gavras, Andreas Nilsson, Nicolás Méndez are the big winners at the Antville Music Video Awards 2010, just announced over at videos.antville.org. Romain Gavras’s controversial video for MIA’s Born Free (right) has won three awards including Video of the Year, while Andreas Nilsson was awarded best director in the online poll. Nicolás Méndez of the [...]
The prizewinners at the 2010 Plus Camerimage Festival – the international film festival dedicated to the art of cinematography, held this year at Bydgoszcz in Poland – were announced at the closing award ceremony on Saturday (December 4th), with two awards given in the Music Video competition. The Best Video award went to the Polish [...]
Directing collective Tell No One – that’s Remi Weekes and Luke White – won the first Guggenheim/YouTube Play biennial last week in NYC, for their beautiful 20 second film Seaweed. The directors, signed to Skin Flicks in the UK, won this prestigious award for their ingenious motion experiment from of a strong shortlist of 25 [...]
The Kim Gehrig-directed video for Chase And Status’s End Credits – featuring Plan B – has won the best music video prize at the Q Awards 2010. The
Nearly a week since the UK Music Video Awards, indisputably the big party of the year for the British music video-making community, most people have more or less recovered… So congratulations once again to all the winners who collected a delightful MVA trophy (or maybe more than one) – and hopefully got them home all [...]
