CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!

The 2015 Antville Music Video Awards shall commence!

These are your categories:

Most Fun Best Animated Best Performance Best Narrative Best Interactive Best Hip Hop Best Choreography Best Art Direction Best Editing Best Cinematography Best Visual Effects Best Commissioning Artist Best New Director Best Director Video Of The Year

Make your nominations by posting a comment:

• maximum 3 nominations per category;
• eligibility: new videos posted - online or on antville - between Dec. 6th, 2014 and Dec. 31st, 2015;
• this call will be open for 21 days (closing by the end of Jan. 12th, 2016 (EST))
• the 5 most-nominated videos in each category will then be tallied and voted on as this year's finalists.

Choose wisely!

Previous Award winners and nominees are located here. Dec. 6, 2014 entries start on this page.

Make sure you take this awards show as Seriously as Possible.

This is the 10th Year for the Awards.

         

Best Visual Effects / Best Art Direction:

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Most Fun Joywave “Somebody New” dir. Keith Schofield Leftfield & Sleaford Mods “Head & Shoulders” dir. Casey & Ewan Royal Blood “Out of the Black” dir. David Wilson / Christy Karacas

Best Animated Dan Deacon “When I Was Done Dying” dir. Jake Fried, Chad VanGaalen, Dimitri Stankowicz, Colin White, Taras Hrabowsky, Anthony Schepperd, Masanobu Hiraoka, Caleb Wood, KOKOFREAKBEAN Leftfield & Sleaford Mods “Head & Shoulders” dir. Casey & Ewan Stromae “Carmen” dir. Sylvain Chomet

Best Performance Christine and the Queens “Christine” dir. J.A.C.K. EZTV “Dust in the Sky” dir. Ian Perlman Giorgio Moroder ft. Kylie Minogue “Right Here, Right Now” dir. Daniel Börjesson

Best Narrative Lorn “Acid Rain” dir. Julian Flores, Pavel Brenner, Sherif Alabedelo Royal Blood “Out of the Black” dir. David Wilson / Christy Karacas Tame Impala “Let it Happen” dir. David Wilson

Best Interactive
Azealia Banks “Wallace” dir. Nick Ace / Rob Soucy

Best Hip Hop
Missy Elliott ft. Pharrell Williams “WTF (Where They From?)” dir. Dave Meyers / Missy Elliott
Kendrick Lamar “Alright” dir. Colin Tilley & the Little Homies
Vince Staples “‪Señorita‬” dir. Ian Pons Jewell

Best Choreography
4Minute “‪미쳐(Crazy)‬” chor. Parris Goebel
CL “Hello” chor. Parris Goebel
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu “Crazy Party Night” chor. I COULD NEVER BE A DANCER

Best Art Direction
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu “Crazy Party Night” Set Design: Kenichi Miyazawa / Jun Sugiyama

Best Editing
METZ “The Swimmer” edit. Scott Cudmore
Hinds “Garden” edit. Sacha Schwarz

Best Cinematography Kwabs “Perfect Ruin” dp. Steve Annis
Vince Staples “‪Señorita‬” dp. Martim Vian
Wet “Deadwater” dp. Steve Annis

Best Visual Effects
Joywave “Somebody New” vfx Caviar
Eric Prydz vs CHVRCHES “Tether” vfx Julien Vanhoenacker
Taylor Swift "Out of the Woods" Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" vfx Ingenuity Studios
Bj‪ö‬rk “Family” vfx Wolf & Crow

Best Commissioning Artist
Christine and the Queens
Kendrick Lamar
Skrillex

Best New Director
Allie Avital
Irrum
Grant Singer
Youth Hymns

Best Director
Allie Avital
Grant Singer
David Wilson
Fleur & Manu
Scott Cudmore
Ewan James Morris
Ben Reed

Video Of The Year
Kendrick Lamar “Alright” dir. Colin Tilley & the Little Homies
M.I.A. “Borders” dir. M.I.A.
Tame Impala “Let it Happen” dir. David Wilson

         

The first year i have no idea who any of kevathens best new director nominees are (and none of their videos are nominated?).

         

Avital did the wonderful suite for Autre ne Veut: World War Pt. 2, Panic Room, and Age of Transparency. She also did this, and is repped by Partizan.

Grant Singer is the hip-hop director of the moment, having done work for Skrillex, Skrillex and Pusha T, Vic Mensa / Kanye, and the Weekend a bunch. Hip-hop and R&B.

And Irrum is my fave new director, having done work with Farao (twice), CAIROBI, and Swim Deep.

Allie Avital used to be called Allie Avital Tsypin, and isn't the newest of directors, but I thought she's new enough to people to be nominated.

         

It's a close year, a ton of quality work out there, it's a shame no one seems to be around to enjoy it, antville-wise. Everyone's moved on from music video, apparently.

         

(Antville isn't the end-all of music video anymore, sadly. You have to consume a lot more than just one place. I started my own blog because I've never felt antville gave the whole story on music video.)

         

I'll be extending the date 7 days on Tuesday. Wish we had a turn-out besides myself.

         

Nevermind, this shit is d.e.a.d.

         

I'm not sure antville is 'winning' anymore. This place was nice for a while, but clearly it's not worth the work.

         

Anyway, the awards were a bust. C'est la vie!

         

Reminds me of our local union branch meetings.....Nowadays Kev every thing under pressure, no ones got time for Jack!

Nothing seems fresh I'm awaiting the next spark? :/