their 18 categories were: Best Pop Video Best Rock Video Best Indie/Alternative Video Best Dance Video Best Urban Video Best Budget Video Best Art Direction in a Video Best Styling in a Video Best Cinematography in a Video Best Telecine in a Video Best Editing in a Video Best Visual Effects in a Video Best International Video The People’s Choice Award Best Producer Best New Director Best Director Best Commissioner

full list of nominees inside. more info here.

         

Best Pop Video Duffy – Mercy Goldfrapp – Happiness Kate Nash – Foundations The Hoosiers – Cops & Robbers The Hoosiers – Worried About Ray The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go

Best Rock Video Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent Kaiser Chiefs – Love’s Not A Competition Radiohead – House of Cards Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook Supergrass –Bad Blood The Horrors – She Is The New Thing

Best Indie/Alternative Video Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do Bjork – Wanderlust Emily Haines – Our Hell Flight of the Conchords – Ladies of the World Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor The Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything

Best Dance Video Chemical Brothers – Salmon Dance Chemical Brothers – Midnight Madness Groove Armada – Get Down RJD2 – Work It Out The BPA feat. David Byrne & Dizzy Rascal – Toe Jam Utah Saints – Something Good

Best Urban Video Dizzee Rascal – Sirens Estelle – American Boy Example – Me And Mandy Flobots – Handlebars Kano – Hustler Wiley – Wearing My Rolex

Best Budget Video Automata – Need You Sunshine Example – Me And Mandy Jape – Floating Lise Westzynthius – Childlike Curves The Teenagers – Make It Happen These New Puritans – Elvis

Best Art Direction in a Video Badly Drawn Boy – Promises Bjork – Wanderlust Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor The Hoosiers – Goodbye Mr A The Hoosiers – Worried About Ray Sonny J – Handsfree

Best Styling in a Video Gnarls Barkley – Going On Klaxons – Not Over Yet Late of the Pier – The Bears Are Coming Roisin Murphy – You Know Me Better Sonny J – Handsfree The Hoosiers – Cops & Robbers

Best Cinematography in a Video Emily Haines – Our Hell Foals – Olympic Airways Interpol – No 1 in Threesome Take That – I’d Wait For Life The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement

Best Telecine in a Video Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked CSS – Rat Is Dead Girls Aloud – Sexy No No No KT Tunstall – If Only Nine Black Alps – Bitter End The Hoosiers – Worried About Ray

Best Editing in a Video Gnarls Barkley – Going On Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor Johnny Foreigner – Salt, Pepper & Spinderella Supergrass – Bad Blood The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go These New Puritans – Elvis

Best Visual Effects in a Video Bjork – Wanderlust Chemical Brothers – Midnight Madness Klaxons – Not Over Yet Late of the Pier – Heartbeat Mark Ronson feat Lily Allen – Oh My God The Horrors – She Is The New Thing

Best International Video Animal Collective – Peacebone Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul Justice – Stress MGMT – Time To Pretend Weezer – Pork & Beans zZz – Grip

The People’s Choice Award since these'll be voted by all, links included. Adele – Chasing Pavements Duffy – Mercy Estelle – American Boy The Hoosiers – Goodbye Mr A Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love Mark Ronson – Valerie Sam Sparro – Black and Gold Sonny J – Handsfree The Ting Tings – Shut Up and Let Me Go Will Young – Changes

Best Producer Gail Davey Georgina Fillmore Grace Bodie Juliette Larthe Malachy McAnenny Tamsin Glasson

Best New Director Chris Sweeney D.A.D.D.Y. Dan Sully James Copeman OneInThree Price James

Best Director Alex & Liane Diamond Dogs Dougal Wilson Jaron Albertin Nima Nourizadeh Richard Ayaode

Best Commissioner Carole Burton-Fairbrother James Hackett John Moule Mike O’Keefe Ross Anderson Tim Nash

         

interesting, not a bad selection actually... although why put 'midnight madness' in fpr best sfx, when 'salmon dance' so clearly kicks it's ass?

and how budget is budget for the budget video section? presumably that counts actual money spent, rather than trying to factor in the cost of favours? tricky one.

         

loz - £2k is the low budget limit apparently. The favours thing isnt tricky at all though is it, you're being silly. Hmmm? - unless of course you're intending a 'least assisted' category, or perhaps 'least effort made'.

         

hmm. okay maybe i am being silly, you couldn't really factor in favours.

what i meant was, that calling '2k' low budget is kind of like ignoring all the people who were forced to work for free, all the late nights, all the favours you had to pull (and possibly all the money you put in yourself). basically, my beef is that 2k won't be a true representation of how much the video 'cost' to make, and might lead certain people (unscrupulous, skanky, record company people for example) to think that it's an adequate budget to shoot on.

but that's just the hate talking. certainly big props to all in the low-budget catagory in that case.

         

Yeah, well i only know cos we thought we could enter in low budget and were pretty shocked at what is now considered low - or more to the point what isn't now considered to be low.

It'd help if awards like this made more effort to recognise that nigh on ALL music promos are low budget, relative to the rest of the moving image/film industry, rather than the suggestion that, say £2.5k is deemed sufficient for a 6 minute promo.

Theres some irony in that i doubt those in the low budget category will be able to afford the price of the tickets to attend their own win.

         

to loz:

"ignoring all the people who were forced to work for free" is in an itself a favour. where would you suggest drawing the line? should people with more talented friends be excluded?

also, 'midnight madness' and 'salmon dance' were both done at framestore, so i'll take their judgment on what constitutes a best vfx prize.

         

midnight madness is shit though, as a vid and an fx showcase ... salmon dance is a cracking idea beautifully realised.

But im not framestore so whaddoiknow!?

         

bigload: no indeed, i'm definitely not suggesting drawing any line... a 'budget' catagory is a good thing, and i'm def in favour of recognising talented friends. i just wish there was some way to acknowledge that 2k videos are only possible if people don't get paid their due.

and puttyfingers: indeed, you hit nail on head, only not quite so harsh... personally i think the non-fx parts of midnight madness are pretty damn good. no disrespect to framestore.

         

Nice selection but I'm not sure what their criteria is for a "british" video. Why is Wanderlust in multiple catergories? especially if there's an international category.

         

The low budget award should be scrapped. There was a time when it honored work that was being done on passion projects. Now it's just a slap in the face.

         

who do you think should/will win the best director and best new director awards? I hope nima wins the best director- his LES Artistes and ready for the floor vids are two of the years highlights if you ask me.

         

gotta say, i have equal respect for most of the names in best director... as for best new director, that's trickier. James Copeland's 2 Mystery Jets vids did severely tickle my box, not to mention noah & the whale. but without soudning trite, they're all pretty damn good.

         

vote now; in case you need a refresher, here are direct links (the voting site's own suck - get sorted ukmva...!):

UPDATE - register? to vote vids? FAIL.

The People’s Choice Award

Adele – Chasing Pavements Duffy – Mercy Estelle – American Boy copy&paste The Hoosiers – Goodbye Mr A Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love Mark Ronson – Valerie Sam Sparro – Black and Gold Sonny J – Handsfree flv The Ting Tings – Shut Up and Let Me Go Will Young – Changes flv

         

it's got to be de thurah's changes for me...

         

ifimnotmistaken it was formerly via academy (which now has this).