ICYMI: MTV Actually Gave Out Some Technical Awards at the VMAs

Published On August 31, 2015 » By »

The great irony of the MTV Video Music Awards (besides the obvious irony that MTV doesn’t actually play videos, or really any music, anymore) is the fact that the technical awards are not handed out during the on-air ceremony. Yes, Taylor Swift was sweet enough to bring her “Blank Space” director Joseph Kahn to the podium when accepting her Best Female Video trophy at Sunday’s VMAs… but that was truly the only acknowledgment all night long that these music videos don’t just make themselves.

For instance, did you know that the 2015 Best Direction Moonman went not to Kahn (who also lensed Swift’s “Bad Blood” video), but to directors Colin Tilley and the Little Homies for Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright”? Of course you didn’t. The Oscars can show four hours of categories like Best Sound Editing for a Short Animated Foreign Film, but MTV can’t even be bothered to put the Best Direction presentation on the air at the VMAs.

Well, let’s right that wrong, shall we? Below are the directors, cinematographers, choreographers, editors, and effects artists who make today’s VMAs stars look good. And they were really the coolest winners at this year’s awards. Enjoy their work below.

BEST DIRECTION

Kendrick Lamar, “Alright” (Winner: Colin Tilley and the Little Homies)

(Other Best Direction nominees: Hiro Murai for Childish Gambino’s “Sober”; Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson for Hozier’s “Take Me to Church”; Bruno Mars and Cameron Duddy for Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk”; Joseph Kahn for Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

OK Go, “I Won’t Let You Down” (Winner: OK Go, air:man, and Mori Harano)

(Other Best Choreography  nominees: Beyoncé, Chris Grant, and Gabriel Valenciano for Beyoncé’s “7/11”; Ryan Heffington for Chet Faker’s “Gold”; Keone Madrid and Mari Madrid for Flying Lotus’s “Never Catch Me”; Nappytabs for Ed Sheeran’s “Don’t”)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Skrillex and Diplo feat. Justin Bieber, “Where Are Ü Now” (Winner: Brewer)

(Other Best Visual Effects nominees: Gloria FX for Childish Gambino’s “Telegraph Ave.”; Gloria FX, Tomash Kuzmytskyi, and Max Chyzhevskyy for FKA Twigs’ “Two Weeks”; Ingenuity Studios for Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”; Gloria FX for Tyler, The Creator’s “F—ing Young/Death Camp”)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Snoop Dogg, “So Many Pros” (Winner: Jason Fijal)

(Other Best Art Direction nominees: Michel Gondry for the Chemical Brothers’ “Go”; Brewer for Skrillex and Diplo feat. Justin Bieber’s “Where Are Ü Now”; Charles Infante for Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”; Jeff Peterson for Jack White’s “Would You Fight for My Love?”)

BEST EDITING

Beyoncé, “7/11” (Winner: Beyoncé, Ed Burke, and Jonathan Wing)

(Other Best Editing nominees: Dexter Navy for A$AP Rocky’s “L$D”; Jacquelyn London for Ed Sheeran’s “Don’t”; Brewer for Skrillex and Diplo feat. Justin Bieber’s “Where Are Ü Now”; Chancler Haynes at Cosmo Street for Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Never Catch Me” (Winner: Larkin Sieple)

(Other “Best Cinematography nominees: Mike Simpson for alt-j’s ”Left Hand Free“; Justin Brown for FKA Twigs’ “Two Weeks”; Daniel Pearl for Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”; Christopher Probst for Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”)

 

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