MTV Music Video Award 2009

Les nominations de MTV pour les meilleurs clips de l'année viennent de sortir. Rien de bien intéressant, si ce n'est la dernière catégorie, une sélection de clips jamais distingués et qui rétrospectivement auraient du l'être. La liste en question a en effet quelques pépites mille fois plus intéressante que l'immense majorité (pour ne pas dire la totalité) des vidéos nommées cette année.

Video of the Year
Kanye West – Love Lockdown
Beyonce – Single Ladies
Eminem – We Made You
Britney Spears – Womanizer
Lady GaGa – Poker Face

Best Male Video
Kanye West – Love Lockdown
Jay-Z – D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)
Eminem – We Made You
T.I. featuring Rihanna – Live Your Life
Ne-Yo – Miss Independent

Best Female Video
Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me
Beyonce – Single Ladies
Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You
Pink – So What
Lady GaGa – Poker Face
Katy Perry – Hot N Cold

Best New Artist
3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me
Drake – Best I Ever Had
Kid Cudi – Day ‘n’ Nite
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Asher Roth – I Love College

Best Pop Video
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl) – Good Girls Go Bad
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Britney Spears – Womanizer
Wisin & Yandel – Abusadora

Best Rock Video
Coldplay – Viva la Vida
Fall Out Boy – I Don’t Care
Green Day – 21 Guns
Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
Paramore – Decode

Best Hip-Hop Video
Eminem – We Made You
Flo Rida (featuring Kesha) – Right Round
Jay-Z – D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)
Asher Roth – I Love College
Kanye West – Love Lockdown

Breakthrough Video
Anjulie – Boom
Bat for Lashes – Daniel
Chairlift – Evident Utensil
Cold War Kids – I’ve Seen Enough
Death Cab for Cutie – Grapevine Fires
Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul
Major Lazer – Hold the Line
Matt and Kim – Lessons Learned
Passion Pit – The Reeling
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll

Best Direction in a Video
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Director: Jake Nava)
Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) – Good Girls Go Bad (Director: Kai Regan)
Green Day – 21 Guns (Director: Marc Webb)
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (Director: Jonas Åkerlund)
Britney Spears – Circus (Director: Francis Lawrence)

Best Choreography in a Video
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Choreographers: Frank Gatson and JaQuel Knight)
Ciara (featuring Justin Timberlake) – Love Sex Magic (Choreographers: Jamaica Craft and “Marty”)
Kristinia DeBarge – Goodbye (Choreographer: Jamaica Craft)
A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) – Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) (Choreographers: Robin Antin and Mikey Minden)
Britney Spears – Circus (Choreographer: Andre Fuentes)

Best Special Effects in a Video
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Special Effects: VFX Effects and Louis Mackall V)
Eminem – We Made You (Special Effects: Ingenuity Engine)
Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul (Special Effects: Gradient Effects and Image Metrics)
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (Special Effects: Chimney Pot)
Kanye West (featuring Mr Hudson) – Paranoid (Special Effects: Wizardflex)

Best Art Direction in a Video
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Art Director: Niamh Byrne)
Coldplay – Viva la Vida (Art Director: Gregory De Maria)
Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul (Art Director: Zach Matthews)
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (Art Director: Jason Hamilton)
Britney Spears – Circus (Art Directors: Laura Fox and Charles Varga)

Best Editing in a Video
Beyoncé Knowles – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
Coldplay – Viva la Vida (Editor: Hype Williams)
Miley Cyrus – 7 Things (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (Editors: Danny Tull and Jonas Åkerlund)
Britney Spears – Circus (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)

Best Cinematography in a Video
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Director of Photography: Jim Fealy)
Coldplay – Viva la Vida (Director of Photography: John Perez)
Green Day – 21 Guns (Director of Photography: Jonathan Sela)
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (Director of Photography: Eric Broms)
Britney Spears – Circus (Director of Photography: Thomas Kloss)

Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman)
This award recognizes 10 classic videos who never have won the coveted moon man.
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
Björk – Human Behaviour
Dr. Dre – Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang
Foo Fighters – Everlong
George Michael – Freedom! ‘90
OK Go – Here It Goes Again
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Into the Great Wide Open
Radiohead – Karma Police
David Lee Roth – California Girl
U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name