progosk, 25. September 2008, 15:10
UK Music Video Awards 2008 - Nominations


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).