The Winners !



Heeding no obstacles, here are the true, hive-polled winners, the crème de la crème of music videos of 2008:


MOST FUN VIDEO

The BPA (feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal) - Toe Jam
Keith Schofield, director
Streetgang Films, prod co


BEST ANIMATED VIDEO

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Sean Pecknold, director
Grandchildren, prod co


BEST PERFORMANCE VIDEO

White Denim - Shake Shake Shake
Tom Haines, director
Factory Films, prod co


BEST NARRATIVE VIDEO

Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul?
Chris Milk, director
Radical Media, prod co


BEST URBAN* VIDEO
* includes rap, hiphop and rural.

Kanye West - Flashing Lights
Spike Jonze/Kanye, directors
G.O.O.D Pictures/Bucks Boys Productions, prod co's


BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

JaQuel Knight & Frank Gatson, Jr.
for Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Jake Nava, director
Anonymous Content, prod co
awesome tho it is, Omaha Bitch's Orgasmic Troopers received a disproportionate swell of votes on day 3 of polling, causing its unappealable disqualification; sorry!


BEST ART DIRECTION

Björk - Wanderlust
Encyclopedia Pictura, directors
Ghost Robot, prod co


BEST EDITING

Romain Gavras for Justice - Stress
Romain Gavras, director
el niño, prod co


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mike Ragen for Damien Jurado - Caskets
Matt Daniels, director
Thinklab Inc., prod co

and


André Chemetoff for Justice - Stress
Romain Gavras, director
el niño, prod co
the ex-aequo is to acknowledge a slight direct influence on voting due to thinklab's brief ingenuity - nothing a bona fide voting-irregularities-observation-committee can't handle ;-)


BEST UNKNOWN/UNSIGNED DIRECTOR
Jesse Ewles

and

That Go


BEST NEW DIRECTOR
Romain Gavras


DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Keith Schofield


BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Björk - Wanderlust
Encyclopedia Pictura, director
Ghost Robot, prod co
awesome tho it is, Kraak&Smaak's Squeeze Me received a disproportionate swell of votes after a Dutch call to arms, causing its unappealable disqualification; sorry!


Stay tuned - "Winners say hi!" posts coming up...