can you imagine if the MTV VMAs were like this? - waxy.org

Here, without further ado, are the winners:

MOST FUN VIDEO Bumblebeez - Dr. Love Tom Kuntz, director MJZ, prod co

BEST ANIMATED VIDEOS The Horrors - She is the New Thing Corin Hardy, director Academy, prod co and Cornelius - Like a Rolling Stone Koichiro Tsujikawa, director Spoon, prod co

BEST PERFORMANCE VIDEO Fionn Regan - Be Good Or Be Gone Si&Ad, directors Academy, prod co

BEST NARRATIVE VIDEO Dizzee Rascal - Sirens W.I.Z., director Factory Films, prod co

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY Noémie Lafrance for Feist - 1234 Patrick Daughters, director The Directors Bureau, prod co

BEST ART DIRECTION Grizzly Bear - Knife Encyclopedia Pictura, directors Ghost Robot, prod co

BEST EDITING Nick Lear for Battles - Tonto United Visual Artists, directors Warp Films, prod co

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Mike LeBlanc for Emily Haines - Our Hell Jaron Albertin, director Rokkit, prod co

BEST UNKNOWN/UNSIGNED DIRECTOR Thomas Barndt Pato Byrne & Nahuel Lerena Matt Dilmore Jesse Ewles Banner Gwin Lung/Perish Factory Vincent Moon Patrick O'Dell Yannick Puig

BEST NEW DIRECTOR undecided, so far, between Daniel Eskils and Timothy Saccenti

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Patrick Daughters

BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do Dougal Wilson, director Colonel Blimp, prod co

"All Power To Antville!"- robodrug

         

booooring year... blame the music, though.

         

Actually it wasn't until I went back to look for nominations that I realized how many great videos there were this year. I think there were fewer breakthrough directors though.

Also "Sirens" was by far the best thing made this year... just saying.

         

it was nice to see a good spread out of clips.... 1234, Bat for Lashes, Bumbleez, Sirens & Knife are a pretty solid 5 videos.

Shouldn't best new director be Scagnetti? Eskills is so 2006.

and.... does everyone now agree the awards should've come out in December? No one cares about year end lists now.

Up next: Worst video of the year!

         

Congrats to the winners, and antville isn't worthy of all power (thank God).

Doesn't Metafilter understand its own ridiculousness, prog?

         

The Cornelius video clearly blitzes that terrible emo horrors schmuck-fest.

I saw many better performance videos last year, Fion Regan is terrible.

Emily Haines - Awful.

Knife/Cornelius/Dr Love/Bat for Lashes/Tonto are all worthy.

Generally 2007 was a good year for music vids.

         

that emily haines video's win is simply based on it's use of thermal imaging technology. how bland and pedestrian, the camerawork itself is vapid like someone's old 8mm art school project. It's like giving a video accolades because it looks as if we're looking through the inside of the Predator's helmet.

         

thanks progosk and well done to all the winners!

         

Really quality choices. Thanks for the work.

I gotta say I like that D Rascal video now more than when it came out.

         

Right on. -j

         

(p.s.: small matter the ville's best new director 2007 wasn't ever actually decided 'tween saccenti and eskils - they're now both signed to partizan.)