WINNERS OF THE BERLIN MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS 2016

So the BMVAs 2016 winners are…


BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Dillon Francis – Not Butter
Columbia Records
Anthem Films I Brandon Dermer

2nd place

Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better
Universal Music Australia
Canada l CANADA

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3rd place

DatA – Don’t Sing (ft. Benny Sings)
EKLEROSHOCK
Iconoclast.tv & Standard Films l David Bertram


BEST CONCEPT

1st place

De Staat – Witch Doctor
Mascot Records

STUDIO SMACK I Studio Smack & Floris Kaayk

2nd place

Vince Staples – Señorita 
DEFIAM
THE SWORDFIGHT
Ian Pons Jewell

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3rd place

Yvein Monq – Twun 
8ounce Records
Excuse My French / PPM Filmproductions / Umbrella Budapest-New York
Kinopravda


BEST NARRATIVE

1st place

Benjamin’s Brother – Story About a Broken Heart
Independent Labels
BlackBoard Studios l Noam Sharon & Tal Rosenthal

2nd place

Purity Ring – Begin Again
Pulse Films
Young Replicant

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3rd place

Charles Murdoch – Frogs (feat. Ta-ku , Wafia, & Hak)
Future Classic
Jünglinge Film l Faraz Shariat


BEST DIRECTOR

1st place

Kendrick Lamar– Alright
Interscope Records
London Alley UK / Colin Tilley

2nd place

Dillon Francis – Not Butter
Columbia Records
Anthem Films I Brandon Dermer

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3rd place

Nicolas Godin – Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde
Because Music
Riff Raff Films l The Sacred Egg


BEST VFX

1st place

Stromae – Quand C’est
Mosaert l Island France l Mercury Records
Benuts Vfx & Mosaert l Xavier Reye

2nd place

Carpenter Brut – Turbo Killer
NO QUARTER / Seth Ickerman
Raphael Hernandez / Savitri Joly-Gonfard

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3rd place

Gem Club – Speech of Foxes
Hardly Art
Inbound I Ben Phillipo


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1st place

Hurts – Lights
RCA Records I Columbia Records UK
Sonny London I Dawn Shadforth, Robbie Ryan

2nd place

Lance Butters – Es Zieht, Ich Zieh
Four Music
Ambitious Films l Carlo Opperman & Christian Alsan

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3rd place

Tim Aminov FEAT. Pete Josef – One Lone Survivor
Sonar Kollektiv
Hype Production  | Lado Kvataniya


BEST ART DIRECTOR

1st place

Father and Sun – Here In The Rain
Loy Wesselburg
Feedmee l Susanne Frericks, Anton Riedel

2nd place

Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better
Universal Music Australia
Canada l CANADA

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3rd place

Be Quiet – Ichor
Independent
HOTU


BEST EDITOR

1st place

Delta Q – Ode (An die Freude)
Independent
Schall & Schnabel l Martin Lorenz

2nd place

Gilligan Moss – Choreograph
Bad
Oscar Hudson / Luke Moran-Morris

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3rd place

Kangding Ray – Brume
Raster-Noton
ACHT Imaging
David Letellier / Simon Mayer / David Fabra


BEST SONG

1st place

BRO – Less Than Three
Harding & Brookes I Bro: Julian G. Harding & Garth Lee Vickers

2nd place

Robot Koch & Julien Marchal – Care
MONKEYTOWN RECORDS
Mickael Le Goff

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3rd place

Synapson – All In You
Diez Music
RESIDENCY
Drew Bourdet


BEST PERFORMER

1st place

Miike Snow – Genghis Kahn
Atlantic Records
Pulse Films
Ninian Doff

Adam Jones & Edward Hayes Neary

2nd place

Fono – Real Joy 
RELENTLESS
Pulse Films
Simon Cahn

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3rd place

Little BIG – Give Me Your Money
Little Big Production
Alina Pasok / Iliya Prusikin


BEST EXPERIMENTAL

1st place

AZEL PHARA – Green
Mill +
Bif l Le Nezet & Jules Janaud

2nd place

SEVDALIZA – That Other Girl
Sevdaliza
Pussykrew l Sevdaliza

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3rd place

Rone – Acid Reflux
Infine Music
Ilan Cohen & Boris Levy


MOST BIZARRE

1st place

Run The Jewels – Meopurrdy
Mass Appeal Records
Cyriak Harris

2nd place

ZEBRA KATZ – Blk Diamond 
23 Frames
Elvar Gunnarsson
Hilmir Berg Ragnarsson / Anni Didriksen

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3rd place

Oneohtrix Point Never – Sticky Drama 
Warp Records
Pulse Films
Jon Rafman / Ben Wearing


MOST TRASHY

1st place

Little BIG – Big *ick
Little Big
Alina Pasok / Iliya Prusikin

2nd place

Candace Roberts – Take Back Your Beaver
Candace Roberts I Danny Plotnick

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3rd place

Sticky Biscuits – Fuck First
Marc Seestaedt, Naomi Fearn


VIDEOSHOP

Indigo – Eclipse
Misha Cvijovic & Saori Hala / ハラサオリ

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